He's not dead. Danny LaRue is back on the program. It was fun getting some guests in to change things up, but you are back.

Would you like to tell the people where you were?

Well, it was funny because the trip changed around a little bit due to the ongoing nationwide strike in France.

Originally, the second week was going to be all in Paris, but that changed.

So the overall itinerary ended up being, see if I can get this right off the top of my head.

Paris, Strasbourg, Cologne, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris. It was awesome. Fantastic.

What was the best city and what was the biggest highlight of the trip?

Best city, I loved Amsterdam. I really did enjoy, I enjoyed the people and it was interesting because it was the least Christmassy of any of the places that was a part of how this trip happened.

I think the thing that was really special for me originally, if it hadn't burned, Notre Dame would have been this, but the cathedral in Cologne, I've never been to Europe period, but going to one of those super old European massive cathedrals was a really cool experience.

And just to kind of get the sense there was this beautiful thing that they said there about how it took 600 years to build that cathedral and so that doing so was an act of faith for the people who built it because they knew they were never going to see it done.

And that was something like as an American, so are so many of our really cool buildings are just young to get that sense. I was really blown away by that.

Yeah, well, the way things are trending here in California, it will take 600 years to build anything.

That's true.

We're we make experience in that soon enough. I'll talk a little NBA basketball with the Dallas, Madison, going to alphabet, a quarter year west 15 and 60.

They sit at 19 and 10, eight and five in their last 13 third in that rating in the NBA. They actually underpointed their point differential by about two wins.

As of now, one way to do that is to blow a 30 point lead against Toronto. We'll talk about that.

First and offense, almost two points for 100 better than anyone else per clean the glass and 15th in defense. They project for 50 three wins and they appear very likely to make the playoffs.

They've weathered the Luca Donchitz absence pretty well looking like he could return on Thursday. Did a pretty substantial workout off that spring ankle before the Toronto game.

They were in the Tim McMan much has been talked about with Christophe Persingas still shooting the ball pretty poorly. They they had that big upset win in Milwaukee when he went four of eight from three on Monday,

and trained a bunch of really deep three. I think all four of his threes were 28 feet or further. He made the box switch up. They had to guard him with the honest. They had to take their big room protector off the floor.

So he does really have an effect offensively teams are always going to guard him. Not very efficient. But you end of focus on what he's been able to do defensively for this group.

Yeah, one of the questions that we had wanted to answer with poor Zingas this year and obviously he's not playing the straight five with Dallas, but he is playing center more often than as a New York Nick back before he got injured all that time ago.

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