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Random thoughts this morning because my head is still spinning from a holiday weekend...
...you guys all good with the scrolling finger this morning? Hopefully, we're all still intact this morning after blowing off those fireworks, operating the grills, cutting vegetables, etc. Am I worn out after multiple late nights this weekend celebrating freedom? You're damn right I am, but I know you guys will soon be waking up and looking for a flaming hot edition of Screencaps, so I got up at the crack of dawn to start pumping out a 4th of July post.
• Did I leave a neighborhood patio party early to make sure I got some sleep to keep a normal schedule this week? You're damn right I did. I could've stayed up until 2 in the morning suckin' down freedom beers, but then my Monday morning would've been completely wrecked.
• On a scale of 1-to-suck-it-coronabros, how great was it to see a fireworks show with thousands of others? Saturday night, we went down to the river here in Utopia, Ohio to sit along the banks near where, in 1813, the U.S. government ordered a fort built to kick British ass. In fact, Saturday's fireworks were shot over the Maumee River at the spot where the British tried -- twice -- to defeat the USA, but it was futile.
• There's something about how 4th of July Pandora sounds on 4th of July weekend. I don't listen to too much Alabama because I have to hear too much of it in the fall when Bama's on CBS for three straight months, but there was something about "Song of the South" pumping through my little Bluetooth speaker over the 4th.
• Jeff Maaske writes via email:
Hey Joe,
Love the content and the TNML! I've got a nomination for Team TNML, my son Zack. Big Z as we call him is a freshman TE at D2 Tusculum College in TN. He loves playing TE but didn't get to play that position in HS much at all because he was teammates with Jake Briningstool (remember that name, he's at Clemson and will do big things the next 4 years), anyway Z kept grinding and played DE and some LB his senior year in HS. He showed up at Tusculum's camp in December as a kid nobody knew. He wowed 'em and they offered him the next week. He just wants to play and being D2 instead of D1 makes zero difference to him. He is just the kind of guy you're looking for, a tenacious, catch-a-pass-over-the-middle grinder. He's 6'3" about 235, so he's built for that stuff. So yeah, we're a little proud of him, but I think he'd be a perfect fit for OutKick!
I've included a pic of him deadlifting 375 a week or 2 ago so you know what you're getting. Sign him up or no, either way we love what y'all are doing at OutKick. Keep it up!
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