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I've had so many people be like, dude, who's running shuttle for you up there? I'm like, I don't know, your mom. Right. Like, you guard that. Like, once you have that. That's the pizza sauce, man. You know, that's part of our pizza sauce recipe. The expert friend is, I'm getting into fly fishing. I don't know anything about it. I'm here. My friend, who's a really big fly fisherman, is going to come in and help me. Or maybe I could. Or you could. Or what I do for it. So if there's any local investors or barbers, I don't cut. I can't do the hair cutting part. I would just get the floby, the suck cut from Wayne's world.

Oh, that'd be awesome. You know what I mean?

Come on, man. Cut and retry that. You know that's never going to work.

Good morning, friends, degenerate anglers, and people who will pace for hours until the 85-year-old

lady that looks like a mummy takes her American spirit 100s and gets the hell off your

favorite super real a min slot machine.

And welcome to Cut and Retie, the Fishing Podcast that's right there with you, only it's

feeding a penny slot just long enough for the cocktail waitress to return with the 7 and 7 it ordered 45 minutes ago.

Hey, happy Friday, everyone.

I'm Joe Cimelli, and obviously I got casinos on the brain today.

Why is that?

Well, because talk of them is woven throughout today's episode, which was completely inadvertent.

There was nothing

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