Welcome to episode 1502 of The Sleeper in the Bus.

I am Justin Mason, joined on Sundays as always with Jason Colette.

How are you doing my friend?

I am doing well, but I am not doing as well as you.

Congratulations on 21 years and one day of sobriety.

Thank you.

That's awesome.

I read that article and shared it with a few people,

your article on Patience on the site yesterday. And so congratulations, dude. That's a

massive, massive accomplishment.

Appreciate it.

Continue to keep going. Yeah. I mean, at this point, it's kind of like, you know,

I mean, obviously people can relapse after any lay sobriety.

So, you know, you don't want to take anything for granted, but I think I'm doing all right, you know, these days with that.

It was a, it was a, it was a fun article to write, you know.

I'm really enjoying these Masons musings articles on Friday, which, you know, can have, you know,

a lighthearted feel or a, you know, maybe a little bit, you know, harder feel, but it's been,

it's been a lot of fun to kind of express myself in a different way with these articles.

A good reads because, I mean, you know, we always get into this rut of, I mean, I only do a weekly thing at Rotowire. And it's just like, especially this time of year, it's like, what can I legitimately, it gets to be like player focused? I love off season running. I just love it. And, you know, I'm not, I don't want to get like, not pigeonholed, but stuck in the, like, I'm going to do a fab column every week.

I'm going to do this.

I'm going to do that.

So I do have, you know, open license to write about whatever I want. And every now and then I do kind of do, that's kind of how collect calls got started. It was just like, I'm just going to talk about this and that and this with that. So it's cool to be able to not have to fall into a script where it's like,

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