Speaker 1: Welcome in What's Right with Nick Wright. Another emergency pod
Speaker 1: following a really important Laker game. This one did not
Speaker 1: go the Lakers way and the loss might be the
Speaker 1: least of their worries. Celtics one eleven, Lakers won oh one.
Speaker 1: This might be the shortest pod we've ever done, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to do something here because I'm about to
Speaker 1: get on a plane to go to Vegas on this
Speaker 1: very channel. If you're watching on YouTube Monday, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to watch me play in a live cash
Speaker 1: game at the Poker Ghost Studios and then I'll be
Speaker 1: back in New York and back doing this show Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1: Gonna do first things first from Vegas. So very busy
Speaker 1: next thirty six hours for me. But Lebron James Tweaks
Speaker 1: is growing. I'm gonna call it Tweaks is growing because
Speaker 1: Sham's just reported one to two weeks is what they're
Speaker 1: looking at.
Speaker 2: So here's what we want to do on the Today's
Speaker 2: Show very.
Speaker 1: Quickly, the game last night, the impact of Lebron's injury,
Speaker 1: and then in we haven't talked to you since Lebron confronted.
Speaker 2: I think that's a fair word. Steven A.
Speaker 1: At the previous Laker game against the Knicks, and I
Speaker 1: do think that that I guess we have talked to
Speaker 1: you since then. We haven't talked to you since that
Speaker 1: video came out. I do think that is worth a
Speaker 1: few minutes because I might have some details on that
Speaker 1: that have not been publicly shared that I think I'm
Speaker 1: within my rights to share. So I will share those,
Speaker 1: but first the game. We'll get to Lebron just a minute,
Speaker 1: because I want to give credit where it's due. Tatum
Speaker 1: was phenomenal. Tatum.
Speaker 2: You look, even if you don't watch the game, you
Speaker 2: look at the box.
Speaker 1: Score, forty twelve and eight, playing big minutes, forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: barely resting. He was outstanding and as good as Jalen
Speaker 1: Brown was. And Jalen Brown hit a huge three late
Speaker 1: when the game had been cut to four. He finished
Speaker 1: with thirty one and six. I actually thought the most
Speaker 1: impressive Celtic other than Tatum was Al Horford Horford who
Speaker 1: kept getting put out on an island with Luke a Ancic,
Speaker 1: and Horford held his own as well as any guy
Speaker 1: his age. Any thirty eight year old not named Lebron
Speaker 1: James could have been asked to do. Horford did it,
Speaker 1: and Missoula after the game gave him a ton of
Speaker 1: credit and he deserved a ton of credit.
Speaker 2: I mean Luca, So I'll get to Luca in a second.
Speaker 2: But the Tatum was great the Celtics. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: If you're a Celtics fan, the Celtics were awesome. It's
Speaker 1: the best version of the Celtics. You saw it last night.
Speaker 1: I think you'll see that again on Wednesday. Wednesday, the
Speaker 1: Celtics play the Thunder. I think they will be amped
Speaker 1: for that game. After that, you look at their schedule,
Speaker 1: you might not see a fully locked in, fully motivated
Speaker 1: Celtics team until Round two of the playoffs. You might
Speaker 1: after Saturday night and then this coming Wednesday. That.
Speaker 2: Let me put it like this, If.
Speaker 1: The Celtics don't play well Wednesday, and I think they will,
Speaker 1: Saturday might be the last time you see them play
Speaker 1: great for two months because they're not gonna have to
Speaker 1: the after Oklahoma City. The schedule is Miami, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, Utah, Portland, Sacramento, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Memphis, Miami, Phoenix, Washington, New York, Orlando, Charlotte, Charlotte.
Speaker 1: Maybe that New York game late in the year. But
Speaker 1: I also could see the Celtics, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: holding some things back in that game because that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be the round two matchup. But the Celtics showed
Speaker 1: you yesterday, particularly in that third quarter, is that championship gear.
Speaker 1: They still have it, And not that many of us
Speaker 1: doubted they had it. But this is why a lot
Speaker 1: of us, hand up, myself included, have considered the Celtics,
Speaker 1: not the Calves, the real favorites in the East all
Speaker 1: year long. So the Celtics serve massive credit. They got that.
Speaker 1: They got the victory by dominating the Lakers in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. There was a moment I thought the Lakers
Speaker 1: might be able to steal it, a really soft I
Speaker 1: thought foul on a three pointer on Derek White when
Speaker 1: it was down to four is what allowed the Celtics
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, never have the Lakers have
Speaker 1: the ball with a chance to cut to one possession
Speaker 1: after that great third quarter, So Celtics win. They're seven
Speaker 1: back of the one and seven up on the three,
Speaker 1: so they are just locked into the three line. Now
Speaker 1: to the Lakers side, Listen, Lebron got hurt and his
Speaker 1: demeanor after the game tells me he doesn't think this
Speaker 1: is a month long injury, and the Sham's report that
Speaker 1: they're going to give it a couple of days to
Speaker 1: calm down and then they're going to reevaluate in one
Speaker 1: to two weeks tells me he hopefully would be back
Speaker 1: by the end of the month. So they have a
Speaker 1: road trae the Lakers have a tough schedule.
Speaker 2: Well, they have a tough schedule the rest of the way.
Speaker 1: I think it's the third toughest schedule the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. Now, I am obviously, you know, maybe biased
Speaker 1: on this because I am going to Memphis twenty days
Speaker 1: from now to three weeks from today. I guess there's
Speaker 1: another way to put it. To see grizzlyes Lakers. I
Speaker 1: obviously would hope Lebron would be back by then. It
Speaker 1: wouldn't shock me if they have him come back after
Speaker 1: that for the homestand but one to two weeks means
Speaker 1: maybe he's back way earlier than that.
Speaker 2: I don't think this is anything like a death.
Speaker 1: Now for the Lakers, and I even think there is
Speaker 1: a slight bright side that I'll get to in a moment.
Speaker 1: What it does mean, however, is their ability to hold
Speaker 1: on to the two seed, which they loss last night,
Speaker 1: is very tenuous, and their chances of falling from the
Speaker 1: three line are certainly in play now. I don't think
Speaker 1: they can fall further than the four five right now,
Speaker 1: so everyone knows the standings. Denver's forty one and twenty two,
Speaker 1: the Lakers are forty and twenty two, the Grizzlies are
Speaker 1: thirty nine and twenty four, and the Rockets are thirty
Speaker 1: nine and twenty five. You then get to the Warriors,
Speaker 1: who have twenty eight losses, so you don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about them falling to the six, but not a
Speaker 1: big margin of error. Even though Memphis has not been
Speaker 1: playing well lately, so that neither of the Rockets really
Speaker 1: so that helps them out.
Speaker 2: But the schedule's not easy.
Speaker 1: At Brooklyn should be able to handle that game, then
Speaker 1: at Milwaukee at Denver, and then Phoenix San Antonio, Denver
Speaker 1: at home, Milwaukee at home, and then it softens up
Speaker 1: a bit. So these next couple weeks where they should
Speaker 1: be without Lebron James gonna be in a tough spot. Now.
Speaker 1: Where they deserve credit is the first half last night
Speaker 1: and then even when they were trying to make the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter comeback. They're without their two tallest rotation players
Speaker 1: in Ruy and Jackson Hayes, So you just had everyone
Speaker 1: kind of playing out a position, and it felt to
Speaker 1: me like despite that, they mostly held their own Defensively,
Speaker 1: it was the Celtics defense and the Lakers' offense not
Speaker 1: being able to get it going. That was the difference
Speaker 1: in the game. And that's where the Celtics deserve a
Speaker 1: lot of credit. And listen, Lucas still got thirty four,
Speaker 1: but Luca only had three assists and Luca, now, some
Speaker 1: of that was this guy's missing shots, but they did
Speaker 1: a good job of making sure Luca couldn't just be
Speaker 1: the pre eminent creator for the Lakers, and it's why
Speaker 1: the Lakers often struggled. There are some Laker fans who
Speaker 1: I'm noticing are already like man, Luca seems to be laboring.
Speaker 2: Luca doesn't. Is he injured?
Speaker 1: As someone who has watched you know, as much Luca
Speaker 1: Nachi since he came to the league as anyone alive, really,
Speaker 1: let me tell you, Luca appearing to be banged up
Speaker 1: is just Luca. He's always kind of limping, He's always
Speaker 1: kind of laboring. He's always got that kind of sour
Speaker 1: ah look on his face. It's just who he is
Speaker 1: and it's not something anyone really should be too shocked by. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't read too much into that. I would
Speaker 1: just say that that is what it is, so to
Speaker 1: speak that that is. Luca is very rarely one hundred
Speaker 1: percent healthy. So here is the potent Joe brightside to
Speaker 1: Lebron missing a little bit of time, You're still we
Speaker 1: still haven't gotten the full Lukadncic experience.
Speaker 2: And I still think there.
Speaker 1: Is a level of even though Luke had the ball,
Speaker 1: has had the ball in his hand a ton the
Speaker 1: last few games, the twenty two shots against the Celtics,
Speaker 1: twenty three against the Knicks, twenty two against the Clippers
Speaker 1: a week before, it still feels like there's a little
Speaker 1: bit The only game it really felt to me like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's the Luke I'm used to was the New Orleans
Speaker 1: game where he had thirty eight and fifteen And the
Speaker 1: fifteen assists is the number I'm you know, really looking at.
Speaker 1: And maybe with Lebron out, you're going to get a
Speaker 1: little taste of a little more of that. And then
Speaker 1: when Lebron comes back that you're gonna get more Luca
Speaker 1: as the clear cut number one, Lebron as the best
Speaker 1: number two, imaginable one other thing on Luca, then I
Speaker 1: want to get back to Lebron. Jokich had a thirty
Speaker 1: twenty twenty game, and folks are wondering if that's gonna
Speaker 1: win him the MVP award. That would really listen. I
Speaker 1: felt this way about the NFL MVP this year, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad the voters got it write and gave it
Speaker 1: to Josh. Two years ago, Josh Allen had far better
Speaker 1: stats than Lamar, but Lamar's team won, it fell and
Speaker 1: Lamar's team had the better record. Lamar's team was the
Speaker 1: one seed, and we said Lamar's the MVP. Okay, last year,
Speaker 1: Luca had the best stats in basketball by a lot.
Speaker 1: He was thirty four, nine and ten for this season,
Speaker 1: and as far as the oh my god wow moments,
Speaker 1: had a sixty to twenty ten game last win and
Speaker 1: a seventy three to ten to seven game, and at
Speaker 1: no point were was the argument that I heard was
Speaker 1: the sixty to twenty ten game the year before last.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: I'll have to look, but regardless, he had the seventy
Speaker 1: three game point game was definitely last season. But the
Speaker 1: argument was his team hasn't won enough there and it's
Speaker 1: Jokers Award, which I was totally fine with that. The
Speaker 1: MVP this year, based on the president that we have,
Speaker 1: probably needs to be shited. In fact, almost definitely needs
Speaker 1: to be shit. I do want to talk the Lebron
Speaker 1: stuff before we get to the confrontation on Friday night.
Speaker 1: I will be really bummed because he's gonna be healthy
Speaker 1: by the playoffs. All be really bummed if he doesn't
Speaker 1: get to play seven more games this year. So this
Speaker 1: assuredly knocks Lebron out of He wasn't there, listen. He
Speaker 1: I was just talking MVP. MVP is going to go
Speaker 1: Shay one Joker to or maybe Joker one Shay to.
Speaker 2: That's how it should be. That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 1: But Lebron was making a case for some really fourth
Speaker 1: or fifth place votes. He also has been making a
Speaker 1: really interesting first Team All NBA case and first Team
Speaker 1: All NBA four spots are just locked Shay Joker, Jannis Tatum,
Speaker 1: and in that fifth spot I thought was going to
Speaker 1: come down between Donovan and Lebron Lebron now being out
Speaker 1: sitting at fifty eight games, the first team All NBA
Speaker 1: stuffs probably done, and the real question is he going
Speaker 1: to get to the sixty five game threshold. I given
Speaker 1: the latest update on how long they expect him out,
Speaker 1: he should be back with plenty of time to get
Speaker 1: to the sixty five games. But just as a basketball
Speaker 1: historian and obviously a Lebron guy, it would be a
Speaker 1: huge bummer if he finishes just shy of the sixty
Speaker 1: five game threshold and is not eligible for what will
Speaker 1: now be would be a second team All NBA, because
Speaker 1: there is some real poetry to year two, age twenty
Speaker 1: Lebron being second Team All NBA and then year twenty two,
Speaker 1: age forty Lebron being second Team All NBA. But he's
Speaker 1: out now for I'm gonna go ahead and make a guess.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say Lebron James is going to return
Speaker 1: to the lineup. Today is the ninth I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Lebron James is going to return to the lineup at
Speaker 1: Chicago Thursday, March twenty seventh. Again, that's based on absolutely
Speaker 1: nothing except the reading the tea leaves, So that would
Speaker 1: have him missing Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Denver, Phoenix, San Antonio, Denver, Milwaukee, Chicago, Orlando, Indiana.
Speaker 1: And that would have have him returning missing ten games
Speaker 1: and then returning with ten games left. That's what I so,
Speaker 1: I think that if we set the over under the
Speaker 1: I think that is a good. Anything longer than that,
Speaker 1: I would be a little concerned. Anything quicker than that,
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Speaker 1: co slash b ball. Okay, So a couple quick things
Speaker 1: about the Lebron stephen a moment.
Speaker 2: One is.
Speaker 1: Just generally speaking, and this gets to where my frustration
Speaker 1: about how Lebron has been covered forever. Ah the killer instinct.
Speaker 1: People aren't afraid of him. He's not this guy's not
Speaker 1: that guy. So much of that just has to be
Speaker 1: has to do with how he's been covered rather than
Speaker 1: the reality. Because what happened on Thursday night was in
Speaker 1: a game it looked like the Lakers were going to lose.
Speaker 1: In between the third and fourth quarter, Lebron James saw
Speaker 1: the world's most famous sports media member who he thinks
Speaker 1: has been unfair to him and his family. More on
Speaker 1: that in a second, walked over to him, checked him,
Speaker 1: and then against that guy's favorite team ever, walked them down,
Speaker 1: hit the three in the corner.
Speaker 2: To cut it from four to one, directly in.
Speaker 1: Front of that person, and then one in overtime, hitting
Speaker 1: all the clutch free throws. If that were Michael or Kobe,
Speaker 1: it would be part of their legend, it would be
Speaker 1: in their documentaries. Oh and then this time walked over
Speaker 1: to him in a game they were looked like they
Speaker 1: were gonna lose against that guy's favorite team, and then
Speaker 1: won the game. And so that's just I thought that
Speaker 1: was I think most of us when we saw it, assumed.
Speaker 2: That happened after the game.
Speaker 1: And I was even a little confused because I was
Speaker 1: watched that game and that game Lebron went right to
Speaker 1: the locker room after the game. And also when you
Speaker 1: saw it looked like something was going on on the court.
Speaker 1: So I remember when the video first came out, being like,
Speaker 1: was that during a live action essentially, But I didn't
Speaker 1: put it all together, and then we got the real details.
Speaker 1: It was between third and fourth quarter.
Speaker 2: Now because I think.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have been really dishonest and unfair
Speaker 1: about acting like oh Lebron's sons in the league, and
Speaker 1: now he doesn't want anyone, even though he's an NBA player,
Speaker 1: to criticize him.
Speaker 2: That's not what this was. This was a number of
Speaker 2: different things.
Speaker 1: The first one is this, I do think as far
Speaker 1: as criticism of Bronnie James, I do think it is. Listen,
Speaker 1: Bronnie James as a basketball player is totally fair, a
Speaker 1: fair target. Where I think there might be some frustration
Speaker 1: is have you heard and I'm going to mispronounce some
Speaker 1: of these names, any of these names in any media whatsoever,
Speaker 1: except for maybe the most in the Weeds dedicated local
Speaker 1: team podcasts, Baylor Shireman, Jonathan Magbo, Kyle Philipowski, Tyler Smith,
Speaker 1: Tyler Kohlak, Johnny Furfey, Juan Nunez, Bobby Bobi, Clintman, aj Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Jalen Wells, Ohso Iguodaro, Adam Bona, kJ Simpson, Nikola Deresik
Speaker 1: pel Larson, Jamal Sheed, Cam Christi, Antonio Reeves, Harrison, Ingram,
Speaker 1: Tristan Newton, Enriki Free, Melvin Ajinka, Quinton Post. I've been
Speaker 1: hearing some Quenton Post. He's been playing well for the Warriors,
Speaker 1: Cam Spencer, Anton Watson, Kevin mccullor junior or Rick Comchi,
Speaker 1: Ariel Huckporty the only guy I've heard mentioned all year.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The first couple of names I mentioned, Philipowski obviously was
Speaker 1: a great college player, and Shireman was a really good
Speaker 1: college player.
Speaker 2: All year.
Speaker 1: Maybe a little jimal sheet that those are all the
Speaker 1: second round picks. So it's not as if on these
Speaker 1: shows we talk a lot about second round picks. So
Speaker 1: you might be like, wow, yeah, but Bronnie is getting
Speaker 1: more opportunity, getting more run. You know, he's playing in
Speaker 1: more NBA games than most second round picks. Well, let's
Speaker 1: check Bronnie James, the fifty fifth pick of the draft.
Speaker 1: Here is where he ranks amongst rookies this year in
Speaker 1: the following categories. Again, you'd I've did this once before,
Speaker 1: I will do it again. The fifty fifth pick, you
Speaker 1: would hope's round fifty fifth in everything in minutes played
Speaker 1: in the NBA. Bronnie James the fifty fifth pick is
Speaker 1: fifty sixth in games played. Bronnie James the fifty fifth
Speaker 1: pick is fifty first in assists Bronnie James. The fifty
Speaker 1: fifth pick is fifty third in steals Bronnie James. The
Speaker 1: fifty fifth pick is forty eighth in points Bronnie James.
Speaker 1: The fifty fifth pick is fifty sixth. So, in other words,
Speaker 1: playing exactly to his draft status. Yeah, well, those are
Speaker 1: garbage time minutes. What does that really mean? What's he
Speaker 1: doing in the G League twenty one to five and
Speaker 1: five in the G League regular season thirty four minutes
Speaker 1: per game on forty five thirty nine splits. So I
Speaker 1: think some of the frustration is the Lakers took in
Speaker 1: the first round last year Jalen hoods Chaffino, who is
Speaker 1: let me check his G League stats, who is no
Speaker 1: longer on the Lakers. They didn't even.
Speaker 2: Uh what draft?
Speaker 1: Yeah, last year's draft, he got waived or moved I
Speaker 1: don't even remember.
Speaker 2: And he is this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know, not the tip off tournament, regular season
Speaker 1: in the G League. Sorry, this is taking me a moment.
Speaker 1: Last year in the G League, the Lakers first round
Speaker 1: pick again Bronni this year in the G League twenty one,
Speaker 1: five and five. Last year in the G League, their
Speaker 1: first round pick. Their first round pick number was he overall?
Speaker 1: I think seventeen. It was pre twenty. I know because
Speaker 1: there was a really good player taken right after him.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was seventeen. Yeah, Pods who everybody in the
Speaker 1: Warriors loves, went nineteen. So Brianni this year twenty one
Speaker 1: five and five is a fifty fifth pick for the
Speaker 1: Lakers G League team. Jalenhood Chaffino twenty two five and
Speaker 1: five as the seventeenth pick. So it does feel like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't really talk about these guys and then this,
Speaker 1: But that's not what this was about. This actually wasn't
Speaker 1: about Bronni. And this is the part that I think
Speaker 1: just should be level set. It was about it kind
Speaker 1: well two things. One the commentary win and I said
Speaker 1: it before, I'll say it again. I really like Steven A.
Speaker 1: But this is I'm just trying to so I'm not
Speaker 1: even making as much of a value judgment about this.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to kind of set the record straight.
Speaker 1: When Stephen A did the I'm pleading with you as
Speaker 1: a father to end this.
Speaker 2: That really really bothered Lebron.
Speaker 1: And that was why, by the way, Lebron's people called
Speaker 1: Stephen A and then stephen A made fun of him
Speaker 1: for it, and so then Lebron handled it himself, which
Speaker 1: felt to me totally reasonable, and so I didn't really
Speaker 1: give them stephen A.
Speaker 2: It's like you have my number all.
Speaker 1: This stuff, Like steven A always says, I'm at the games,
Speaker 1: I'm around, come talk to me. That's what he did.
Speaker 1: But the whole when you're talking to a guy who
Speaker 1: had no relationship with his father whatsoever, and then basically
Speaker 1: telling that guy in Lebron be a better father, that
Speaker 1: is going to really really ruffle some feathers. Then when
Speaker 1: you add to it the fact that we've all kind
Speaker 1: of memory hold the fact that Bronni suffered cardiac arrest
Speaker 1: and almost died less than a year and a half ago.
Speaker 1: When you have that added kind of anxiety as a parent,
Speaker 1: which any parent, any parent that's ever had any health
Speaker 1: scare with any of their kids, and for the best
Speaker 1: those you know parents out there listening with lost.
Speaker 2: A child, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: But for the majority of us, we've never had a
Speaker 1: health scare like that, but we've almost all had something.
Speaker 2: We're super nervous. You can't imagine what it be like.
Speaker 1: You get the phone call, your kids getting CPR, so
Speaker 1: you're you're certainly going to be on at it edge.
Speaker 1: And then the other piece is this does it feel
Speaker 1: like there is been? And this is where the leave
Speaker 1: my son out of it? Part I guess is about Bronnie.
Speaker 1: Does it feel like there has been? Is it surprising
Speaker 1: when you hear Bronnie in the NBA is playing exactly
Speaker 1: to the level of the fifty fifth pick supposed to
Speaker 1: when you hear in the G League he is producing
Speaker 1: exactly to the level the Lakers' first round pick seventeenth
Speaker 1: overall did last year. Does it feel like that's what's
Speaker 1: been when they've decided to talk about him in the media,
Speaker 1: that that's been the topic or that that's been the
Speaker 1: context part in me? Or does it feel more like
Speaker 1: it's been This is a make a wish story. This
Speaker 1: is a guy who has no business being there and
Speaker 1: his way out of his depth. And that's the part
Speaker 1: new Listen. Some of this is just part of being
Speaker 1: you know, I guess the good side of being bronze
Speaker 1: kid is you get drafted when maybe you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: the bad side is even if you, you know, show
Speaker 1: play up to that level that you earned it, or
Speaker 1: that you're earning it, you're gonna get scrutinized. But as
Speaker 1: Stephen I said, that was apparent confronting a guy about
Speaker 1: his kid, and I didn't think it was out of line.
Speaker 1: And I actually think the fact that he did that
Speaker 1: and then walk down the Knicks, who happened to be
Speaker 1: steven A's team, right in front of him, it's pretty dope. Sadly,
Speaker 1: Lebron's now hurt, so Lakers, I would say, let's just
Speaker 1: say he's out the next ten. They should beat Brooklyn, Phoenix,
Speaker 1: San Antonio, Chicago, Orlando without him, and then if at
Speaker 1: Milwaukee at Denver.
Speaker 2: Home for Denver, home for Milwaukee, can you go one
Speaker 2: in three?
Speaker 1: I guess I'm putting it like this, Six and four
Speaker 1: in the next ten without Bron would be good. Five
Speaker 1: and five anything worse, big problem, and seven and three
Speaker 1: are better is outstanding. Luca can do it, especially if
Speaker 1: Ruy and Jackson Hazer back.
Speaker 2: Luca can do it. But it's on Luca now.
Speaker 1: Luckily, you know, at any given night he's the second
Speaker 1: best player in the league. All right, I'm headed to Vegas.
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Speaker 1: First ending, the poker starts, so if you're into it,
Speaker 1: and then Tuesday will be back here for the pod.
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