The Right Time with Bomani Jones - A Discussion on the NBA Dissatisfaction Discourse and Are the Lakers Fun Again? | 2.24

Episode Date: February 24, 2025

On today's episode of The Right Time, Bomani Jones dives into all things related to the NBA. Bo starts the show by asking if New York Knicks fans are happy since they are underperforming vs top teams (3:04) and how the Los Angeles Lakers are fun but may not be title contenders this year even with Luka Doncic. (12:16) Bomani then reacts to PK Subban's comments on ESPN comparing the NHL to the NBA after the 4 Nations Tournament was a success and the NBA All-Star Game drew criticism. (24:32) And finally, we have another round of If You Haven't Heard stories involving the Delta flight that overturned, parents funding their children's lives in New York City and DEI policies in corporate America. (42:50) Then Bomani listens to some voicemails about people picking a fight they shouldn't have started. (58:44) . . . Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media:  http://lnk.to/therighttime Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Support the Show:  PrizePicks: Daily Fantasy Made Easy! Visit PrizePicks.com/BOMANI and use code BOMANI for a first deposit match up to $100! They Swoosh, You Save: when any player scores 50 or more points in a game during the 24/25 NBA regular season, DashPass members save 50% on an order, up to $10 off.  Go to zbiotics.com/BOMANI to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use BOMANI at checkout.  Post your job for free at LinkedIn.com/BOMANI.Terms and conditions apply. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time. A Wave Sports and Entertainment Original presented by prize picks. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater.

We're going to talk about what somebody in the YouTube chat is calling the New War on Christmas. I think that's a great line. We'll talk about that in a little bit. but before I get there, Sean, I know you a fan of the Houston Rockets, but you live in Los Angeles. My question number one is, like, I always say that L.A. is the only thing that keeps that crazily divided city together in any form of fashion, right? Like, do you feel the, like, do you feel the Luka effect in the streets? I'm going to go ahead and say, absolutely not. I feel like, I feel like it really hasn't hit. I like, maybe it's like I just haven't seen

enough jerseys or t-shirt jerseys around but like i know people are excited i just haven't seen it firsthand got you because like that's something i guess i don't have a great handle on at this point is like i know the laker effect like on the internet and i know that every friend i have who's for real about lair or from l a lair from l a has a very passionate opinion about what goes on with the lakers but i would feel like with all the noise and everything that was surrounded it and how sad they are in dallas that they feel like they should be out here in multiple languages all excited about Luca pulling up. Yeah, I guess if you're like going to Laker games, maybe,

but like, you know, it's totally different if like something like this happened to the Knicks where then the whole city would be actively. You could viscerally see the whole city reacting to it, whereas L.A. is so spread out that it's like, you'd have to go to these pockets of town to like really see the Luka effect. I see what you're saying.

Speaking of that with the NICS, it's starting to happen with the Knicks, by the way. And I want to be very clear with everybody. I have spent all season, and Sean, you can verify, I have been incredibly complimentary of Carl Anthony Towns because he has been excellent. He has looked amazing at points. It is finally fully settling in to this city of 8 million people

that he ain't guard nobody. And you can only be so mad about it because the dude they love the most, he guards even fewer. And you know, you know the problem is starting to arise when I, I just saw it this weekend after their loss, where Nick's, like, Twitters, Nick's reporters are bringing up the cat contract, just showing the details of the guaranteed money. And I'm like, that's when you know things are getting a little dicey.

Oh, yeah. That's when you know things are getting real, right? Like, they went too fast, okay? Like, I know we're going to get to the Lakers in a second. I want you to stay here with me as you being a bit of a local. You can speak to this a little more, right? I have actually come since living here to really come to like Knicks fans, right? I don't think I could ever really become one of them, you know, like, but I have come to like and appreciate Knicks fans. The Knicks have a problem when it comes to their fans and is the problem that New York has with regards

to PR. And it's the people that y'all send to other places, right? Like the New Yorkers who decide they can't really do New York and they go other places. There's certainly some exceptions. My whole boy, Che, he a real one. You know what I'm saying? But y'all don't typically send y'all's best and y'all's brightest out. And so we wind up meeting a lot of people who really ain't got nothing going for them except the fact that they're from New York. And anything that happens that's with New York get loud and annoying. They go work out at the New York Sports Club, right? Like any business that's got the word New York in and you can put it in any city and all the New Yorkers that ain't really hitting off on shit, they all going to show up there.

right? And that's what the Knicks say. But the Knicks fans in the city, I fouled, especially when they was terrible. If they would just come up to me and just be like, man, can you just tell me something, right? Is there anything good that you could say about the Knicks? And then when the Knicks got back a little good, they looked so happy about it. They looked so appreciative of it. They seemed to reasonably understand, you know, what was really going on in the NBA. And they was just glad that they was back in the mix. And that's how it felt to me last year. They was just glad that they was back in the mix. However, that's hard to stay in that place for very long. Trust me, as a Detroit Lions devotee,

I understand that you got to kind of remember who the fuck you are sometimes, right? Sometimes you got the best team in the NFL and you don't win. It happens, but you don't want to trip too hard about it, right? I think that Knicks fans, they should still be happy to be here, but nope, nope, no, no, no, no, that's not happening. I feel like the Knicks fans in my life that are like the real ones who have really suffered is like they're obviously happy and optimistic that this team and this Leon Rose experience has been going well.

But there's like that that charming sense of it could all explode any minute and we could all just fall apart. And like that's the Knicks fans I relate to, not the people who are like, we're winning it. It's the ship. You know, we're bringing it back. Like that's not real to me. Well, I think the other thing that happens, to be fair to them, it's like you look up and Cleveland better than you.

Yeah. I don't care at what. You know what I'm saying? Like whatever it happens to be, right? Both of us in harmony come out. New York walking around like, damn, Cleveland rap faster than us. You know, like you just kind of got a,

if you're this city, you know what I'm saying? Then that's how it lands for you. But anyway, they got their ass kick severely twice over the weekend and it's because they can't guard nobody. And that is not, that's not going to work here. And that was the thing I said about Carl when they got him was that at some point this is going to prove to not be the city for him

because the places in which he is deficient or appears to be deficient to me are the places that matter the most to the locals, right? And so they've been glad everything else. Man, they was out here getting schmote over the weekend. Smote. And it seems very anti-thibodeo of like getting a guy whose big weakness is defense. And yet when they got him, everyone's like, you know, this is still going to work.

Like, Thibbs is going to, you know, figure it out. But yeah, that's the big glaring weakness. Yeah, let me tell you this about Thidivode, by the way. And what I'm saying is somewhat anecdotal right now because I hadn't planned to talk about this. But I do remember at a point where he was in Chicago where the metrics, it kind of flipped, where it went from being a middle of the road offensive team and an excellent defensive team to being like a very, very good offensive team to a middle of the road defensive team.

Like, his team certainly have a personality. But I think that that I bet that if you go look up like the efficiency numbers from year to year, there will probably be more variance in offense and defense than you would probably expect there to be. But I was talking to my buddy Vinny about this. And his question is whether or not the way Tom Thibodeau wants to play defense, does it work in the modern era of basketball with this increase in shooters? That's the thing that he's going to have to figure out. And look, coaches make adaptations about what type of basketball they play all the time.

I think he's capable of it, but it's going to, look, they're good enough now that somebody's going to have to get fired if they don't get better. Yeah. You know what I mean? The floor is too high for them now. Yes. Yes. If something doesn't get better, somebody's got to pay for it, which is in its own way, a bit

of a compliment. Yeah, right. You've reached that point of this team where like the floor is high and if something doesn't work the way everyone expects, like, yes, someone's going to get fired. I don't know who it's going to be, though. Yes. Yeah. I mean, well, the first person is going to be Tom.

Right. Mike. That's how this works. This is the NBA, Sean. You're like, I don't know who it's going to be. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. I'd say who it ain't going to be.

Nope. That's who it's not going to be. In fact, anybody fuck around to make Rick Brunson the next coach. Oof, that'll get done with the whole, you know, a horrible idea. This ain't high school, man. This ain't high school. Except it's a different kind of Nepo baby thing because Rick Brunson's the

Nepo Bay. Right, right. They didn't get Jailer Brunson to please his dad. That's not how that worked. But anyway, to what we were saying earlier, I was bringing up the Lakers. The Lakers beat the brakes off the Nuggets the other night, which is a bit of an important thing if you've been playing attention to the conference finals or the conference playoffs in the postseason where the Nuggets have been wailing on the Lakers for the last couple of years.

I think I saw on TV, Mike Greenberg said and JJ Reddick had been up two straight days preparing for what Denver was going to do against Denver and they had Yokic in jail. It was, I saw like people, you know, NBA reporters clip off like the defensive strategy against Yokic and how everyone was like, if Western Conference teams want to beat the nuggets in the playoffs,

this is like the ideal blueprint. And like shout out to JJ and that coaching staff for really like figuring it out. Yeah, but it's the blueprint for now. Exactly. That'll change. Like the point that I would make about somebody coming up with a strategic change like this is that let's say that you were in a seven game playoff series and this was game one and then the Lakers had cooked up this plan to shut down Yokeach and it worked. You would not necessarily, well, I mean, if you wanted this to be the result, then maybe you bring up the whole man. We don't figure something out.

But in reality, what we would do, the people who are probably far away from the situation say, okay, now it's on Mike Malone to make the adjustment, right? Like, we saw the thing where it was what, Anthony Davis wasn't guarding Yokic, he was guarding like kind of floating around and being near Yokic. Remember when that was the adjustment that was going to cook them and then the next adjustment was made and then it went. The only thing, though, is in this stretch of time since they made that trade, and they have played a very interesting array of teams.

The low end of teams that they played have been bad. Like they played the Jazz a couple of times, and they lost one of those. They played the Hornets a couple of times. They lost, I mean, they played the Hornets once. They lost that game. Like, they've been very good on defense.

My buddy Vinny, I just recorded a pod with him, and he made this point. They've been very, very good on defense. Like, JJ, I think, has demonstrated that the strategy part of coaching he's got. The not having a coronary part. I'm not sure about that when the boy is a bit of a gohard. But the come up with stuff and strategies to make things happen. Okay, he's got that.

I still have not sold that you're going to be able to get through post-season series that are ultimately just going to come down to a lot of ball screens that involve switching to Luke, switching it off on to Luca and hunting him every single time down the floor. He and LeBron. And you saw that, that's how the Hortons beat the Lakers down the stretch in that one gave. It's like they just isolated Luca, had Mello, La Mello, get him on a screen and just shake him. And yeah, that's a big issue, especially like you said in the playoff when that's all playoff basketball is, is hunting the weak man.

That's what it's going to come to. It's just matchups, right? And the hornets were relentless, right? By the way, that to me in a way is how you know for the Hornets, this was a bit of their Super Bowl. They played it like it was the playoffs. I mean, in theory, every time you play the Lakers, that's what you should be doing. Like the aims of the NBA regular season involves so many different things. Like you get a guy like Tai Loo, for example, who really is just out there just throwing stuff

against the wall to see what might work later. Like, that is his opportunity in time to experiment. But it is interesting that the game plan against the Lakers is not the same every time or for anybody who doesn't play defense. We're just going to make this dude play defense over and over again. What do you think of that? ha ha. That being said, this is the part that I think with the Lakers that I'm inclined to talk about at this point in the season. Look, I think it's fair to say this. The Lakers are fourth in the West. They are four and a half games out of the play in, right? I know that feels weird to Laker fans, but you guys are not going to go in the play in. Hey, hey, I know, right? You're going to feel like you missed out on something, but no, it's cool. It's actually a bonus and you don't have to play those games this time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know, I know, I know, guys.

Like, like, I know, you thought you were into play in every year. No, sir, Rebob, not this year. LeBron and JJ got you to a whole other place. You forgot what that was like, man. Like, last time that y'all felt this kind of way, the damn world was shut down. I feel like forever ago, don't it? Anyway, they are a good team. Are they a team that I think could win in the second round against, say, Oklahoma City

if it came to that? Because they're probably going to be, I mean, they're going to be in the four or five, I think, no matter whether they're the four or the five, they're going to be there. Oklahoma City is going to be the number one, no matter what. Are they a team that could beat them? My guess is no. And my guess is no, because Oklahoma City, if there was a criticism to make of them last year, is that they were tall and that's all.

They were tall, but they were not big. They went and got big lurch from the Knicks, and now they got a little more size, right? That helps. But even if they didn't have that against the Lakers, what the Lakers have no big dudes. that was it Jackson Hayes and basically that's it no no no no no Oklahoma City got something for them but the Lakers are fun and exciting

like I think I underestimated myself what it would feel like kind of sort of the idea that Luca Datchez plays for the Lakers one thing that's been somewhat disappointing about this run with the Lakers of LeBron is when he got to the Lakers I was just like, guys, let's just stop and appreciate what is happening here.

LeBron James is going to play for the Los Angeles Lakers. He wanted to go play for a marquee franchise. This is huge. It is different when it's the Lakers. It's always different when it's the Lakers. And it hasn't quite felt that way. I think part of that, in all fairness to LeBron, is that I don't think it'll ever feel bigger than it did when LeBron was with the heat.

And then when he went to the calves and the Warriors thing happened, it no longer was about, LeBron was at once the face of the league, but not the biggest show in town. And so when he got to the Lakers, and maybe part of it is that year they were championship good, wound up being the year that the world shut down. But it hasn't felt exciting in the way that I thought

that the collision of that name and that franchise. chides would be when they came together. It hasn't landed with me quite that way. But you put both of them together and you got Luca throwing outlet passes to LeBron. Oh, ho, ho. Sean, now this feels like something. It's the first time in a while where like everyone's like, oh, like maybe the Showtime Lakers are back to the point where people on social media are like, can we get back the gold in the jerseys? They were like, the yellow is a little too like limey. We need the Showtime Lakers back. and it's probably because they saw all these outlet passes of Luca LeBron. Yes.

Yes. And honestly, I don't really care that much about how good they are together. I am very curious about how much fun this is going to be. They're not a championship team this year. I just don't think they have the roster. Maybe they put something together and they give it a push next year. I'm not sure.

And the other thing I will say, though, is I'm not sure once it gets to postseason how well they play together once that gets to be a lot more half court. I don't have any of those answers right now. But the prospect of it is so exciting. I feel like we got. got so caught up and talking about how stupid Nico was and in all the furor that was around the trade that somehow what mattered about the Mavericks and the NBA was a bigger story

than the fact that the dude was going to play for the Lakers. Like for me at least, that game against Denver became the first time that it really, all of this truly felt big. Like it felt a little forced when ESPN. It's like televised in the first game that he's playing there. Tuesday night, I think it's the Lakers and the Mavericks. in LA, I think that one's being forced also. That's not a big deal.

That would be like the heat in the calves in 2010, but it's in Miami. The people in Miami don't really care that much about what this is. Now, when the Lakers got to go play in Dallas? Oh, no, yeah. Now we're talking about something. Like we were talking to Vinnie before our episode last week and he was like, yeah, I'm heading to L.A. for this game. And you were like, you should be in Dallas.

He's like, I'm going there too. But like, that's clearly the marquee of this, all of this. Yeah, I don't care about the game in LA. I don't really, oh, Anthony, Anthony, Anthony Davis ain't even playing it, right? So like, we don't even get, are we even getting an Anthony Davis tribute video? You know what I'm saying?

Like, oh, I don't, that one ain't the one. It's not. But I'll simply take that this feels exciting, right? Everything else, whatever. Look, they've instituted all this parody in the league, everything else, da, da, da, da, you're not. And by the way, when you get a team that seems like Goliath in terms of record, it don't really feel like Goliath.

Like it still doesn't really land. Okay, whatever. But this right here, at least for right now, this one feels like something. And I'll take it. All right. Let me get a look here what's going on in the chat room. You know, Sean, I typically like to look over here,

see if we got any haters. There's a fungus among us. It's been pretty clear. I know Lance is usually in there policing for some of the trolls, but I haven't seen anything too crazy today. Somebody says about the Lakers, we're at least going to the WCS, son. No one has ever used that abbreviation ever in life.

Just call it the second round. Like there is nothing in the world to me that is more contrived than the idea of the conference semifinals. What you mean is the second round. So I saw that originally. I thought he meant the finals and I didn't see the typo. And I was like, oh, he actually meant the semifinals. Yeah.

No, no, no. Let me tell you something, man. When your team makes it to the second round, you want to think of it as the conference semi-finals. That's like above expectations. If your team is supposed to go farther, they lost in the second round. For example, Joe L.N. Bede has never gotten past the second round. The WCS. The WCS. I'm like the Willie Colleen.

What are we talking about? about here. Like, what are we doing? Anyway, it's a war going on outside. No man is safe from. It's a bit of a culture war. My man called it the war on Christmas now. And it is something I thought that we had kind of like gotten out of, which is a certain discussion of the NBA that starts in pejorative terms. Like, I contend that this current era of the NBA, deals with race as a variable or an impediment to its success less than any other era of the NBA than I can think of. That there are criticisms around of the game,

but I don't, I've not felt in this current time as though it leaned as heavily on tropes as it did, as recently as even, I'll call it 10 years ago, right? Like, there's a lot of segments I used to do on radio or things I used to feel like I had to say on television that I don't, they don't even really come up when I have discussions about the NBA. Like, especially like going toward the pandemic, the NBA, for what felt like the first time in my life, it felt like a league that didn't have to be defended.

Now, an interesting asterix about that time period of what comes after, though, is, of course, like Kobe came and they had the stuff on the jerseys and on the floor and stuff. And then, of course, you know, things got a little different. And then the people who make their money off of not liking certain crews of people. Of course, those people are highly critical of the NBA at every term. But, like, I've always felt as though in many ways Adam Silver has a much easier job than David Stern. It is a more difficult job in the sense that it's figuring out how to wrangle through all this technology and a incredibly fractured media landscape to get a league a solid place. They got them a solid media deal, but I mean a solid place in the consciousness, not simply about the money.

It's hard there. But David Stern at every turn had to convince these white people that it was okay that the Negroes were not going to do anything to you. I need you, Mr. White Man and Ms. White Woman. Thanks for listening. I need you to calm down just for a second and hear what I'm about to say, which is just simply that bite. Don't nobody never want to be the brother out here giving white people too much credit. It's just not a, it's not a good place to be. It's not what you want people saying about you in these streets that like after all this history and all these time, you're like, damn, I know,

man, the white man got one over on me. Yeah, I know. Somehow I didn't see it coming. Don't know. Don't ask me how, man. My bad, I got caught snoozing. Like, nobody, nobody wants to be that person. I would appreciate it if the African Americans in the YouTube chat would perhaps chime in so that some of the white people understand that what I'm saying here is not at all malicious. It's just kind of an understanding of like just the place that you don't want to be. Okay. And so I am going to roll the dice here on being the brother man to give a little too much credit to the other man. But I at least in my travels do not hear too much conversation from the whites where. whether they be near or far,

that involved discussing the players in the NBA as being thugs or hoodlums. I don't see that anymore. Like, there was a time where the existence of Kevin Porter, Jr. and Miles Bridges in the same world would have somehow led to a much larger discussion about the behaviors of NBA players.

Like, that doesn't really happen anymore. Even with the NFL, like you think about the stuff almost like 20 years ago, like Pac-Man Jones and Tank, uh was the tank johnson tank williams it was one of them tanks anyway um and chris henry right and the way they talked about getting all that stuff in line like i think the leagues at least in terms of the way they do their PR like the idea of the players as hoodlums that's gone and people my age that's like a crazy thought it was such a dominant thought in the 2000s right like whether you like it or not

or liked it when it happened you have to understand like part of this is the dress code and everything else, but they really remade the image of NBA players to one that is a bit more in line with how they actually exist in our society. Like, it happened. Anyway, I bring all that up to say, it's been a long time since I heard somebody sound like it's going to sound in this clip that I am going to play a former NHL star P.K. Subod, he was all. on, get up on ESPN, and this was after they, Fo Nation's classic, like the, the U.S., the Canada's, the Swedans, and the Finlandians,

they was playing against each other for the All-Star weekend. That's how they did it, and it had a big game at the end with the United States versus Canada, and it had all this spirit and all this stuff in it. And so this was after the NBA All-Star game that everybody hated. And so now it was time, for two black men on television to talk about hockey.

What I mean is says, he says, hey, I think what we should do is, let's say the world take on the American players in the NBA, kind of somewhat sort of, or what are you doing in the NHL? What do you think? Well, listen, hockey's a different sport from the NBA. You can't compare the cultures

because of the way the game is played. You can step on an NBA floor and go through the emotions. You can't do that in hockey. You can't. the culture of our sport, you have to play it with passion. You have to be willing to fight. You have to be willing to leave it on the ice. That's what fans are investing in.

So for us, when we charge $1,500 for a ticket to come to foreign... Fans know what they're getting. Kail McCar, the best defense from the world, wasn't in the lineup for this game. This was the most viewed game that we've had in years. And you see it, it's because it's not just based on the skill in town. It's based on the pride, honor, playing for the guy next to you. I got a question for the NBA players.

What the hell are you playing for? What are you playing for? It's not about the money. You make all the money. What you're injured? Well, there's a difference between being hurt and injured. Are you hurt or are you injured? There's a difference.

In hockey, we play hurt. We play injured. That is the culture of the sport. It's always been that way. So you want to talk about the big. business, the CBA, fans get all of that. But what do fans resonate with? They resonate with what's real. You got to fight sometimes for your country. You got to compete. You got to go out there and leave it on the ice because those people are paying the price of admission. So fans know

whether our stars are on the ice or not. They're getting their money's worth. The NBA has that issue that they got to work on. You've got to create a better culture for your players. It starts with the leaders. This issue, there was no issue when Jordan was around. There was no issue when Kobe was around. There's no issue in Sidney Crosby's around. There's no issue in Wayne Gretzky was around because those are true leaders. Now, I understand what a lot of you were probably thinking while you were listening to that. And I'm going to go ahead and correct you on that because I know he wasn't talking like a white man. He was talking like a hockey player. I understand why you might have thought that those were the same thing.

but they're not. That's how hockey players and people around the NHL talk about the NBA. It has long been the way that they have talked about the NBA. Now, to be fair to Subon, he was comparing the energy in the NHL's actually not All-Star game versus the NBA's All-Star game and whether the NBA would be better off going to a USA versus the world competition model. Now, I want to note something that's very important is that hockey is not a global game because they don't get cold enough in enough places, but hockey is, I would say, a transatlantic game. And you could not truly put together, like, I don't think you could put together that same kind of event. I guess maybe you could do it with national teams and the little documentary that they

showed proves that. But like, they ain't but so many countries. They've got enough players to do this with all NBA players. Like you could do it in hockey. with those four countries and all NHL players. I think it was all NHL players. If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me. Number two, and this is very important, guys, I don't know if you read the news, but Sean, the Canadians is hot right now.

Like, this is, this means something different to them. Yeah, they're, they're hating on the tariffs. They're booing, they're booing any minute they can, which seems very un-Canadian if you follow the stereotype. Yeah, yeah, see, see, the stereotype don't make no sense. That's hot, Canada is, hockey is Canadian. Maybe they're fighting all the goddamn time. Like, I don't think like this idea that there are these meek and passive people,

their top two exports are hockey and crowd royal. What are you talking about? No, they are an ordinary defensive people, right? And on that issue with Trump, not just the terror, Sean, the man say he want to make it the 51st state. Now, never mind how stupid that is, but deep down inside, we got to be honest about this. There's nothing worse than being put in a position to where, like, if it did come down to that, what they're going to do to stop it.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, what's their defense, you know, of that. Yeah. So all they can do is be mad, right? And be super duper. Don't get me starting on the whole idea that we're going to turn the second largest country in the world to buy area into a state. All right.

I don't want to get into. Canada itself got like 15, 16 territories and some of them is big as hell. And we're talking about we're going to make that estate. Anyway, anyway, my point being, I don't think what happened in that contest was so much a reflection of anything about the NBA as much as a very, very particular set of circumstances. Right. Now, I thought some of what he said was correct, though. Like, yes, you can go through the motions in basketball or the way that you can't go through the motions in hockey because somebody might take your head off.

Like, that happens. Like, there is a baseline of how hard you're going to play in football that is going to be different than it is in basketball or baseball because somebody can take your head off. Like, those things are there. All that other stuff about the culture of playing hurt. I guess that was because LeBross had out the All-Star game, whatever. Da-da-da-da-da-da. All this. Nah, nah, nah, nah.

whatever. The reason that I put that clip in for us to talk about and the reason why I wanted to bring it up is because I hope that people are able to differentiate between somebody like P.K. Subon and, for example, we'll just say me. And I don't mean me in particular. I mean that in a different sense. but I was talking yesterday on Sunday on Twitter about there are criticisms to be made of the modern game of the NBA. And what is disheartening about trying to talk about those things is so often the assumption is made about whoever the person is who is making the criticism that their motives are incorrect or that they don't know what they're talking about or da-da-da.

And by the same token, it's also worth noting. that people who make their criticisms of the NBA very often cannot make their criticisms and say, this is a thing that I don't like. It is, this is the reason there's a problem with the NBA. Now, it can be a problem for you, but I do think it's important to not necessarily ascribe what your issue is to literally every single person. In most cases, if you have a problem with something, you are also operating in a place where you're like, yeah, somebody else could have this problem too. Like, you don't think you're the only weirdo. who's out there.

But I do hope or I want the people who operate with an inclination toward being a defender of the game right now to understand that a lot of the people to have a problem with the way that the NBA is playing basketball right now are people who love this.

And so I say it on Twitter and I think the point I made, Sean, I said that it winds up being like a recursive loop of personal attacks. Yep. Right? Because it's just like, oh, well, you're just saying this because you're caught up in nostalgia. That's always the thing.

My favorite thing about younger people, the old people are always caught up in nostalgia. There's no way in the world that you're caught up in reason, and self-absorption. Right? No, it could never be that. It's always somebody else

that's operating with a bias. And I feel like you hit it on the nail in your tweets of like NBA discourse. It's like always one-sided and the one-sides are never going to see the other side. they're just never going to. Right. Like, no what, like, everybody's got to assume the other person is wrong by definition. Again, I don't know how much of that happens in conversation in real life because I think that this is a component of the way that people talk to each other on social media, right? But there's got to be some way for any of this discourse to be fruitful or for any of this to actually be fun is that you've got to be able to have a way to exchange friendly fired. There's got to be some way that people who both start from the standpoint of we both, love this to be able to talk about this stuff. And please understand, I know something about defending something like the NBA or the things around it to the death as somebody in my teens and 20s.

Because when you hear the attacks on that stuff, it feels like somebody is attacking you. This is, look, I say this is somebody that came up in the time when they put that dress code out there, right? Who heard all the stuff about your music and the thugs and everything else and da-da-da. All of it, man. And I dismiss every single criticism that everybody, had of everything that was going on at the time and baby i was tripping like a lot of this was stuff that i probably could have stood to listen to and to get some understanding and to get a grasp of the fact that there's people who've been here before that might know some things that i don't necessarily grasp about what's going down right i personally don't want to watch team shoot as

many threes as we see i looked this up when i was doing the show with my man vennie in 2016 the warriors put up i want to say it was 31.6 31.6 three-pointers per game. That's the year they won 73 games and that was the most in the league. This year so far, they're averaging 42 and a half three-pointers in the game and a game. And I want to say that makes them third or fourth. No, I don't want to see that. And when people say, well, is it better watching people miss mid-range shots versus three-point shots?

No, it's better watching people take a wider variety of shots, at least for me, than having a heat map that just looks like it goes around a three-point line right at the rim. all of this. It's efficient. It's cool. The game's been solved. There are tweaks that can be made that shake the thing up a little bit and make it such that the game is not being played towards such an equation, right? That is the place. This happens to every game, every 15 or 20 years, where you have to shake it up a little bit because the game has been solved. I think that this game has been solved, right? And if it's the only game that you know, then you're not going to think about in the context of some of the things that somebody like me will be inclined to bring up about

certain measures of variety, not just in this style of play, but in the styles of players. Because I think an understandable defense that people are fans of the modern game have is there are more styles of play than people give credit for Bing. And that's probably true. But styles of player feels much different. I don't think there's nearly as much variety as styles of player. The players are better than ever, but the description that I make about that is action movies and stuff like that. They got better special effects. They got CGI. They got all that stuff.

That's all better. But I probably like Die Hard more than any of their movies. And it's not because I'm a curmudgeon. Die Hard was that five. Like what make it that five come from different places. It doesn't necessarily come from the technological technological advancement. And I feel like a lot of what the NBA game is, some incredible technological advancements. But it don't hit the same. And you can say it don't hit the same for older people because nothing hits like it did when it was younger and that's part of why it hits for them right now.

That's totally possible. Like all those things are true. I'm just saying our tendency collectively in this to dismiss each other makes what is the most fun thing about sports which is talking about it with people the least entertaining part of it, which I think in part makes all of it a little less fun and thereby in the long run makes the games a little bit less popular.

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I've been reporting on the Delta plane that landed belly up in Toronto on Monday. The plane was a Bombardier, CRJ-900 regional jet, flown by Delta subsidiary Endeavour Air, and the jet was recently removed from the runway in Toronto as the investigation continues. All 80 passengers and crew lived, though 21 were hospitalized, but have all since been released. Besides videos posted online and some passenger accounts, few details are known about what could have caused the accident, but I spoke to a handful of airline pilots to gather some insight.

Former Delta captain Mark Stevens, who flew for the carrier for 30 years, told me that the right main landing gear appears to have failed during landing. He said this could have been due to excessive lateral stress on the gear at touchdown, which occurred in very gusty conditions. He added that debris on the runway after a weekend of terrible winter weather could be another reason. Another airline pilot pointed to what appears to be a minimal flare upon landing. That is when the pilots lift the nose up to slow the descent rate and create a softer landing. But the pilot said it's unclear how much are little the pilots flared in the gusty conditions

and that it's too soon to cast blame on anyone. Following the accident, Delta offered passengers and no strings attached compensation of 30. thousand dollars. I just want to say this right now. Most people should take the $30,000. Unless you got time to scrap it out with them over this money, because you're right. If they're willing to give you 30 now, they probably are willing down the line to give you a lot more. But they got lawyers. And you're going to be trying to find one in the phone book off the radio, right? you're just getting somebody with a jingle, right? Some ebulash chaser.

You're about to call whoever the local ebulash chaser is. They're going to take on Delta, right? I hear you. I think you might want to take the $30,000. Yeah, just knowing, like, unless you have, like, a family friend who's a lawyer who really has the time and energy to go maybe a year with this, like the 30,000 is probably the best. But I did see a guy who was on the plane and his picture in the image had the, the neck brace on and he was...

I saw that. I saw that. I was like, that's the way you got to do it if you're going to do it. Y'all, let me tell you this. Nothing is more performative than the neck brace. Like, I have been in a situation before that required me wearing a neck brace and I have no, I never felt at the time like that neck brace was doing anything but telling people that my neck hurt. Like, the most common frame of reference, like, think about it. in your life how many times you actually see somebody wearing neck brace. You have only seen it in sitcoms where in the end the neck brace is proven to be false. It's just Kramer. I just see Kramer

with the neck brace. You know, like it's very Seinfeld, it's very comical, but yeah, I haven't actually seen one in life. That's 100% right, man. You run into my car with your body. Forget about another car. I'm putting a neck brace off. Like that is, he absolutely is trying to get his paper with a neck brace. Neck brace ain't going to get you. You need more than $30,000. You want more to $30,000, baby. You're going to need more than a neck brace.

You're going to need or more of a neck brace. He need the plastic joint. They hit your shoulders right here. And then they go up in like an hourglass kind of shape. And the crutches or something for a whole year. You got to sell that for a whole year, you know? Well, you got anybody willing to humble themselves and put you around in a wheelchair? Like, I don't understand the point of stopping at the neck brace.

Yeah. If you got enough time, probably have enough people in your life who want like a cut of this potentially what million dollar settlement maybe you know yeah i mean i'd say this though as much as i'm like most of the people need to get that 30 000 i wouldn't the one sitting upside down and no had no hairplay can you imagine a crash a crash landing i tweeted about it i'm never flying if that happens to me if i'm i might land upside down and i'm hanging i'm never flying again you know that that ends it for me Sean, you know, I've been on a world tour for the last month or so,

and the world tour will continue. And I don't really be thinking about it, but every now and then something does happen. And I'm like, huh, like, it was that one crash the other day. And this is not a new thing, but it was at this little small air strip, and they don't got no air traffic controller. You call your own files in that game?

Hey, hey, hey, hey. It's got to be a better way. Like, what are we doing here? Like, there's some smaller airports out here outside of LAX, Burbank and Long Beach that people prefer to fly into because it's a lot like, you know, quieter or less air traffic. But there was one issue where like I flew in and there was a plane on the tarmac because a tire was flat and they couldn't do anything about it. So the whole airplane airport was shut down in Long Beach. And I was like, I was like any other airport, I feel like this gets fixed in like 10, 15 minutes. But I guess because of these small airports, it's riskier, you know.

Dude, dude, dude, let me tell you this. I was in Las Vegas one time, and it was time for me to fly home, and the flight got delayed, not canceled, but delayed. And basically something on the airplane had broke, and they were waiting on the part to come in. And I asked them, well, where would that part be coming from? And they told me Atlanta. So we were waiting on the next flight to come in from Atlanta, and they're like, hey, homie, can you drop this off? when y'all get there and it didn't even work.

Yeah, that's one of those you're stuck there for the time being. You know, it's like, where else do you fly out of? See, the problem with being on a delayed flight in Las Vegas is very simple. Where are you going to go? And you know where I was going to go. Yeah, I know exactly. I know exactly. Yeah, this is not, and that's not, I want a lot of money that day,

but under most circumstances, that's bad news. All right, here's our next clip. My name is Madeline Leung Coleman, and I'm a features writer for New York Magazine. I recently published a story called How Many New Yorkers are secretly subsidized by their parents about a major open secret of living in the city, the fact that many people from Gen X on down are only able to have the lifestyle they do because their boomer parents are helping them pay for it. You could say this is nothing new, and you'd be right. But it's all the more acute now because New York has become so much more expensive,

Now who's getting help really matters. Some of the parents giving their kids money for down payments or rent or living expenses or whatever are super rich, while some are more middle class and just happen to be the lucky recipients of a friendly housing market that allowed them to buy property. Although it's impossible to get an exact number on how many New Yorkers are benefiting from this kind of wealth transfer, people don't exactly like people to know. I spoke to real estate agents, financial advisors, school consultants, and others who told me that it's extremely, commonly common and pretty much the only way that anyone is able to buy their first apartment anymore. My story was accompanied by a series of interviews that my colleagues did with people who are

lucky enough to be in that position and so many of the same emotions kept popping up. Guilt, gratitude, and a lot of shame. A lot of people are embarrassed that they're not able to do it without their parents' money or they've just convinced themselves that they can't. I've never heard so much feedback on a story from so many surprising sources, because everyone in and out of New York has an experience of dealing with this, whether they're the ones getting the help or they're just resentful that other people are. And you know what? I get it.

It's impossible not to relate to some position or another. Whether you like it or not, there's really no way to escape the effect that these parents' money will have on our world. Hey, man, I'm going to throw this out there for some of these people, right? And I say this is somebody who has gotten help from his parents. I have never my parents have never subsidized my lifestyle right like when I was in graduate school in California they helped me out with like rent expenses and stuff like that but outside of an occasional modest infusion of cash I haven't gotten any money for my parents as I was 22 years old but part of that is because I grew up with people who didn't have parents who could do that

and so like some of the idea of guilt and stuff like that. I don't know if guilt is the right way to put it, but to me, I recognize that that ain't life. I also recognize, and this is very important, that you can't tell the shareholders that they don't have a vote, right? Like in your life. Like I have older siblings. I watch them, and I realize the more money you got,

the more input your parents had. And so I was like, oh, no, no, no. That's not a trade I want to make. But anyway, I will just say this because I imagine there's somebody listening to this that needs to hear this to a degree. When I was in graduate school in California, I was 21 years old, I went there on two or three weeks notice. I didn't have a job. My parents sent me some money, but I was afraid to ask for more, all these kinds of things.

All of this, man, I was out there. I was broke. Like, I would be clear, I have never been poor, but I have been very broke before. I was incredibly broke while I was out there. I had a partner, and he did not have the parents that I had, but he had. had a bit more money because he had worked like he had a barbershop that he owned and all of this stuff so you know he had his he had his bread and everything else and so like i remember i always like most people i went to school with coming up those are the kind of you know that's who they were like

you know they was going to get a car in high school they had to go get the insurance if i was getting a car and the car by the way they had to get that too i was like oh wow you got to pay for your own insurance wow that's crazy you know and so it was helpful for me because i learned this is what life is for real right and i just didn't grasp that because of my middle class existence or whatever. But you do wind up in the place where you come up around folks like that in a lot of ways. One, it was good for me because I built up a work ethic from it because I understood what the real deal was. And I wanted to go get mine. I didn't want the idea of it being given to me. But I'll never forget what my man told me that first year about

that way. He'd be like, yeah, you know, I guess I can call my parents, whatever. He looked at me like, hey, Cah, you better call your parents. I wish I could call my parents for some money dog. and I had not quite thought about it that way. There is nobody who doesn't have the money for these things, who doesn't wish that they did, right? Now, I do think that it is bananas for your parents to, like, subsidize your lifestyle, right? You out here living high on the hog on somebody else's money. No, no, no, no, I ain't really got no whole lot of respect for that,

and I really ain't got a whole lot of respect for the parents who make those sorts of things possible. Like that, I don't quite get. but hey man if you need some help to try to survive this late stage capitalism and there's somebody there who will give it to you don't feel bad about taking it because anybody that says they'll judge you would take it faster than you would yeah that's yeah i don't know who wouldn't take it and i think it's one of those things of two it's like it's it's also for the parents like a weird form of investment like i want to invest in my kids so that like they have a place or at least the safe floor to succeed that when i'm older, you know. Well, let's say this, right? Let's say we'll call it for now $150,000, right? Or let's call it for this purpose of this discussion, quarter million dollars. Let's say you got a quarter million dollars you're not doing anything with, which isn't like after people have stacked and invested for a while or whatever, that's not that crazy of a number to throw out there, right? You can have a couple, like $250,000. What better are you doing with it? Right. Nobody's ever

lost money on New York real estate. And it will bring you the joy to give stability. to your kids, right? Like, I get it, but I totally also get the idea of, I say this many times, this is the point I was trying to make in the Brody James discussion that people weren't getting is that it's hard to be proud of something

if you ain't go get it, right? So, yeah, if somebody will help you buy the house, do it, but I also recognize you're not going to feel like you went and bought a house. That's not how it's going to feel, but if there's no other way for you to buy a house, you should probably go do that. In the Bronte analogy,

the NBA is not buying a house. If you can't do it, then just go somewhere else. All right, here's an last thing if you haven't heard. Hi, I'm Emily Stewart and I'm a reporter with Business Insider. So I recently wrote about corporate America's stealth war on DEI. You might know a lot of companies have made announcements about rolling back their efforts on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Think a Target, a Walmart, meta.

Of course, others have said they're sticking with DEI like Costco. But there's this third category of companies that are quietly rolling back DEI language and efforts and just kind of hoping that nobody will notice. A lot of companies have scrubbed DEI mentions from their annual reports. GM, for example, just cut its DEI section. Pepsi got rid of its mention of workforce demographics and how that all breaks down. Pinterest just renamed one of its sections. It used to be inclusion in diversity. Now it's inclusion in belonging.

And we know that mentions of DEI and earnings calls and other public statements companies make have been on the decline for a while. So what's going on here is that the political environment has really changed. President Donald Trump is in office and he said that he wants to get DEI out of the federal government and out of private industry where he can. He's barring federal contractors from engaging in DEI practices and he's told his agencies to go look for companies they might be able to investigate over DEI. And nobody wants to be a target here. Beyond Trump companies might also face attacks and investigations from state authorities or illegal groups and individuals. And they're really afraid of social media campaigns too. I mean, remember Bud Light back in 2023 and that boycott? If you think back to 2020 after George Floyd's murder, a lot of businesses made big pronouncements

about their efforts on DEI. And now they're doing this swing in the other direction. It's hard to say where we're headed next, but maybe one takeaway here is that companies should think through their approaches to diversity instead of just going wherever the political winds blow. I think I've said this before, but I can keep this pretty quick. If you just don't talk about some of this stuff, White House let a lot of its slide. They just get uncomfortable when they hear about it. The actual effects don't do anything, right? Like a lot of this stuff is rather anodyne. It doesn't change but so much as what happens.

happens. They just don't want to hear nothing about it like ever. And so what these companies gonna do is they gonna do the same stuff. There was a point, like, there was a time where they need to put a name on it because the black people needed to know that you was going to tolerate us out loud, right? Okay, you're not allowed to do that anymore? Well, let's all whisper. Okay, cool, cool. That's what they're going to do. They're going to go ahead and whisper because a lot of these companies have decided for their reasons or whatever they may be that this is helpful to them. And so they're going to do it. They're going to do it. They're going to do it. They're doing it for us. When the hell they ever done anything for us. That's crazy.

They think it does something for them. And so they're just going to be a little bit more quiet about it. But they're going to keep on doing it. And as long as don't nobody go until, they'll be fine. But what are y'all going to go to? All right, Bo, I'm pretty sure the, if I remember correctly, the voicemail prompt for this week was a time you saw someone pick a fight with someone that ended up being the wrong person to pick a fight with, right?

I am glad you remembered, brother. That is it. Well, we got a ton of great submissions. Here's the first one. What up, Beau? What up, Sean? My name is Brandon. I live in Japan, but call them by way of Philadelphia, the attempt to ban.

So I was once in the United States Marine Corps, and we have exercises that allows us to travel about the world and work with other militaries and what have you. We had a military exercise in Thailand, and we were only allowed to go out as a group. and we had one member of our group that we were forced to interact with. He had a lot of disparaging things to say about, you know, folks in Southeast Asia, he had a lot of disparaging things to say about folks who were trans. And we were at this bar that had a moitized boxing ring in the middle of the bar

where he was loudly saying these racist awful disparaging things. We kept telling him to chill, hey, man, you don't know where you at. You might not want those problems. You might not want those problems. And finally, one of the Moitai athletes who clearly has transitioned calls him out and says, I'll give you 30 seconds to land a punch on me. You land a punch on me. You and your friends can drink free for the rest of the day.

If not, you're going to have to leave the bar. So he gets up there, of course, saying all the rates of disparaging things that you can possibly think of, gets up there, puts the gloves on, he's still running his mouth. and within five seconds I saw the fastest head kick to the side of this man's head. He dropped like a sack of potatoes. All my boys started laughing.

He started getting clowned. And we were promptly kicked out of the bar. He had to go back and explain to Sergeant Major and the commandant officer what had transpired. But yeah, that's my story. A man thought he wanted to fight. He didn't want that fight. You know, getting his ass well.

All right, y'all. Keep doing your thing. Peace. Oh man, getting kicked in the head. That's a... I remember one time I saw somebody get kicked in the head. I'd look back on that light. Actually, now that I think about it, that dude was never the same. Yeah, I don't think you really recover, both emotionally, physically, and just, you know,

you know, you know, oh, that's the guy that got kicked in the head, you know? Yeah, I remember after that, he was a pretty nice kid before that. After that, he got arrested once for making terroristic threats. Yikes. I wonder if these things are correlated. All right, here's our next one. What's up, Bo? What's up, Sean? I got to tell you about a fight that I witnessed where there's somebody stepped way too into

situation they want to be in. So I live in Hawaii and due to circumstances of my life, I needed to find a roommate, I wanted to stay with some locals. And this one girl, the lady who welcomed me in her home, you know, rest of her soul, she's not with us anymore. But she's welcomed me in her home. I was staying in her room. And she's like, even though she's basically a white woman,

or she was a white woman, and growing up in Hawaii in the 80s, that's not exactly the thing you want to do. It's kind of like being black in the South, not, you know, 1893, Hawaii, if you know, you know, all right. But basically, this woman's super-duper sweet, and as an American Negro, I've always thought that I was a good judge of whether or not somebody's crash-out levels. You know, I grew up in the Midwest, so I'm thinking, like, in Missouri, so I thought, like, you know, really nice people have an ugly side. But with her, I'm like, nah, she ain't, like, she ain't that dangerous type stuff.

right? Nope, I was wrong. This other girl, who's a mutual friend of her, they're all hanging out at the house or whatever, and, you know, my roommate's significant other, their date and whatever, but old girl was trying to get at my roommate's boyfriend or whatever, and my roommate didn't put up with that very well. Now, I thought it would be like a scratch claw,

whatever. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. She took her tiny fist, and she balled them joints up and started serving her the beats by drake. I mean throwing hammers like I was my bees were wieldered my dumb was founded and then she started dragging this woman across the house and I'm like oh my pixie dust and ever since then I realized like you know every woman who's born on the Hawaiian islands they're born with a set of hands like yeah you got these big Samoans and Tongans out here for sure but man these ladies out here they're not to be messed with and anybody who will try to argue DW or Lilo who would win that fight Lilo is from Kauai If you know, you know, that woman will get the colonized knocked out of a brady art bark cell. So anyway, love the show. Love what y'all do.

Talk to you all here. Hey, man, I just want to go back. There's nothing I can clearly add to what he talked about. But what I learned when I went to Kauai, had a great tour guide. Hey, Sean, they got white folks shook in Hawaii. Boy, police pulling up a hobo. Man, his booty hole was like this, man. Like, you want to, like, he even said it.

He was like, every white person need to come live in Hawaii so they can get to understand. of what it is. Y'all ain't running shit down there, dog. Nothing, nothing at all. They don't play around at all. No, no, no, no, no. I was going to say, I just need to note that my dumb was founded is that being added to my lexicon. That's really, really great. My bee was wildered. My bee was wildered. But yeah, no, no, no, no, no. They got white folks living a different life down there than they live anywhere else in the United States. Anytime I go to Hawaii, I'm like, I come in peace, you know? Oh, no, you good. You good. It's not you. They are very clear with whom they have beef. All right. Here's our last one.

Hey, Momani. I've been waiting for a prompt that I could finally respond to. A couple years ago, I was out on New Year's Eve with a guy that I was seeing. He had been pissing me off all night, so I wasn't in the best mood when midnight came around. Shortly after midnight, we decided that we were ready to go and wanted to get some food from a gas station that had really good tacos. Sometimes gas station food is really the best. Anyway, it's after midnight. It's New Year's Eve, so you've got drunk people, people like me who are over it and

everything in between. We see that the guy behind us in line has white tea on and a little bit of blood. Not enough to be suspicious, but enough to notice. A couple minutes go by, and we realize the guy is talking out loud. but talking out loud to us. And we turn around to see what he's talking about, and he looks at the guy that I'm with and says, I'm going to go outside and I'm going to smoke this cigarette.

And when I finish smoking the cigarette, I'm going to come in and I'm going to look your ass. The guy wouldn't think, like, this is a joke. I knew this was serious. So I watched him go outside, smoke his cigarette, and lo and behold, he comes in and starts trying to swing on the guy that I'm with. Now remember, the guy that I'm with

have been pissing me off all night. So all I needed was a reason. So they're going and then they're fighting and I decide to jump in because why not? It's getting intense. Everyone is moving around. His girlfriend is screaming and I see a chair and I don't know if it's the wrestling influence

but I was ready to bash it over his head. Luckily, the gas station attendant stopped me from doing so and broke up the fight. I had the police cane and we ended up getting banned from that gas station for a year and then that time it closed. So I never got that taco, but I did let my aggression out. Thanks. Who was she going to hit with the chair, Sean? Am I the only person that's unclear on that part?

She just jumped in and had a, had some throw some shots, I guess. I want to know what happened at the end of the night. Yes, I agree. Because I feel like that was all shaping up for one hell of a fireworks show. Just the littlest bit of finesse, which it don't sound like Buddy had, right? But the littlest bit of finesse and old langzine, yes indeed. Anyway, Sean, you got prospects for the people? I sure do.

We got some NBA, big slate NBA games tonight. I like Demont de Sabonis. Kings versus Hornets, 18 and a half points. I will take more there. Trey Young, Hawks versus Heat, a little nice division rivalry, 10 and a half assists. I like more there for Trey. And Lonzo Ball, Bulls versus Sixers, 19 points, rebounds and assists. I think he will take more there as well as the audience is joining in.

They know the answer is always going to be more. There we go. And ladies and gentlemen, thanks so much for joining us here on the right time. We do this three times a week. That's Sean U. He handles everything behind the scenes. Thank you, sir. Also, thank you to our, if you haven't heard, contributors.

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