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Just win. Just win. The autumn wind is a pirate blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along, swaggering boisterously.

His face is weather beaten.

He wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head and a bristling black mustache.

He growls as he storms the country, a villain big and bow. And the trees all shake

and quiver and quake as he robs them of their gold. The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun.

He'll knock you round and upside down and laugh when he's conquered and won.

Welcome in Raider Nation to another episode of the Locked-on Raiders podcast on this 4th of July.

That's right.

It's Thursday, July 4th, 2019.

Very special day today.

Hopefully everyone gets to enjoy their day with some families, some loved ones.

Don't have to work too much. Maybe get out and barbecue, go out and play some sports. Do something.

You know, just have a day to relax and enjoy the day and realize exactly what the 4th of July

really means. And look, first and foremost, before we get into the episode today, and I do believe

it's a really special episode that you will enjoy. Before we do that,

let's recognize what the day is all about. So shout out to all the military, shout out to

everyone who's a first responder. Shout out to everyone who allows us to live and enjoy the freedoms

that we do each and every day. Definitely appreciate you, appreciate you, and appreciate

you some more. I say it every holiday that, you know, we can never say it enough, we can never thank our military enough, we can never thank our first responders

enough, anyone who's ever sacrificed themselves or their family that's sacrificed in the line of

duty, any of that, we never can say it enough, but we always remember on days like today,

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