All right, welcome everybody.

This is Derek Podner.

Join this week by a special guest, a friend of the podcast, more than a friend of the podcast,

a former co-host of the podcast, Kyle Newbeck of Philly Voice.

How you doing, Kyle?

You know, we had a year-long beef that I got kicked off the podcast for.

You don't have to dress it up for the audience but um do well it's uh very much

august on the NBA calendar so it is very much August we had a little bit of a scheduling

scheduling difficulty with Rich and myself so we had to go into the bullpen but luckily we had a

2008 Brad Miller Brad Miller Miller, oh my God.

Brad Lidge.

Ready to go.

I am very much in August podcasting mode as well.

All right.

So I think the way that we'll go about this, because we haven't had Kyle on the podcast.

Just get some of his opinions on the offseason out there. And then if you haven't been, first of all, if you haven't been following, go check him out on Twitter at Kyle Neubek and read his stuff at Philly Voice. You should have already been doing that. But if you're not, we will give you a TLDR version of his offseasonseason takes, and then you can go read more in depth.

So I guess the way we'll do this is we'll basically ask a bunch of questions and get your thoughts on whether or not it is or is not a legitimate problem.

And I think where we'll start, because I know a lot of people, and not like completely obvious

stuff like

hey Ben Simmons can't shoot no shit um we know that that's not that's not breaking news we'll see

whether or not that's fixed in the future some of the questions might touch on aspects like that

but we will not come directly out and ask you whether or not Ben Simmons would be better if he can

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