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On today's starting nine, Jake and Carl interview Arizona Diamondback starting pictures,

Zach Galen, about his filthy stuff and big league life, carving up the NL West.

There's huge news with the former teammate, some little league world series love,

the hug heard round the world, and so much more to get into. Let's have a great show.

Action, welcome back to starting nine, it's your old Carl, I'm joined by,

would you say new setting? New house, is this the first time you're in the new house?

We got Jake, area I didn't Austin, Texas. We will be joining later today by Zach Galen,

but I got to go back to Austin real quick. The house looks good, setup looks good, new chair.

Yeah, I'm upstairs in the study, and you can see these little, if you're watching on YouTube,

got these three little baby dolls, sconces up here. We like, we like some weird shit.

The Speakeasy vibe is kind of the trend around the house. So first time shooting up here, I've done

the last three or four shows downstairs in the sauna, not in the sauna, but in the massage,

slash sauna room. There's 15 people in the house around, it's loud downstairs, so I figured I'd

set up here, have a quiet show. But I do think that this will probably be my primary setting for

the future. I might move to the couch that's over here to my left, which looks very, very comfortable,

I haven't even sat on it yet. So we're still, it's still a work in progress, but I like where I'm

at and this chair is very, very comfortable. The microphone fits very nicely in between the legs.

The desk is a nice height, so, and I'm sidetracked here, a little ADD, but a little,

thought, people in Texas say, height, you notice that? Or do people in the Midwest

and height instead of height? I have no idea. I stopped saying height like four or five years ago,

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