Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. It is Monday. So I'm here with editor at large Bill Crystal and there's a lot of news to discuss Bill. How are you doing?

I'm doing fine Tim and you? You know, I'm doing pretty good. All things considered, we had a pretty

devastating Nuggets loss in game seven. It did look very close the last time I looked at the score

there. I'm just going to say. Yeah, wasn't close. And I was thinking I what to say about it as we got

the news of Joe Biden's

pretty concerning prostate cancer diagnosis. And so if people allow me, you know, obviously there's

some limits in the comparison between the Denver Nuggets and Joe Biden. But, you know,

sports in some ways is a facsimile of life. You know, life's a tragedy right like we all it's not just joe biden

like all of us in the end we're going to die we're going to decay and like the challenge is how we

find some beauty and fulfillment in the process like sports gives us this on the side but like we

have like rules and structure that go along with it you get to have like actual rewards put in place in the middle of it,

which sometimes you don't get in life.

But do you know Aaron Gordon, Bill?

Yeah, not really.

Okay, all right.

I'm going to just tell you one second.

People will just allow me one minute about Aaron Gordon

because we need some like people in public life to actually just genuinely admire these days. He was the best player in a terrible team, his whole career in Orlando.

He comes to Denver to be a role player, sacrifices the spotlight he's always had.

He's just always happy, always joyful, reading between the lines of his Instagram,

pretty sure he's a Kamala voter.

His brother, Drew, dies in a car crash last year, his older brother, his three young kids.

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