Hello and welcome to group chat.

I am Justin Varyer and joining me, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle Mann, recording this in the liminal space between

Christmas and New Year's, which means I lost track of the time, the day, and my pants no

longer fit. What happened to your pants? Well, I was just watching Yang Hansen, so that was

partly the case. Holy mother, this guy. Get out. You know what? I have many regrets already. The podcast just started, but sometimes you got to let Justin get his rocks off. You know, I just find that that helps us get the energy shifting right out of the gate. Lots and I keep shifting around. Blood flow, too. Your brain's going to work. I've just been cramming cookies, man. Left and right. It's just been my diet for about two to three days. Well, walk me through it. What's the cookie of choice? I got a pre-made box from a fancy bakery out here. And I just, I just went through that. Because, you know,

tis the season to pay $50 for like 15 cookies. You're goddamn right it is, Justin. It's,

it's a beautiful thing, honestly. I love the surprise of a variety box. You stayed out in Portland.

You didn't let go home and have any ants making your, making your cookies. So you're just kind of

importing it through like the freshness of a bakery set up kind of thing?

Unfortunately, the pandemic showed me the beauty that is staying home and away from your family during the holidays.

I will still see them.

I'll go and off peak times.

But like, I think this is the perfect time to get away from the chaos. This is the most Justin Barrier take I've ever heard. But also, Kyle, I got to say, you can replace the warmth of your friends and relatives with enough warming spice. If there's enough nutmeg in that cookie, I think you can fake your way through it. How much, what many milligrams are we talking about? Is that what you're Is that the kind of cookie we're talking? Leave it in the comments, I guess, you know, if you have your appropriate dosage. All right, so today's adventure here, we're going to do a holiday mailbag. Thank you for sending all of your questions. And I took a brief look at them, but Rob, it seemed like we got a lot of them in there. They were overflowing. So if we do not get to your question, we apologize. There just literally only is so much time. So we're going to hit as many as we can. Incredibly thoughtful questions, incredibly diverse questions. I can't wait to get into it. The Ringer NBA show is presented by Fandul. Fandall.

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All right, why don't we just get going? We've got like what, 10 to 15 questions here. We'll move

as swiftly as possible. But as per usual with our mailbags, Isaiah Blakely, our trusted producer, is here to deliver your questions. Yeah. So first one is from Angus. One of the best things about group chat is your ability to latch on to the oddball NBA characters, which is why I want to leverage

your collective hoops knowledge to help find a player that will make my brother fall in love

with professional basketball. Some key notes on my brother. James Winston is far and away,

his favorite NFL player because of his goofiness paired with his modicum of real talent.

My brother is 21, so ideally we'd find someone whose career is just ramping up.

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