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Cape Coral Quickie · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Welcome Back Day Drinking with Dog. It is. I don't even know January
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  something, seventeenth eighteenth. I can't keep track when you're not working down in
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  Florida. The weather's been crap, not gonna lie. Got down here on
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  January sixth, and uh, yeah, it's Uh, this is the first
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  real sunny day I can sit outside and the luni and enjoy the nice weather.
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  And it's been kind of crazy. So it's probably the worst weather,
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  the worst weather I've ever been down here. We if it's been eighty,
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  it's been cloudy and windy and humid. And if it's been sunny, it's
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  been sixty. And every other days just been filled with thunderstorms. And uh,
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  I'll get to the big one I had on Monday night in a second.
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  But uh, you know, obviously I want to thank everyone that reached
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  out on my Facebook post about my father passing. It was tough. You
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  know, it's tough when you don't talk to someone for a while, and
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  and you know they pass away on you, especially if it's your parents or
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  loved ones or siblings or anything like that. And you know, everyone always
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  says, you know, you know, make that phone call, do that
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  extra mile, and you know, life goes on, and the holidays were
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  happening, and work was busy, and uh, we just never caught up.
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  The Actually, the last day I saw my father was at my childhood
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  friend's memorial, my childhood friend Todd, who grew up across the street from
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  my father, and uh, iron ironic, I guess this is the last
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  time I saw him, was celebrating his life. And we will do the
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  same for my father. We're just gonna announce it a better date. The
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  weather scrap up there and he is such a huge family, so we want
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  to make sure everyone gets the chance to make plans to get out to South
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  Deerfield, mass And celebrate my father's life. And uh yeah, So I
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  don't really want to talk too much about it. You know, it's uh,
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  it's life, and uh we all go through it, and you know,
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  so everyone's struggling with something like that. I reach out to you and
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  reach you feel for you and uh, excuse me, So let's move forward.
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  I will be talking about my father in the future. I'm actually gonna
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  start something. Uh. He was basically uh, he was at the age
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  where you know he was, he was scammed. I've talked about this in
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  the past when I had Tony Geon talking about how he was scammed out of
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  some money from online predators. And I'm gonna make it my mission to to
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  educate and to look for pitfalls and stuff like that. So stay tuned for
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  that, and then actually very near future, I've already been working on it,
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  so and that'll be Uh. I just don't want to see stuff like
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  that happen anybody else. And I have friends who've happened, and that's happened
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  to their parents, so it's it's quite prominent. And then the numbers are
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  staggering and the statistics are staggering, and it's fucking windy out here, so
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  but it is not icy, it is not snowy. There is no school
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  cancelations down here, so all the kids are actually they're right behind me,
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  the school right behind me over here. So I wanted to get this in
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  before I headed home, and I had this probably one of the craziest,
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  most anxiety filled nights of my life. On Monday night, so my girlfriend
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  Nicole and her son Braden were down for the long weekend. It was a
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  short stint, but I'm glad they got down here. And their flight was
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  six point fifty on Monday, the avelo right back to New Haven. Boom
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  boom, easy peasy. So we decided to go to Top Golf, which
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  is about fifteen minutes from the airport in Fort Myers, and we went there
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  about over there a couple hours, but we played for ninety minutes and the
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  rain was starting to come in, thunderstorms shit like that, and when we
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  got in our car it was raining pretty heavy. But I got them to
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  the airport at five o'clock so they were good to go, got their bags
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  checked in. Their flight was a delayed a little bit, but you know,
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  they made it home. Me, on the other hand, so were
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  my mom's houses where I stay. Should be no more than an hour to
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  get home with traffic, if it's late at night, you're there in forty
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  minutes. So Cape Cross kind of like an island. It's not technically an
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  island, but to enter it from down here instead of the north it's two
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  bridges. You got to go over two separate bridges. You can take one
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  or the other and get you on the island. And as I'm crossing the
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  I'm crossing the bridge to get in, and my GPS starts like going crazy,
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  like it went from arrival of five point fifty three to six thirty five
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  to seven oh two back to six o'clock. I'm like, what the fuck's
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  going on? I see this dark cloud and I did post something on this
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  on on Facebook the other night. So I see this dark cloud rolling in
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  and I actually take a picture of it, and I'm like, you know,
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  Nicole's texting me you home yet, and I'm like, I'm stuck in
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  traffic. So I get over the bridge and now I'm kind of familiar in
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  my area, passing all the restaurants i'd been to. It's Cape Coral Parkway.
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  It's three lanes in, three lanes out. It's pretty pretty wide.
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  And as I'm getting closer to my house within four miles, now my essenimated
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  time of arrival is reached about seven forty five, and I'm like, what
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  the fuck is going on? And now it's got me on all these crazy
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  roots going past my mom's house and around. And as I'm noticing this,
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  I'm noticing the right lane of the three lanes is flooded. I'm my god,
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  geez, still don't think too much about it. I keep going.
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  Now the middle lane is flooded as well, and I'm in the third lane,
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  the passing lane, and the middle lane is flooded. And now there's
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  a car on the far right who's stranded. He's stalled out. He's getting
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  out of his car shaking his head. And now I am oh, i
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  am like zero point two miles from It's called Chiquita Parkway and Jaquidah brings me
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  to Savona, where my mom lives. So I'm about to take it right
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  on Shakida and I'm thinking, just get on Shikidah straight shot, I'll get
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  home. Well, the whole turn is flooded at Shikdah. That's why GPS
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  is telling me to go past that road and take another right. But now
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  there's car straand all over the place, mostly sedans. And in Florida,
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  it's a lot of sedans and a lot of big he'll billy pickup trucks that
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  aren't four wheel drive. They're just gigantic so they don't stall out because they're
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  so high up above the water, so they're all flying around. So I
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  pull into a little plaza a little higher ground, call my mom and her
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  husband. I'm like, does this happened before? And like outside of the
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  hurricane, which they weren't here for, they've never seen it. So I'm
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  like, all right, So I have a plan. I am in a
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  lot. I have to get across that street, which is completely flooded,
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  to the other lot, which is a gas station, and then I can
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  drive the wrong way for a little bit to cut back over to this Chaqida
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  road I need to get to and avoid that big puddle in the middle.
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  So I'm waiting. I'm watching a couple of cars like sedans. They get
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  through, so now I feel more confident. I got a little you know,
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  quia sports a little higher up, so I go for it, and
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  I literally like, it's like the hood of my car almost goes underwater.
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  I get through it, I get up into the gas station. I fucking
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  take a little break. My heart's racing anxieties through the roof. So I
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  did my plan. I go I take a left. There's no water going
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  the wrong way, and then I screwed over to the right side of the
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  road, and I am two miles from home, and now it's probably seven
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  o'clock and I am in that road for an hour and a half, not
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  moving at all. Cars stalling out everywhere. So I just have this Kia
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  teller ride in front of me, kind of the same height as mine.
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  So I say, you know what, I'm just gonna follow this dude as
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  long as it takes. I got a full tank of gas. Whatever.
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  So we creep creep creep. Now point two miles from turning onto my Mom's
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  road, and this is where it gets kind of fucking fucked up. So
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  there's so many cars stalled out, and people like standing on the roofs of
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  their cars, and it's a lot of kids. They're kind of laughing,
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  thinking it's funny, not realizing the situation, trudging around in the water.
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  So I follow the Teller ride. I get through it. It was up
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  to my fucking door panel. I'm like, holy shit, I made it
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  through, all right, I'm just gonna take a left of my Mom Street
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  and I'm home free. Well, you couldn't get to my Mom Street.
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  There was like four cars that were stalled out and just blocking the way.
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  I might have been able to make it up, and I'm not going to
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  try to go on the other side of the road and get stuck. So
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  it's a little veterinary clinic on the corner higher ground parking lot. I just
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  flipped a yuwie, went up there, said fuck it. I'm walking home
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  about a quarter a mile maybe tops. So as I'm walking home, it's
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  just knee deep up to my waist at some points, fucking walking back to
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  the house, sledging with my sandals on, hoping no nighttime alligators are floating
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  around there. Fucking one of the craziest things I've ever been through, Like
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  I've been through Sandy and Irene. But I didn't stay home. I didn't
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  witness the flooding. I wasn't dealing with the flooding. So I've never been
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  involved in an actual flood. And now the stories are coming. So I'm
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  making home take pic through on my Facebook. Uh, you know, no
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  house damage because their house is up a little bit so. But the water
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  when these stupid big pickup trucks come driving by, they almost create a wake,
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  and the waves were crashing up almost to the door. The garage door
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  of my mom's house. So anyway, so now I'm hearing stories on social
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  and on the news that a lot of these if if everyone been down in
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  this area, it's like a big grid. There's you know, everything's perpendicular
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  to each other. And all the streets that were perpendicular to Chiqita, the
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  main ones that brought you out of the island, were completely flooded and people
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  were not even knowing if they were on the road or not, and a
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  lot of them weren't, and they were like basically driving into ponds and small
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  little rivers and fucking crazy shit like that. It was. It was nuts,
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  and uh got home, showered, said fuck it, you know,
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  took a took a xanax my girlfriend left for me and that really helped.
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  And woke up the next morning and walked back and all the water receded.
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  So I walked back to my car and it was sitting up there in the
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  perch, grabbed it, took it home. Everything was good, is running
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  fine. Drove it out today as we had a bunch of thunderstorms yesterday too,
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  But apparently it dropped five and a half inches five and a half inches
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  in an hour or something crazy like that it was fucking stupid Florida Weather's wacky
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  man. I think tomorrow might be the best day heading up to Tampa with
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  the Viva boys. Steven the Owner's taking me in camp fire up there for
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  some golf in a lightning game. So hopefully we'll have some good days,
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  good days ahead before I head back back to the homeland of Milford, Connecticut,
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  and I hope all the snow is gone by then, but I highly
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  fucking doubt it. I don't know everyone watched the playoffs this weekend. Every
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  game sucked it up the Detroit game, which is usually the case in the
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  first round you get some bad matchups, but this weekend. I'm not even
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  gonna go talk about the games last week. Fuck Dallas, Fuck Philly.
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  They're out boohoo. But I mean now it's just a clear sailing for San
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  Franz to make it into Super Bowl. I think the AFC is where it's
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  at right now. I think Baltimore should beat Houston, but I think Houston's
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  not going to go quietly. I also think that the KC Buffalo game might
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  be I mean, these guys play classics. They do. If you go
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  back to the divisional round, three years ago to THEFC Championship game. To
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  you know, regular season games, these guys play within three points, and
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  I think that's what the line is. So whoever you'd like, I'd tease
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  it the other way. Fuck it, it's probably a field goal game.
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  So you know, I'm rooting for Buffalo. You know, I can't stand
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  Kelsey. I can't stand fucking all the bullshit Mahomes, his wife, his
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  brother. It's just fucking I'm over it. I guess this is how people
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  felt for twenty years with Tom Brady, but I don't know. I guess
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  that's that's the feeling. So so it should be a good game of a
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  weekend of games. Looking forward to it. Hopefully no bad weather, super
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  bad weather anyway in Buffalo, and get some clean games going this weekend.
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  Some of those games are just kind of tough to watch when it's so windy
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  and cold and snowy and whatever. But a lot of the biggest NFL news
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  is circling around all these NFL coaching vacancies, and obviously you know Belichick's out
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  there. You know, great run in New England for him. I talked
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  it about it on my Buddies podcast, The Drive Home with Chris maccurio.
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  We went into detail for about an hour or so about Belichick's tenure and you
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  know in New England and how all the hit pieces are gonna come out now
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  and media has changed over the course of those twenty four years that he was
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  there, and I think they owe a lot to Bill for all the clicks
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  they got and the money they made and the shows they went on, all
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  because of him. You know, if they sucked for the last twenty four
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  years like they did the twenty four years prior to that, they wouldn't be
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  on PTI or Around the Horn or all these you know, local shows there
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  and they're like TV person you know, personality he's now, none of that
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  would have happened. But nope, they pile on because it's more clicks,
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  more money, more shows to talk about. And unfortunately that's the world we
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  live in and it's all over reaction every day, excuse me, and so
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  interesting to see where he goes. I would love to see him. I
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  hate Dallas, but I would kind of it's kind of where I want to
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  see him go. I think all the Dallas fans would be like, what
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  the fuck? And then when they realize how you know, how detail oriented
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  and discipline he'll make that team. And you know, as long as he
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  gets the right offensive coordinator in there, I think Bill will have a or
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  Philly at Atlanta's weird because they don't really have a quarterback. So does he
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  want to go that route. He's probably only got three years left. He's
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  already seventy two. That gets into seventy five. You know, he's gonna
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  win ten games automatically for each Philly or Dallas, and probably twelve with Dallas
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  if they keep there core. Uh, So enjoy the games this weekend.
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  I'll be back on social starting tomorrow on Instagram. Been kind of kind of
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  away from that, uh you know since the new year. So it was
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  good to get away, good to clear my head. You know, dealing
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  with a parent loss is never easy. My brother, my brother's been a
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  rock. Uh he's been kind of dealing with everything up there, and uh,
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  you know, I feel I feel bad being down here, but uh,
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  you know, he's like, go, dude, just go, there's
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  nothing to do. There's nothing to do right now. You know, we'll
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  get everything situated in a in a month or two, you know, with
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  probating all the other bullshit. You gotta deal with something like this that I've
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  never gone through. So UH love you justin thanks for you know, taking
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  the lead on this. Appreciate it if you're in the uh. I wanted
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  to do a couple of little shout outs. If you're in the Cape Coral
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  area and you like grazing boards charcuterie boards, there is a place called Grazing
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  House. You'd have to google it. It is on the main road,
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  Cape Coroll Parkway, but the Cole had found them through Instagram and we walked
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  in and the lady was fantastic and we actually spent about a half hour whether
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  as they were making a small one for us and highly recommend it. All
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  the cheeses were great, the meats, the fruit and chocolates in there and
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  perfect for Super Bowl parties or just get togethers. Nicole always makes them at
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  home, so a little cheaper that way, but you know, lessn more
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  convenient to go and and support a local business if you're ever in this area.
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  And a new restaurant opened up that my girlfriend found on Google called High
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  Tides Social House. Probably the best pizza I've had in Florida, and they're
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  pretty new, so maybe they're from the northeast, but it was it was
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  really good and it was right on the wall. It wasn't right on the
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  water, but it was down at the Marie, you know, near the
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  what hotel is that the Weston down in Cape Coral, and I will be
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  frequently that place. It's gonna be. It was chilly, so everything's been
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  kind of the only benefit of it being the weather. The way it is
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  is, you know, you walk right into a restaurant, doesn't matter what
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  fucking time it is, you walk in and get a table. It's like
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  usually this time of the year, it's like, you know, just prepared
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  to wait, you know, twenty minutes, half hour before you fucking get
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  going, and you know, so high tides social house. Go check it
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  out if you're in the area. And one last thing, a friend of
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  mine, J. D. Lewis, has started his own podcast called Untamed
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  Conversations and he's got a couple out now. They're on Apple and Spotify,
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  Short ones introductory ones. I listened to him last night. He's got a
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  really good flow, good voice, and he's talking a lot about his life
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  struggles. To start, he's bringing guests on. I just want to give
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  a little shout out. It's Untamed Conversations with JD. Lewis. Give it
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  a check out and I will talk to you guys. I think, you
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  know, like ten days when I'm home. We're starting out with Tony Vetty
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  and we're doing Barrels for a Cause with Corey shop from Wines and more,
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  and we're gonna talk bourbon and uh, probably still some football because yeah,
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  it's gonna be going for the next few weeks. So I hope everyone has
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  had a better New Year than I have. Keep moving forward and love you
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  guys. I'll talk to you soon.