Hello and welcome to group chat.

I am Justin Verrier and joining me, Rob Mahoney, Jay Kyle, man, back in action after the holiday break.

Rob, how you feeling? Are you back into potting shaped? You need to run a couple

windsprints before you did this one? I definitely do. I'm out of breath and we haven't even started. I feel bloated. I feel like the salt is coming out through my pores. Do you have any remedies for me? Is it just wind sprints? Is that all that I can turn to? I can't help you, brother. I can definitely feel my face as the week went on because I was just consuming so much sugar. I was doing like double pie days for multiple days, pretty much up to the time yesterday. I mean. Yeah. So I'm feeling it. This is like Thanksgiving weekend is peak pie season. You're right, Justin. It's like on the night of, you're almost too starch inclined to really give dessert its due. And then over the weekend, it's like, yeah, I'll have pie for breakfast. Yeah, I'll have pie for a snack. Yeah, have pie for dessert. The numbers get on the board, Kyle. Yeah, I played pick. I played pickup on Sunday mornings at 8 a.m. And I knew when I went to bed because, you know, we were hitting the, we were hitting the leftovers. We had Thanksgiving on Friday, Thursday and Friday, and then leftovers on Saturday. And we nibbled on them at night. And I was like, this is probably going to be bad when I wake up. And when I was, you know, when you start to kind of try, Rob knows this. As you get into your later pickup years, you're just trying to

get the belts on the car warm before you start to take off. And as I'm kind of moving around, I definitely felt like I was wearing one of those home-mec, like pregnant suits, where I was just kind of like, I could feel everything on the front of my abdomen moving. I was like, this is going to be bad. This is going to be really bad, But I don't know. I was, I was definitely, I'm always a victim to like some really rich mashed potatoes, some sweet potatoes. And Megan makes a pumpkin pie that is, is world class, I have to say. Now we're talking. But to divert quickly, did you have to do the Homek fat suit? Was this a part of your body? I'm just a fat suit. Or you could just say you're fat, you know, I don't know. At some point it's not a suit. You know, it's on your body, I guess. But anyway, interesting. This was available to high schoolers? Like, you all didn't have that? Like, you all didn't have the like, hey, here are the consequences of parenthood things. Like, there's the baby with the little thing. I never had to do these things, but I saw all my friends doing them because I never took home back. That's the one we had is we had the like animatronic baby with the sensor in it. And like certain, you were literally like coupled up. And then you had to like alternate taking the baby home and taking care of it. It's a ridiculous thing. There's no way that people still do that. A lot of things that adults were doing back in the day just to keep people from having sex. Like we'll create animatronic babies, but we just won't hand out condoms to people. It's just like, what are we doing? Group chat wonders. What are we doing?

What are we doing?

Also, I have to, since we're just going through the PSA here, I have to say, so I went to

the movie theater the other day and I could already feel the cold coming on here.

I know that the theater experience is struggling right now and we appreciate your patronage.

But if you are sick, fucking stay home because there was a person next to me

who was sniffling and blowing her nose the entire movie.

And that's not only rude because it's disrupting the human experience

that's being conveyed to you via the screen,

but I'm definitely going to get sick because you stay the fuck home, watch Netflix, it's fine.

Thank you for coming to our NBA podcast to hear your takes on pie, on home economics and high

schools in America, and apparently on the theatrical experience. This is why I go to movies late at night

when nobody's there. I told Rob, I went to see Predator Badlands,

10 p.m. showing.

I had my nachos.

I had a double IPA. I was the only person in the whole fucking theater. And it was heaven. I swear to God, it was Nirvana. I even walked in and was like looking for my seat really carefully. And I was like, what am I doing? There's no one coming. there's no Justin,

this is how you can avoid

getting sick in a movie theater.

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