Speaker 1: Well, well, well, listen to my voice.
Speaker 2: It's been a lot of screaming for NBA reasons we
Speaker 2: can only find out.
Speaker 1: But the playing is upon us as the regular season.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, I always use well used maxims and
Speaker 2: colloquialisms on this podcast. But anyway, the regular seasons wrapped
Speaker 2: up over the weekend. Jack Sixers ended the year on
Speaker 2: eight no run. Meanwhile, the Knicks and Thunder each end
Speaker 2: of their respective seasons on a five game role. And
Speaker 2: we're gonna get into the playing and potential playoff matchups
Speaker 2: and more with longtime NBA writer and editor Harrison Fagan
Speaker 2: on today's episode. I'm Miles Gray and I'm Jack O'Brien,
Speaker 2: and this is dot chich Sorry, got it looka dot
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Speaker 1: Okay, there's your go be driving spinning. Got it with five?
Speaker 1: Is gonna try another?
Speaker 3: Three?
Speaker 1: Mister? Look God, James Ynest, look, tell no show time
Speaker 1: what you got?
Speaker 3: Yes, And it's the most wonderful time of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean spring eternal for approximately sixty more minutes. I
Speaker 3: know for the seventy six ers. We're gonna do it
Speaker 3: this year again to break Jack breaks in eight games. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we're recording this. This is a Schrodegger's cat of
Speaker 3: an episode. We're recording this before the first playing game.
Speaker 3: Y'all know better than we do what happened, what's going
Speaker 3: to happen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, but no, you don't know what if our
Speaker 1: what if our predictions are really correct? Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: we might know better than them.
Speaker 2: Three And who better knows than our guest, Harrison Fagan,
Speaker 2: sc Nation, NBA editor, co host of Lakers Lounge, and
Speaker 2: co host of Rewinder Reconsider Harrison Fagan, thank you for
Speaker 2: joining us today. What an appropriate time for you to
Speaker 2: join us, because you know, people saw what you your
Speaker 2: words about the Lakers their postseason. You know what their
Speaker 2: options might be, what things may look like. There's a
Speaker 2: bit of pain, you know, around here in the Mad
Speaker 2: Boosti's office, And by that I mean me looking at
Speaker 2: my phone being.
Speaker 1: Like, he's right, but don't say this. Don't say it,
Speaker 1: you just lose.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, Harrison, you wrote an article saying what I thought,
Speaker 3: and I think said to Miles and Jabbari that yeah, no,
Speaker 3: you guys should duck the Nuggets, like, get out.
Speaker 1: Right, throw the game, don't don't win, don't don't beat
Speaker 1: the Pellant. Don't don't make that your problem.
Speaker 3: Don't win. Granted, I do have a loser mentality. I
Speaker 3: am a Philadelphia seventy six Ers fan, so I'm just
Speaker 3: like winning. What are y'all doing?
Speaker 1: Trust me, Lea's nowhere. Yeah, But at the.
Speaker 3: Same time, it just does seem to be the wise
Speaker 3: charsh is.
Speaker 2: To not go up against the team that has all
Speaker 2: of our numbers constantly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, I only disagree because, like I said, I live
Speaker 2: in a different kind of reality, one that is not
Speaker 2: tethered to the reality in which the Lakers will actually
Speaker 2: be playing basketball. So that's why I choose to say,
Speaker 2: you know what, no, bring them, bring them to me now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But as I crashed back down to Earth, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, no, no, no, no, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: There's also the point that you guys might not be
Speaker 3: the Kings because the Kings also had your number, and
Speaker 3: you might just be out of the playoffs, and that
Speaker 3: will be a very embarrassing way to go.
Speaker 2: Demontis the Bonus has has just learned all of AD's moves,
Speaker 2: and he's like, you present no challenge to me, And yeah,
Speaker 2: that's also fright, So all bad options, I would say.
Speaker 1: For the Lakers. So we don't know what has happened.
Speaker 2: Harrison, I have to ask you, like, if let's let's
Speaker 2: game this out. Okay, let's say we we duck the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: Do you think someone is going to make it easy?
Speaker 2: Like you said this, This is also the tweet that
Speaker 2: a lot of people didn't read the article that you
Speaker 2: treated quote. If the Lakers truly feel that any outcome
Speaker 2: besides a championship is a failure, they should do their
Speaker 2: best to give themselves the clearest possible path by throwing
Speaker 2: Tuesday's playing game. Is there any in this version right
Speaker 2: where there somehow is a path? And like we I
Speaker 2: feel like it's an inevitability that if there's any way
Speaker 2: to any kind of championship, you're gonna have to face
Speaker 2: the Nuggets.
Speaker 1: I mean that is probably true, but the odds of
Speaker 1: facing them are lower the longer you go without facing them.
Speaker 1: You know, like mathematically, you know, if you win this
Speaker 1: game against the Pelicans and you're playing the Nuggets, then
Speaker 1: you're guaranteed to play the Nuggets, Whereas if you get
Speaker 1: to the other side of the bracket of them, you
Speaker 1: have two rounds where you're not playing the Nuggets, and
Speaker 1: theoretically some other team could beat the Nuggets, where the
Speaker 1: Nuggets could suffer you know, like an unfortunate injury. Again,
Speaker 1: like no one's rooting for injuries, But this kind of
Speaker 1: stuff happens throughout the playoffs. We've seen it, you know,
Speaker 1: like every every year some can hope fork tender gets
Speaker 1: banged up or takes like an ill timed ankle turn,
Speaker 1: or you know, has something happen or whatever. And so
Speaker 1: the longer you can go without playing the team that
Speaker 1: you have the least chance to beat, the further you
Speaker 1: know you're, the better your odds are. And you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the Timberwolves knock off the Nuggets. I wouldn't pick
Speaker 1: them in that series necessarily, but if someone is going
Speaker 1: to do it, then you know, maybe it's them in
Speaker 1: the second rolf and yeah, and then you know, against
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves, you you have a better chance. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Timberwolves haven't beaten you eight times in a row
Speaker 1: at the very least. And so you know, again we're
Speaker 1: dealing with like like it's a matter of percentages. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying, you know, the Lakers, the Lakers roll down
Speaker 1: and die because you're scared, right, No, I get yeah, exactly. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people ask me all the time.
Speaker 1: They're like, Harrison, why are you not a professional athlete?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I mean, really, the only reason is
Speaker 1: that I'm a coward, you know. And that's the only
Speaker 1: difference between me and Lebron is that I would duck
Speaker 1: the smoke and I would just be like, Hey, let's
Speaker 1: rest Ad. His back's hurting. Yeah, you know, we'll rest him.
Speaker 1: Get ready for Thursday's playing game. Let the Warriors and
Speaker 1: Kings beat each other up and then either beat what
Speaker 1: remains of the Kings, who have lost like two of
Speaker 1: their best guards already, or a Warriors team that you've
Speaker 1: shown you can beat in a postseason environment. You have
Speaker 1: not shown that with the Nuggets, who it's like the
Speaker 1: same movie every single time you play. I know, It's
Speaker 1: like in this tight game right down the stretch and
Speaker 1: the Nuggets, you know, go on like a twelve zero
Speaker 1: run to finish it out because they just know what
Speaker 1: buttons to push against this Lakers team, and the Lakers
Speaker 1: just don't seem to have a lot of options on
Speaker 1: this roster to you know, deal with them, like they've
Speaker 1: thrown most of the adjustments that I feel like they
Speaker 1: could throw at them. Now. Again, Darvin Ham makes a
Speaker 1: lot more money than me. Those coaches probably make a
Speaker 1: lot more money than me. Maybe they have some ideas,
Speaker 1: but for me, it's all about you know, how far
Speaker 1: can you go without taking them on, and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe there's a chance somebody else takes them out and
Speaker 1: then you have a better chance against that team, because
Speaker 1: you probably have a better chance against any team that
Speaker 1: is not them. But yeah, I'm not saying like, hey,
Speaker 1: they lose this game, they play the Thunder, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be easy. They're gonna sweep them or something.
Speaker 2: No, No, but we have shown we can compete against
Speaker 2: the Thunder.
Speaker 1: They've shown that it is possible for them to be
Speaker 1: the Thunder. They've shown they could beat you know, the
Speaker 1: Clippers or the MAVs or whoever. And you know you
Speaker 1: at least have like a chance against them and against
Speaker 1: the healthy Nuggets squad, Like, I just don't see it
Speaker 1: for these Lakers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the two worst matchups for the Lakers are the
Speaker 3: Nuggets and the King the Kings, and you kind of
Speaker 3: have both of them waiting for you.
Speaker 1: It's like urger and bunker out. They're a different team
Speaker 1: than the one that beat the Lakers all those times.
Speaker 1: So theoretically, you know, you could talk yourself into that.
Speaker 1: That's but like with the Nuggets, they have all their guys,
Speaker 1: they're ready to go. Like, I just not seeing it
Speaker 1: in that matchup the Kings, I can at least talk
Speaker 1: myself into it.
Speaker 3: I think it would be really embarrassing to lose on
Speaker 3: purpose and then knocked up.
Speaker 1: Exactly among the reasons that they will not do it
Speaker 1: that is exactably. Chief among them is that, you know,
Speaker 1: every NBA team I think mainly makes decisions on what
Speaker 1: will get us roasted the most online, and you know
Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, but like, you know, no, we got
Speaker 1: to at least try because if we just sit the
Speaker 1: starters in this playing game, then yeah, everybody's gonna be
Speaker 1: really mean on Twitter. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, uh, you know, it didn't stop the Cavs, didn't
Speaker 3: stop the Calves from you know, ducking whoever they were
Speaker 3: scared of, you know, the heat to heat the Sixers.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows the Sixers.
Speaker 3: That's wild that they're scared of the Sixers, but nobody.
Speaker 2: Give you a little confidence you're like, oh wow, like,
Speaker 2: oh well, well, you know, the Calves of all teams
Speaker 2: would feel like they have a shot against the Sixers
Speaker 2: because of like the two big thing, like that's you know,
Speaker 2: theoretically you would think that's one of the teams they have,
Speaker 2: like I mean, maybe not a better shot.
Speaker 1: Maybe you'd rather I guess play the Magic who's less proven.
Speaker 1: But right, yeah, but they're obviously they're the least online
Speaker 1: NBA team. We just figured that out. The cat the
Speaker 1: Calves there, like you know, all the BA players, all coaches,
Speaker 1: they're like, we don't care what the media, you idiots
Speaker 1: in the media have to say. The Calves truly do
Speaker 1: not care. They prove they're like have you seen how.
Speaker 3: Yeah you know anything about the narratives or like, uh
Speaker 3: like the metrics.
Speaker 1: They're just like if.
Speaker 3: You see how big and beat is that guy one
Speaker 3: MVP last year, I don't want that got get away
Speaker 3: from that guy.
Speaker 1: So, you know, so and so was saying on the
Speaker 1: so and so podcast that you guys are clown fraud
Speaker 1: cowards for ducking the Sixers and or Heat, and they're like,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, what's.
Speaker 3: A podcast yet that is the radio Cleveland.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man.
Speaker 2: But like I think, for me, it all goes it
Speaker 2: boils down to the fact, I think because the Lakers,
Speaker 2: this was all self created. We we did this to
Speaker 2: ourselves to be in the position we're in, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. Like and when you when you see
Speaker 2: how the insistence of playing players like Cam Reddish or
Speaker 2: Torrian Prints have put us over RUI and I get
Speaker 2: it ruly was hurt, you know, here and there. But
Speaker 2: when you look at what that record looks like and say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was our starting five from Jump Street, maybe we
Speaker 2: would be you know, organically ducking the Nuggets already because
Speaker 2: we could have been maybe the fourth seats for the
Speaker 2: fourth seat.
Speaker 1: So I will just say generally, now this is not
Speaker 1: always the case, but generally, benching like three of your
Speaker 1: top five highest players is not like a great allocation
Speaker 1: of resources. Yeah, you know, I will say, And so, hey,
Speaker 1: what do we know we're not Darvinham? You know, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But you know that part seems like even as a coach,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, who who we pay them?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe we should play them? No, No, And you know,
Speaker 1: they've been like what like twenty and eight since they
Speaker 1: went to the New starting lineup or whatever it is,
Speaker 1: like they're actually you know, yeah, so I mean you're
Speaker 1: exactly right. Is that the Lakers. That's the crazy thing
Speaker 1: about this whole debate and whatever it created. Yah, Lakers
Speaker 1: didn't have to be here. They didn't have to be
Speaker 1: in this situation.
Speaker 2: So it'll be poetic. I think the version that will
Speaker 2: cause me the most distressed is something like we end
Speaker 2: up having to face the Nuggets and just through note
Speaker 2: something happens to the Nuggets and like they'll defeat us
Speaker 2: in the series, but they're somehow diminished a bit from
Speaker 2: the series against us, and we're.
Speaker 1: Like, we just helped the league. The rest of the
Speaker 1: league right now because one of their starters is out, maybe'd.
Speaker 3: Bump on the road to history. Yeah, Los Angeles Lakers,
Speaker 3: We're proud.
Speaker 1: Yes forever. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Those were because we're a banana skin, that's all. We got,
Speaker 2: those yellow jerseys, Odoyle.
Speaker 1: Rules, sick reference.
Speaker 3: Let's should we take a quick break and come back
Speaker 3: and just talk take a step back. Obviously, the only
Speaker 3: thing that really matters is what the Lakers do. But uh,
Speaker 3: we're going to take a step back and just look
Speaker 3: at the league in general. What narratives do we think
Speaker 3: are being underrated heading in to the most wonderful time
Speaker 3: of the year.
Speaker 1: If you're singing that too closely, we will get a
Speaker 1: content strike you know. Wait, wait, that's YouTube a little
Speaker 1: more off key.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the most full time of the year.
Speaker 2: No, now the Simpsons can come that teenager character.
Speaker 1: Well, you're right back, and we're back.
Speaker 3: So the other matchups, yes, besides the one that we
Speaker 3: don't even know if it's going to happen that we.
Speaker 1: Spend a stress in my neighborhood.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wolves Sons. Sons went three and I against the
Speaker 3: Wolves this season. The Suns started rounding into shape looking
Speaker 3: pretty good heading into the end of the season. Wolves
Speaker 3: ended up as the three seed, Sons is six. I
Speaker 3: truly don't know what's going to happen because the Sons
Speaker 3: have been so kind of unpredictable. I'm unsure. I think
Speaker 3: this could go in either direction. Would love to see
Speaker 3: Anthony Edwards have a great series. Would also like to
Speaker 3: see the Suns pull it out so that we continue
Speaker 3: to get to see KD in the playoffs, like kind
Speaker 3: of towards the end of the run. I'm a sucker
Speaker 3: for a super team man, even if super team is
Speaker 3: in quote, I'd like to see the Sons win this.
Speaker 3: I don't know who's going to win it, do you do?
Speaker 3: You have an instinct, Harrison.
Speaker 1: You know it is. It's gonna be a fascinating stylistic
Speaker 1: clash up, you know, between sort of you have like
Speaker 1: Hooper Oasis in the desert. You know, it's just like
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys that just kind of like they
Speaker 1: all get buckets versus you know, the sort of analytics
Speaker 1: Darling's Rudy Gobert, you know, like Nerd team. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I actually do think that the Suns have a
Speaker 1: chance because they are, you know, theoretically the type of
Speaker 1: team that could you know, like Minnesota's defense is really
Speaker 1: sort of predicated on giving up the types of mid
Speaker 1: range shots that you know, like KD and all those
Speaker 1: guys have made basically their whole careers on taking and
Speaker 1: making and so theoretically, you know, like they should have
Speaker 1: some advantages. And you know, but I mean, it's hard
Speaker 1: to pick a six seed to win. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, given what you just said about the
Speaker 1: season record, and you know, I think I don't know,
Speaker 1: like the Suns have been so underwhelming in so many moments,
Speaker 1: but this year. But I do think that, you know,
Speaker 1: if they're all healthy, I like their chances at the
Speaker 1: very least. Yeah, for sure. It's just hard for me
Speaker 1: to pick Rudy Gobert in a playoff series. I'm sorry. Like,
Speaker 1: I just saw stat today that he has more Defensive
Speaker 1: Player of the Year awards than playoff series wins. It's wow,
Speaker 1: or he will whin he wins this year, maybe right right, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not a great stat to have that.
Speaker 2: Someone on Reddit was posting something about how like with
Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards, you know, he said KD is his goat,
Speaker 2: and he said Beale is the hardest to cover, so
Speaker 2: he's like might have his work cut out for him.
Speaker 1: A quote about like, yeah they got KD, but we
Speaker 1: got Jaden McDaniels exactly. That is he doing bits, No,
Speaker 1: I think he I think his point was that like
Speaker 1: Jayden McDaniels would guard KD. I don't think that he
Speaker 1: meant like he is as good as him. But out
Speaker 1: of all I saw was the out of context version,
Speaker 1: and that was hilarious, And I hope that he was
Speaker 1: arguing that those were equal players in NBA history, not
Speaker 1: even just like he was.
Speaker 3: Just looking around the locker room and named the first
Speaker 3: leave Jaden Jaden McDaniels, Jaden turn around, buddy, Yeah McDaniels.
Speaker 3: That's what it says on the back of his jersey.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: This next series, I'm very fascinated by Clippers MAVs. Clippers
Speaker 3: went to them one in the series the season. They
Speaker 3: haven't played since December, though, so Dallas got a lot
Speaker 3: better at the deadline and went eighteen and seven over
Speaker 3: the last twenty five games. They see every A lot
Speaker 3: of people are on Dallas right now. They're like, these
Speaker 3: guys look great, They're playing well together. They seem to
Speaker 3: be having fun out there. One thing, I bring it
Speaker 3: up all the time, but I just don't want to forget,
Speaker 3: and I feel like people are forgetting this is one
Speaker 3: of the players I think people are sleeping on heading
Speaker 3: into the playoffs when when healthy, Kawhi Leonard does tend
Speaker 3: to lock in in the playoffs. And last year, in
Speaker 3: the first game and a half of the playoffs was
Speaker 3: the that was the story that at least that I
Speaker 3: was paying attention to, was like, oh, Kawhi Leonard is
Speaker 3: the best player in the league.
Speaker 1: Again, we just like lost track of that.
Speaker 3: And he's actually the best player in the league. He
Speaker 3: was so good in that first game and a half
Speaker 3: before he got hurt.
Speaker 1: If he's able to stay healthy, incredible seventy two minutes
Speaker 1: that will live forever in NBA history, you know, memorable. Memorable,
Speaker 1: Well it's He's also been good in past year's playoffs also,
Speaker 1: So no, I don't a playoff riser, for sure. He
Speaker 1: is the guy that definitely has You know, the real
Speaker 1: stars are the guys who can kind of it's a cliche,
Speaker 1: but the guys who can raise their game up a level.
Speaker 1: And you know, there have been those guys throughout NBA history,
Speaker 1: like you could see Lebron sort of, you know, take
Speaker 1: that extra step every postseason, no matter how old he gets.
Speaker 1: Like Kawhi is clearly one of those guys that has
Speaker 1: that extra gear that he can activate when the games
Speaker 1: really really matter. So I would still pick the MAVs
Speaker 1: if I had to pick in this series, just because
Speaker 1: it was funny. You mentioned the Clippers. You said they
Speaker 1: hadn't played since December, and you meant against the MAVs.
Speaker 1: But for a second, I was like, oh, it's keep
Speaker 1: doing a joke. About like they have not they have
Speaker 1: not played real basketball right in December. I'm like a
Speaker 1: good one, you know, and they just look discombobulated. James
Speaker 1: Harden doesn't really look like himself. I you know, also
Speaker 1: riser why it.
Speaker 3: Might be back if memory serves James Harden also a
Speaker 3: playoff riser, so legend.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't google it. He always takes up a
Speaker 1: next step Google's line. Whatever you see, that's a lie.
Speaker 2: And now we're I just read Tyler was saying Kawhi
Speaker 2: is doing about a quarter of practice and then ramping it.
Speaker 1: Up to hopefully does not even mean I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I guess after I didn't even realize it was hurt.
Speaker 3: All right, never mind, Uh, Brian the editor cut my
Speaker 3: whole thing about how good Kawhi is.
Speaker 1: Uh, well, he might be back. They don't, you know.
Speaker 4: They think they're just saying they a full medalsa And
Speaker 4: they've been saying like, we think he's gonna miss like
Speaker 4: two or three games for like basically like two or
Speaker 4: three weeks now, and he's missed eight games.
Speaker 1: Uh, and so you know he did in an optimistic sign,
Speaker 1: he did just commit to play for the Olympic team.
Speaker 1: So you would think it's not like a major injury
Speaker 1: that he thinks is going to sideline him months, and
Speaker 1: it really is this sort of more day to day thing.
Speaker 1: But the Clippers certainly have not like earned the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt with that, after they said Kuhi was
Speaker 1: day to day last year and then after the series
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, yeah, he tore his I mean it's
Speaker 1: something in his knee. I don't know it was in
Speaker 1: this guss or a cl it was one of them.
Speaker 3: And flammation you do have to use an abbreviation when
Speaker 3: it's an injury that is so common with this player
Speaker 3: that where they're calling it knee inflammation.
Speaker 1: All right, So.
Speaker 3: Forget my whole thing about how good the Clippers are
Speaker 3: going to be.
Speaker 2: Let's I mean that too is like you know, the
Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook of it all, Like yeah, depending on how
Speaker 2: they match up, I'm like, what, which which one are
Speaker 2: we going to get? Because that's somebody who really has
Speaker 2: to come to play man being on Kyrie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the qui if Kauai is healthy or if Kui
Speaker 3: like plays, I think that is an advantage his ability
Speaker 3: to ride. I also think they have the coaching advantage
Speaker 3: by a significant margin. And I do think the rust
Speaker 3: thing matters like that, if like Russ really is like
Speaker 3: an off speed pitch, he's just he's the he's the
Speaker 3: pulp fishing shot of adrenaline in the heart. That.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think I'm both pulling for and kind kind of
Speaker 3: have a feeling about the Clippers, And I could be
Speaker 3: exactly wrong.
Speaker 1: We'll see, should we should we go for the record?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Miles, Jack, do you have a pick?
Speaker 1: Oh? Pray for the downfall of my enemies on a
Speaker 1: nightly basis? Okay, all right? Yeah, yeah, No? Why did
Speaker 1: I have to ask?
Speaker 2: Doesn't off my Mike Finley Mavericks jersey that I got
Speaker 2: into sophomore year high school to throw that thing on? Yeah?
Speaker 3: All right? Uh. In the Eastern Conference, the Knicks messed around,
Speaker 3: climbed into the two seed in the East with a
Speaker 3: little hell from the Cavs. Jalen Bronson just all season
Speaker 3: has been unbelievable, probably going to be in the.
Speaker 1: Do we think he's going to be top five MVP voting?
Speaker 1: Like it seems like it based on sort of the
Speaker 1: public ballots that have come out so far and sort
Speaker 1: of the top like he's probably. It seems like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be fifth on a lot of ballots, but I
Speaker 1: think he is going to be the fifth guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Og returning at the right time.
Speaker 3: They're like, I don't think they're undefeated with Og, but
Speaker 3: their record is like wild.
Speaker 1: It's insanely good.
Speaker 3: I don't Yeah, unbelievable. Uh and yeah, he like with him,
Speaker 3: they're really hard to beat. That does you know if
Speaker 3: the if the Sixers are able to get a win tonight,
Speaker 3: that does appear to be who they're playing. If the
Speaker 3: Sixers are not able to get a win.
Speaker 1: They're twenty and three with Og. Twenty and three. And
Speaker 1: I heard a stat the other day that Og has
Speaker 1: not had a negative plus minus game the entire season,
Speaker 1: which is sort of a you know, because that is
Speaker 1: like a team based a lot of the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, like you're just going to be on the
Speaker 1: floor when like somebody else on your team misses a
Speaker 1: bunch of shots and you just are negative. But I
Speaker 1: mean that's crazy.
Speaker 3: You know, by this point, we know what happened between
Speaker 3: the Sixers and the Heat. I just want to say,
Speaker 3: like I've read a lot of playoff content, I've listened
Speaker 3: to some playoff preview podcasts. It feels like people are
Speaker 3: doing like the Heat last year. I just want to
Speaker 3: like reiterate, at this time last year, the Heat were
Speaker 3: in the same position, yeah, or very similar position.
Speaker 1: They didn't.
Speaker 3: People are like, yeah, but this year, like they're not
Speaker 3: even putting it together.
Speaker 1: They're not.
Speaker 3: Last year, they were not good until the second half
Speaker 3: of the second play in game. They lost the first
Speaker 3: playing game. They they were losing by a point to
Speaker 3: the Bulls heading into the fourth quarter of the set
Speaker 3: playing game. They didn't decide to take it up three
Speaker 3: levels until like the playoffs starts. It doesn't make sense
Speaker 3: that they would decide to do that again. I just
Speaker 3: want to remember, like again, like people are like, yeah,
Speaker 3: but Butler this year is different. It's like he was
Speaker 3: different last year in the regular season too. Everybody was
Speaker 3: saying the exact same thing. I don't expect it to
Speaker 3: happen because when it happened last year was like that, well,
Speaker 3: this is a literal miracle. Like I I've never seen
Speaker 3: anything anyone just decide to be way better. But he
Speaker 3: was able to do it last year. If they're able
Speaker 3: to get the seventh seed, I could see them doing
Speaker 3: it again this year. I don't know, it's I also
Speaker 3: feel like Nick runs heat.
Speaker 1: Those two specific teams would set basketball back, like at
Speaker 1: least scoring, it would set it for decades. We'd be
Speaker 1: getting like like final scores of like fifty nine to
Speaker 1: fifty seven in a playoff game. You know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and when in doubt, I always like Brunson is
Speaker 3: always good for a rounder too, better than I'm expecting,
Speaker 3: like back to when he was with the MAVs, and
Speaker 3: you know last year with the Knicks, Like he's really great.
Speaker 1: In the play He's a playoff riser as well.
Speaker 3: And so I I don't know, I think the Knicks
Speaker 3: are probably gonna win no matter who they're facing. But
Speaker 3: it's I just it's like listening to like the Bills
Speaker 3: on Bill Simmons podcast, He's just like not scared of
Speaker 3: the heat at all. He's like, I'd love to play
Speaker 3: the heat. That's fine, please, who cares? Just like that
Speaker 3: because Jimmy Butler has been bad all season. I'm just like, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: like what we did this last year, Like it's in.
Speaker 1: The Simpsons scene of like how many times the Celtics
Speaker 1: fans have to step on the rake, you know, exactly
Speaker 1: like we did.
Speaker 3: It Bucks Pacers is also going to be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Jianness Listen is doubtful heading into Game one due to
Speaker 3: a cast strain. Cast strains are very tricky injuries. We
Speaker 3: saw that be the injury leading into KD having an
Speaker 3: achilles like a few years back, right, like it's you
Speaker 3: just incredibly Yeah, did you feel.
Speaker 2: The whole thing go up your the back of your
Speaker 2: leg Like a lot of people say that happens, And
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, it's scary.
Speaker 3: It's just like it really couldn't have gone Like the
Speaker 3: last month of the season couldn't have gone worse for
Speaker 3: the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Like it's really not good. Really, the second half of
Speaker 1: the season couldn't have gone worse for the Bucks. You
Speaker 1: got that Doc Rivers was going to finish the year.
Speaker 1: He took over the team when they were like thirty
Speaker 1: and like twelve or something, and he finished the year
Speaker 1: with a with a below five hundred record. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: didn't ask to come in. He didn't ask to come in.
Speaker 1: He would not have wished that situation on his worst enemy,
Speaker 1: you know, right exactly. And yeah, and the bus driver too,
Speaker 1: the bull, little class, the equipment manager. It's crazy, he
Speaker 1: just leaves the laundry out all over the floor, like
Speaker 1: it's not even It's just I feel like I'm at
Speaker 1: home with my teenage kids. I did start to wonder
Speaker 1: after the second stray that the equipment manager took this year.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, is this guy actually just like doing
Speaker 1: a fat job like that? One needs to look into this, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: Doc and Joannis both bringing up specifically the equipment manager.
Speaker 1: I have some questions now, right, Yeah, there's an agenda.
Speaker 1: There's an agenda.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, cause I saw it on the more
Speaker 2: cynical end, it's that Giannis might not be ready till
Speaker 2: Game two or three.
Speaker 1: And then Woach said today that they're preparing to start
Speaker 1: the series without him at least. Yeah, yeah, no, he's
Speaker 1: not going to be there for Game one. Yeah, get them.
Speaker 1: At least one of the betting sites had to like
Speaker 1: change the odds for the series because so many people
Speaker 1: were coming in on the Pacers after that, so yeah, wow, yeah.
Speaker 3: And there there's also people like speculating about Dame's future
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee if they lose early.
Speaker 1: It's just a bat.
Speaker 3: It's like it really could have gone much worse this season. Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: I'm excited for the generational blame deflection that we're going
Speaker 1: to get whenever this Bucks run ends, because you got Dame,
Speaker 1: you got Doc Jannis, Like an underrated sort of blame
Speaker 1: deflector like all these guys seeing who's going to point
Speaker 1: the finger at? Who is going to be incredible? Wait
Speaker 1: to watch it? Yeah, it's going to be three Spider
Speaker 1: Man meme. Yeah, just like pointing to just everyone, like
Speaker 1: what do you mean we failed? We reached the Elite
Speaker 1: eight of the NBA in college, Like this is help.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how you're emotion failure. Yeah, we did
Speaker 1: better than last year. It's about steps the success. We
Speaker 1: got out of the first round in a seven game
Speaker 1: series against the Pacers and then we lost in the
Speaker 1: second round. That's that's progress exactly exactly what.
Speaker 3: What storyline do you think is being underrated on either
Speaker 3: side of the east to the west. Where what do
Speaker 3: you think is we're going to see heading in If
Speaker 3: you had to guess last year, obviously it was the heat,
Speaker 3: you know, Yeah, I don't know how many people were
Speaker 3: predicting that, But what you had to guess a like
Speaker 3: underrated storyline we're going to be talking about heading into
Speaker 3: let's say the Conference Finals.
Speaker 1: What do you think it is? I mean, I think,
Speaker 1: to be honest, and this hurts me in my heart
Speaker 1: to say, but I think that people maybe are not
Speaker 1: giving like the Celtics enough do just because they don't
Speaker 1: have that kind of one exemplary player who's going to
Speaker 1: be an MVP. They may not get a first team
Speaker 1: All NBA guy. They might, but like they have probably
Speaker 1: the Again as a Lakers fan, this is causing me
Speaker 1: physical paint, but they have the best starting five in
Speaker 1: basketball right now, and they've been really good all year
Speaker 1: and they're probably not going to get like a great
Speaker 1: opponent coming out of the play in. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: again it's possible it's the heat and the heat like
Speaker 1: you know, pull off sort of their like dark magic
Speaker 1: again and just like sort of Jimmy Butler, he's like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's spring time for me to become Michael Jordan again
Speaker 1: and just like knocks them out of the playoffs. But like,
Speaker 1: I think that the Celtics may be sort of getting
Speaker 1: a lot of rest between these series in some cases,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not sure that you know, just
Speaker 1: because of how bad the bottom of the East is,
Speaker 1: Like it seems like they are gonna sort of sweep
Speaker 1: through all the way to the finals, you know. To
Speaker 1: be honest, I would be sort of surprised if they
Speaker 1: lost more than like two or three games right now.
Speaker 3: So the Sixers did go eight note to end the season,
Speaker 3: do you want to take that over again talking about
Speaker 3: how bad the bottom of the East is.
Speaker 1: And also I cannot confirm or deny if I'm trying
Speaker 1: to reverse jinks to the Celtics right now, so I
Speaker 1: will say, think they're unbeatable, no one can take them out.
Speaker 1: Prove me wrong that you want to if you're then
Speaker 1: let the Heat beat the Celtics. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: the only thing right.
Speaker 3: Now openly, I openly admit to be rooting and heading
Speaker 3: into these playoffs, I'm rooting for the field. It's like
Speaker 3: Celtics versus the field. I'm just rooting for the field.
Speaker 3: The only thing that's giving me hope is all those
Speaker 3: like advanced stats that are like they're the best team ever.
Speaker 3: The thing they all point out though, is that they
Speaker 3: are the best team ever, but they don't have a player,
Speaker 3: like a single player that is like good enough to
Speaker 3: be like up held up with like those Jordan teams
Speaker 3: with like any any of those teams, and that is
Speaker 3: usually a problem at some point in the NBA playoffs
Speaker 3: because you need to have someone who is a walking,
Speaker 3: talking bucket, and that's been a problem for them in
Speaker 3: the regular season, like Tatum in crunch time has not
Speaker 3: been able to just like take the team on his back.
Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that that is what we see derail them,
Speaker 3: And yes, that would be you know, yeah.
Speaker 1: Like, I mean, that's just been an issue.
Speaker 3: They can't they can't just be like all right, man,
Speaker 3: like we're all tired and a little bit scared. It's
Speaker 3: the end of the game and now it's Jason time.
Speaker 3: It just it doesn't work with the mask point. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean Grant Williams tried to put the mask on
Speaker 3: and he was like, well, what what are you doing?
Speaker 3: You know, So like that's how averse he is to
Speaker 3: the superhero mask.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's my team, let's go. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna trash talk Jimmy Butler O.
Speaker 3: Wait then, oh man, what a run. That was so
Speaker 3: fun when he Yeah, last year.
Speaker 1: It is sort of incredible how many guys the Grant
Speaker 1: Williams has made mad. It's like every single NBA player interview.
Speaker 1: You know that. I thought, like another I saw like
Speaker 1: the MAVs were coming out and blasting him, and like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just yeah, it's it's amazing. He really
Speaker 1: has gotten under the entire league skin. Yeah, not easy
Speaker 1: to do. Impressive.
Speaker 3: All right, let's uh, let's take a quick break and
Speaker 3: when we come back. Oh man, you're in trouble. I
Speaker 3: got I gotta say, Harrison, you are wandering into a shootout. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's the rapid fire around a question.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, and we're back, We're back. You're saying,
Speaker 1: I'm walking into a disadvantageous situation. Can I just can
Speaker 1: I theoretically tank it and then get a better match
Speaker 1: up down the line, like technically you you know, technically coward?
Speaker 3: Or ready said you were right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah diagnosed, Yeah yeah yeah you can't totally yeah,
Speaker 1: totally can you totally can't, but don't we don't like
Speaker 1: to acknowledge that up top, but between.
Speaker 3: As the doctor is handing you to your mother after
Speaker 3: your your birth, they were like, uh, sorry, it's a coward.
Speaker 1: I've never been a baby this much, ma'am.
Speaker 3: Wow, he looks so scared Oh my god, this.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's anyway, well, hey, your problem not well, but
Speaker 2: Harrison faking.
Speaker 1: He's right. It's time for a rapid fire round of questioning.
Speaker 2: Okay, this is the fastest question answer segment in sports
Speaker 2: podcasting history.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you a question. Don't take too much time.
Speaker 1: Let's keep the pace up, and if you do take too.
Speaker 2: Much time, we will be so rude to you that
Speaker 2: you will have no choice but to not be confrontational
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. You know, I don't think you
Speaker 1: could be ruder to me than the Internet has been
Speaker 1: in the last forty eight hours. That's true, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, you're a journalist who said something real to
Speaker 2: the to Laker fans and trust.
Speaker 3: Magic critics rights are saying that they should throw this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like feel good so being critics. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean people got mad at Jesus too.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just like there, it is, there it is,
Speaker 2: and maybe they will heed your advice.
Speaker 3: Have you seen the reviews for this year's Lakers. They're
Speaker 3: like at a seventy three on rutten tomatoes.
Speaker 1: Seventy three is not bad.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I'll take that I'll take that because most
Speaker 2: of them they're so cynical on there, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: exactly exactly.
Speaker 3: Well here Wayne Gerard Butler's plane.
Speaker 1: You want to go first? Or should I go first?
Speaker 1: Why don't you go first?
Speaker 3: Jack?
Speaker 1: You want me to go first? Yeah, Harrison, we see that.
Speaker 3: There's a BB one figuring behind you. My eight year old,
Speaker 3: my soon to be eight year old, is a.
Speaker 1: Star Wars obsessive.
Speaker 3: I'm taking him to the Skywalker Saga marathon only Star
Speaker 3: Wars film. He hasn't seen his episode three because it's
Speaker 3: a little a little heavy, you know, children being swater.
Speaker 3: But he knows about order sixty six. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: I got like he he knows all the lower he
Speaker 3: knows like the stats. But as as a Star Wars film,
Speaker 3: so many how many young links. I'm a little worried
Speaker 3: about your He's all about putting up. He's all about
Speaker 3: stats and like, how how many gunners? You think this
Speaker 3: has wrong?
Speaker 1: That?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 1: Wow? Do you like?
Speaker 3: He really is like that doesn't understand how I'm not
Speaker 3: more obsessed with stars, but I'm just curious, what's your
Speaker 3: favorite Star Wars film?
Speaker 1: Uh? I mean this is cliche, but Empire Strikes Back.
Speaker 1: I do think it's the best movie of all of.
Speaker 3: Them, most underrated Star Wars film.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's even episode three anymore, because
Speaker 1: I feel like that used to be the answer, but
Speaker 1: now I guess I'll say I guess I'll say the
Speaker 1: Last Jedi, just because it's like so critically panned and
Speaker 1: so many people get so mad about it, and I
Speaker 1: actually think that there's like a good movie in there
Speaker 1: if you sort of cut down the length of it
Speaker 1: and like the b plot where like Finn is basically
Speaker 1: doing nothing for like an hour of the movie and
Speaker 1: Casino good interesting ideas in that movie. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it could have been better. Yeah right, I agree. Okkay,
Speaker 1: next question.
Speaker 3: Thank you for answering that on our NBA podcast.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next question, and sorry, I gotta have to take
Speaker 2: it back to the NBA. Jack Harrison h what color
Speaker 2: kyber crystal would you use to color your lightsaber blade?
Speaker 1: Well, I you know I can actually answer that because
Speaker 1: I have on well you can't see it on this
Speaker 1: but I have them displayed in my office, the one
Speaker 1: that I made at Disneyland, and it's okay, I got
Speaker 1: another I mean true Laker fan more so. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I mean, he was the one
Speaker 1: that made purple a thing. You know, yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: you were trying to support, you know, the one black Jedi.
Speaker 1: But that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean for the Lakers is for
Speaker 2: the Lakers, we all have our faults. How about this
Speaker 2: actual NBA question more likely to happen? And why the
Speaker 2: Lakers get in and win a series versus the Nuggets
Speaker 2: or Thunder or Sixers get.
Speaker 1: In and win a series versus Celtics or Knicks. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Sixers just because they have the one
Speaker 1: they need to win one game and then they get
Speaker 1: in against the Knicks, and I do think that they
Speaker 1: beat the Knicks if Embid stays healthy and so, you know,
Speaker 1: like anytime you need less sort of things to break
Speaker 1: right for you, I'm going to go with them. But
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I think the Lakers have a
Speaker 1: shot if they lose this first playing game and win
Speaker 1: the second one.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I'm going to read a quote to
Speaker 3: you from Jamal Murray and then I want you to
Speaker 3: react by telling me point made a good point. They
Speaker 3: should be scared of no, he said quoth, and I
Speaker 3: want I want you to react. I also want you
Speaker 3: to spot the lie in here. There is a there
Speaker 3: is an error. I think we're the best duo. I
Speaker 3: think we're They're in a bigger market and people have
Speaker 3: more interest in Lebron and a d in La or
Speaker 3: what Damon Giannis could do, or what Luca and Kyrie
Speaker 3: could do. Talking about the best duos and getting the
Speaker 3: job done and how they play for each other and
Speaker 3: with each other, I think me and Jokic are undoubtedly
Speaker 3: number one.
Speaker 1: Uh weird that he called him Joki? First of all?
Speaker 1: Just it it's like, are you a fan? Just coworking
Speaker 1: me and Gray?
Speaker 3: I mean, when you're talking about NBA podcast hosts, me
Speaker 3: and Gray Gray, we're up there.
Speaker 1: Obrien's got the touch man, all right? First of all,
Speaker 1: do you agree? No? You know, I I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know who I would pick as the best duo,
Speaker 1: but it's just I mean, they're up there, certainly. And
Speaker 1: this is gonna sound disrespectful considering they just won the
Speaker 1: title and everything, but it's like, you know, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: If yok says that, I feel like it's a little weird.
Speaker 1: If Jamal Murray is the one saying it would be
Speaker 1: you know, again, this is extreme and this is too
Speaker 1: mean to Jamal Murray, but I'm gonna make the analogy anyway,
Speaker 1: and that that's like, you know, like Luke Walton being
Speaker 1: like Kobe and I scored you know, like eighty four
Speaker 1: points combined that day, you know, right right right, It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that, like, you know, you guys do have
Speaker 1: two of the most points together as teammates in NBA history,
Speaker 1: but like one guy did the like the majority of
Speaker 1: contributing to that, And so I just like, I think
Speaker 1: that's got to be yokic given that quote, Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, Murray, like, yeah, team before before saying this.
Speaker 3: What is the uh what's the factual error that he
Speaker 3: included in there?
Speaker 1: There's an error in there. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think Ever is a larger market than Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, by quite a bit.
Speaker 3: Actually Milwaukee is below Salt Lake City, below San Jose, California.
Speaker 1: Uh, market by us, you know exactly.
Speaker 3: It's like wait what but yeah, Denver is like kind
Speaker 3: of right in the middle of the pack. So, by
Speaker 3: the way, I would have had more interesting questions to
Speaker 3: ask you. But then I found this list of the
Speaker 3: US markets by size and have just been looking at
Speaker 3: it for the past.
Speaker 1: Like there's so many ones in there that you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: that city is bigger than that now, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's been a couple of times I've fallen down that
Speaker 1: rabbit hole.
Speaker 3: So I Campa needs an NBA team, Seattle desperately needs
Speaker 3: an NBA team, the fourteenth biggest, Puerto Rico needs an
Speaker 3: NBA team.
Speaker 2: Probably Durham at this point would too. Yeah, I've never
Speaker 2: done this before. During this segment, but Jack, we have
Speaker 2: to keep this moving.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, smaller than Hartford, Connecticut, miles on.
Speaker 1: The whale questions, Harrison, guess which city is bigger.
Speaker 2: Big based on based on lightsabers owned per capita.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're taking a time machine.
Speaker 2: You can go back in time to personally be an
Speaker 2: eyewitness at any of the following moments in NBA history.
Speaker 1: You take your pick.
Speaker 2: Eighty seven Finals, Game four, Magic's baby skyhook winner in
Speaker 2: the Boston Garden, twenty ten Finals, Game seven, Blakers over Celtics,
Speaker 2: two thousand Western Conference Finals, Game.
Speaker 1: Seven, the Great lob Kobe Tshek Where are my feets? Wow?
Speaker 1: Where do you need them to be? Like, how good
Speaker 1: of feats are you giving me? I got it. I
Speaker 1: mean it affects the question. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I guess if we're talking Staples Center, they're like premier
Speaker 2: level seats like sort of in that level.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, you know, like he like we can
Speaker 1: get your time machine, but not court side tickets. You're crazy? Okay,
Speaker 1: lower lower bowl, lower bull lower bowl, say lower ball.
Speaker 1: I'm I I am gonna say Game seven twenty ten,
Speaker 1: just because that is probably my favorite NBA game of
Speaker 1: all time and like my favorite Lakers win. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: you know, uh, like one of the Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: that's a game that means a lot to me, and
Speaker 1: so I think it would be that one.
Speaker 2: Shout out to my therapist for sure.
Speaker 1: Said that game. It was just Game seven. I don't
Speaker 1: need therapy man. Game seven the Lakers one. I don't
Speaker 1: you got that? Fifth ring? I'm good? Uh.
Speaker 3: And finally, someone's coming to the great City of Los
Speaker 3: Angeles for one weekend. Give us three spots they need
Speaker 3: to hit up. Let's go attraction not not restaurants, not bars,
Speaker 3: just places places to hit.
Speaker 1: I'm a terrible person to ask this question too, because
Speaker 1: I don't really like go outside all that much. But
Speaker 1: you know, I would say the Santa mon cup here
Speaker 1: is pretty great. Uh you know, beautiful like ocean waves.
Speaker 1: You know that kind of thing, ocean waves. I've heard
Speaker 1: of these. Yeah, yeah, I can you tell them a writer.
Speaker 1: I've never been there. I got to sire it out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I like it can be personally,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I'm not asking for
Speaker 1: the object We're not the objective. Top three on the spot. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my apartment, it's great. You should come by hang out.
Speaker 1: I got I got some vegetarian snacks for you, you know.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, my apartment number two, and then you know,
Speaker 1: I'll give a shout out. My wife and I went
Speaker 1: to a place called the Love Museum in downtown LA.
Speaker 1: It was pretty cool. It was, you know, like a
Speaker 1: good I would say, a good date spot like there,
Speaker 1: you know, if you have a significant other in your life.
Speaker 1: It was cool. Wave I paid they basically they like
Speaker 1: it's a museum built by this psychologist that was like
Speaker 1: famous for studying love and like how it works chemically
Speaker 1: in your brain or whatever, and it has all these
Speaker 1: exhibits where you sort of like interact and think about
Speaker 1: things and talk to each other and whatever. It could
Speaker 1: be either the greatest or worst first date spot of
Speaker 1: all time, but you know it was. We had a
Speaker 1: lot of fun and I feel like, genuinely like I've
Speaker 1: learned things about my wife and how she sees the
Speaker 1: world that I did not know. They give you, they ask, Yeah, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I thought different colors, you know.
Speaker 2: It's right, Yeah, yeah, it's taking very deep, labored breaths
Speaker 2: every three minutes, is yeah. Well, Fagan, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for joining us. All males and Jack got mad boosties.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think everything we said today was correct,
Speaker 2: no matter, even though we didn't know the results of
Speaker 2: certain games. But look, I'm pretty sure we nailed it.
Speaker 2: Where do people find you, follow you, read you, listen
Speaker 2: to you all? How do they experience the Harrison Fagan Enterprise.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can. You can read me and a bunch
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Speaker 1: story up today on why the Maps should be taken
Speaker 1: seriously as real contenders and like they have a real
Speaker 1: shot to win the whole thing, and uh yeah, I
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