Thinking basketball podcast. My name is Ben. Welcome back to another show. Happy New Year. It is now 2025.

Our first show of 2025. I'm standing up. I'm so excited for this show. I forgot to sit back down before we

started recording. And because we do things live around here, I will need to smoothly make a

transition between standing and recording that only the members watching the live stream on YouTube.

And I guess anyone else watching later on YouTube will get. I didn't think this through,

Cody. How you doing? What's on your mind?

I was just to say, it's like a magician.

Like, you can't reveal your secrets.

You just got to hope that everyone else that's in on the secret is just not going to let the secret out.

I'm doing well.

I'm feeling inspired.

Like things in life are just inspiring to me right now. matter of today's pod. I don't know if it has to do with, uh, I don't know what, I don't know,

the snowless January we have right now in Minnesota. Listen, I know that means a lot of different things. And I know that there's a lot of people that like snow sports. I'm now one of them.

I'm happy about it. I don't have to deal with driving on bad roads. So it's, it's a good time to be me right now, Ben. Can we talk about Victor Wembe and Yama?

Is that what we can do today?

Are we allowed to do that?

If we do that, will there be Reddit threads about us made that say very inaccurate things and very demeaning things?

What am I talking about?

They're going to say that anyway, no matter what we say.

Let's just talk, let's just talk, Wembe. Well, okay, before we say that, I do want to shout out the best

comment I've seen on YouTube. I think somebody made the comment the other day about me, of course,

and they're like, I'm impressed that he can record the whole podcast in a sauna. And for anyone

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