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Today, starting nine, Jake and Carl come out of a long Memorial Day weekend to recap some

personal stories. On with the major weekend news, the slappered round-the-world

Paul Vultzmitz, Hitch Street, Kaysu Sanchez has his bond to name a few. It's a reward season

around here. It's Tuesday. That means award season. There's also some power rankings. This time

around the division round-up, a couple new segments and a most importantly, a great show.

Let's get in there. Action! Hey, welcome back to starting nine,

presented by Parsley Sports. It is Carl here in Chicago, Colin Cooper on the ones and twos in

my partner in crime, Jake Arietta down in Austin, Texas. What's going on guys?

Well, it's good to be back. It feels like it's been a while. It doesn't. Yeah,

we want to say it. I'll say it. I missed you guys. A lot. I was having a blast as I'm sure you

guys were, but really did miss y'all's faces. Now, we were getting some video updates from you.

You were out on the ranch from Memorial Day weekend. I don't know if people know this about you,

but you are very much in outdoors when you got some property, some acreage, some woodzey,

some toys, and you're working on the ranch. Yeah, well, we actually weren't at our place.

We're at Lackey's property in West Texas, but ours is getting going. We're doing a lot of work

out there. We can't really stay out there right now because we're redoing the hunting cabin.

I mean, we can, but I mean, you don't know Brittany that well yet. You'll get to know her.

The hunting cabin doesn't have AC. It's 105 degrees here. I told you look, it's like camping.

We can go out there. We can stay and leave the doors open. I mean, there are snakes, scorpions,

and tarantulas, and coyotes and bobcats, but you know, I mean, it's okay. It's okay. So we were at

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