All right. Welcome, everybody. This is Derek Barner, joined by Rich Hoffman. On this week's Sixers Beat, a part of the CLNS Media Network. As always, if you can, please do leave us a rating or review, particularly on Apple Podcasts. It does help us, and we do appreciate that. I hate begging for it, but we actually get more ratings when we beg for it. So here we are. How you doing,

Rich? I'm good, man. It's still a couple weeks away here, but we saw each other for the first time

in a while. The rare Sixers... I'm very sorry for you, but we did run into each other, yeah.

The Rare Sixers PR event that we both attended.

And why did we both go?

Well, I think we're entertained by Charles Barkley.

When you have a chance to interact with Chuck, you have to take that opportunity.

Chuck is an always entertaining figure.

He always has something to say.

And if I'm being completely honest, you know, I was a child of the 80s and the 90s.

One of the reasons I got into basketball was that guy, so it was an opportunity not to pass up.

And it's easier to say that because I don't cover him.

He is a fellow in the media.

But certainly I was a fan back then, and that was an interesting event for sure.

And I'm not going to lie.

Before I shower him with praise, I disagree with pretty much everything he says from a basketball opinion standpoint when he's on TV.

But, yeah, he's just this larger than life personality who does spend a lot of his time in Philadelphia.

And I forget who said this, but it's true.

I don't think I've ever seen somebody so famous, just so at ease with normal people

and so gracious with their time. And, uh,

there were plenty of stories about that. And, uh, yeah, I just wanted to see him talk. And it was

great. Yeah. No, I mean, he has, he has embraced a city, which wasn't always the case, I think,

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