Chase Thomas podcast. The Chase Thomas podcast. My nephew needs me to record. See, I hate, I already hate it. I hate it.

All right. Hello, and welcome back. Chase Thomas podcast, David on a Tuesday afternoon. One of my favorite MBA writers is here.

I'm not going to do the what-up back because it's just not the same when it comes from me. Like, it's just I can't do my Atlanta version of that, my southern version of it.

So I'm not going to try.

But here at this time, one of my favorite, like I said, NBA writers, Howard Beck.

Howard, good afternoon, sir.

How are you?

What up, Chase?

I can say what up.

I have gotten the official permission slip from Zach Lowe that the whole

world can do what up back. Like, Zach has given permission to the world. He says it's open source.

There's no charge. You don't have to pay him a nickel and royalties every time. There's like,

it's just free for the world to to use so when people are wondering like can

they say that like of course you can um that is uh up to the individual so there you go what

does that permeate into your your just normal life does your wife walk by and like what up

Beck who when you're walking in the door, no? No, no, that would be weird.

But they're all aware of it here at home.

I get the occasional random, like if I'm walking a concourse, like NBA game, it's halftime.

I'm hungry.

I'm just going to go foraging for food on the concourse somewhere and I'll just get it randomly and I don't expect it because I don't expect, I'm not on TV. I don't know how anybody ever recognizes me, but it happens sometimes. And then I'll get like this what up back in the middle of a concourse. They'll be, uh, what, huh? And like, I'm always startled by it. And I usually, I don't know if they're expecting for me to, like, reciprocate with a what back or whatever they want. I don't know what they're expecting. But I'm usually so startled that I just be like, oh, hi. And I just look like a dork. Yeah. So that happens. It's happened a couple times here in New York on the subway in my own neighborhood.

Like I'll be getting off the subway and someone will out of the blue. It turns out, you know, just obviously hardcore NBA fans and fans of Zach's pod and hopefully some of my stuff. And yeah, occasionally you just get it out of the blue. And it's always fine. It's always welcome occasionally startling.

Is it one of, do they have a follow up? Because I always wonder with people like I, that's why I'm not usually like, I don't bother folks, even if I recognize them, celebrity writer, whoever, it's just, I have nothing to say. I don't need, like, I got nothing for you. like no you know what sometimes it's it's just that because they're they're just happy to be

...