Cooooool Lenny

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Mark: What do you want to talk about today?

Jenny: The Nuggets.

Mark: Yeah, okay.

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Jenny: Okay, here we go. Hi, I'm Jenny Stockton.

Mark: Hi, I'm Mark Loyd.

Jenny: And this is the Nuggets pod.

Mark: Yep.

Jenny: We're here, we're back.

Mark: back like we never left.

Jenny: That's right.

Mark: Hour one of 5,000 in the next, how many days is that?

Jenny: 5,000 years.

Mark: One hour a year for 5,000 years? Jenny's drunk. I'm just joking. Don't listen to her. This is our first real episode though.

Jenny: This is it. We did like a little trailer. Yep. It's official.

Mark: Now we're going big.

Jenny: We are. We're here to talk about the Nuggets. Yeah. The Denver Nuggets basketball team.

Mark: Yep. And we love them.

Jenny: We do.

Mark: We just want to talk about that.

Jenny: We have been really excited to talk about these nuggets, I think, since this season started. So currently it is February 2026. The nuggets hit the ground running when this season started.

Mark: Like, big time.

Jenny: Literally running.

Mark: Yes, they were not walking up and down the court.

Jenny: To play. And it's been a little bit of a roller coaster since those early days of the season, but we've been excited to talk about them. We also maybe should mention we are brother and sister.

Mark: Yep.

Jenny: So we've had a lifetime of enjoying talking about the Nuggets.

Mark: Yeah.

Jenny: Currently, we're just like, hey, we're up and running. We got a pod. We're ready. We're doing it.

Mark: And to be clear, we're not trying to make this like a game recap, like daily Nuggets pod, the ups and downs, the ins and outs and details of every transaction, every game, whatever. It's more like we just really love the Nuggets. love the memories that we have of the Nuggets, both together and separately. And I just want to focus on positive vibes. We're not gonna be here after every game being like, oh, this Jamal Murray's choked, can't make free throws in the clutch, Adelman sucks. But there are other podcasts that do that really well. And as a fan, I like, commiserating over the frustrating losses, but that's not that's not what this is.

Jenny: That's not what we are here for and Yeah, there is there is a place for that. Yeah, it's it is welcome. It's all welcome What are those podcasts called just in case people want to go check them out?

Mark: I don't know poop podcast the worst Nuggets. No, I listen. I really liked the DNVR nuggets podcast. A lot locked on nuggets. Okay. It was really good.

Jenny: I listened to the, the Denver post one. I know what it was called now, but the last time they they posted a new episode, it made it kind of sound like it's unclear whether there will be more in the future.

Mark: Well, yeah, because the Denver Post sports editor, Matt Schubert, is gone.

Jenny: He gone. Shout out to you, Matt Schubert. Good job. Congratulations.

Mark: I love that pod too. But yeah, there's like a gorilla sports one that's good. I'm sure there are others.

Jenny: Something else that's really fun is the DNVR bar. Have you ever been there?

Mark: I have not. I would like to go.

Jenny: I've been a few times and it is like if you're looking for a place to go watch a game and be surrounded by other fans, it is it's really fun.

Mark: Yeah. So yeah, we don't have to talk about DNVR the whole time, but they I am a die-hard DNVR supporter, that's just like a subscription tier to their content. Yeah, they do a great job. They've expanded to a few other cities now and I'm glad that they're around. But yeah, this is like us talking about memories and talking about the current Nuggets team and Trying to focus on the good. There's plenty of like negative But we're just putting positive vibes out there into the world.

Jenny: We're here for the vibe Yeah, and I have to say for like today in Denver. The Sun is shining beautiful. The vibes are The vibes are high.

Mark: Yeah, I'm high vibes.

Jenny: I'm into it. Mm-hmm. Something else I will say is that something I've kind of thought about a lot, especially like when I'm thinking about the Nuggets lately is in 2020, the Nuggets went to the bubble, right? And they did pretty well, especially in comparison to like how the Nuggets had performed for a long time prior to that. And you were living in South Carolina at the time. And I was, we were, I just was like at home with my small kids all day, every day, without any sense of like when that circumstance might change again. And I just remember having a nuggets game to look forward to on some of those days was like really just helpful. Like it was like a thing for me to kind of grasp onto mentally and spiritually. just knowing like, okay, there's going to be a thing that like, I know lots of other people are going to watch. And like, I assume my brother who's far away is going to watch. And then when we watched and it was like, these are just like human beings just going as hard as human beings can possibly go. and they're winning and it's like so exciting and fun. It just was like, it was great. It was like a really great thing for me.

Mark: It was a really great thing. It was a really great thing. Couldn't agree more.

Jenny: I really loved it. And I just remember at some point during that run, texting with you and saying like, man, this is just like, this is a great thing. And you telling me like, this is what sports can do outside of all the other things that come from, you know, people playing sports. this is sometimes like what it can give you. And it just felt like, oh man, that's so true. And so since then, whenever I think about any of those Nuggets, any of these current Nuggets, including all the ones who are no longer Nuggets anymore, MPJ, shout out to you.

Mark: I remember that bubble run being special because it was like the culmination, not the culmination, but like such a big step forward for that group of Jokic and Murray and MPJ and the other guys where you know that Nuggets had been pretty bad for a few years and that was not the most fun time but we knew they had some good young players who kind of came out of nowhere and just slowly got better and better and was like oh man like These guys are good, but how good could they really be? And that was, at least the way I remember it, the first time that I thought they could actually win the title, which they didn't do for a few more years. Yeah, it was like a huge lifeline during COVID. And then just to see them kind of like organically progress from nothing to something was really cool. And the sports, just like the coming togetherness and like the fun of like watching sports together. We're recording this like just after the All-Star break. The Nuggets have played two games since then, but it's also like right after, this is kind of a tangent, but Alyssa Liu just won the figure skating gold medal. And I remember like decades ago when we were kids, Figure skating in the Winter Olympics was like the hugest thing, like Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding.

Jenny: I had pictures of Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding and Kristi Yamaguchi / Michelle Kwan on my wall.

Mark: But I haven't watched that in years and years. I don't know who the last figure skater, male or female, was that I knew by name. But that, I watched Alyssa Liu the other night and it was incredible. It was like moving, like just so exciting. And I know a lot of people have had the same reaction to that, just like she seems really cool and just like joyful. And to me, it was like another example of just how sport And just make you feel that way and like bring people together and like make people just celebrate over kind of like that common experience and I think the nuggets have done that for us Many times over the years for sure and I still can picture I can still like see and hear Jamal Murray

Jenny: Talking after one of one of those games where he scored 50 points and he had like this he was like wearing shoes that I don't remember what they looked like Yes, it was like some acknowledgement of like Black Lives Matter and Whoever it was that was interviewing him asked about it and he got like visibly emotional and I was like, oh Yes, this is like, okay. There's this like shared just, I don't know, humanity, this sense that like, when it feels like things are going wrong in the world, as maybe some of us maybe might feel that way a little these days, maybe not. But yeah, we just have this cool thing to look forward to that these people have decided like I'm going to just show up and put my whole self physically and otherwise on the line to try and score more points than the other guys. So cool. I just love it.

Mark: Yeah.

Jenny: Speaking of last night. The Nuggets scored 157 points!

Mark: Yeah, this past few nights with the Nuggets have been a pendulum swing of emotion. I was thinking about This podcast when they played the Clippers and the fact that you and I Jenny are trying to be like positive nuggets like we love them. They're the greatest they Choked that game away so badly And yokichin murray both looked terrible and I was like, this is gonna be tough like Talking in a positive way when the Nuggets look so out of sorts and not like themselves.

Jenny: What is our podcast even going to be?

Mark: And then one night later they look like the 73-9 Warriors and like they are going to win every game by 50 points. So yeah, it's a good reminder. I know we've talked about this before, but It just seems like if the Nuggets are healthy in the playoffs this year, they can win the title. And, you know, that's like the top line high expectation, and sometimes they look like that, and then other times they just look like they're all so tired. How are they ever going to even make it to May?

Jenny: Yep, I know that was the thing I thought about most when I was watching that game against the Clippers is that they just looked tired and I feel like probably for some of them during the All-Star break they went on a vacation and like actually did get to rest but For I mean Jokic especially like having not played for however many weeks and however many games and then to not really get the break because he has to go work at the all-star game like

Mark: He definitely took a break during the all-star game

Jenny: But I thought about it the last game before the All-Star break, they played Memphis, was it, at home?

Mark: Yep. You fell asleep.

Jenny: I fell asleep in the middle of it and then woke up to like see the end. And I was like, I'm exhausted from just trying to watch the Nuggets every time they play. I can't imagine. They're going to be so tired. Obviously, they're in a different circumstance than I am and I'm sure they're tired. I don't know. I don't know how you figure out how to manage that between now and the end of the season, but I believe in them.

Mark: Yeah. Somebody's going to do it. One of these teams is going to win the championship.

Jenny: That's true. And I think if there's a coach out there that's capable of like helping them navigate that, I really think David Adelman like knows enough to know how to, how to do that. Like, whether it's this person is going to rest during this game so that they're available for the next one or whatever it is. I just feel like it seems like he has like a like a sense about how those things should work.

Mark: He was great, I thought, when Jokic was hurt and they had like eight guys and three of them were guys that would never play when they have all of their healthy bodies. It's weird, like they haven't looked as good yet since they started getting everybody back. But yeah, I thought he did a really, really good job managing that stretch and they played better than I think any Nuggets fan realistically would have hoped for. And yeah, that does give me confidence that he'll figure it out down the stretch and in the playoffs. He's not a dummy.

Jenny: He's not a dummy. I want to talk about the nuggets and the Special Olympics clinic. Did you see any of the coverage of that?

Mark: No.

Jenny: It was, but it was the, I think it was the day before their last home game before the All-Star break.

Mark: Okay.

Jenny: So it was like, I think they had lost two and then they did the Special Olympics clinic, which they do every year.

Mark: Okay.

Jenny: And then they came out and muscled through that Memphis game to pull off an ugly win right before their break. But I mean, I guess like a long, like a, going with the theme of like the positive vibes and the joy I just saw I think I saw I don't know somebody's video probably the Nuggets official Instagram account or whatever video of that day and then like the Nuggets players and coaches being at ball arena with all these kids who have disabilities dribbling and passing and shooting and just like, I don't know, being so happy to be there with these kids that, you know, probably this is maybe, maybe once in a lifetime, once in a year opportunity to go do something like that.

Mark: So they'll do it 5,000 times in the next 5,000 years.

Jenny: 5,000 times in the next 5,000 years. Girl math. Somebody said girl math to me the other day and I had never heard it before and I was like...

Mark: What was the context? Do you remember?

Jenny: She was trying to get me to buy skincare products.

Mark: Were you at the mall?

Jenny: I was not, I was at a, I was at like a skincare place and she had given me a skincare service, like gave me a facial. And then at the end of it, you know, they've tried to also sell you the products. I don't want to, you got to cut this shit. I don't want this girl to be like, I'm calling her. She's like, we have a promo going on. If you buy this much, you get a free thing. It's girl math! Use it eventually!

Mark: I love that you are considerate enough to think A), this girl's gonna hear this ever, and B), she's gonna know you're talking about her specifically. We gotta cut it.

Jenny: Cut the shit.

Mark: This will ruin her! If this goes public, it will ruin her! This is not a joke! These are people's lives!

Jenny: I don't even remember why I said girl math in the first place.

Mark: 5,000 times in 5,000 years.

Jenny: Oh my goodness. Yeah. Anyway, I watched them at the Special Olympics. And then the next night, watched them sort of like just gut out this win that looked like it was hard. And I was like that I just feel like there's like that's connected. Like when you have when you do something that reminds you of what you have to be grateful for, you know? Like, you know that you are healthy, that, like, your kids are healthy, that there's, like, this whole spectrum of life out there.

Mark: I'll have to go back and watch that. It seems like it was a cool plan.

Jenny: I have the sense that, like, yeah, like, seeing them interact with the people that, you know, are there for the Special Olympics Clinic Day. It looks as though they're having the experience that like, oh, this is like a nice break from the grind of the physical toll of playing so many nights in a season and just trying to do what it takes to win a game, especially when you have so many people that are injured. Like having this sort of just change of pace and kind of shake up what we're doing from one day to the next and just be reminded. There's this whole world out there and these kids are just excited to be here.

Mark: I wonder about that a lot. the fact that as fans, it seems like it would be so cool to be an NBA basketball player and it would just be like the most fun thing to do. But I'm sure for them, there are a lot of nights where it just feels like a grind when they're playing that Memphis game and they're just looking forward to getting a break and Other times in the season they're playing back to backs and like they've just traveled from one city to another the night before and they went to sleep at four in the morning and like I'm sure it is good for them to have reminders during the season of the fact that outside of their bubble within the team there is like this whole you know huge group of people who looks at them as like these like heroic figures and like just has so much fun just like being around them and watching them and yeah I could see How that would be kind of a like rejuvenating like refreshing thing to do that something like that on a day off Yeah, yeah, that's how that was how I thought of it when I saw it.

Jenny: It was cool.

Mark: Cool Yeah, we're recording this the week that Doug Moe passed away Nuggets legend RIP man his career wins in the rafters at ball arena There's like a little Doug Moe documentary on Altitude. They recorded it years ago. It wasn't like upon his death. They went back and were like, what did Doug Moe do? But I rewatched it this week just to remind myself of why he was so memorable and such a legend. For me, growing up, my earliest basketball memories are of those nuggets, the Doug Moe, Alex English, Fat Lever, Bill Hanslick, and his mustache nuggets at McNichols Arena, the Skyline uniforms. And when I was a kid, I thought Doug Moe was a maniac because during games he was yelling constantly to the point where his voice was cracking. He always looked so angry and was just frowning. was like scary and players from that era will just talk about how he just like yelled at them and yelled at them and yelled at them and yelled at them all the time. But it was like, and I didn't learn this until years later, that was like just specifically during actual games that he acted like that. And once the game was over, He was like the most joyful, carefree, fun-loving person. On the planet. Cool. Yeah. And I think he, you know, like that two sides of his personality kind of match up really well with what we've been talking about as far as like thinking about doing this podcast and our relationship with the Nuggets because yeah, it's like on the one hand very serious and like we care if they win and we get mad when they lose. But on the other hand, it's like this is such a ray of joy in a world that has some darkness to it. And I think it's, for me at least, helpful to have those little nuggets games to look forward to, or this other thing that I like to do, that other thing that I like to do, to remind myself that it's not all so serious. It's not all the worst, even though it feels like that a lot of the times. was the pure embodiment of that. And from other players that he played with when he was a player, and he was a really, really good player. He won an ABA title with the Oakland Oaks when he was a player. His career was cut short by injury. But from the players he played with, to the players he coached, to the other coaches he coached with, across the board, people talk about, like, how great he was and how much they love him and, like, yeah, he could be kind of a jerk when he was coaching you and yelling at you. But that was, like, more a manifestation of just his, like, intense, like, emotion and, like, love for the game and, like, passion for the game and for life than it was, like, a mean spirit or an angry nature. And I just think that was really cool and he... He came back and coached with George Carl during that run that you and I have talked about separately a bunch, and that was really cool and fun that he did that. I will say in closing, if you have altitude and you can watch this little one hour show about Doug Moe, it's worth it just to see the captions try to keep up with what people are actually saying, because it might be the worst job that captions have ever done in trying to keep up with what people are actually saying. I'll give you a few examples here. Oh, dear. Dougmo, what... I'd hate to put you on the spot, but what's the one most famous word that you associate with Dougmo?

Jenny: Oh, jeez. I don't know.

Mark: Okay. He called everybody a stiff. Like, your big stiff. Like, I don't know if you've heard of, like, the Denver Stiffs? That was, like, an early Nuggets blog. It's because of that. Like, Dougmo called people stiff.

Jenny: So... During a game, you're a stiff, you would say? In life.

Mark: Okay, like if you're okay, he was like making fun of you and saying like you're not very good at whatever you're doing You're a stiff.

Jenny: Gotcha.

Mark: Okay, he would call other players stiffs and sometimes he would be like joking Other times he would be like no this guy really stinks. He's not good. He's a stiff got it the the captions At the very beginning like probably within the first 30 seconds it The caption said the word sticks, like from a tree.

Jenny: S-T-I-C-K-S. You guys are sticks.

Mark: And then a little bit later, it was like somebody, probably Doug Moe was saying something in like the last part of what he said, he said, you stiff. And the caption said, use Dave. Okay, I won't put you on the spot for this one, but his wife was named Jane. Okay. Famously, he always referred to her, not always, but often referred to her as Big Jane. There was a point in the documentary where the captions said, he said, Big Jane, and the caption said, Big Jimmy. Big Jimmy. Okay, yeah, and then the other one.

Jenny: But AI is gonna save us all, right?

Mark: Brilliant, yeah. Whatever program they used to try to interpret the audio on this was an early beta version. I wanna talk to Big Jane. Big Jimmy. I don't know if, I don't know, yeah. And then, so the last one, Doug Moe was telling this story about how he was like yelling at one of the Nuggets players, like for the entire game and the refs noticed that he was like being really hard on this player. And at the end of the game, Doug Moe was telling, I think it was Kiki Vandewee to intentionally foul someone on the other team. And Doug Moe and like recounting the story Was saying like how the refs were like, you've been yelling at this guy all game. I am not going to call a foul because I just want to like spite you. And Doug Moe said, I ain't calling anything. And the captions for that statement, I ain't calling anything. The caption said, cool Lenny.

Jenny: So worth an hour of your time, altitude subscribers.

Mark: Yeah, I mean, it's good to, like, it does leave out, there were some, like, sketchier parts of Doug Moe's comprehensive history that it didn't cover, but yeah, just for the sake of, like, trying to watch the captions match up with what people are actually saying, it's kind of fun.

Jenny: Cool Lenny.

Mark: Cool Lenny.

Jenny: Did it have, like, multiple O's?

Mark: No, that was my inflection. Perfect.

Jenny: I can remember when I was a kid, and I don't remember like at what age I realized it wasn't the case, but when I was little, the way our dad would talk to the TV when he was watching sports, I thought that he was like, friends with Doug Moe. And I thought I would picture him meeting John Elway at his car dealership during the week to go have lunch together. Whatever it was about how he addressed them personally while he was watching the teams play on the TV, I really thought that they were his pals and like yeah he's my dad an adult man like they are too and probably like they'll have lunch together on Tuesday and they did do that Doug Moe and John Elway and our dad would get together every Tuesday at Marie calendars they would have pot pies and iced teas

Mark: just go over the game plan for the next week adult dude stuff that was my my kid brain really was like that's what happens right yeah there's like 12 adults in the world my dad is one of them John Elway my teachers another one yeah they all know each other

Jenny: They hang out when they're not at home. Yep. Okay. Fun fact for you. The highest scoring game in NBA history. Do you know what it was?

Mark: It was Pistons 186, Nuggets 184. That game was also briefly featured in the documentary because he was the coach at the time. Yeah.

Jenny: Last night when Dan asked me if I would bet on the nuggets to score 160, I don't bet. I think betting is garbage. But he asked if I did, would I bet that the nuggets would get to 160 points? And I said, yes, because I love these nuggets and I believe in these nuggets. And if I had money to bet with and I was the person who did that, I don't know. Yeah, I would.

Mark: Yeah. That's how Vegas makes its money. Exactly. It's like rubes like you, betting with their heart and just lighting that money on fire. I also don't bet because I am also a rube who would bet with my heart and would lose exclusively. And watch your money burn.

Jenny: in this conversation about how many points the Nuggets scored last night. The 157 points that the Nuggets scored last night. I had to go looking to find out. The highest ever. And man, our Nuggets right up there. What a time. What a time to be alive. Let's do some wrecks. Come on, we promised the people.

Mark: Yeah, this is a brilliant idea my sister had, is that we could kind of cap each episode by recommending something that is on our mind, or that we've always loved, or whatever.

Jenny: Something you're, I don't know, listening to, that you're watching.

Mark: A place in Denver you like to go. A Denver-specific thing that might be fun.

Jenny: Yeah, just whatever. Whatever's bringing you joy besides the nuggets these days. What do you got?

Mark: I just caught up on A Night of the Seven Kingdoms. Oh. Super niche TV show on HBO. Ever heard of Game of Thrones?

Jenny: Have you heard of it?

Mark: This, everybody knows what the show is, but it's really good. Cool. Yeah. Set in that universe, but the tone is, Very different, it's funny, it's like fun. The casting of the two main characters is like absolutely perfect. And apparently the actors, it's like, do you know anything about this show? One of the main characters is this massive hedge knight who in real life is this like giant Irish actor. And then the other main character is this tiny kid. and like off set, they like go to the arcade together and they like have gone enough times to earn tickets to buy like a PS5 or something or like close to being able to do that. Yeah. And you can see on screen that they're, they just have the best chemistry. Yeah. It's really, it's fun. It's like, If you like Game of Thrones, you'll like it, but even if you don't, it's like not nearly as like serious and like battle heavy, but it does have some of that if you're into that too. So yeah, I just, I know a lot of other people have said that they really like that show, but I really like it too. Great. Yeah.

Jenny: Awesome.

Mark: What about you?

Jenny: Recommend it. Well, I just want to say you're, description of the characters and their bond on screen and off reminds me of one Jamal Murray and one Nicole Jokic because we have a wager going.

Mark: They're the Dunk and Egg of our time. I think. They really are. Jokic is Dunk and Jamal Murray is Egg. And I will refer to Jamal Murray on this podcast henceforth, solely as Egg.

Jenny: And also, do not disrespect Jamal Murray. I think Nicole Jokic and Jamal Murray are the sort of friends and will be the sort of friends who invite each other to their children's graduation parties.

Mark: Invite, I could see. Attend. I do not see Jokic attending any graduation party in the greater North American continent.

Jenny: Fair. Okay.

Mark: But maybe I would love it if he did.

Jenny: The invitation though, you think invitation is possible?

Mark: I would love it if Jokic showed up with a bottle of rakija to Jamal Murray's kid's high school graduation. And a balloon bouquet. And was just cheering. And a gift card. As loud as anyone, yeah.

Jenny: I just, I think it's gonna happen. I'm gonna use a rec that I used previously and tell you about a little restaurant called Crave Mediterranean Grill. My family and I just went to dinner there last night, which is a thing we do, I don't know, probably once or twice a month, pretty regularly. And it's like a, I don't know, Southeast Denver kind of casual sit down restaurant that just has like the best Mediterranean food, hummus, pita, gyro, falafel, lamb, lamb skewer. You may or may not know this, but Colorado lamb is like a thing. They cook it perfectly at this place. Crave Mediterranean grill. And for nuggets fans, They have a signed Jamal Murray jersey hanging on their wall.

Mark: Old egg got his finest.

Jenny: To my friends I crave. Jamal Murray. Which leads me to believe that he has been there. Or has at least been there.

Mark: I knew Egg was a lamb lover. What do you think he gets there?

Jenny: It's reasonably priced. That's the thing. It's like, it's healthy food. So you go, it's like, if you get a whole meal.

Mark: A lot of protein and veggies.

Jenny: My go-to is the hummus bee shawarma plate. You get a little salad, like a Greek salad kind of situation. hummus and pita a whole plate of more hummus that's topped with either chicken or gyro or combo if you want both a whole plate of rice so for me it's at least like that meal plus another meal that i take as leftovers and eat it later they do have beef wait but is that what you said you order no i usually get chicken okay The gyro meat is a combination of beef and lamb, and it is not gluten-free, so I can't eat it.

Mark: Wow, is that? They combine beef, lamb, and gluten? mad scientists that crave. It's delicious.

Jenny: It's so good, but I can't eat it. Yeah, but it's great. It's not that expensive. It's like usually there's not a wait so you can get in and out pretty quickly. It's a 10 out of 10.

Mark: Oh, high praise.

Jenny: Yes.

Mark: Awesome.

Jenny: Yeah, that's my Rick for this ep.

Mark: Great. Our one is down. Our two of five thousand on deck. Will Jamal Murray order the beef shawarma?

Jenny: Eero, it's Eero. Didn't she say beef shawarma? Chicken shawarma. Chicken shawarma.

Mark: Play it back. I'm pretty sure you said beef shawarma. There is no beef shawarma. Well, I didn't say it.

Jenny: Nuggets have, what, 25 games left?

Mark: Do you want me to do some girl math real quick? The Nuggets are currently 35 and 21. Yep, which means they've played 56 games. They play 82 total 82 minus 56 is 26 26.

Jenny: Yes, is that right? Girl math says 26

Mark: Okay, 26 games left. They put up on the screen either last night or the night before that the Nuggets have the hardest remaining schedule in the league by opponent winning percentage. So that's not good. And they're coming for 36 and 21 now after last night. So 25. Yeah, you were right.

Jenny: Nuggets got 25 games left in Denver today. The vibes are high.

Mark: Oh, yeah.

Jenny: Nuggets play tomorrow at Golden State.

Mark: Yep. Matinee, early one.

Jenny: And they're going to they're going to kill it.

Mark: From your lips to God's ears, Jenny.

Jenny: I'm calling it. And we'll be back when we have time.

Mark: Yeah.

Jenny: Whenever that is.

Mark: Yep. Soon.

Jenny: One thing. Oh, this is something I wanted to say at the beginning that I forgot about. to quote Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan from her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Have you read it? Yes.

Mark: No, I haven't.

Jenny: You have not read the book. Okay, but let me let me quote this because I think it for me, it's the theme of our podcast. We know these nuggets are not always going to be the nuggets. This era of nuggets basketball will end.

Mark: We're not taking it for granted.

Jenny: Right. We are here to be present, observe, witness, experience the joy.

Mark: Revel. We're reveling in the joy.

Jenny: To revel. This line from Jennifer Egan's novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad that she won a Pulitzer for. Sure. Everything is ending, Jules said. But not yet.

Mark: Not yet.

Jenny: Let's go, Nuggets.

Mark: Let's go.

Jenny: We'll see you next time. Bye bye.