What is up? What is good? How you living? How you feeling? How you doing?

We are recording this on a Wednesday. It's going to be coming out on a Monday,

right before the play internment. And the reason I say this is we're talking hoops

with one of my favorite people in the world. He was a co-worker for quite a long time.

He'll be a friend forever. He is a legendary writer in the basketball game from cover and

Kobe and Shaq in LA to explaining the mix and their dysfunction to all of us for quite a long time.

He was my buddy at VR and now he is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated co-host of the

crossover pod analyst on Sirius XM and all around lover of all things New York. How it freaking back.

Left co. It's so great to see you. That was the kindest of kind introductions and you're

seriously you're if you keep it up you're going to make me cry before this damn thing.

Dude I'm so emotional these days. We're recording this last night. It was my last Tuesday,

show I almost cried. I'm getting married soon. I'm at a point now man where I'm just like

mush all the time. Like I was watching this on Netflix and it's like a show where people

are like catfishing each other and this woman started crying and I was like what the hell is wrong

with me right? Yeah it's all of them I'm a mess. Welcome to Middle Age this is what happens.

If you if you and your wife to be have a kid sometime in the near future everything that you're

feeling right now where you're going like why the hell am I getting choked up at this stupid

commercial like that is going to be times 50 in another couple of years my friend like it just

it gets stranger and more emotional and then you start to think like well this is actually kind

of good I'm glad I'm feeling it's no wait a minute what the hell is going on this doesn't seem

right I was never this cry before I don't even know if cry is a word I just made it up it's it gets

it gets I want to say worse it gets more intense I've always been cry or though like I cried at

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