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All right what is going on America and welcome to a Friday edition of the dear America podcast. Okay let's get into it.

I apologize for no episode Wednesday. I was in the middle of coming back from is this my water. Yeah I got that for you man.

Let me water today. Wow man I'm telling you hang on. Is it good. Oh there we go. That's fantastic. Anyway I had a 13 year anniversary trip that man a list of went on and you know the beach really ain't my thing.

More mountain guy. I'm more of a mountain guy. I don't know if you figure that out by now but you know I do enjoy.

I don't know it's a weird thing I enjoy it for like a day the beach gets old to me and I know that I know that all my ladies in the car going what.

But it does it gets old to me you know so much sitting that you can do before it's just like okay man I'm ready to do something once you've seen one beach.

And I'm sure that there's going to be some people that get you're going to get some emails but once you see one beach you've seen them all I'm sorry you just have like it's the same thing every time you set up a beach chair.

You sit there you burn you jump in the water for five seconds just get back out you sit there you burn you jump back in the water you you get bit go eat a bougie mill for dinner yeah yeah yeah and then what I have found out is you know I grew up.

You know our beach was the golf right so.

Balexie golf shores Pensacola that's where I grew up and so I grew up with a love of seafood but I grew up with a love of fried seafood.

And so I grew up with going to get fried shrimp fried crab claws spray and some lemon juice on it and whatnot and let me tell you something when you go to these super nice places which you know that that if I had to guess.

I think it was a loved it but for me we went to like a really nice place like we had like our own island I guess.

And it was cool. You know they brought you food if you didn't want to go anywhere and all this stuff I mean that was cool but.

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