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Hey there, folks. Welcome to Monday, June 17. Chris Heim's, happy Father's Day to you.

Thank you. Thank you. As a father of six, we take that day very seriously here.

Apparently it means I get to do and say whatever I want, which is a... Really?

No, it's not true. I get to... I'm only the father of one. I don't get that. I guess after you have four children, you're kind of bump it up into that category. It's a bonus round.

Well, after four kids, it's like it gets crazy.

That's where you really rack up the points.

Father's Day, listen, this is the first Father's Day that I've ever celebrated without my father.

And it is, you know, I've shared on this program a lot of my life and losing my dad in January.

And I think one of the things, I mean, I want to talk about what I did on Father's Day

yesterday.

I want to talk about fatherhood.

Before that, let me just warn the audience.

Today, John Smirak in hour two, Oren McIntyre is coming up a little bit later on in this hour.

Oren McIntyre is an amazing young man.

He's written a book called The Total State.

I'm so glad that folks like Orrin McIntyre exist. He's a father. Happy Father's Day to Orrin. So we got Orrin coming up,

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