Speaking basketball podcast.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

And Cody, it has been a spectacular two or three weeks. I mean, obviously I've lost track of time. Um,

a lot has been going on here in Los Angeles. And if you don't mind, I just want to address that

really quickly to begin with. We've had just obviously devastating fires over the last week. I

think it started last week when we were recording

this episode. Multiple fires. We just have these horrible conditions with really windy areas and

also really dry areas. So the second and ember sparks somewhere, whether it's an electric

line or who else knows what can start sparks.

I'm not some sort of physicist.

But it's very dangerous and we've had multiple fires.

The biggest single fire we have is much bigger than the island of Manhattan,

just to put into perspective what's happening.

So I think financially it's already the

worst disaster, natural disaster in the history of the country. So at the end of the show,

I'll try, or in the show notes, I guess I'll try to provide some places where you can donate or

support or just try to help people who have lost homes. Of course, we had to delay some basketball in Los Angeles,

and now the basketball has been back.

They played last night at Staples Center.

The Victor Weminiama Spurs came in and did their thing.

But I just want to address that because we are seeing more of these things happen around the planet.

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