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I'm Robert Mays.

I'm my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. It's, uh, yeah,. How you doing, buddy? Doing very well.

It's, uh, yeah, just kind of a, I don't know how to describe it. It felt like a calm week for some reason. Maybe it's because like the Sunday games being, you know, there are some interesting stuff that happened, but maybe not that big clash game that happened where there's a hundred things coming out of it. I don't know, maybe for a calm week.

I felt like I just got to choose what I wanted to watch this week, which I enjoy.

I really like. that happened where there's a hundred things coming out of it. I don't know, maybe for a calm week.

I felt like I just got to choose what I wanted to watch this week, which I enjoy. I really like that. Not only just in all 22 cents, a movie sense afterwards late at night when I watch my movie. So yeah, I don't know. I'm feeling calm, Robert. I'm feeling calm. How are you? I'm so happy for you, buddy. I'm okay. I had kind of a bad travel morning this morning. I'm in Miami right now.

I'm going to. How are you? I'm so happy for you, buddy. I'm okay. I had kind of a bad travel morning this morning.

I'm in Miami right now. I'm going to a music festival with my wife this weekend, which I'm very excited about. Tomorrow, Friday, when you guys will be listening to this, the lineup is explosions in the sky is playing all of the world, the earth is not a cold dead place. and then it's all house music for the rest of the night.

And you might be asking like, who is this for? of the world the earth is not a cold dead place and then it's all house music for the rest of the

night and you might be asking like who is this for you it's for me it's specifically for me it's

exactly what i want out of a friday night in miami so i'm going to see an album played start to finish

that is like deeply important to me that I probably listened to like hundreds

of times while I was writing in college. It's what I wrote my wedding vows to. I walked down the aisle

to explosions in the sky song. So all of this like deeply important music and then we'll just dance

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