Six Big Questions as the NBA Season Enters 2026 | Group Chat
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to group chat. |
| 0:15.7 | I am Justin Varyer and joining me, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle, man. |
| 0:26.1 | New year, same me, me unfortunately for me um i don't know if you guys are resolute in already but uh rob you don't really strike me as the type of guy who's like |
| 0:30.6 | planning out his goals for the season how many podcasts you want to do over a course of a month |
| 0:35.8 | uh it's too many is is the answer, generally speaking? |
| 0:39.0 | Here's my take on resolutions. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm navel-gazing all the time. |
| 0:42.5 | I am introspecting constantly. |
| 0:44.5 | Why do we wait for the start of the year to do it? |
| 0:46.6 | When you could just be on my level, |
| 0:48.4 | operating at a constant pace of like self-reflection and analysis |
| 0:51.9 | and ultimately crippling anxiety as a result? I mean, you could argue that a brooding self, you know, introspective person would be drawn to our job in the first place, especially with the job with like the arts flavor. If you go, I mean, one of our company meetings is like, it was so hilarious. Like before, before I joined Ringer, it was like, I was like, yeah, I know a lot about movies. |
| 1:12.1 | I know a lot about music. I don't like you go down the line and you kind of get to know some of the people we work with. And it's like, yeah, I don't really know anything about music. I thought I did. But no, I mean, I agree with you, Rob. I think it's, I don't really wait for January 1st either. I'm kind of, I mean, I'm also that way with gifts. |
| 1:27.5 | I'm impossible to buy for it because I'm always just, you know, catering to myself constantly. |
| 1:31.2 | So. I don't really wait for January 1st either. I'm kind of, I mean, I'm also that way with gifts. I'm impossible to buy for because I'm always just, you know, catering to myself constantly. So, you know, the man who has everything. Yeah, right. The grind never stops. So for us, you don't need resolutions because the goals are right in front of you, day in and day out. It's very true. But at the same time, we make a whole podcast for Festivus |
| 1:44.9 | and the airing of grievances all year, Justin, and you're constantly airing grievances. So maybe |
| 1:49.7 | I do acknowledge that there is a time and place to sit and honor, whether it's resolutions or |
| 1:55.3 | grievances or whatever, to make the space for it, I think is a worthy endeavor. Well, speaking of |
| 1:59.9 | grievances, I actually wrote down in the |
| 2:02.0 | long tracker of grievances that I keep on a yearly basis, one that I was going to pocket for next |
| 2:06.8 | year. But since we're on this topic, there's a lot of people going to the gym all of a sudden. |
| 2:11.8 | Things are a little bit more crowded as they typically are at the start of the year. I just want |
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