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Welcome to the Athletic MBA show. Monday through on the Athletic Podcast Network. Now, wait a minute, Eve, I seem to recall that this house has some connection with the Revolutionary War. There are no patches on the elbows of this jacket, thankfully. Obviously, for obvious reasons. That said. I mean, didn't George Washington sleep here once?

This is Nerdrish, you wrote, with your host, Dave Dufour.

With Moe DeKille.

Are you ready to be entertained?

And Seth Part Now.

I'm recording.

Fix your hair, Seth.

I'm glad you fixed your hair, all seven of them.

Hello, and welcome to the Athletic NBA show.

It's Friday.

I'm Dave Dufour, and I'm giggling here with Mo DeKille and Seth Part Now and it's Nerder. She wrote. Guys, uh, how's it going? Giggling and, uh, Mo just said something very mean. I took an unnecessary shot and said this because I felt like it was funny. It's okay. It's going to make it into the show. Uh, coming up on the show, we talk about some of our favorite things. It's not I felt like it was funny. It's going to make it into the show.

Coming up on the show, we talk about some of our favorite things. It's not even true.

And then we're going to play a little game that I like to call the pushback.

Guys, I want to start with my favorite thing this week.

And it's going to be funny because I don't like game stoppages.

Everybody knows I'm against live ball timeouts.

I hate reviews.

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