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Connor is on vacation, but we have a very special guest co-host today.

Our good friend, Jack Oliver, also known as Jolly Olive from John Boy Media.

Jolly, how are you?

But most importantly, right off the bat as a podcast host yourself,

how did I do with the intro and sponsor read? I can't believe you don't do it every time,

man. That was natural. It was seamless. It's so professional. I'm good, man. I'm happy to be doing

a Mets show, even though the Mets are not super fun to talk about right now, but it's a subway series.

It's a big series.

So there's a little bit of that feeling in the air.

Not much as usual, but a little bit.

Let's hop into the week that was you mentioned, obviously, things not going so well.

Mets get swept in Atlanta, lose two out of three in Pittsburgh from just a top level. Kind of recap the week for us from your perspective,

outside of just the obvious the Mets lost a lot of games.

I mean, it's troubling because they had a chance to win pretty much any of these games,

and instead they go one and five on this road trip.

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