Hello, welcome to the hook collective podcast. We talked about the NBA was reviewing on Monday

afternoon East Coast, the Monday morning, West Coast, the two folks were joining me, both in LA.

First off, actually the San Fernando Valley, I think, at this point, Ramona Shalber. I want to clear.

818. There you go. And joining us from you're in Los Angeles, proper. I want to say where

Los Angeles proper. Yeah, that works. He lives on the west side of LA in a lovely neighborhood.

Dave McMataman, our Lakers writer. So we're going to talk some Lakers. We'll talk Philly. You guys both

know Philly as well. Dave, you're from Philly, Ramona. You've written a lot about Philly, including a

terrific TikTok. I just want to say something, Dave. So I was with Ramona at five o'clock

LA time on Thursday. Two hours or so after the deadline. Maybe longer. Maybe it was 530.

I didn't have 530 something like that. She had not written a word and she was an hour away from her

home. Dave. And by the next afternoon, she and Wojge, although I kind of, Ramona is the,

she's the heavy, I'm not out of school when I say you're the heavy lifter on these TikToks, Ramona.

Yeah, I mean, but Wojge sent a lot of stuff. There was, there was a, there was a, how was

definitely a collaboration? How long was that story? That story was like thousands of words with

all of this reporting. And you turned it around in like 16 hours, but some of those hours,

I hope you slept. It was, it was impressive. Well, thanks, Brian. As like, you know, there was a,

I don't think I started writing until about, I don't know, 930, 10 o'clock LA time because I have

a three-year-old. So I drove home. I was making calls on the way home. I was still reporting.

You still have to report. Like it's not. And then, and then I had to put my kid down.

Right? Like, there's a, there's like, I take a break from about 730 to 839 o'clock. You're

supposed to do bedtime, you know, do the, like, beat him dinner and do bedtime. And then,

I think I did a call with my editor about nine, just to kind of, Christina Daglis was the editor

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