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 of our 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 Film Room podcast. I'm Pete, joined by Darius and Mike. And Lakers got their butts kicked last night by Phoenix from start to finish, concluding a two-and-three five-game homestand that included three double-digit losses. I'm going to talk a little

bit longer than I normally do at the beginning here, guys. After the last loss that we had, I believe,

against Memphis, Darbin made a comment in postgame about being kind of tired of the people that

live and die with every game under the argument that this, the is marathon right and that there are going to be

ups and downs and this is something that you hear all the time can't get too high can't get too

low and i totally agree with that but as somebody who lives and dies with the results of every game i just

wanted to say a couple of things about that for one if you're listening to a nerdy lakers podcast

the day after the Lakers got their

butts kicked at home again, you're probably on some degree of the spectrum of living and dying

with every Laker game. And y'all are the lifeblood of the Lakers. Like, what makes the Lakers

remarkable, or one of the many things that do, is how many people all over the world really

care about it. And that can come out in good

ways and bad ways. But the fact that people care, like, sign me up for that. I don't ever want to

discourage people from living and dying with that. And so thank you if you're listening to the pod

today and just for your living and dying with that. Secondly, if you listen to or read a lot of what Kobe had to say, a lot of

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