Okay, you ready to start this show!

Your host to the evening is a really funny dude.

I forgot his last name, but I've seen him before and he's really funny.

Give him up for Mike. Oh, nice.

Coming to you live on tape from the lucky 13th floor of a commercial high rise in beautiful Beverly Hills adjacent California

from the studios of Sirius XM West boasting an obstructed view of the world famous Hollywood side. This is the Tully show. I am your

host Mike Tully. Joining me today for two decades and counting one of the best known and

most respected writers on the NBA beat first for the Los Angeles Daily News

then the New York Times and now Leachia report also the host of the full 48 podcast

joining me from our Studios in New York.

Hello and welcome Howard Beck.

Hello Michael, how are you?

I'm wonderful.

I'm so glad we've had a nearly season long dialogue on on email. We're finally chatting at least virtually

Yes, a an ongoing conversation that was largely fruitless up until this point so thank you for

sticking with me I kept meaning to try to get out to LA and it just somehow

never happened I blame the Lakers you don't worry about it it was a very

uneventful basketball season out here not much

happened nothing nothing happened nothing of consequence so what did the next

couple months of your life look like do you do you do you talk to your family are you in contact with them at all or do you just fully go off the grid?

Yeah, I kind of become a ghost. It's a very strange sensation, probably more so for them than for me but maybe all parties involved.

It's different now though I will say so you mentioned my resume of being at the Daily News

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