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Hello to our friends in the UK and in Ireland.

And there is a definite connection, Chris Sims, between our friends in the UK and Ireland and today's show, because we're going to get right into it. I guess I should tell you hello first. Yeah, hey, how you doing? Good to see you. It says here, welcome and hello to Chris. So we've done the welcome. I say hello to you. Right. Hello to you. Right. Hello to you as well. How are you doing today? I know you said you're hot up there in your garage a little bit. I do have a real serious question. Like, do you go out in the sun in the summertime? It's just, I just wanted to know because somehow. Wait a minute. You became whiter over the last like months since we got off air.

Are the dangers of prolonged exposure to the sun not well documented by now?

They are.

Have we not concluded and accepted science?

Although acceptance of science is something that is hotly in debate right now.

So I don't know.

Maybe the sun is actually good for you. Oh, yeah.

exposure to UV rays is good for you in some way. I work, man. I'm inside. I know. I'm, I'm cranking out

content. And, you know, I will say this. I have a pool and I haven't been in it yet this year.

Are you kidding me, Mike? See, that is absolutely ridiculous. You live in West Virginia where I'm sure you've had a number of 90-degree days and you haven't gotten your pool yet. That is just, they should take it away from you. The state of West Virginia should take the pool away. You shouldn't be able to swim anymore. That would be an interesting project to see them actually come take the pool that's buried into the ground.

Or they just fill it up.

Right.

I guess.

All right.

So I've complied with my duty to welcome the audience and say hello.

Now let's turn to what is a fairly serious topic and it has nothing to do with football except that it does have to do with

football because there are some serious allegations that have been made involving Woody Johnson,

the owner of the New York Jets, currently the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain.

And it all started, Chris, as a report from the New York Times that President Trump allegedly tried to get Woody Johnson

to try to get the British government, to try to steer the British open to the Trump

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