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NFL. Bell. on Laker's podcast. I'm Anthony Erwin. I am joined by nobody. I promised you guys that I would get to the rest of your questions. There are still quite a few to go. So I'm just going to go ahead and dive on in. Yesterday we talked quite a bit about Rob Polinka and on you know what remains on the line in case things don't work out there I wrote an

article I literally just published it through Silver Screen and Roll talking about

Thrones game of Thrones one of the central themes, if not the maybe central theme,

at least of the early seasons of that show and of that source material and and how that links back to the

Lakers and and basically the premise that I made was you know in Thrones if you if just surviving wasn't enough

if just you know remaining alive and and seeing your family remain safe wasn't enough.

Those characters who didn't find that to be enough tended to get got eventually, and I think as it relates to the Lakers and I'm

sure this will come up over the course of the show as well but as it pertains to

the Lakers the line of thinking here is, okay, they're not only interested

in success, they're not only interested in wins and titles and all of that.

But it has to come a certain way.

It has to come by way of the Lakers family.

And I think in this case, they're letting that idealism

get in the way of actual productivity and the balance is

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