Hello and welcome to the In The Pen podcast, a podcast about relievers, part of the

Pitcherless Podcast Network. My name is Jake Crumpler, and as always, I'm joined by Rick Graham

pitcherless's bullpen expert, and Rick, we are headed into July, and boy, is it hot.

It is 102 degrees where I live right now and it's completely

deadly and we'll see how long I survive in this podcast, but if I suddenly go silent like

halfway through, just assume I've passed out from heat exhaustion. Yeah, I mean, it's,

it hasn't been that much better out here out east. It's been a little cool the last two days.

But, yeah, I feel free.

I mean, you got to get AC wherever you are.

I don't know how you survive without it.

I would be, yeah, I would be dying over there.

Yeah, that's the biggest thing.

I realize I left that out of my opener.

It's just like, oh, it's 100 degrees outside.

I'm dying because of my opener. It's just like, oh, it's 100 degrees outside. I'm dying

because I'm outside. No, I'm inside. My house is also nearing, nearing 100 degrees because I don't have

AC. Yeah. So I'll, uh, my mom lives like 20 minutes away and she's got AC, so I'll go stay with her

for the night and then you're here to sleep, but that's the only way I can stay cool right now.

Good thing I move out at the end of July though, but my next place will definitely need to

have some AC because I can't do this.

Yeah, for sure.

I mean, living up out there too.

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