Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your host Sam Vassini.

We are presented by The Athletic today on the show.

Looking live from an embassy suites somewhere in Arizona.

I don't even know where.

It's Matthew Penny. Penny, how you doing, man? I'm doing great. I don't even know where. It's Matthew Penny.

Penny, how you doing, man?

I'm doing great and happy to be here live via Scottsdale.

I've had a little bit of a wild day.

I'm out here for Hupal West, one of the best high school tournaments in the country.

I've tried to check a few boxes while I'm out here.

So the first one I did was I had to go to the airport, right? I had to fly, get on the plane. And it's a five and a half hour flight. I get on. The

TVs are not working. So I had a little bit of work to do. And they tried to reset the sound

on the TV and didn't work. And the guy, three roads in front of me, still watched Home Alone, too, with subtitles. Like, that was commitment to the holiday season. So I thought, all right,

this is a little bit of an interesting start. Landed. Uh, got to runs up car. Then I, I jetted

over to Arizona State. I said, I'm in town. Let me go see Bagley. Let me see how he's

progressed. He did not practice. He passed a lot of chess passes, a lot of bounce passes.

I left.

I set up and here we are.

We get to record a little bit and then get to go watch some live games here in a few hours.

Love it.

So we're going to get Penny out of here hopefully under an hour.

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