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All right, Danny Parkins. You know him, you love him. I want to start because I'm making my summer vacation plans

and stuff, you know. And, you know, because both of us, we can't take any time off during the football season.

So you got to take all your vacation time in the summer, which is harder because that's when most people take time off, so it's harder to find good flights. So you know how I always talked

about this like with my wife, you know, there's always this debate, is the economy good,

is it bad? What's the indicators? Is it inflation? Is it the stock market? Is it the housing market?

And I've always kind of, I remember

years and years ago when I would come to Chicago, somebody at ESPN gave me a driver, gave me a number

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