Hello and welcome to group chat. I am Rob Mahoney. Justin Vary or not here today. I'm assuming elbow deep in Spackle, but with me, as always, Kyle, man, Kyle, how are you doing?

Gas mask on.

Yeah, he's got his AirPods in listening to Yukon Husky podcast or something like that.

I'm doing well.

I just got through, you know, getting the pod ready to go, getting everything in place,

getting the dog to settle down.

There's definitely like getting the dog settled down part of this is always if there were a camera

inside our house just watching me rationalize with him and try to get him.

There are a lot of big like who owns who moments where I don't know if

you have these, Rob, where you're having these standoffs where they're looking at you and you're like, what? What is it? And I go through a checklist. We get him laid down, you know, I don't know. I just have these moments where I carry his shit around, you know? It's like, do I walk him or does he walk me? I have these moments where I zoom out

and I don't totally know what's going on.

These are fair questions.

Not to just follow. Do I walk him or does he walk me? I have these moments where I zoom out and I don't totally know what's going on.

These are fair questions.

Not to just full-on life coach you here, but we got to get your house in order.

We got to get your entire existence, you know, really ironed out.

The fact that you're having just a full-on negotiation every morning with your dog to get him to do the simplest basic things. I'm a little concerned about your just like day-to-day workload. I love him, but he's a little bit of an emotional terrorist. I'll just say that. Any dog that's mostly poodle, it's just a lot of people, we'll do another, we'll do a breakout dog pod someday, but love him to death. But yeah, a lot of maintenance. Too smart. I wish you were like 15% dumber, Rob. That's what I always say about my dog. There really is a sweet spot for dogs where you don't want them being so smart and so curious that they're turning your life upside down. But in light of, you know, emotional terrorists of a kind, it was pitched to me by some anonymous sources, Kyle,

that you and I, with Justin out today,

should turn this into like a full-on Blazers Truther podcast,

that we should just go deep tearing down Portland bit by bit from their roster.

How receptive do you think Justin would have been to that?

Not receptive, you know, I don't think, I mean, he, well, no, Justin's weird where he, he doesn't run away from a fight. So I think that if he were here, I honestly, he's told us that, like, he gets stronger from negativity. Like, he grows stronger. I don't totally understand it.

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