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They are? That's for the podcast we're developing. That'll be me and a different member of the family when in studio here, and by studio I mean Demand's old bedroom so and so, which is our new podcast studio. So that'll be so that'll be coming in short order. We have the setup for that here. Demanse, how are you.

a Clipper. Also, it's now I think the third time in his career he has had a game with fifteen points on twos, fifteen points on threes, fifteen points on three throws, and a few other you know, random stats where he's the only guy to ever do that. I was going to start the show on around the Horn, and we are gonna get to around the Horn in

just a moment. But first I just a little a little point of order, because I did notice yesterday that there have been some folks friends of mine that, you know, bowing out is one way to put it, Waving the white flag is another way to put it. Who are like, you know what this Jordan Lebron debate, let's retire it.

And usually, in my experience, people that are that have been very ardent and adamant about something for years and years and years and they just seemingly out of the blue be like, I don't want to argue about this anymore. Usually it means they have a lose they know they have a losing hand. Very rarely are people right when they're about to win an argument, be like, you know what, let's just shake hands and move on. So that's fine. I've always said history is gonna look fondly on the

correct side of the argument, which is mine. But the point of order that I must address, which is even the folks who argue that Lebron is the goat, far too many of them say and Jordan had the higher peak, just like as a given. But and then they do a whole thing, but the you know, Lebron's longevity in this and that, and the third we did a whole show on this once before, so we don't have to do a whole show where he kind of broke it

down different slices. But I just want to remind the audience in America the single greatest season of professional basketball ever played by any player was the twenty twelve twenty

thirteen Lebron James Miami Heat season. No player has ever reached a higher peak than the following one vote for being unanimous MVP when no one had ever been unanimous MVP runner up and Defensive Player of the Year when the guy who beat him in Defensive Player of the Year wasn't even first team All defense, shooting fifty seven percent from the floor and forty percent from three, a

twenty seven game winning streak. It's all culminating in a Game seven of the Finals, where he hit the game clinching jump shot for thirty seven and twelve against a team with four future first Ballot Hall of Famers. That season is the greatest single season start to finish any players ever had. So it's not just the longevity side of it, it's the peak side of it as well. Now we can move on to the actual show. Go ahead, all right?

that I disagree with that. I do not think it is an exaggeration to say for me personally, Around the Horn was the single most important sports show that ever existed. And for me personally, I know I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing now on television if not for Around

the Horn. For I'm forty years old. For people my generation, the combo in our teen years of PTI coming on the air, and then Around the Horn coming on after being our for so many of us, the first shows we ever DVRD being daily after school viewing, and then Around the Horn for those of us who were getting into the business being seemingly an attainable goal of like, man, one day I'm going to be on Around the Horn and having that be a carrot of if I work

hard enough, if I can make myself a name within my city big enough, man, maybe just maybe I can get on Around the Horn. And it was a show for writers, initially exclusively, and then it expanded a bit, and then I saw Bomani Jones on there, and I understand BALMANI was a writer as well as other things, but I didn't view Bimani as a writer. I viewed Bomani as a radio host. He hosted The Morning Jones on Sirius XM, and that's before Bamani was one of

my dearest friends in the world. He was a guy who I knew of his radio show, I knew of his Twitter presence, and I knew of him on Around the Horn. And once Bomani got on Around the Horn, I was like, I'm gonna I I need to get on that show. I'm going to work to get on that show. And in Houston, I kind of talked my way into a It wasn't even a part time job, just an occasional appearance gig on Comcast Sports at Houston.

And the reason I did it was to create a television reel to try to get on Around the Horn. And that shows ability to give people reps on TV, opportunities to do TV and what it has done for people in our industry's careers is unlike any other show that I think has ever existed. And the fact that along the way post Max Kell and I have so many I will I'm gonna spend real time on this.

My connections to Around the Horn without ever being on it is It's remarkable when I look back and think on it, so I'll tell those stories in a moment, but post Max Kellerman, who did a great job with it, and then Reality takes it over, and Tony Reality, who at one day I'll meet him, but I've never met him.

Tony Reality's ability from when he was a kid taking over that show and kind of being the conscience of that show and the through line of the show is one of the most impressive broadcasting feats in our industry ever. And I Reality would tweet out texts he would send people saying like, you know that it was gonna be their first time, you know you're gonna invite someone on a show, first time on the show, and all that stuff.

And there was a period of time where I thought I might be getting an invite this nine years ago, and Reality tweeted getting ready to inte something. I'm gonna misquote it a bit, but you know, getting ready to send out an invite to someone who's never been on a show, and then described the person, and I convinced myself it was me he was talking about, and I was just waiting. I remember I was in an airport and I was so nervous. I'm like, I'm gonna be on the plane and I might not get the text.

And then I got on the plane, no service, get off the plane, turn my phone back on. Don't have the text, and I checked and see it was like, oh man, it wasn't me. And I just it was such a goal and a valuable thing. And I'm sad it's gonna be gone. And when I say my connections to it, demanse, the through lines of this are truly gonna blow your mind. Okay, so I already mentioned Kellerman was the original host. Kellerman I interned at ESPN Radio

twenty years ago in New York. ESPN Radio, New York, and Kellerman was one of the guys I interned for. But that wasn't a real connection. I mean, I knew him and he was super nice to me, but that wasn't the connection. The connection is the following. Okay, it's thirteen years ago. I set up a meeting. I'm gonna go to New York. I'm doing radio in Houston. I'm gonna fly to New York and I'm gonna meet with

two people. One is Eric Rideholme, who created Around the Horn, and the other is Jamie Horowitz, who was a big wig at ESPN kind of on the TV show side first take. He then ended up being well, I'll get to the Jamie piece of it in a minute, and I'm gonna go meet with those people and sell them on. Let me have a shot on this show. Let me have a shot on Around the Horn. And I fly into New York on my own dime. And when I land, I check my email and my meeting with Jamie has

been canceled because he got called into Bristol. And I now have a meeting with someone else who I don't really know who he is, but when I see the name, I'm like, oh, I recognize this name. I've heard this guy on Bill Simmons podcast and he's a different executive at ESPN, And so I have about I have a night before that. I flew in it like I don't know,

Tuesday night. The meetings are Wednesday morning. I'm gonna meet in with this meet with this guy who's not Jamie, and then I'm gonna meet with ride home and I prep and I listen to all these podcasts that this guy's been on and I walk into his office and I pitch and I know his story and the guy at the end of it of my Pitch is like all right, yeah, I mean that's that's interesting, but you know, like I have nothing to do with that show, right, I was like, damn, that person was Kevin Wilds. That's

a true story. I then I'm like, well, this meeting went just terribly, Like this guy thinks I'm a fool and I'm wasting his time and he's he's working on the Olberman show. Like that went terribly. I didn't meet with ride Home, who is one of the kindest, most brilliant people I've ever had the pleasure of knowing in the kind of dining area of the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle. And I I'm going to see if I can pull this up the email bring manilla envelopes, So this one I did not, So I have the I

didn't do theanilla envelope thing. But let me see the I want to spell his name right in the email. See if I can find the email. But I see, so I can get the exact date. So the first date, Okay, so this is we met in November of thirteen. In November of thirteen is when we met, and when I went to New York, and so this is twelve years ago, like I thought. And so the meeting went really well with ride home, but he was like, listen, we do have you know, you're not a writer essentially, but that

doesn't the door is not closed to you. So I kind of pitched him my pitch to ride home if I remember, In fact, I'll just tell you, guys, I do remember. I don't want to act like I'm not sure I do remember. My pitch to ride home was this they had at that point on around the Horn kind of old journalists and then the new wave young

journalists who they brought on. And the old journalists were almost all white guys and all and the vast majority of the new way the newer guys they had brought on were minorities and women, and so I what I said to him was, I was like, what, as an audience member, very often you are having disagreements that I think break down on generational levels, but appear to be

breaking down on either racial or gender angles. Because all the old guys are white males, and almost all the young people are, you know, either women or non white guys. I was like, so you you Basically my pitch was you need an older black panelist and a younger white panelist to see like, wait, is this a generational disagreement or a cultural racial whatever it was? And he was perceptive, but I wasn't a writer. And so that was in thirteen.

Fast forward to a couple years later, Jamie gets hired from ESPN and some other places to run FS one and I called in the chit of he had canceled that meeting on me to get a meeting with him that was actually supposed to be about Fox Sports Radio. That's a whole nother, longer, more convoluted story, doesn't matter, And I ended up getting it because the around the

because he had canceled on me before. He then connected me to a guy named Charlie Dixon, who I ended up hitting it off with, and then they those two guys hired me for FS one, and to this date, Charlie's my boss. In the midst of all of it. In the midst of all of that, right before I agreed to a deal with Fox, ESPN came back to me.

This is in twenty sixteen. January twenty sixteen, ESPN came back to me and offered me a job doing radio in LA and weekly Around the Horn appearances and the moment they offered me that, I was like, well, I'm taking that job I want. I'm a radio guy and I'm gonna get to be on Around the Horn. And then Charlie, to his credit, called me and in a thirty minute conversation sold me on why I should come to Fox, and it ended up being the best decision

I ever made. I wouldn't have had this trajectory or whatever. And my only like wistfulness of it was, man, if I do this, I'll probably never get to be on around the Horn. And now you know, now officially I won't. And that's fine. I have there's no no regrets. But that show meant a lot to me. So I know, listen, that's twenty minutes of today's show. I don't know how

much the audience cares. I hope they care. I care, and just shout out to the people who made that show to ride Home and Solomon and Reality and Reality Pardon Me and the countless panelists and all of it.

the problem. You don't go you don't go out and spend this type of money on trade for Karl Anthony Towns not the money thing, and trade for McHale Bridges to be in the same spot the Knicks are supposed to be having this season, the Cabs are having, maybe not the gaudy record, but like, oh man, they really might be able to beat the selfish Yes, exactly right, and instead they just get their teeth kicked in by

good teams. Now, it is usually in moments like this that you get you know, the league zags a bit, where this is the when everyone is super high on the Lakers right now and way low on the Knicks against good teams, the type of game you're not that shocked if the Knicks win tonight, and I wouldn't be that shocked if the Knicks win tonight the Lakers and will get more on the Lakers in a minute. The Lakers can't stay this hot. I mean they're on. I mean they're on a seventy win pace for the last

quarter of the season. I mean that's well. I think that their defense can be really good. They have the number one Let me rephrase that. I think their defense can be good. Their defense during this stretch has been great. I think that is probably Yeah. I think that water

will find its level a bit there. But I just don't to me, there are six teams that can win the title demonse six and this is not in the order, but in the East Boston, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and in the West, the Lakers, the thun and Denver and to it is you put those teams into two separate buckets, Boston Cleveland. Oksee, you put in the outstanding rosters eight deep. You know, like that are going to be able to play a bunch of different ways, in a bunch of different you

know it, styles, all of it. And then Lakers, Bucks Nuggets you put in the star driven Well, yeah, I mean you're probably just gonna have the best player on the floor. And it was you know for what, Jokic, It's it's you have this transcendent superstar and then an awesome number two. So the reason Milwaukee is back in that group is Dame is playing like an awesome number or two. The reason Denver is back in that group is Jamal Murray now that he's in shape, is playing

like an awesome number two. And the reason the Lakers are back in that group is because man, oh Man Luke is a hell of a number two. I'm kidding, no, yeah no, Because now that the Lakers are in a position where Lebron in a playoff series can be their second best player, they're they're wildly dangerous, wildly dangerous, and I am in shout out to Sam Amic for writing an article owning it. I'm really curious what Barkley's gonna

say tonight. I am shocked that there were a lot of folks who thought Lebron wouldn't be able to instantly adjust how he plays. The idea like, this is what I want to say about Lebron, and then Demon's say, I do want to do? We skipped it. But the Steph and the Goat conversation. The there the amount of people who act like Lebron plays for lack of a better term, a selfish style of basketball in the face of twenty years of history, was really odd to me.

And by that I mean this the idea that Lebron has played at times kind of the heliocentric I need to control everything style in service of his ego as opposed to in service of this is the best way to win. I thought it was odd that folks were like, well,

Lebron doesn't play without the ball in his hands. He hasn't except for a couple years in Miami, really had the opportunity to play without the ball in his hands because he's never had a teammate where the team has a better chance of creating great offense, running the show that gives them a better chance than with them running the show rather than Lebron. Lebron is a guy who I think it's pretty clear could have in his prime won the scoring title any year he wanted to, and

instead he won one. Ever why because he was doing what would have been best for the team when they get Luca. What's best for the team is for Luca to be running the show a lot, and Lebron instantly did that, of course, and also to me, not surprisingly, now that Lebron doesn't have to run the show on offense, he has more energy on defense. So the Lakers are a top tier contender. And JJ Reddick has done and I gotta give him credit, man, he has done an

awesome job. They are buttoned up, they are prepared. He is grinding his ass off and they It is been really impressive watching him and watching them. They've been without Reeves and Ruey and they're doing this. So I'm super excited for Nicks Lakers tonight. There is a chance I do a live reaction pod after the game, like for

like twenty minutes. The problem with that is that was my plan, and then I think think when I made that plan, I was in New Zealand, and I had the time of the game all screwed up because it was showing me the time in New Zealand, and I didn't do the math right. That game's gonna end. That game's gonna end around one am Eastern. So like I so I so I'm not. It's less about me. I'm always if I stay up to watch a big game,

I always have trouble going to sleep. So it's less about like me falling, like needing to go right to bed. It's more about two things. One is I don't know how to do any of the tech stuff, so somebody's got to be up on the other end doing that. And the other one is this I'm quite loud and me doing this pod at one am in a sleeping house, and you know the geography of the house, demons a sleeping right next to a window. It's all no, but it's all like our neighbors. So so it's maybe I'll

do a live reaction show. I'm not sure. All right, let's talk Steph for a minute.

rookie right after winning a championship in college. If people don't know what I'm talking about, the Kareem was out so magic jump center as a rookie against Doctor J and the Sixers and dropped forty two, fifteen and seven to win a championship in the finals. That almost gets talked about too much. And what doesn't get talked about enough,

in my opinion, is this demons. In year three, Magic Johnson was second team All NBA, and then after that he played nine more seasons before the HIV diagnosis and

was first team All NBA all nine seasons. Those nine seasons after year three, his MVP finishes were third second hold sorry third third, second, third, first, third, first, first, second, So again, years four to twelve for Magic, nine consecutive first team all NBA's nine consecutive top three MVP finishes, three league MVPs, went to nine finals, won five championships. He's the greatest point guard ever. With that said, every time I'm putting together my all time starting five, STEP's

the better option at point guard than Magic. So I know that sounds weird, but whenever it's like, Okay, create the greatest team you can possibly create, I'm like, all right, So the only two locks, even with respect to Kareem, the only two locks are Michael and Lebron. Those guys are the locks. And now we're figuring out the rest of the squad. And so I go, So Lebron's there, he can bring the ball up. I you know, Michael couldn't shoot a three to save his life, so I

probably need some more shooting. Defensively, I'm going to be a monster anyway, So I'll put Steph in in place of Magic. So that's where the best point guard conversation, you know, gets off to a rough start, or not a rough start, but it gets complicated. But as far as best player of all time, there's a I mean, I just told you, Magic has nine First Team All NBAS.

The guys who are actually in the discussion for greatest player of all time, Lebron, Michael, and Kareem, they have as far as first team All NBAS thirteen for Lebron, ten for Kareem, ten for Michael. Some people throw Kobe in there. I don't think that's legit, but that that's fine. He has eleven. Steph has four. So he doesn't have the the great season after great season after great season all these other guys did. Here's the other thing that

he doesn't have. And again I'm not tearing him down, but this if everyone who is actually in the goat debate, which I think is only three people, but other people might want to expand it to a couple others. And even if you expand it to them, if you include Magic, if you include Wilt or Russell, like pick whomever, they all had an extended period where they were unequivocally, undeniably the best player in the league. Steph doesn't have one.

Step doesn't have one season. Now that's again it's like, well, it's his whole career is during Lebron's career. I get it, But that so you just so you can't be in the goat conversation when and you can be like, what about the Yearie won unanimous MVP. Yeah, he was going to be considered the best player in the league and then the finals happened, and so like, there is just not been so a spot. I'm not tearing him down. You guys know how highly I think of him as

a player. He is arguable the greatest shooter ever. He might be the greatest ball handler ever. He's one of the greatest teammates ever. That yeah, but he.

to have this debate. But an interesting one is him versus Duncan, Like it is, it's hard to do, like putting up Steph's career versus Duncan, and Steph's career versus Kobe, and Steph's career versus Shack are all really interesting because those are four so different players, just you know, so such drastically different players, different styles, different career arcs like those, to me are real debates, But Steph versus Lebron, Michael

and Kareem are not. She's not and that's fine, that's not a It was also weird timing to have this discussion, Like Steph was having a down year and the Warriors were twenty five and twenty five, and they traded for Jimmy and they're, you know, on the uptick, and Steph is playing some of his best basketball of the year. But this isn't like some magical Steph Curry season. He's not. He has no shot of being first team All NBA

this year. He is. I remember when they traded for Jimmy, he had as many games with fifteen or fewer points as he had thirty plus points. Like, he's averaging the fewest points he's averaged in a season since his first MVP, so in a decade, and he's averaging below forty from three for just the second time of his career. So again, I'm not. He's all all that's true, While it's also true is he having the greatest old little guy season ever?

So all those things can be true at the same time, But goat conversation now, we're now we're getting a little cuckoo. He might show up, however, in our DraftKings player prop Who's scoring big in the NBA this season? You are with all the new ways to get in on the action at DraftKings sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the NBA for monster Slams, Dish in the Rock, Clean and Glass. Get behind your favorite players and the prop bets you can make at DraftKings, the home of NBA

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things you can do is change your coach. You did.

You also traded away Di'angelo Russell, who has been an unmitigated playoff disaster at second of all, Third of all, ad came to the Los Angeles and kicked ass won you a championship alongside Lebron And by the way, you know what series Anthony Davis brought not probably the best playoff series of his career against Denver and Jokic in the conference finals when you won the championship, including hitting a game winning three in a series when he averaged

thirty one and six en route to a gentleman's sweep over the Nuggets. So again, like, I'm not saying she was wrong about that We're gonna have trouble with Dinburgh in this year. That probably would have been true. Why say it? What is the why go after ad like that. I mean, here's here's the quote. This is again, this is what you need to say. Just my opinion. Yeah, if you'd asked me six weeks ago, would we ever trade Anthony Davis, my answer publicly would have been absolutely not.

But my answer even privately to friends would have been, I mean not unless Jokichiannis or Luca are available, and they're not available. He is one of the greatest players in the league. We just signed him to an extension. Our plan was to have him take us into the post Lebron era whenever that era is as Lebron keeps

defying Father Time. But when Rob got the phone call that we could get one of the only players in the entire league who is more accomplished, and I'll say it probably better than Anthony, and he's six years younger, that's just a move you can't turn down. So no, I I was very comfortable and very excited about Anthony Davis being the face of the Lakers for the next

half decade. With her, now we have the opportunity to have someone be the face of the Lakers for the next fifteen years, and so we took it go ahead. That's what with her.

longtime MAVs fan, It's sad. What's happened. I got a text yesterday, first text I've gotten from this person since before the Super Bowl. Man, y'all gotta stop talking about the MAVs. And then the crying laughing emoji from none other than Patrick Mahomes. And the reason I say that is MAVs fans are so sad.

I'm incredibly grateful to have the opportunity to see him approach the game basketball the same energy and fierce passion of the game. He's a young man on the verge of his career. All fine, there too, and then this his work, ethic, ethic, and absolute dedication to his craft. It's cut from the cloth of grapes. I know it, I lived it. I see the same ferocity and passion in him that I saw in Kobe. Bro. You gotta stop playing the Kobe card. You just have to we

get it. You were Kobe's guy at Nike. We understand, but you traded Luka because he wasn't Kobe. Kyrie is gonna be fine at thirty three post acl because he is the work ethic of Kobe, by the way, again, and I am rooting for Kyrie, Butkoche, even Kobe when he was older and he suffered a catastrophic injury, was never the same. I'm not hoping that for Kyrie at all. But I just this team is so cooked out of

nowhere for no reason. I just have never seen anything like it, and I feel I truly, I truly feel terribly for their fans terribly.

me do that. I mean, there's nothing is really great radio podcasting like this. Yeah, that's what I thought. So Dallas Fort Worth Arlington is the number four metro behind only New York, LA, Chicago, and Vegas is the number twenty nine metro, So that speaks to it even more. Shout out Kansity, kans City, number thirty one metro. You know we once we used to be like twenty seven all on a bit. But that's okay, h going down, up and down a bit. Yeah no, that's all right. Yeah, fluctuating,

But so that's not gonna happen. But again, if if you have made a move that is so catastrophic and incomprehensible that folks are like, maybe you're trying to pull a Major League on your own team, or I guess the more common example of it would be for season one, Ted Lasso on your own team, then you probably should just resign. And I also want to say one other thing, because there's this whole thing that like, oh, Kyrie's workload had nothing to do with the injury. No, obviously it

had something to do with the injury. So he led the league in Mint's last six weeks, and people were like, well, it's not an overuse injury, it's not a soft tissue, it's a fluke thing. Got it. Even if I concede that point, here is the very very simple response to that. What are the chances you have of getting hit by a car acrossing the street? Let's call it one in

one hundred. Well, if you normally cross the street fifteen times a day and the last six weeks you're crossing the street thirty times a day and you get hit by a car, is it because you were crossing the street more often than usual or was it just a fluke thing. Well, I don't know, but you gave yourself more opportunity to get hit by the car. Kyrie Irving didn't blow out his knee walking his dog. He did

it playing basketball. And so the more the more you play basketball, the more often chance you have an opportunity to suffer a basketball injury. And so I'm not saying that, oh, Kyrie needed to be low managed to the hilt, but of all the players in the league, he was leading the league in minutes that seemed reckless. And so yeah, I just don't know what you do if you're Dallas. They really do not know what you do if you're Dallas. Fold. This is what my buddy, Mike melt you say, fold

the franchise. I don't know, man, All right, let's let's go fastest.

And he had another great game last night. That to me is like a and a not a complicated one that just being the best player in the league does not mean that every year you had the best season. And I'll say another thing. Each MVP is harder to win than the last. The threshold to win your first MVP is here, the threshold to win your second MVP is here, the threshold to win your third MVP is very high. And the threshold to win four or five

or six is astronomical. And so Jokis is sitting at three and so even though he's gonna average a triple double as a sinner because his team right now is the three seed and Shay's team is gonna win sixty seven games, and Shay's gonna win the scoring title, right He's gonna win the scoring title, Indney, That's gonna be enough. Yeah, I mean yeah, it's gonna win the scoring title by a lot. It's thirty two point eight points per game. So, yeah, Shay,

Shay's having the best year. Jokich is the best player. What I'm interested in the MVP thing is Lebron gonna finish top five. I Lebron finished top five and age forty right, so right now, Demon's Shay Yo Kicic there's my ballot, Shay Jokicic, Giannis Tatum, that's my four. That fifth spot, it's either Bron or Donovan. Donovan's team has been unreal. Lebron's got better numbers across the board than Donovan.

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to guard. Listen, if you are trying to have a sustained level of success that only the Patriots and NFL history have had, you've got to make these tough decisions, and you've got to get real playing time from your draft picks. So you can't like Kingsley's got to play this next year. It just is what it is. And also, yes, good for Caleb. So they got they signed a tackles or they traded for a tackle. I forget the name, but they traded for a tackle. They traded for Tony.

They're rebuilding their offensive line. All right. Let reminder like rate, subscribe, review, do all that stuff. And also, yeah, do it now because maybe at one am Eastern I'm gonna pop on and talk about the Lakers tonight. Let's do a few listener questions.

was invested all this stuff. But I don't think they were ever thought what if they trade Luca? Now, maybe they were worried Luca might demand a trade. That's the other piece of this. I think it is way easier to deal with if Luca demands the trade, way easier because then A, you don't probably love Luca as much anymore, and B you're like, well, there's nothing we could do. And so that that to me, is that is what it seems like, right, That's what makes it just impossible.

All right, let's do the next one.

a legitimate opinion right now. You'd have to say you'd probably have to say Jayden h as the fifth guy, given what they've both done in the pros. I'm trying to think if there's anybody that's a fun producers, mark that down for a good August or July conversation, Like the best guys at other positions as well, non quarterbacks

start franchise with all that. I like that conversation. Isaac, Good job you're out producing the show, all right, Great job, Demanse a great job to everyone at Volume and Blue Dock, all everybody helping out with today's show. Thought it looked and sounded great. Maybe I'll be on again in twelve hours. I don't know. Also, Demons have you talked to your mom? Like, do you know what her travel plans are? I do?

I don't have a hotel or rental car yet. I'm like, no, you haven't asked me to do any of that stuff. She was like, you know you need to do.