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Point of contention.

With Ethan Sherwood Strauss and Marcus Thompson.

Hosted by Zach Harper.

I do have a take.

Welcome to the Athletic NBA show on the Athletic Podcast Network.

It's Thursday.

That means it's time for POC.

That's point of contention.

I'm your host Zach Harper.

In this corner, who's going to have five subjects, five minutes for each subject, the esteemed author, the Bay Area legend.

You can read Golden, the miraculous rise of Steph Curry, or you can read KD,

Kevin Durant's relentless pursuit to be the greatest, both available wherever you buy books,

just back from rescuing his wife from a wildfire, Marcus Thompson.

So I'm just trying to figure out what kind of brownie points and how do I cash in the rescuing of my wife from the air pollution of the 8,000 wildfires in the bay.

Like can I parlay this into something? Like you can't just be saving your wife without getting rewards. You feel me? Well, well, well, well, you really have to communicate what you're doing. I don't just

do the dishes. When I'm doing it, I try to make it very obvious. I try to, hey, I'm doing the dishes. The dishes are being done. So I should have pulled up like, yo, I'm rescuing your lungs right now. You're like, yo, this is insane. And slug her and slung your wife over your shoulder like a marauding Viking. I think what you do, Marcus, is next time she sighs at you, you say, wow, it doesn't sound

like there's any smoke in that sigh.

Hey, man, your lungs will sound pretty good, huh?

And you heard in that corner, it's Ethan Sherwood Strauss, the host of the House of Strauss podcast

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