Stay in the Fight

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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SVP and Stanford Steve break down an unforgettable NBA Finals - celebrating the Oklahoma City Thunder’s first-ever championship and a historic season led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. They reflect on the emotional impact of Tyrese Haliburton’s Game 7 injury, ask what’s next for the Pacers, and debate whether these star injuries can be prevented. Plus, SVP’s thoughts on fixing air travel and the lost art of a normal handshake. | SVPod 0:00 Intro 1:00 NBA Finals Recap: Thunder capture their first NBA title 6:17 The injury that changed everything 10:38 How the Thunder seized the moment in Game 7 13:14 Where do the Pacers go from here? 16:27 Appreciating the Pacers and Thunder historic playoff run 20:30 Are these star injuries preventable? 22:06 The historical season for SGA & crew 26:40 The current state of commercial air travel 34:18 The art of the handshake 37:11 Are grapes the most consistent fruit? 42:12 The beach adventures of SVP 48:52 Coastal Carolina coach ejected from CWS finals vs. LSU 55:56 Padres, Dodgers get chippy 1:01:56 Baton Rouge is built different 1:04:22 Katie Ledecky’s Stanford commencement speech 1:18:39 Thanks for watching Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. It's SVPod. Stanford Steve is in the building. Red is as well. He might not move.
0:12.1	Buddy, let me tell you. It went from, hey, it's sort of summary to...
0:20.5	Often. Triple digits. It's a hunch. And for people like... it's sort of summary to often
0:20.9	triple digits it's a hunch
0:23.3	and for people like in Phoenix
0:25.6	I get it you guys roll your eyes
0:27.1	appreciate you
0:28.8	it just doesn't get like that here
0:31.1	plus we have the humidity
0:32.2	which changes the dynamic
0:34.2	so it's warm
0:35.5	the big fellow was happy to see me, but he may just, may just shut it down right there. Eyes are closing. That's fine. You just, he's a good boy. This is a good temperature in here. Yeah, this is, he might have found a summertime spot, where's red? He's in the- He's scratching at the other door. Yep yeah he'd like to go up in the room no one's
0:55.0	there he doesn't care hmm we're just happy to be here which means we're done with the round
1:03.3	trips the finals were awesome thank you thank you thank you to the cities of indianapolis oklahoma city thank you to the cities of Indianapolis, Oklahoma City.
1:12.7	Thank you to the Pacers and the Thunder, their respective teams, coaches, PR folks.
1:17.1	Couldn't have been better.
1:17.9	The NBA was awesome.
1:20.2	Seven round trips in however many days.
1:22.9	Coming back with some shows in the middle, the swim meets, little, this, little of that.
1:27.1	It was a lot.
1:28.8	But as we're flying back today, all I could think of is 100% worth it.
1:36.0	I'm so glad we got to see it from that vantage point as opposed to how we've been doing it since we've been doing this show.
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