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Morning Southwest!

For July 22nd, 2024.

My name is Bernie Burns. Sitting right over there. What's going on with the music? Is it lower for you today? It is a little bit. What's up with that? I don't know. Why you're still low music? You haven't had a bad weekend? What happens? It's... Shh. I'll figure it out. It's been partying. It won't matter to people because I will fix that in post, as they say. Fix it in post. It's been pardoned.

Keep it quiet. Please keep it down. Just... Shh. So on Friday, before I went off on my wildly successful fishing trip, I caught a fish. Can we post the picture of other fish? Yeah, it was kind of, I wanted to do the whole Tinder profile pick. And the quote-unquote first fish I caught, the opportunity went by because I didn't have the right tool on me at the moment to, like, remove the fish hook. And I was being really careful because it was a salmon. And we're really careful with those. And it was a female salmon. And so we wanted to get it back in the water as fast as possible, and I was trying to get the hook out with my hands. Yeah. And didn't want to, like, distress the fish or anything like that. So J.D. ran up to the fishing hut to get my foreseps to remove it. It was a funny generational moment where he ran off. He's like, I was like,

I just want to get this out. I said it, but my forceps are just sitting on the porch, you know, and I left him up there and he goes, I can go get him. And I said, no, no, I think I can get this. And he's like, I can go get him. And I said, you know what? Okay, run and grab him real quick. thank you. And he goes, okay, and he goes running off. And then it took a long time,

longer than I felt like it should. And I finally just like,

sometimes you can just move the hook in like one little way and boop, it just pops right out, you know? I wasn't trying to force it or anything. Just like you turn it to the side or something and just something works. It more often happens when the fish is still in the water and you're trying to bring it in, just bouts out.

But again, then I let the fish go, you know, and you're trying to bring it in, just bouts out.

But again, then I let the fish go, you know, before GD got back to take a photo or anything like that. And when he got back, I said, I said, I go, that seemed like it took a while. I go, why did it take so long? He goes, I couldn't get a signal. And I said, a signal. and he goes, yeah, I had to look up what forceps were.

Yeah, I had to look up what forceps were. I was like, you know, you could have asked that question on your way out. Everybody knows what forceps are, as in nurse, forceps. They're the forcepts, obviously. Okay, I'm picturing, you're going to have to correct me on this, I'm picturing scissors-like things. You got it. Okay. All right, nailed it in one. It's basically like a pair of tweezers that have like a scissor handle on the end. So it's like, it's something, it's nothing, it's nothing bladed. Like long handle, scissor, scissors type things. Yeah, it lets you grab the little hook and you just pop it out. Got it. The fish was good.

It's really a nice moment because it's a salmon's a long fight. And so when you go to put the fish, you know, back in, he was in the water pretty, or she was in the water pretty much the whole time. But then when you go to put him back in, you kind of hold them like underneath, like going to support them a little bit. and then they get the water upstream and they get their gills

and then they,

she was just sitting there,

like next to me,

like in the water,

I could see her.

She was probably just going,

what the fuck? to support them a little bit, and then they get the water upstream, and they get their gills. And then they, she was just sitting there, like, next to me, like in the water, I could see

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