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The future is open. Hello and welcome to the Backpack podcast. It is Thursday, and that means it's Nurgers you wrote. I'm your host, Dave DeFour. Joining me, as always, coach, David Thorpe, coach,

had a rough week.

We were just having some dog talk.

You got to get another dog.

That's it.

After having this conversation,

you've got to get another dog.

I highly recommend not getting a French bulldog, though, because they're not real dogs.

That's where I'm at on that.

What are they?

They're like big cats.

That's, you know, they're, you know, they break too easily.

Yeah, they're expensive dogs that just wind up costing you even more money. You know, my mutt cost me zero dollars. You know, if he like, uh, know that. Yeah. If he eats, if he eats a stick, it's like, okay, he'll be okay in like an hour. French bulldog eats a stick? Oh, it's a disaster.

It's, yeah.

Yeah, it's $8,000 at the vet.

It's, yeah.

I'm just kidding.

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