On this week's episode of the Bet the Process podcast, Jeff and I return from our respective vacations.

We discuss a prominent offshore sports book and a mistake line they hung and the fact that

just about every U.S. sports book copied that mistake.

And then we welcome on Seth Bartnau, who is the former director of basketball research for the Milwaukee Bucks and a current athletic NBA analyst who explains to me how basketball works and talks about basketball in the bubble, the playoffs, his observations, and it's a very interesting and insightful discussion.

So with that, let's start the process.

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Welcome to the latest episode of the Bet the Process Podcast.

We've taken a little summer hiatus because Rufus and I were both on vacation.

Rufus, you were in Maine.

I was in Maine.

I was in Newport Beach.

Newport Beach is a very interesting place right now. Somehow COVID skipped Newport Beach. Newport Beach is a very interesting place right now. Somehow, COVID skipped Newport Beach.

It like went around all of Orange County, but skipped Newport Beach. It got down there. I walked

into a local drugstore and I was the only one in the drugstore wearing a mask.

The customers, the owner, none of them were wearing masks.

And then I walked around like the beach and the beach was crowded, which I don't care about personally because I think outdoors is like pretty safe.

But it was just definitely an

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