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Today's plan. Little XFL with Steve Levy. I don't know how many of you know Steve Levy's story or that he was basically this television prodigy and he had these amazing jobs right out of college that just doesn't happen.

Well, he's going to tell us that story. He did do the XFL again. He's the XFL guy for ESPN. So it'd be cool to catch up with him and then Bruce felven from the athletic and Fox sports who we've had a couple late coaching things.

And I just wanted to get his take on this because I feel like some of these are going completely off the radar because it's you know covered up by the Super Bowl week and everything going on.

And you know, I'm headed to Chicago for NBA all star weekend as well. So I got a thing coming up there with with some folks I'm doing this kind of teamable like skills competition.

A little three on three. I don't know if they're asking me to play in it or not. I don't know how we feel about that Kyle. I'll check any with Kyle. I love to see it. I know you would. I know you would. Okay, so didn't watch the Oscars. So, um, you know, I don't really have much more to add to that.

I thought there was a chance maybe meeting up with somebody for a couple of parties, but it's it Oscars is feeling a little bit like my Sundance. I feel like, oh, that's this year. That's that's this year.

I don't know. I guess it would be kind of cool once, but the parties after I imagine there are a lot like Super Bowl parties. You know, maybe, maybe they're not maybe they're not even close. I doubt bar stool has an Oscars party.

That would that would actually be supposed to. Okay, this week's open. Just some random NBA hitters here for you. There's a pattern to a couple of things that I've said this year that as soon as I've said them kind of like, Hey, what's going on here.

Then the thing I suggest ends up becoming much better. That's not the case of Milwaukee bucks, even though I did say that I couldn't stand their fan base about a month and a half ago. Remember, Milwaukee lost to Philadelphia when Philadelphia shot the ball like better than they've ever shot it like ever.

They are incredible right now. They're 45 and seven. Every time I watch him, I just go, you know, I don't really know. I don't really know what's this kind of the rule, right? The example I always make, if Golden State can be down to one to Memphis and people can be like up, see Golden State, you just got to hit them a little bit harder, you know, really hit them around screens, you know, can test beat them up a little bit. You're going to beat them.

People are actually doing that. And if they can do that with that team that had this epic five year run, then you can do it with any team that is new and that's the rule. Those are the rules. It was Toronto last year and I'm repetitive here. Milwaukee, but as they sit there at 45 and seven.

They've lost one game since January 6, which is that weird San Antonio loss after they played them back to back in three days.

But when I watch them now, I go, well, why am I waiting to pick somebody else against them? Like, why would I do that? Now, Toronto's been a really nice story. They've won 14 straight.

And the thing that I don't like about national broadcast sometimes, because this seems to always be a pattern, is that the thing is suggested and then the national guy will be like, well, that thing that everybody's talking about actually is inaccurate. When in fact, it's usually almost always accurate.

And the question of whether or not you would believe in the raptors after losing arguably what the second best player in the NBA at some point, Kauai was being talked about as the best player in the NBA. And you lose him. And one broadcast this week was like, hey, you know, did you still believe in them after they lost Kauai Leonard,

should this be a surprise? And the analysts was like, no, not at all. This shouldn't be a surprise. I believed in them. Like, well, how could you have possibly believed in them that much after losing a guy like Kauai Leonard? None of us knew, Seattle was going to be this much better. Van Vliet is perfect in their setup.

I'd actually rather keep Van Vliet around than Lowry just based on age. Terrence Davis has been unbelievable on time.

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