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Thank you. Jake, my headphones. Crap. We have a text in from one of our favorites, Old Man Doug. Old Man Doug writes in. Would love to see Matt tomorrow. Well, Doug, what are you, what are you talking about, Doug? Well, Doug is obviously talking about 1620 the zone at Equitable bank in Elkhorn tomorrow to celebrate the location's five year anniversary and celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Equitable bank in Omaha. So it's 220112 Pierce Street. It's next to the family fair, 201st Pacific. Putt putt from 10am to 4pmA bounce house from 11am to 4 p'm. A churro truck from 11:30am to 1:30pm and dunk tank. Dunk a Doug is what they're calling it. From 1pm to 3pm we're asking for donations of a non perishable food item or a personal care item to be able to dunk Old man Doug. The items will be donated into the Elkhorn community. JP Josh Peterson will be there from 11am to 1pm so you can stop sky high. We'll see. I, I, I'll probably make an appearance at the Equitable bank in El Corn to say hi to Old man Doug. One of our favorites. Text skin from John. John goes. No one wants to talk NBA, especially in August. Hit it, Jake. I don't care. I don't care, John. I'm gonna do it. I'm sorry, I'm, I don't know what to tell you. You need to listen to the show. I do and say whatever I want. And what I want to say is Russell Westbrook retired yesterday. 18 year NBA career, calls it quits. Had my generation's version of Hakeem on the Raptors and Gary Payton on the, well, Gary, you know, Gary Payton ended up being pretty successful with the, the Heat of the Lakers. But what's it, Ewing on the Magic, right? That was kind of Russell Westbrook on the Sacramento Kings. That was a tough watch. Russ is of a dying breed in my, in my opinion in NBA players. And this is what I mean, first off, you know, the 90s created such a. And more specifically, Michael Jordan created such a interesting era of the 90s because it was normal to not win a title in the 90s in the NBA, even if you were a Hall of Famer. There are so many great NBA players of the 90s whose legacies are limited because of their inability to win a title. With the existence of Michael Jordan, Stockton, Malone, Drexler, Barkley. Right. I mean, Gary Payton ended up winning it, but he ended up winning it not being the best player on. On the basketball, on his basketball team. Right. He ended up winning with other players. There's so many. I mean, Hakeem is the only one who won a title in the 90s that wasn't Michael Jordan. You can count Robinson and Duncan with that as well. They wanted in 1999, but all three of those guys won those titles when Michael wasn't either in the league or at the peak of his powers. And so, you know, Russ. And this is partially LeBron's fault, like, is one of one of the very few players of, like, the 2010s and 2020s who is a bonafide hall of Famer who's done things that we never thought would ever be done again in the NBA by averaging a triple double. But he's one of the few guys who didn't win a title. Jokic won a title. Giannis has won a title. Kawhi won two titles. KD won two titles. Curry's won four titles. LeBron's won four titles. Shay Gilders, Alexander's won a title. Jaylen Brunson's won a title. Right. Like, you have some. Jason Tatum, Jaylen Brown, like, all of these top players across the NBA have eventually gotten, you know, to the peak of the association, except for Russ and. And that's kind of. That's a little bit more rare than people think of being that great for that long but never being able to accomplish it, which I don't think is necessarily something that Russ wants to brag about, but Russ can brag about this. You know, the NBA, very uniquely in the 2010s, had so many different. Like, you had so many fans who weren't necessarily rooting for teams. They were rooting for players. You had people who. I don't. I'm not a Cavalier fan. I'm a Braun fan. You know, you had kids in Chicago who. Their second team was always where Derrick Rose was playing. Like, Russell Westbrook was a part of that kind of generation of player that had, like, a cult following that had, like, Russ is my guy. Russ is my dude. Wherever Russ goes, I go. Right. He's one of the very few players who really had that. And I feel like that is something that the NBA is lacking right now. Right. When LeBron leaves, I don't know who else is really going to have that kind of. Oh, no, I don't root for a team. I root for this player. Maybe Aunt Edwards, maybe Ant. Right.
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Yeah.
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But it's. It's not. It's not the same.
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No.
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Right. It's not the. You. I'm a Bron guy. I'm a Rose guy. I'm a Westbrook guy. Like, that exit that doesn't really. The NBA's kind of lost that, and I think that's in. Has to do with the NBA kind of losing a little bit of popularity over the last couple of years. But that's something where. When I think of Russ, like, obviously think of the triple doubles and obviously think of the explosiveness. But I just remember, like, he used to captivate fans, captivate groups of people people wanted to associate themselves with.
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He.
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He had a cultural impact that, you know, went. Went a little bit beyond basketball, which is. Which is something. All right, let's hit a break here. Buy sell holder back coming up next year. I'm a dismat.
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