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It's time to celebrate people! It's our 10th episode!!! In this episode, the fellas discuss the first slate of NBA Playoff games and whether or not they need to rethink some of their predictions. 

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Obvious Weapon is back talking Dame Time, point guard play through the years, Star Players' legacies and the upcoming NBA Playoffs

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Basketball is BACK!!!!!! And so is your favorite podcaster's podcast! The obvious Weapon hosts Marc and Ty dive into all the current NBA story lines and revisit the inaugural episode of pod. Let's gooooooo!

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Tyrik and Marc are back at it again this week. This time, they are updating the 1996-1997 top 50 all time list. Tune in as they discuss who got cut from the original list, who missed the cut from the new school players, and how to reconcile comparing old school players with new. 

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Back like we never left, and we got the homie, sports journalist Marsha Nadine with us!!! 

Marsha Nadine is a sarcastic, enthusiastic and sports loving young woman from Brooklyn, N.Y. She often spends her time debating with friends, and strangers on different social networks on sports. She decided that she would create an outlet to bring these conversations together called Basketball Unfiltered. It is a brand that moves to bring the love of basketball to the masses, while simultaneously ruffling some feathers. Marsha began to shoot and edit her own content with just her phone and computer. Once these videos, and sometimes rants began to get more coverage she realized she had something special. This gave her the opportunity to begin to write for small publications; and as she gained more experience, she was given greater opportunities. She has covered NCAA teams such as St. Johns, Duke, Kentucky and others, while also covering the Brooklyn Nets in smaller capacities. She was also an NBC Sports intern for 3 consecutive semesters, where she worked as a sports researcher. She hopes to one day become a basketball sideline reporter, where she can use her skills to bring a different perspective to the game.

And she definitely brought her unique perspective to this episode with the OW hosts Marc and Ty. There were plenty of laughs and of course, insightful basketball dialogue. This was one for the books family. Listen and share! 

AND ARREST THE COPS WHO KILLED BREONNA TAYLOR!

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The #Odub hosts pick up, right where they left off last week by taking a trip back in time to  L.A., 1982. The fellas discuss history's strange way of repeating itself as they juxtapose the events leading up to the L.A. riots to the tragic deaths that led up to the 2020 outbreak of civil unrest. They also discuss ideas and plans for much needed change within law enforcement agencies and the country on a grand scale. This is one episode you all don't want to miss.

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With no little to no editing, #OW hosts Marc and Ty hop on the mic to share some raw thoughts and emotion regarding the state of our nation, racial injustice, protests, riots, racism in basketball, and much more. Part 2 of the conversation coming soon!

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In the 4th grade, Brunson-Dargan Elementary, Ms. Bostick's class, I had become really good friends with a kid (we'll call him Wes). One of the things we had to do daily, was 30 minutes of silent reading (booooooo). BUT, we could bring a book from home (couldn't be a magazine/comics/or any of that) It had to be an actual BOOK/novel. So one day, my friend Wes comes in with a book that has Shaq on the front of it, and he's holding a basketball. And in HUGE letters on the cover it said SHAQ ATTAQ. I had NEVER been so interested in a book in my short life. I remember asking Wes about the book and him telling me it had cussing in it. NOW, I had to read it. So, I would bug him about the book all the time. And I probably read half or a little over half of it, when we had a falling out. I don't remember what I did, I just remember what he did. He became a huge jerk one day and went off on me and was like, "stop asking to read my book, get your own book fat boy" (or something along those lines). I was PISSED. I begged my mom for that book, and it took awhile, but she finally bought it for me. Revenge time. Even though it was at least a month or so later, I walked in class, slammed my Shaq Attaq book on his desk, and said "I got my OWN book now."
I read the book cover to cover at least 4 times. I didn't want to read anything other than Shaq's book and my favorite childhood author Walter Dean Myers. I knew everything there was to know about Shaq. He was EASILY my favorite player as kid. (also loved Larry Johnson aka Grandmama, MJ, Chris Webber, and Penny)
Secretly, as a kid…. I wanted to BE Shaq. Here's a big guy, who's charismatic, funny, the best center in the league, and everyone seems to love him. I wanted to be like that. I wanted to be like Shaq. And in many ways, UNFORTUNATELy, as I grew up…I became Shaquille O'Neal. BUT NOT JUST ME. Not just my co-host Marc. Men all over America turned into Shaquille O'Neal. Hindsight is always 20/20, and today we're going to take a look back at the career of Shaquille O'Neal (on and off the court) and how we and many men have made many of the same mistakes he made along the way.

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We're back for episode number 2! Aren't you proud of us?! In this episode, co-hosts Marc and Tyrik share their critiques, hot-takes, likes, dislikes, and everything in-between regarding the polarizing, 10-part ESPN documentary, The Last Dance. They also talk about the inception of the podcast name, and pay homage to arguably the greatest television show of all-time, The Office, by giving out Michael Scott/Michael Jordan "GOATee Awards" to deserving Last Dance participants. 

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It's the maiden voyage of THE obvious Weapon Podcast! In this inaugural episode, co-hosts Marc Nicoleau and Ty Grooms share a little about the inception of THE obvious WEAPON, what listeners can expect from the pod, and they get into how they fell in love with the game of basketball as kids. Next, they discuss the 2019-2020 NBA season and the events leading up to the NBA stoppage, including a wild 2019 summer of free-agency. Finally, the duo dives into their NBA playoffs what-ifs, discussing potential match-ups we may never see, giving "predictions" had the NBA season continued, as well as NBA postseason awards.

Be sure to like and follow THE obvious WEAPON on Facebook facebook.com/owpod and Instagram instagram.com/odubpod for more great content!!! Also, be sure check us out on Patreon for exclusive, bonus content you won't get anywhere else! $5 per month gets you bonus episodes, unreleased episode segments, impromptu live streams, exclusive voting rights on episode topics, AND official "OW" merchandise!

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