What do you think about the Laker team now?

You follow the box scores of the games every day?

Just the Lakers.

You're kidding.

That is really a compliment.

I was pleased to see you smile at the top bar show because once the game starts, you have a game face.

You don't smile much out there.

I don't think you have to do things for money anymore. Correct. What's up, Laker fans? Welcome to the Laker Filmroom podcast, brought you by the Blue Wire Podcast Network. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And it's been a minute since we've done a mailbag. And so we asked for your questions earlier today. Thank you for all of the questions. I've been cracking up reading them, some very thoughtful ones as well.

First one comes from at young old timer.

I love this one because it gets right to the heart of the matter. Okay, with your purple-tinted glasses off and looking outside in, what would you say about the current state of the Lakers

if you were a diehard fan of any other team besides the Lakers?

We're screwed, right?

And so the first part of that question is I don't care as much as what like fans from

the outside think about the Lakers.

Now that depends, right?

If they're paying close attention, I certainly would.

But just as I don't know as much about their

team, they don't know as much about ours. So I'd generally listen to people that are at least

paying attention that I know are paying attention closely. That said, you could be paying attention

very closely and come to that same conclusion. Like, yo, are we, are we screwed? And I have my thoughts on this,

Dee. I think it's a great question that our pod is really a long-form way of addressing all of

the little details that we possibly can that add up to the, are the Lakers going to be good or can

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