I'm I'm Derek Botner, joined by a new co-host this time here, Kyle Newbeck. Hey, don't, buddy. I was going to say, I feel like I haven't been in the office in like 100 years. It has been nice to spend the last two podcasts talking with anyone other than you. Oh, that's not very nice. I'm not even going that way. But, you know, I think when we sort of like laid out this podcast, we'd have Devon here to be sort of like an everyday, you and I would be around a team going to games a lot, especially home games, mixing me, you and Rich. And there'd be a little bit of a rotation going on because I think there's some value in having, you know,

a wide variety of voices, especially on a daily podcast.

So it was great to get Renee's perspective on the team.

It was great to get our friend Roy Burton's perspective on team and another old LB colleague.

But now you sort of have like the two core two here back to sort of get you caught up before

what is undoubtedly the biggest game of the season to here tomorrow the two core two here back to sort of get you caught up before what is

undoubtedly the biggest game of the season to here tomorrow the core two before eventually until

divagos we have a big three yeah also i wanted to say since you brought them up a shout out to

ranae and roy for stepping into the co-host chair you know they us big favors, and I thought added a lot to the show.

So thank you once again to them.

Thank you, as always, to all our wonderful people that are here to start the show.

I see Dan, Spider, TR, some other people, Chris.

And, you know, we have a good Sixers team to talk about.

I think I've alluded to it on the show, and we're going to get into a Sixers Celtics preview later that it could all come crashing down in short order tomorrow night. But for now we're going to ride the good vibes. We're going to have a good time and we're going to see where the chips fall when they play a real team, a real contender in Boston. It really does feel like there's a lot riding on Nick Hemsmore. And we'll get to that a little bit here later on in the show. But if they win and go to six and one, I'm sure nobody will jump the gun at all. We are famously, you know, cautious here in Philadelphia. But if they lose, it's going to be a lot of people being like, see, I told you.

I told you, I told you, it couldn't be a good team.

I told you they're losing the second round. And it's probably going to be two different portions of the fan base. But each one will sort of like puff their chest and be vocal, regardless of which way it goes. It will be good to talk about. and I'm just really excited to see them against a,

what's really a world-class team right now,

like best in the league type shit.

I know they lost last night,

but... be good to talk about and I'm just really excited to see them against a what's really a world

class team right now like best in the league type shit I know they lost last night but coming into

that I think they were number two in defense and number one in offense with like a plus 22

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