I'm curious if you've seen or heard any of those and if any of the possibilities intrigue you more than others.

Well, it seems like the Tyler Herro one is the one that, that has the most, I guess, smoke to the fire.

Um, I've, I've seen a lot of different outlets, um, [clears throat] confirm that the Pistons have been involved in some significant discussions.

Um, let's talk about Herro's game a little bit.

38% three-point shooter, obviously.

Um, you know, really, really strong, uh, shooter from beyond the arc.

Can play make a little bit.

I think those are pieces together, Sam, that make that conversation about being the final team, make it real.

What, dare I ask, what was your thought process in building up to this?

Well, once I had this starting sentence and I sort of had that idea of it might flip around to mean something else if you put the emphasis somewhere else, the first draft had the handcuffs coming in right at the end as a bit of a bit of a twist reveal and typically speaking i'm not a huge fan of twist reveals in uh in flash fiction they can be done really well uh but it's hard to make it feel justified and like it was uh There's a good reason for it.

It feels great as a writer.

Don't get me wrong.

I've certainly written my share of them.

It feels great to have this hidden thing that the audience isn't going to know about until right at the end.

And then look how clever this is.

And it seems to be working very, very well for you.

What can they learn from what you guys have done to achieve that?

I think We'd start with the real basics, right? I think like the beginning, you know, as a marketplace, the real, real basics is seller ads, right? It's a very simple, scalable business.

I can onboard a lot of people, you know, we have more than 100,000 restaurants advertising with us.

And I have a team of 10 people running that business.

Like it's very easy, simple, low touch business to get going.

So if you have a marketplace, I think like that's a very, very obvious place to start.

What we saw is as our grocery commerce and our pharmacy commerce started getting big, we started getting approaches from brands to work with us because we started to become relevant in the ecosystem.

How are you guys applying AI within the iFood ads operations?

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[laughs] That's a great premise.

I love that.

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That's another thing that I just don't think is replicable, even if you just relegate it to shooting and say that Dennis Schroeder won't shoot three from three point range in the next contest.

Yeah.

No, I mean, I 100% agree with you.

I mean, the Cavs, it felt like got a lot of really good production from from their bench guys.

And that's kind of always the case, right? In these playoff series, it's a classic role players play better at home.

I think one thing to look at for this game tonight, game four, is in the non-Cade minutes, for as poorly as Cade played, the Pistons were terrible when Cade was off the floor.

And I think some of the turnovers you saw, the stretch is This is a guy who's playing close to 40 minutes every night in Cade, and it's not that long ago that he had a collapsed lung.

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