This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.

Time for a Diet Coke break.

Enjoy what you like.

Just how you like it.

This is my taste.

What's yours? Celebrate your my taste. What's yours?

Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke. And welcome to the Pride of Detroit Midweek podcast, the one we call First Bite.

It's our midweek interview show where we bring in a special guest.

We are in the middle of our draft review process.

We are all the way to Derek Barnes-Lines fifth pick in the fourth round.

Before we get in all that, my name is Jeremy Reisman.

I'm the editor-in-chief at Pride of Detroit and your co-host for First Bite. With me, as always, is Ryan Matthews at Renderscore POD. Ryan, how are we doing?

A little decorum today. You know, the podcast was kind of off the rails this week, but this is our serious

suit and tie show. Yes. We're trying to bring it all back to some seriousness and hopefully to bring some of that decorum

with them.

We have Mike Carmen, the beat writer for the Purdue Boilermakers over at the Journal and Courier.

Mike, how you doing today?

I didn't know it was dress up day.

I mean.

I'd have put on a tropical shirt if that was a kid. It's all relative,

to be honest. I mean, anything would be a little bit more dressed up than Monday show. But anyways,

let's put that behind us. Let's talk about Derek Barnes, that's who we're here to talk about.

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