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Coors Brewing Company, Golden Colorado. Hey there, Nix fans. How are you? It's your boy, John of the Macri, with you for another

episode of Nix Film School podcast with, of course, no Nix to talk about. We are going on,

geez, we're going on, I guess, about four weeks with no basketball, but it does not stop us here

from continuing to put out stuff that may or may not be worth your time. I hope it is. And of course,

it doesn't stop people that write about this team

for a living from coming up with good and interesting stuff for you to read about. And I

honestly can't think of anyone who's been doing a better job of that than my guest today.

Mike Vorkinoff of the Athletic. Mike, how are you, first of all?

I am surviving, which I think is really the only qualification we're going for at the moment. Yeah, and I don't even mean that glibly.

Like, you know, as long as everyone is doing well, that's really all I care about. You know,

it's screwed. I was going to save it, but let's get right into it.

So I feel like there's this like unsaid understanding amongst people in like, I don't know if it's just like the Twittersphere or in media or whatever where it's like, hey, if you're a political writer, stick to politics.

If you're someone who writes about sports, stick to sports.

And you, I thank God, whoever, you know, there is up above, that you are not doing that.

And as you just said, there are things

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