From Relay FM, this is Upgradegrade episode 248.

Today's show is brought to you by Lunar Display, Square Space, and Express VPN.

My name is Mike Hurley and I am joined across this podcasting table in San Jose, California by

Jason Snell.

Hi Jason Snell.

Mike, I love it when we do upgrade live and in person.

It's the best.

And there's no better live and in person to upgrade than W. WDC upgrade. We are like two hours removed from the

keynote and there was a good reason for that because you actually got to spend a little bit of time with the brand new Mac Pro.

I touched a Mac Pro.

But we're going to talk about that a little later on in the episode.

We are issuing most of our usual format today because there's way too much to talk about.

However, let's talk about the draft. So in our last episode, in case you knew around here, we did a

predictions draft where we will go through a list of things and score them and then it comes out on the

other end and we see who won. I don't think we need to dive into this one because

we have done a lot of adjudication in the background. I will say first off I've got a few statements opening statements about the draft one is this was I'm a little worried that we are a little too predictable I know that you on

Connected last week did the Ricky picks where you made things

that are extra special risky I want to consider possibly forcing us to make some

riskier picks in some of our picks down the road because I feel like part of it is this was packed and all of these things that we thought would happen

basically happened and so our scores I think this was the best performance we've ever done on that draft this was the best performance I you know I understand what you saying but I just think that we picked well because we had a lot of things available to us and a lot of things that felt possible. I just wonder if maybe there's one or

two picks that should be forced out of our comfort zones just to make it more

interesting. I'm always up for adapting the rules because the score as as we agreed on in the end after some adjudication, we did have to call

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