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Welcome to the program, Dan Patrick's show, Chris Mannix, filling in this Friday for DP.

That's right, boys.

I'm back.

Good to see you guys.

Been a minute.

I was thinking about this before he came in. Had to have been at least six years before the pandemic when I was last sitting in this chair.

Perloff, you're looking great back there.

Thank you, Chris.

Like the beard, see, and you're doing something with your hair these days.

A little tan also.

A little tan, a little bit darker.

Good to see all you guys.

Paul, he had a great talk with you. Always good to catch up. Yeah, I'm checking my notes here. I got April of 19 the last time you were in the big chair. Okay, wow. So yeah, good, almost seven years now. Wow. Long time. Been doing anything? Oh, no. you guys did, you know,

you went your separate ways with other NBA people for a while.

But, like, I'm like Thanos.

You just, you always come back to me. I'm not a present. I'm not present. Always back there. Great to catch up with you, Paul, my Vermont neighbor. We talked for a good five, six minutes. And then Fritzie came in and gave me one quick half hug, turned around, and went away. It was, hey, how's life, Chris? I said, good, you turned around, you left. Not for my minimal kindness that we like to joke about it. Yeah, Paulie. He walked up to you. He hadn't seen you in seven years. And he goes, hey, how's life? And as he's saying the word life, he's turning back, turning his head to you and going back to his little coat. Very busy, very busy guy. And I stepped out of the studio for a moment. He followed up with everything good. That was the follow up from Fritz. Minimum kindness. Minimum interest, do I give him credit for that. like didn't seem to have any interest in hearing about what was going on in my life. And I appreciate that. Yeah, Paul. No, you've been a part of this show for a long, long time. You've been our NBA guy boxing. You've hosted at least seven or eight times, I think, over the years. But a lot of changes for you the past five years. A lot of changes. I am mostly a Californian now.

I live out in Los Angeles, got married a couple of years ago.

I'd had a kid six months ago to the day.

My son, six months old today, big day for young Miles Manning.

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