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So, man, I decided my new thing is I am going to try to figure out why every episode

is titled the way that it is.

And so episode nine is titled Game Day.

And of course, there's a big reason why a very obvious reason in that it's the infamous

East Side West Side basketball game, Ava and Screw versus a new character who will talk

a little bit about prop show.

But there's some real actual gamesmanship that's going on in this episode that connects

the theme of it being a game and the theme of game day to a bunch of different characters.

So I guess when we talk about as we often do at the start of this podcast, our biggest

takeaways, the takeaway that stood out to me was not just, again, that rival basketball

game, but also Wallace's decision to leave the game.

You know, that was a big part, a big component to this.

And then you have a junior college prospect engaging in a game, in a age old game rather

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