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Man, I love when friends or colleagues are listening.

General So's chicken is named for So Sung Tong, now usually transliterated as, well, I'm not even going to try with that

one, a formidable 19th century general who is said to have enjoyed eating it via NPR, via my

Ross Tucker podcast producer Jack Connell.

Thank you, Jack, for listening or watching on Peacock.

Speaking of food, before we get into the NBA stuff,

we got to ask Chris Mannix,

who does an absolutely terrific job covering the NBA

and has for a long time.

You can check him out on social media at SI.

Chris Mannix, obviously doing it for Sports Illustrated for a long time at this point.

Chris, always good to talk with you, man.

Always good to see you.

We're starting the show talking about food, of course, because it's a meat Friday.

We got Darren Ravel on a little bit later in the show to talk about the hot dog eating contest.

Let's say you had to be in an eating contest and your life depended on it.

You had to win.

You had to be a top five or whatever.

What food would you pick, Chris, compared to other normal people?

I mean, the short answer is pizza because I could go through a large pie faster.

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