And you've given them years to do that, and the Ujiris and the, the Robs, they hit, uh, once in a while, and then periods of mess afterwards.

I mean, that's, and that's what you've seen a lot from, uh, Rob Pelinka.

Like I said, I know, I know some people really do like him and all that, but I've been around with you guys for about, about almost a couple years at this point now, and I seen the highs and lows of him, and it's, it's, it's been rough.

I mean, even got rid of a lot of coaches, and I, I think I've really got the mindset of I don't think it's really a lot of the co- Don't get me wrong, Darvin Ham was not great either.

I think it's more of the roster just wasn't right.

And, you know, he, he, he don't have a lot of misses.

I mean, the big misses to me the most is Russell Westbrook.

But right now it just doesn't look like it because the guy behind the wheel is just not capable of driving you to that title.

This is statistically his worst playoff series I do believe, Legend, and it, they're still up three zero.

I mean, that to me is discouraging at that point, like I, I don't know what else you do at that point.

You took out...

He have not looked like an MVP at all this series, and he's still kicking your butt.

I mean, and then there's no Jaylen Williams.

You got, you got Mitchell out here dropping me.

He almost had about 30 points.

Uh, your thoughts though, if you're running the Lakers, if you're moved into El Segundo, that office there, and Rob is on the way out, what would you provide us with a quick synopsis of what you would be looking at doing in this off-season to try and close some of that gap?

You weren't gonna do it as, again, if you get 20 pl- over 20 turnovers against a team like OKC.

Yeah.

That, that's exactly right, Gerald.

I mean, what you did against the Houston Rockets is not gonna work here.

This is leaps and bounds better than Houston Rockets.

I mean, right now that's what I kind of kept saying for the longest.

And I seen some Laker fan mention about trying to get Young, and so I'm like Young is not what you need right now.

And, uh, uh, the only thing, uh, you could say at this point is they better win game three 'cause they're n- uh, as we remember from last series, no one ever comes back in the NBA from down 3-0.

I told you so." Yeah.

Man.

Uh, it just, they did good the first half.

He kept it, you know, kept it close, kept staying with them.

And then the second half, i- the Thunder did what the Thunder do best.

They went on the run, and you look up at the clock, you're down by 19, 20 points.

It, it, it, you gotta basically play perfect to beat this team.

At this point, it's best for the Lakers to go ahead, like, like Joe said, have him negotiate with other teams, see whether they come back, and make a sign and trade for bringing in assets from there, Legend.

So, that's the Afghan version of the Central Intelligence Agency?

Correct. America helped build it in Afghanistan. The head of that intelligence unit, NDS, was Mr. Saleh. He literally built that, uh, NDS in Afghanistan. I don't think there's any American intelligence official that is unfamiliar with Mr. Saleh. He was, and he, I believe he still is, our ally. And so, after that, um, he became the Minister of Interior in Afghanistan, um, and then after that he started AGT in 2011, which is Afghanistan Green Tre- Green Trend, which is one of the main political parties in Afghanistan. Um, grassroot movement, uh, had millions of, um, members inside Afghanistan. In, I believe it was 2019, Mr. Saleh became, uh, won the elections and became the first Vice President of Afghanistan under the Ghani administration. Ashraf Ghani was the president. Mr. Saleh was his vice president. And so, on August 15, 2021, when Mr. Ghani, the former president, fled Afghanistan to Dubai and abandoned everything, Mr. Saleh, Vice President Saleh did not flee Afghanistan. He instead went to Panjshir Valley, which was the only province that had not fallen to the Taliban, and he declared a national resistance against the Taliban. And because Mr. Ghani had fled, according to Article 60 and 67 of the Constitution of Afghanistan, Mr. Saleh became the acting president of Afghanistan.Mr. Saleh, President Saleh now, (clears throat) his time in office ended in July of 2024, just a few months ago. And so he, being a spy... I think spies never quit, and so he went back to his... just like Sarah Adams doesn't quit. (laughs) Spies don't quit. He went back to leading intelligence in Afghanistan, and his network is operational in Afghanistan. And I don't think anyone has as much sources under his control as Mr. Saleh in that region.

Mm-hmm.

His intelligence exposed this. Uh, so these NGOs, uh, affiliated with USAID, they would distribute the aid to the people there alongside the leader of the Taliban, one of the commanders for the lo- for Bamyan province. And they would distribute the aid not, uh, in the name of the generosity of the American people or in the name of Joe Biden, they would distribute the aid in honor of Mullah Haibatullah and the Taliban. In Panjshir, they're still doing that. In Panjshir province, which as you know, has zero Taliban, they are pro, uh, resistance. They're sympathetic towards the resistance. What the Taliban does is they go with this NGO called Ansar, which operates in Panjshir Province and Andarab Province, Andarab Valley. They will go to this house and you'll- there's a lineup of, uh, Afghans and, um, widows, and they have envelopes with $200 cash per family, per poor family, and they will tell 'em, "Hey, Mr. Panjshiri, during the days of the republic, did those infidel republics that were puppets of America, did they ever come and give you aid? You know, unlike them, see, the leader of the Taliban loves you so much, he's giving you aid, he's sending you money." The US aid, US cash in Afghanistan is distributed in honor of Mullah Haibatullah, not in the name of the generosity of the American people. Even US aid packages that go to Afghanistan, the US flag is missing from it. See, in, in Latin America, in Africa and els- elsewhere around the world, when US aid is distributed, aid packages, there is always an American flag with a message from the American people. Not in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. They do not want people to know that this aid comes from the American people. They say this aid comes from Mullah Haibatullah.