With Sergey Kar Yaakin taking on the world champ with the white pieces,

and that was the funniest moment of perhaps the entire Norway chess event.

The rumor is that Vladimir Kromnik, who you just saw there, laughing,

shook up the water bottle before Carlson came to the table.

Good morning, sweet world, and welcome to the No Dunks podcast on the Athletic Network.

It's Monday, December 5th, 2022. I'm Jay Skeets hereet's here in the Classic Factory and alongside me as always, Tass Melis. Podcast listeners, this is for you. Next to Tassie is the beautiful one, my top shot hot boy, Trey Kirby. Hey-o! Hey-yo! And last but not least, Over Yonder, making the magic happen. Super producer, J.D. Hello. he is. Here we are. Happy Monday to everybody out there.

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Get your questions and comments in. No Dunks at Theathletic.com. Best way to email them in. I lied last week. I realized I said like a couple times. Great week to get your questions in. I'm sure we'll hit the beach at some point. In fact, I guarantee we'll hit the beach to read your questions and comments. And we never hit the beach. Well, there was a lack of emails. That's on you? Yeah. That's on the people out there, not me.

Not a dirt.

Not much out there.

Wow.

Not much. People aren't using email, I don't think. Interesting. So should just tweet them in? Just tweet them in. Okay, at No Dunks Inc. I and C in the end, or you can leave them. It's a little more difficult to find the good ones and pull them out, but leave them in the YouTube comments, too, if you are watching later, I guess.

Twitter, too.

The search function. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Gabbage. It used to be good. Yeah. I can't stand. Twitter? Well, well, a little bit. But I hate waking up in the morning and then like seeing a tweet and you're like, oh, wow, that's interesting. And then realizing it's like 23 hours old or something like that, I hate that as well. You can change it real quick. Yeah. Oh, so I can make it like it. There's a chronological version. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, but still, you know. Yeah, it's stuff out there. Things have changed. There's an idea. Write us a letter. Yeah, write still, you know. Stuff. Yeah, it's stuff out there.

Things have changed. There's an idea. Write us a letter. Yeah, write a letter. If you mail us a letter, guaranteed we will read it on the show. Yes, yes. I mean, okay, I'll put the P.O. Box number, address in the YouTube comments. Send us, send us stuff or send us a letter. It's on IG and the highlights right there. Actually, we have got letters before. We haven't. We've read the letters. It's so nice. It's really nice. I mean, it's sort of tough to send an NBA question in letter form. You're talking about the pelicans, you know, being at the top or near the top of the Western Conference. You send that letter. It gets to us by the time we get it from the P.O. box, I don't know, four, five, six weeks later. By carrier pelican? Yeah, yeah. Oh, nice. They can carry a lot of mail on that. Yeah, gull it. Get your no-dunks merch like Tass is rocking right now over at no-dunks.com. he's got on one of the, I guess, sort of Team USA No Dunks colors there.

First time I've worn it. You can tell it's a little creased. All my no dunk shirts are placed. Oh, come on. No, you can't. On camera you can't see it, but I can see it right here. Really good. Oh, there it is. Like that nipple squeeze. Yeah. Well, anyway, it's fresh. How's it feel? What am I supposed to do? Hang them up.

They're free. I can see it right here. Really good. Oh, there it is. Like that nipple squeeze. Yeah.

Well, anyway, it's fresh.

How's it feel?

What am I supposed to do? Hang them up. They're folded. They're within a bunch of others in the cubby. I'm not a wrinkle. I'm not an iron man. I'm not a steam, refresh, drier man. I just go with the flow. Are you not a wash your new t-shirt, sweater, pants before wearing it person? Because Nora and I get into huge arguments about this. She says yes. She does. And I said, no way. I'm like, give me the chemicals. That's the breakdown at our house too. Whatever chemicals they're putting on it when you buy it from the store makes it look the freshest it will ever look.

Yeah.

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