What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Film Room podcast, brought you by the Blue R. Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And, guys, I'm really excited about this game where the team is right now in large part because we got a couple of big dudes that we're facing tonight in Philly.

Not only do we have Joelle Embed, but we also have our old friend Andre Drummond coming off of the bench who may or may not get 20 rebounds in the 14 or 15 minutes he plays tonight

depending on how we rebound.

And it speaks to this bigger challenge that the new look Lakers are facing with respect to how do you go small, but deal with big players on the other team.

But first things first, Mike, you guys took the train to go from New York to Philly yesterday.

How did that go?

That must have been quite the experience.

I like a train, you know, nice and easy, nice and smooth. It's a short ride. And I don't have

anything super illuminating to say about it, Pete. You know, I like to pull out Google Maps while

I'm on it and just sort of, you know, look for landmarks here and there. But I mostly just like to gas up Michael

Thompson, who I sat behind. And he loves to talk about how he could easily fly the plane,

if anything happened while we were above because of his obsession with airplanes. And so I

basically just spent about 10 minutes asking him if he could take over a train.

And my wife's husband happens to be an engineer.

Now, I don't know anything about it.

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