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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me for this week's edition of In the Pocket. It is a long time NFL quarterback. Chase, Daniel, Chase, how you doing, man? Good, good, good. We were just talking about weather. It's currently 68 and sunny in San Diego, and you said it's the coldest day of the year in Chicago. So I don't envy your position because out here, we may go to the beach later today today and it's going to be an excellent day.

I understand and appreciate that sort of lifestyle. I've lived in LA for five years. It made me

soft and I didn't like how the passage of time felt. A year would end and I would have no markers

for time moving.

So I would just wake up every January 1st.

I can't believe another year just went by.

So I feel like the life I live now is hardier.

I understand time passing and can sense it.

And this is a very important thing for me.

I made a joke about this on the Internet earlier today.

I want to dress like a 1920s Irish fisherman as often as I can throughout the year. So this weather gives me a chance to do that.

I want the thickest, heaviest cable-knit sweater I can find. It looks like you're wearing it right now.

This is actually much lighter than the one I had on earlier today. I swear to God, I had a much thicker cable net sweater on earlier today. And I just be some like thick, thick pants. That's how I want to live. And I can't do that if I'm living in L.A. So I very much can settle into the best version of myself sartorially when I live in the Midwest.

So that's what I'm after.

Yeah.

I mean, I get it.

I get it.

And it has made me soft.

But I think the one thing that I probably miss about living in the Midwest or even in Dallas where it can get freezing cold.

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