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Point of contention.

Katie, you can be a head coach.

I can be a head coach.

Welcome to point of contention.

Five subjects, five minutes, five points of contention.

Coming up on the show, Mory's back, Christmas basketball might be here, the jazz sold

for over a billy.

Does they be really struggling?

We've got Steve Nash's nets, and we got draft gossip.

I'm Zach Harper, the host of POC, Jade Hoy's producing, and in this quarter, back from a vacation, maybe a staycation, the author of P.O.C. Jade Hoy's producing. And in this quarter, back from a vacation,

maybe a staycation, the author of the Victory Machine, host of the House of Strauss podcast, the one

and only Ethan Strauss who has been stuck in the dark for 48 hours this week due to high wind

and potential fires in the Bay Area. Ethan, how is life in the light of day now?

Ah, I like having the electricity, underrated electricity, really into it. Very interesting.

I know nothing about fire prevention, not a thing, but it felt to me almost like, you know,

Arnivis gave me this analogy. It's like we picked up three fouls and they pulled us out of the game, you know? That's what was happening. They didn't want any power lines falling down to cause a fire. So you had to, you know, they put us on the bench. I don't know if it was the right decision based on analytics, but that's the choice they made. Just remove the power, and that should keep the fires in check.

All right, and then in this corner, Marcus Thompson is on vacation.

So hailing from Flint, Michigan, the Pistons Beat reporter for the athletic, James Edwards, 3.0.

Speaking of 3.0, James, give me your rapid reaction to Black Thought's latest drop,

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