Hey there, next fans. How you doing? It's your boy, Jonathan Macri here with you for another episode, a live episode coming at you at 12 noon here on Wednesday, October 1st of the Nix Film School podcast. And our first edition, we're going to be doing this regularly throughout the year, checking in with the folks who actually cover this basketball team that we all know and love of the Beat Report.

And I am pleased to welcome back to the show. I feel like I have not talked to him for a while,

which is frankly strange and I blame only myself. James Edwards III of the Athletic. Hello, sir. How are you? I'm doing well, man. I appreciate you having me on first of the beat report. I'd imagine, I don't know if that'd be the case. If I was in Abu Dhabi, I'm going to take my not going to Abu Dhabi as getting in here early. But no, I'm just joking. I appreciate you having me. I'm looking

forward to chatting and I love the backdrop, man. That's newer, right? Yes, it is completely, I mean,

I've had all this stuff. I mean, there's stuff here, like, there's stuff here from like 1999.

I think there's some, you know what I have right here? I like, I'm taking us off the rails

immediately. I have a, a season schedule for the 96-97 Nix, the little pocket schedule. Do they make,

do they make pocket schedules anymore? Probably not, right? Probably not. I don't know. Like,

I feel like, like, there's still like Jalen Brunson foam fingers.

Like, there's still nostalgic type stuff that they do. It's a great question. I'm going to find out. I'll find out. And if so, I'll grab you one. This is, thank you. I would appreciate that. It's very upsetting that like we have, I mean, I don't, you're not as old as me, but like, you're old enough you have nostalgic stuff. Like I have a lot of nostalgic stuff. Do the kids today, are they going to have nostalgic stuff? Because like an iPad is not. Yeah. I was thinking about that. Like, what will it be? Like for me, I'm big into sports cards. Me too. I was big in sports cards.

Yeah. And I like, I got when I moved to New York, I like got back into it. So, um, like I've, I've scratched that itch. Sneak like I'm a sneaker head. Like I could see sneakers because over the last, you go on 10 years, right? There's no, at least I hope not. there's no virtual sneakers on the horizon.

I don't know, but there is. 10 years, right? There's no, at least I hope not, there's no virtual sneakers on the horizon.

How would that? I don't know, but they're, I don't know. Someone will think of it. I guarantee you. It's coming. It's coming, bro. It's coming. That's what would be, yeah, is it, is it Labooboos? What's the, yeah, what are the, Oh my God.

You're really getting us off the rails.

My daughter, it was a little fair in... Is it Labuboos? What's the, yeah, what are the... Oh my God. You're really getting us off the rails.

My daughter, it was a little fair by where our house was last week.

And my daughter went with her friend and we went to pick her up.

I met the mom and where her friend were...

And my daughter comes up to me screaming like a banshee.

I need $20 now. And I'm like, child, you need to settle down. And I'm like, what, why? What? She's like, they're selling labuboos for $20. I mean,

I didn't curse, but in my mind, what the fuck is a laboo? And that's, that's when I learned

what a laboo was. So that's, that was super exciting for me.

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