I used to hang out back on Shabacon Creek with Matt Labina and we make explosive devices and blow stuff up back there, Mom. No, really? No, really, for real. These are the kind of things I find out. I got out of their fingers. Who gives her shit now? It's fine. It was called Trenton State College for Women. And we would be fishing at the lower lake They had a big white bridge

It went over to the island

And all these girls were like sunbathing

Hey look at a little blonde boy over there

He caught a fish

You know a customer would come in

And he'd say he wanted a MEPs

Yeah

Yeah

I'll have a MEPs

And I'd be like Can you just point to it for me?

Come on, man.

Cut and retry that.

You know that's never going to work.

Good morning, friends, degenerate anglers, and people who have already moved the goalpost

from dry January to dry first full week of January because getting your children back in

a school routine after that long break has been traumatizing for you.

And welcome to Cut and Retie, the Fishing Podcast.

It actually took some sick pleasure in watching my kids that slept until 1 p.m. All of break have to get up and face the music last Monday morning. Hey, everybody. I'm Joe Sermely. Happy Friday. And I'm also that dad. I am. You know, like all break, it's like, you want to stay up and jerk around in your room until 3 a.m. every night. Go right

ahead. You know what? You should. You should do that. It's your holiday break. You should enjoy it. Do that. You know, but then I'm like major pain on that first Monday, like banging trash can lids and shit. Oh man. Anyway, dry January. I'm trying it. I am. You know, I didn't say I was going to succeed at it, but I'm trying it.

I feel like these holidays were worse bloated, dead on a toilet phase than past ones. Like, I need some kind of detox, you know, and I'm not making a thing out of it. And like, I've got it's at five more days of dry January. No, I'm not, like, I don't give a shit because I'll probably mess it up. But I just feel like my insides are made of butter and cheese right now,

you know, but we'll see. I'll try it. If I sound all froggy and horse this week, it's because I am, because I presently feel like ass. So there's that, too. Guys, I have shot so much aphrine in the last few days, I think it's actually melting through my

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