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Hello, hello, welcome into the answer where I personally am very excited because

not only is it opening night tonight and I came home yesterday just, you know, my, I was just like,

I took the remote and I was like twitching. I was just like, I want to turn on some basketball.

I just want to turn on some basketball. There was no basketball to watch. So I'm very excited.

We've got Lakers Warriors tonight. We've got Sixers, Celtics and I have Kyle Mann in front of me

about to give you these wonderful takes and and make me smarter, make you smarter.

So it's going to be a good time. How you doing, Kyle?

I'm excited, you know, this is the kind I always think of that, that Michael Scott me, I don't know if you're

an office person. I just remember that whole show for some reason. It's just hard

wired into my brain. But like when he like is going to, when Toby's moving away and he comes

into work early and he's like strutting around the office, I always think of that meme where he's like,

he can't contain himself and he's like doing these, he's like, oh, I couldn't sleep.

I've said this over and over again. I think that like the sort of COVID run that we had where the

were just on top of each other and the flow was all off. It just sort of, I think it robbed us of

the Christmas feeling that you get that like it's been a long enough time. It's time to come back.

Like I'm and I'm somebody that consumes basketball. It never stops, right?

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