What up? It's the real ones. Howard Beck, senior writer at the ringer with me from Miami.

He just completed a historic comeback victory over the norovirus. It's Raja Bell. Raja, how are you feeling? How you, what's, are you, you're sitting, you're standing like you're upright. That's, that seems all good. How are you doing, man? Yeah, I think I'm, I'm feeling very, very blessed that I wasn't, that I'm not feeling like I was a few days ago. Man, that, that shit was no joke. No joke. There are probably, there are probably pictures of me somewhere. I don't know if these people know who they were taking pictures of, not that it, not that, that, that it would matter to them. But like, I don't know if they, they thought it was just probably some, you know, drunk college kid laying on the side of a road at a Dunkin' Donuts in Alachua, Florida.

But I was out. Like that thing, I couldn't, we had a six hour drive and I was like, fellas, I'm not going to make this shit. Like, you're going to have to leave me in Alachia. The real ones text chain folks was grizzly for a couple of days there.

I was not sure we were getting Raja on today's show. The real ones text chain folks was grizzly for a couple of days there.

I was not sure we were getting Raja on today's show.

I was not sure we were getting Raja functioning anytime soon. So I'm just happy to see you looking all right.

Yeah.

Yeah, I feel good.

I feel good now.

I mean, it was, yeah. Once you're out of it, you're fine. But like, it was rough. Yeah. Yeah, I feel good. I feel good now. I mean, it was, yeah.

Once you're out of it, it's, you're fine.

But like, it was, it was rough. Yeah. You know, you know, you know. Speaking of comebacks, this time next week, I believe. Logan Murdoch will be coming back on the, okay. You remember, you remember Logan, Raja? I tried to forget him, but I, it just, like, seared into my brain, man.

And like, man.

It's been a couple of months.

We're very happy to have him back soon, getting the gang back together.

We've got a bunch of stuff to go through today.

But a quick shout out to the ringer.com and for all of our listeners,

if you did not see it this week, we did a quarter century week. So it was a bunch of reviews

of all like the bests and fun items of the last 25 years. Go check out Kurt Goldsbury's

charts that explain the last 25 years. That went up today, Friday.

Rob Mahoney, amazing piece on the five true originals, guys like Dirk and Steph. Michael Pina did the

greatest team not to make the finals. I want to come back to that in a second. Tyler Parker

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