Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast.

I'm your of Samva.

Senior.

We're presented by The Athletic.

Today on the show, Matt Penny is in the building.

Penny, how's it going, man?

I'm doing great.

I feel my podcast brain has been properly arrested since the last pot a week or two ago.

And it seems like in the meantime, you've survived not being catfished, which is great.

And I'm ready to get back into gear here with the hot takes machine, as we like to call it,

as we get rolling here.

You mean to tell me that there are not women out there driving a 2020 Bentley who want to talk about the Lakers

all day? That's a thing? There could be. Twitter's a strange place. And when they started talking

about the guy might be podcasting in Australia, I had to scroll a few times to make sure it wasn't

you because we haven't technically met in person yet so there's we haven't like ruled out

that there was in some Australian podcasting tie here across the interwebs yeah no this is this is

definitely this is a real deal deep state fake yeah yeah I just watched the Q&on documentary on

HBO I'm like ready to go and dive deep into the, um,

dive deep into the conspiracies, man.

You know what?

I watched one episode, not even the whole thing.

I said, I can't do this.

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