In today's episode of The Sixers Beat, Rich and I take a step back here as the Sixers have now crossed the quarter point of the season.

And we'll talk about what has surprised us with the team, what concerns us the most, and what we're most looking forward to in the latter stages of the season.

Enjoy the podcast.

All right, welcome, everybody.

This is Derek Podner,

joined by Rich Hoffman on the Sixers Beat,

a part of the Athletics Podcast Network.

How you doing, Rich?

Derek, I'm doing fine.

I don't want to talk too much about whatever thing we watched in last night's game.

I mean, I actually saw the, do you have a new avatar on Twitter?

I do.

I do.

I am a unicorn, not the, not the Joel and Bede, Chris Stap, Porzingis style unicorn.

Cats a unicorn at messing with you.

I've never seen anything like it. But yeah, not the Chris Staps's Porzingis or the Joellen B-style unicorn, but more the emoji, AR unicorn.

It's a good time, good time.

That was, so I guess we'll step back because people are probably confused.

I'm confused how it happened.

Tom Moore's confused how it happened. Tom Moore,

legitimately the nicest person you will ever meet on the beat.

Back what feels like 100 years ago when I was starting out,

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