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Welcome into Up in the Raptors, a podcast brought to you this basketball season by our friends

over at Johnny T-shirt co-hosting this. I'm Taylor Vipolis. And this year, I'm joined by national champion, the most outstanding player of the

Final Four, Carolina basketball legend, the ACC network, Joel Berry.

The ACN Network, Joel Berry. Joel, we kind of talked off there, but just how was your holidays, how was your new year?

How was everything with the family?

Yeah, everything was good, man. We stayed around Charlotte, went to the in-laws. So that was, that was a lot of fun.

Second Christmas for our older daughter and first Christmas for the little one. So he just got a bottle of some good, good old milk,

which was, which was nice for him. And then our daughter, man, she enjoyed it. Just trying to make it special for her. But all in all, just good to be around family and have everyone safe and healthy.

I was going to ask, but the one-year-old, you could get away with not getting a bunch of toys, right?

Oh, yeah. You can get away. You can still get away with it with a two-year-old. I think we're here

soon. We'll probably have to get a little bit more creative, but now we can keep it a little bit,

keep it kind of simple before she starts demanding a jury.

So. And Carolina basketball, they start the new year with their first true road game for this team this season. Unc. beats Pittsburgh 70 to 57. Before we get into the questions

and the specifics, what was your biggest takeaway watching this game?

Yeah, you know, I think it was a, it wasn't the most exciting win and it wasn't clean

in any way, shape, or form, but I think it shows that this team can win in different ways.

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