Recession
6/2/20261 hr 15 min
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First 90 secondsDavid Herle· Host0:00
[whimsical music] All right, you joyously miserable accurseds. Let's get this pod happening. It's early here. And yes, this intro on an early Monday morning is how I remind myself who I am, and also that I have excellent friends. Scott Reid, Jordan Leithóis, and Fred DeLorey, your ever-loving political panel. [trumpet music] We're all here. Uh, Fred's very excited and, and we can use this to distract from the fact that Scott and I are sad. But we can use Fred's excitement over the New York Knickerbockers, who as near as I can tell, uh, the research I've been able to do, are by quite a margin, uh, outscoring their opponents more than any other team in NBA history has outscored their opponents in the playoffs. Fred, is this one of the great basketball teams of un- of all time? And why am I not hearing about it until now?
Fred DeLorey· Panelist1:02
[laughs] Well, look, they, it just came together a few weeks ago in the se- first round of the playoffs when they really caught fire. 11 straight wins, record-setting, uh, point differential. Uh, they are just crushing everybody by 20-some points a game going into the finals. And as a conservative, I can't help but be really fucking scared given what happened to us just last year when we were 20 points up, uh, in the polls. So, uh, I am, uh, cautiously optimistic, but I've, uh,