But who do you really trust? Whose ear, whose eyes do you really trust saying, yeah, this is funny?

I mean...

Well, my, you know, my wife doesn't think the battle on B is very funny.

She doesn't get it.

So if I tell her a joke and she likes it, then I know it's hilarious.

No, but You know, there's always an element of risk with comedy where you're writing something and you're not really sure how the audience is going to take it.

You do kind of develop and build that muscle as you as you write more and more of it.

How'd you get wrangled into that?

Uh, y- immediate takeaways of, uh, Mark Mitchell's commitment to Kentucky.

Um, I had Mark Mitchell.

I kind of polled some people around, uh, Summer League, 'cause I was just talking to people about who I had higher than consensus, lower than consens- consensus.

Those are always kind of conversations you have with draft people.

Um, I had Mitchell.

I...

It could've been a case of I'd s- seen him a lot in the SEC.

What, what does he do to everything else, pairing him, uh, with, uh, with, with Milos Milotic, Malachi Moreno especially, but, you know, what, what does it do to the kinda ball dominant guards as well, knowing that Mark Mitchell's gonna have, uh, you know, quite, quite the usage rate as well?

But first, Kyle, what did you think of the first round last night?

Dudes talking names.

Um, yeah.

La- uh, the, the first round last night, I mean, I read through some of your stuff.

Um, I think I had a similar conclusion of the broadest takeaway, and Bill and Joe House and I talked about this on The Ringer's live stream after the draft, uh, uh, was done, is this prevailing feeling that there's not as much chaos, that there's not as much just absolute foolishness that is disrupting everything.

It was, you went through line by line, and I had a, a friend text me and be like, "You need to grade harder," and I'm like, I'm just...

The o- the only real move that you can do is you can, like, give a bad grade i- in ter- from where I was sitting, and it seemed like you were in a similar spot, where I was like, I could go through here and be like, "This isn't exactly where I had this on my board," but that felt like, I don't, that didn't feel like totally rock solid reasoning to, to give somebody like a D or an F for something like that.

Uh, do you have any thoughts on the Austin Reaves extension while I, uh, type up some stuff on Seveschenko?

I mean, outside of like defensive projection, but like that's one of the bigger reasons why Fleming's leads for me at the top in terms of the guards.

Yeah, I ended with Flemings at seven ahead of Acuff, ahead of Mike L.

It sounds like it's been unpopular with some people.

It sounds like it's not going to be unpopular with you all because I think we're kind of arriving or walking through the same process.

I mean, yeah, context.

I watch guys.

My process is like, I'll just watch straight game film, not pay attention necessarily to the score, unless I'm trying to see if a guy like how he responds to game situation type stuff.

So do you get any insight as to how the D2 came about and what his thought process was there? Cause obviously he was not a D2 level guy.

And there's rumors going around right now, but what's, what's your sense? I know you obviously have some favorites here.

Uh, Philon's been my guy for a long time, going back to last year, going into the college season.

He was a dude who I tried in the summers, just to give people an idea of if they were ever curious, probably not, but I'll say it anyway, uh, of how the calendar works for me is the summers are usually when I try to get abreast of the, uh, of the, you know, EYBLs and the grassroots and things, just get an idea of who's coming.

Um, when I did that year before last, Philon just jumped off the page to me.

It might've even be- been before that with him.

Just super, super ... dogged competitor, smart.

Um, he can kind of-- I, I put this in his profile.

Do you like any pain for Swain? What's, what's the situation there?