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The Fifth Hour: All Hail King Eddie! · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kaboom if you thought four hours a day 1200 minutes
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  Speaker 1: hot takes break free for something special the fifth hour
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  Speaker 1: with ben maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: In the air everywhere. The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Maller,
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  Speaker 2: and you as we are together here on this early Friday,
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  Speaker 2: the 18th day of September. And you are in for
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  Speaker 2: a special treat. An exceptional podcast, unless it's not. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you'll be the judge. You'll be the judge. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be magically delicious to your eardrums. It'll be so groovy,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to tell all your friends to listen to
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  Speaker 2: some more stimulating pod. Now, as you know, I do
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  Speaker 2: not promote these things. I do not celebrate the Fifth
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  Speaker 2: Hour Podcast and try to shove it down your throat
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  Speaker 2: on the radio show. If you were listening on the
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  Speaker 2: overnight show, which just ended a little while ago here,
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  Speaker 2: the promotion happened over the top, just a little over
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  Speaker 2: the top here, for this podcast. And the reason is
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  Speaker 2: because it's a chance to catch up with my long-lost
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  Speaker 2: radio brother from another mother, the great Eddie Garcia. So
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty uncomplicated, this podcast. Just so we're on the
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  Speaker 2: same page here. Eddie, part of the Overnight Show for
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  Speaker 2: so many years. I worked with Eddie for over 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: We were together in different roles, most of it together
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  Speaker 2: on the Overnight Show and some other gigs that we
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  Speaker 2: had at Fox Sports Radio. So Without further ado, my
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  Speaker 2: long-lost radio pal, bada bing, bada boom, we bring in
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  Speaker 2: The great Eddie Garcia. All right, Eddie, how's the podcast life?
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  Speaker 2: It's been a while since we worked together on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: So how's everything going with the podcast stuff?
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  Speaker 3: It's going good. You know, it's I had a dream
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  Speaker 3: of working from home. I know you've experienced a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of that. And it's not exactly as great as
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  Speaker 3: I thought it would be, because you feel like you
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  Speaker 3: never leave work in a way. You're like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got to do things to get out of the
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  Speaker 3: house and But it is nice to save on gas,
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  Speaker 3: and you can pretty much do your show in your
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  Speaker 3: underwear or whatever if you want to, and make your
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  Speaker 3: own hours is probably the greatest thing. But no, it's
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  Speaker 3: all going good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and have you had attacks of the gremlins? Have
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  Speaker 2: the gremlins attacked, Eddie? Have you had a swarm of
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  Speaker 2: locust gremlins attack your work?
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  Speaker 3: Very rarely, very rarely. Yeah, so no, the gremlins have
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  Speaker 3: avoided me for some reason.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably going to jinx myself, but for the
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  Speaker 2: most part, I've had fewer gremlins. There was a stretch,
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  Speaker 2: and you were the one that had to step in
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  Speaker 2: on the show. There was a stretch where seemingly every
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  Speaker 2: night something broke. There was something that did not work
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  Speaker 2: on the live radio show, and it was a nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: But they actually fixed something. I don't know what they did,
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  Speaker 2: and it has worked the way it's supposed to work. See,
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  Speaker 2: I miss the old days, though, those ISDN lines back
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  Speaker 2: in the day that were solid. But now pretty much
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  Speaker 2: everything's done on Zoom and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what would happen if the Gremlins did attack?
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  Speaker 3: Because I'm not there to.
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  Speaker 2: Step in for a little while.
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  Speaker 3: And have you drive like 95 miles an hour to
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  Speaker 3: the studio to do the last two hours or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I have done that, as you know, with you. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want to put the whammy on it. I
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  Speaker 2: guess we'd have Lorena talk about i don't know what
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  Speaker 2: disney would she break down goofy versus donald duck or
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  Speaker 2: i'm not yeah i'm not sure i don't know coop's
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  Speaker 2: not really a talk show guy so uh i guess
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  Speaker 2: i just jump on the phone i guess.
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  Speaker 3: That would be the yeah i suppose so yeah yeah but.
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  Speaker 2: Uh man fortunately everything with the podcast you're not doing
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  Speaker 2: like live stuff right you're mostly doing just recorded stuff
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  Speaker 2: so it makes it easier True, true.
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  Speaker 3: But very rarely do I ever edit anything because I
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  Speaker 3: would rather just get it all done immediately and not
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  Speaker 3: have to go back and do any other work. So
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  Speaker 3: I've trained myself to not screw up. The only thing
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  Speaker 3: that did happen recently is I came down with something.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what. It was in my lungs. And
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  Speaker 3: so if I talked for longer than like five minutes,
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  Speaker 3: I had to like cough. It would like just build up.
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  Speaker 3: And so there were times where I had to go
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  Speaker 3: back and edit that part out. But other than that,
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  Speaker 3: as long as I'm not sick, which is rare, then
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  Speaker 3: everything's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you are, of course, the model of health, Eddie.
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  Speaker 2: I had a similar issue. I had a vocal issue
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  Speaker 2: that happened at the worst possible time when I had
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  Speaker 2: to do like it was like 25 live reads and
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  Speaker 2: do the show. And this, this was after you, uh,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately had left, uh, not by your choice. And, and
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  Speaker 2: so I was on my own and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, you know, like you do a segment,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, okay, fine. I'll do the segment. I'll get
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  Speaker 2: done with the segment. And then I can rest my
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  Speaker 2: voice a little bit. And it's like, no, you get
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  Speaker 2: done and you got to do like another live read.
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  Speaker 2: And it's like the whole, the whole thing, which is, uh,
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  Speaker 2: A nightmare. But these are great problems to have. We
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  Speaker 2: have a job, Eddie, where if we just have a
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  Speaker 2: vocal issue, that's a problem. Like it's like if you
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  Speaker 2: have a physical ailment, like a real physical ailment and
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  Speaker 2: you're out paving roads or doing electricity or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: you're an electrician, you're cooked. Like we can still kind
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  Speaker 2: of fake it. And as you were with me when
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  Speaker 2: I was doing the show and I had laryngitis and
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  Speaker 2: nobody said anything. Do you remember that? I had lost
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  Speaker 2: my voice. I was like whispering. And I did a
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  Speaker 2: couple of shows and nobody in management said anything. I
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  Speaker 2: literally had pretty much no voice and they just didn't either.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't listen or they didn't care. And that was
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  Speaker 2: that was that I have learned, though. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 2: get like you. I don't get sick very often when
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  Speaker 2: I do. I will actually now. take a occasional sick
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  Speaker 2: day that will happen.
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Everyone wants to.
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  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Why not? Because I've heard that you don't get to
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  Speaker 2: take those with you. So I like to, I like to,
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  Speaker 2: I want to use those, you know, use those, those
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  Speaker 2: sick days for sure. So we, I've run into a
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  Speaker 2: few times recently. We had the power lunch at Raising King,
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  Speaker 2: which was great. The charger game. I go to most
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  Speaker 2: of those. I saw you and, People are wondering, like,
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  Speaker 2: what we talk about. It's like small talk. We just
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  Speaker 2: kind of catch up a little bit and normally talk
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  Speaker 2: about some of the crazy people that still call the
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  Speaker 2: show that we both know that are characters on the
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  Speaker 2: show and all that. So that kind of stuff comes up.
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  Speaker 2: We don't hear from Doc Mike much anymore, Doc. He's
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  Speaker 2: still out there. He'll call every once in a while,
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  Speaker 2: but he's got so many clients, Eddie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, is that right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Doc can't be bothered. We're low man on
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  Speaker 2: the totem pole on the overnight show. So he's busy
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  Speaker 2: doing whatever he's doing there.
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  Speaker 3: Is he still in South America or has he come
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  Speaker 3: back home?
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  Speaker 2: No, no. He has not been able to go since
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  Speaker 2: the pandemic. So now what he does when the weather
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  Speaker 2: gets bad in Chicago, he'll just drive to Arizona. He's
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  Speaker 2: got a client, he said, in Tucson. He'll go to Florida.
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  Speaker 2: He's all over the place. It's wacky.
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  Speaker 3: There's nuts everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I guess so. He's a big fan. Remember during the
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  Speaker 2: pandemic when he was booking guests? He had that doctor.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you were in that night. He
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  Speaker 2: had a doctor from Colorado. Yeah, I do remember that.
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the conversation, which was not ideal.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it happens. It happens occasionally. Not with guests usually,
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  Speaker 3: but callers sometimes. I hate to feel like I'm at
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  Speaker 3: that age where where we say these things, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: be honest. Usually when I see you after a while,
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  Speaker 3: I will ask who, who has died. Is it, you know, is,
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  Speaker 3: is this person still there?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 3: And then most of the time you say yes, but
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  Speaker 3: occasionally you say, Oh no, I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 3: That person may not be with us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. As long as Dick and Dayton is still with us,
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  Speaker 3: I'll be happy.
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  Speaker 2: The Dixter. He was so happy, Eddie, when I met him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. He, I felt like, uh, it was
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  Speaker 2: like a make a wish thing. It was crazy. It
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  Speaker 2: was so great. Uh, Never before and probably never again
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  Speaker 2: will I meet someone that had the pure joy on
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  Speaker 2: their face as Dick and Dayton. Like this was this
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  Speaker 2: was like a huge thing. One of the few people
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  Speaker 2: left that worships like radio and audio content and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. I think I called you from. Kentucky when
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  Speaker 2: I met him. Did I hand you the phone? I
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  Speaker 2: think I did if I remember.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 3: It was fantastic. It was great to talk to Dick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he was very distraught over the Cleveland Browns
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  Speaker 3: week one performance. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Browns at this point are like a sitcom.
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  Speaker 2: I've determined Todd Munkin, the new coach of the Browns,
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  Speaker 2: is like George Costanza. And he's like, it's not a
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  Speaker 2: lie if you believe it. It's just the stuff the
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  Speaker 2: Browns do is next level. And it's like they're gaslighting
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  Speaker 2: everyone with the things that are going on. Now, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of things going on, how about your Pittsburgh Steelers, Eddie?
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  Speaker 2: Another season. Aaron Rodgers, and right now the Steelers tied
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  Speaker 2: for the top record in the NFL. What is the
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  Speaker 2: Eddie Garcia level of excitement for the 2026 Steelers? One
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  Speaker 2: game in, as we're talking here, one game into the
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  Speaker 2: NFL season. On a scale of 1 to 10, Eddie Garcia,
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  Speaker 2: how positive, how excited are you for this vintage of
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a solid 5 right now. The fact that they
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  Speaker 3: had to hold on and beat Cooper Rush in the
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  Speaker 3: first game against a mediocre Falcon team was not very encouraging.
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  Speaker 3: DK Metcalf has got the hands of an 80-year-old man, apparently.
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  Speaker 3: He can't catch. Otherwise, he's great. He's really good at
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  Speaker 3: pushing off. and really good at looking at himself in
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  Speaker 3: a mirror, probably. But other than that, he's not very good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. The T.J. Watt thing was pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that was a phenomenal play. That was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: But other than that, I thought they were pretty meh.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm kind of pretty meh on Mike McCarthy and
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  Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say Mike McCarthy not. You
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  Speaker 2: were never a big Mike McCarthy fan. And now he's, how.
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  Speaker 3: Does he keep up?
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  Speaker 2: He must be amazing in interviews. And I, we, we
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  Speaker 2: both know people in radio that aren't very good at
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  Speaker 2: radio that get good jobs because they're, they're able to
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  Speaker 2: smooth talk or I, and I said that word schmooze,
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  Speaker 2: I guess is the right word. They're able to schmooze
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  Speaker 2: the bosses. To me, that's like the most important thing.
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  Speaker 2: And McCarthy, he must just have the magic Svengali effect
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  Speaker 2: when he goes in interviews. He's had three of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest jobs in terms of popularity.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The Packers, the Cowboys, and the Steelers. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: Those are the three biggest fan bases in the NFL,
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  Speaker 2: and he's coached three of them. It's insane. That is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: It really is amazing. I guess... I don't know. Like...
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  Speaker 3: does ownership really give a crap that he's from Pittsburgh? Like,
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  Speaker 3: I know that was like the big, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: a Pittsburgh native. This has been his dream job since
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  Speaker 3: he was a child and blah, blah, blah. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure that's true, but like, do we really care
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  Speaker 3: about that? We're like, we're trying to win football games here.
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  Speaker 3: Like just cause he's from here and he's coached in
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  Speaker 3: the NFL before. Like, I hope that was never considered
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  Speaker 3: as a factor in why they hired him, but I
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  Speaker 3: hope he does well. I hope he does well. I
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  Speaker 3: don't believe he will, but I hope he does.
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  Speaker 2: Like, where was Chuck Knoll from? Was he from... I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you don't... Like from Ohio or something,
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  Speaker 3: I think. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that is the... Isn't that the breadbasket of coaches
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  Speaker 2: is Ohio?
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  Speaker 3: The cradle of coaches.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the cradle.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: I screwed that up. The breadbasket. I was thinking about...
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  Speaker 2: I was thinking about bread at an Italian restaurant. As
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  Speaker 2: you know, Eddie, my rule is still the same. If
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  Speaker 2: you go to an Italian restaurant and they don't offer
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  Speaker 2: complimentary bread, it's not a good Italian restaurant. If you
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  Speaker 2: go to a Mexican restaurant and they don't have chips
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  Speaker 2: on the table, not a good Mexican restaurant. Those are standard.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to factor that into the cost of the food.
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  Speaker 2: And if they don't do that, bad job by them.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I was thinking about a bread basket. Because
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  Speaker 2: if you go to an Italian restaurant, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: have the basket of bread on the table. Otherwise, don't go.
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  Speaker 3: Simple. A thousand percent agree. You and I have had
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  Speaker 3: our differences over the years, but that's one thing you
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  Speaker 3: and I will always agree on. Free chips, free bread,
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  Speaker 3: or the places, never again.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a bipartisan issue, and might I add, in
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  Speaker 2: addition to that, it's not free. You're obviously paying for it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to factor that in. It's free.
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  Speaker 3: In my mind, it's free.
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  Speaker 2: I'd also like to see all restaurants just include the
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  Speaker 2: tax on the food item, not like after the fact,
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  Speaker 2: that's annoying to me. There's a few places that say
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  Speaker 2: this is the price. There's no, you know, that tax
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  Speaker 2: is included in that, but they don't, most places don't
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  Speaker 2: do that. That's just a small pet peeve, Eddie, just
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  Speaker 2: a tiny, tiny pet peeve. So we're heading into week
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  Speaker 2: two here, which began obviously on Thursday there last night.
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  Speaker 2: And so heading into week two, I have determined based
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  Speaker 2: on what I have read over the last few days here, Eddie,
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  Speaker 2: that the Rams are not going to win a game.
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  Speaker 2: because of what happened in Australia, and that Sean McVay
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  Speaker 2: is going to leave based on his 60 Minutes interview,
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  Speaker 2: which aired the other day, and he is going to
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  Speaker 2: now go back to television, although he's never really done television,
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  Speaker 2: and it's all over. The Rams, one game in, and
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  Speaker 2: they're done, Eddie. Agree or disagree?
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  Speaker 3: I would probably disagree with that. I think they'll be okay. However,
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  Speaker 3: you know that the other Los Angeles team is very
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  Speaker 3: near and dear to me because of my wife and
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  Speaker 3: her happiness is important to me. So I am praying
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  Speaker 3: for the football gods that there will be a victory
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  Speaker 3: over the Raiders. This weekend or else things will be
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  Speaker 3: in a very bad place in the Garcia household. So
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  Speaker 3: we can make that happen. Football gods win over the
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  Speaker 3: silver and black or else it's going to be a very,
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  Speaker 3: very dark cloud over the Garcia home. So I need
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  Speaker 3: that to happen. Ben, can that happen, please?
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  Speaker 2: Did you did you talk your wife off the ledge
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  Speaker 2: from the Cardinal game? Because that was the the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: who aren't even trying to win. The Cardinals, Jacoby Brissett
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  Speaker 2: made plays for the Cardinals. That was wild.
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  Speaker 3: It was awful. You know, I've always, like in life,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes there are things that always encourage you, you know?
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  Speaker 3: And my wife's optimism has always been an encouraging thing
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  Speaker 3: that somehow after the season ended, where her Chargers have
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  Speaker 3: disappointed her again. She will dust herself off, get up
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  Speaker 3: on her feet, and be ready for the next season.
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  Speaker 3: We were going to the game, and she's like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not even excited. I don't even think they're going to
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  Speaker 3: win this game. She's like, I think they finally have
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  Speaker 3: broken her. So that was not good to see. So
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  Speaker 3: I really need a Raider loss this coming weekend to
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  Speaker 3: lift up my poor wife.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Chargers have this uncanny ability of– If you
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  Speaker 2: look at them on your tablet, they're like, wow, this
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  Speaker 2: is a great team. This is wonderful. And then when
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  Speaker 2: they actually play the games, either what happened where they
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  Speaker 2: just didn't show up, and I don't know what they
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  Speaker 2: were expecting to happen against the Cardinals, or they play well,
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  Speaker 2: and then half the team is out with injury. It's
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  Speaker 2: one of those two things. And I said this the
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  Speaker 2: other night on the radio. Jim Harbaugh... It seems like
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  Speaker 2: he's changed. I don't remember him. I know the quotes
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  Speaker 2: are still goofy and all that, but what I recall,
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  Speaker 2: and it might just be my memory of him with
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  Speaker 2: the 49ers and at Michigan in the early days there,
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  Speaker 2: even though he didn't have a lot of success early
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  Speaker 2: on at Michigan, there was this no BS approach. And
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  Speaker 2: it seems like there's a lot of, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if cutting the corners is the right way, but even
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  Speaker 2: Harbaugh himself said that they should have done more in
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  Speaker 2: training camp. to begin the year so it's it's one
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: of those weird deals with jim harbaugh i thought he
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: would do a much better job i just it's it
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: feels like the same product they change coaches it's like
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: they're they've got a talented roster and it's kind of
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: the same same deal uh and whatnot now believe it
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: or not i have i know the hockey season's starting
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: and i have done yes sir i have you're mr
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: hockey Mr. Hockey. And how many hockey podcasts you got
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: going on right now, Eddie? What do you got?
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Only three.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Only three. Oh, my God.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: All right. What a nightmare.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Three hockey podcasts. So I appeared on a– every once
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: in a while I'll get called to do these random
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: radio shows in like Edmonton or Winnipeg or places like that.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: And I think some of these shows you go on also,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I think. I believe at least one of them, they
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: know who you are. So I go on, and they
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: always get upset that I don't talk too much hockey
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: or whatever. They'll always ask me about the local teams
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: and whatnot in L.A., thinking that I'm Mr. Expert on
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: all this stuff. And so my hot take, I was
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: asked on the spot. I think it was in Edmonton.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: They asked me about the Kings, and I said it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Here's my hot take. They're going to be about the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: same as they were last year. Is that an accurate
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: hot take or is that an outrageously wrong hot take
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: on the outlook for the upcoming LA Kings here in
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the 2026, 2027 season?
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I have to say, I think that's spot on. Yes,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be pretty much the same
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: team we've seen the last five years. They always, they
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: rearrange the deck chairs and the Titanic just a little
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: bit here and there. They bring in a couple of
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: older guys because they love those old guys that are
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: at the end of their career. And I think that
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: these veteran guys are just going to somehow magically have
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: one more great season and push them over the top.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: But do you know, Ben, that the Los Angeles Kings,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: our Los Angeles Kings, have not won a playoff series
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: since you and I were standing on the ice at
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: then Staples Center celebrating a 2014 Stanley Cup championship. They
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: have not won a playoff series since then. And although
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: it doesn't seem like it was that long ago, it
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: was a long time ago.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So I would really like them to somehow win a
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: playoff series. That's what we've gotten now with this team. Now, granted,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of other teams out there that
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: wish they could go to the playoffs five years in
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: a row. Cause that's not nothing, but they lose in
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: the first round every time, usually to Edmonton, not this
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: past year. So again, it looks like this season they'll
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: be good enough to maybe squeak into the playoffs again
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: and then probably lose in the first round.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: So what you're saying is they're stuck in the middle, Eddie.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: They're stuck in the middle.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: 100%.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Unlike the Angels, who are not in the middle. They're
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: at the very bottom, but they also haven't They haven't
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: won a playoff series, haven't even been in the playoffs
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: since 2014, haven't won a playoff series since Mike Socha
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: was the manager back in the day.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Socha.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mike Socha. I was thinking about that. The King stuff,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I was thinking about being there when they won the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup. back, you know, not back to back, but two,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: two out of three, right? Was it two out of three?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: And I remember, and I, I was flashing back because
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Barry Melrose just, and he was out in the media,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: obviously he was doing stuff at ESPN. He was out there.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: And when the Kings won the first Stanley cup, we
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: were all huddled up. I don't think you were with
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: me that, that moment, but we were huddled up underneath
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: the stands waiting for them. Cause they let the media
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: go out in the ice and stuff. It was really cool.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: The hockey was, They do it much better in hockey
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: than in baseball or football or whatever. But when the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: team wins, it's really an awesome thing. So we were
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: underneath waiting. I was underneath waiting to get let out
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: with the media horde to go out on the ice.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: And I happened to be standing and watching on a monitor.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: There's one little monitor underneath the bowels of the arena.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And Barry Melrose happened to be standing next to me
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: as the game ended. They beat the Devils, I believe.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I think it was like.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, so... We were watching him on it. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: was thinking, how cool is this? Like, Barry Melrose was
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: the coach of the Kings when they had that run,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: played Montreal in the Stanley Cup final. Here, they finally
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: win the Stanley Cup, and there he is watching on
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: a small, crappy monitor underneath the arena with me. What
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: a dream come true. But Barry, his career is wild
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: because he had, like, only– I thought he was a
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: good coach. I went back and looked. Like, I don't
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: want to rip him. He just passed away. But he had, like,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: one year.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: One year.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: His first year. His first year. That was it.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: That's crazy to me. And that shows you, all you
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: have to do is make a good first impression, Eddie.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: And then you can kind of look away a little bit.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: To this day, I thought Barry Melrose is a really
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: good coach. No, I mean, he was good for one year,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: and I was out there. I had mentioned this when
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I talked about that kind of run-ins with Barry Mills,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: but I was out there. He was still coaching. He
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: got fired mid-season. I was like, I don't know, 19
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: or 20 or whatever, and he got whacked mid-season and
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: then just went off and did TV, and then he
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: did come back and coach Tampa Bay. That was a disaster.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I remember that.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Very briefly, yes. He was there for like two weeks,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: and then that was it. He said, TV is for me.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Let me go back to do that. This coaching thing is,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I did it. I'm good.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: All right. I'm going to go rapid fire, Eddie. Let's
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: see here. Well, somewhat rapid fire. The biggest storylines in
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: hockey right now. from a non-hockey guy. When I was on,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I did an appearance in Winnipeg. They were freaking out
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: because their goaltender, Connor Hellebuck, he's not happy. He's a malcontent, Eddie.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I believe he's asked for a trade. Give me the
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: inside skinny, Eddie. What's going to happen with the, he's
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: one of the, but I love the name. I don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: know if he's good or not. I like the name.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I hope he's good, but where is he going to
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: end up?
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: He's a great, great regular season goalie and has pooped
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: his pants a la Ben Bishop in the playoffs numerous times.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I'm finally admitting, Eddie. You're finally admitting, Eddie.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I'm doing it to appease you. No, die, die, die.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So you're saying Connor Hellebuck is like the Lamar Jackson
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: of hockey? Is that what you're saying?
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Fair, yes. That's very fair. Very talented, but when it
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: comes to him winning the big one, he comes up
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: very small. Now, he did win the gold medal for
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: the U.S.A., uh, against Canada and he made some fantastic saves.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: So maybe that was a turning point in his career.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: We shall see. Cause he did finally win a big game,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: although that's one game. It's not a seven game series,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: which they do with the Stanley cup playoffs. So he
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: still has to prove he can do it in a series,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: but he did have that one big moment for him.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's taken some of the stink off him, but, uh,
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: I think he goes to the Buffalo Sabres, uh, The Sabres,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: and they're very excited in Buffalo right now with the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Bills and the Sabres, who had a Cinderella season last year.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: And so I think they're going to really try and
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: go for it. So I'm going to say Connor Hellebuck
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: ends up in Buffalo.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, take that. Where's Andy the comic book guy?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: He's no longer the comic book guy. Remember Andy the
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: comic book guy? He's no longer Mr.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Comic Book. I do. I do remember him, yeah.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: He's gone from comic books now. He didn't call the
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: show much. He's working the dreaded day shift and all that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's too bad.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: But Edmonton, they have a new coach, right? Don't they
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: have a guy that was in some controversy there in
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Edmonton or not?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah. You probably remember him when he was doing the
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Mighty Ducks back in the early days there. Were you
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: not covering the team when he was down there?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, Mike Babcock. Yeah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: My favorite Ducks coach was Ron Wilson. That's old school.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Ron was great. But yeah, Mike Babcock, he's been out
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: for a few years, right?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I think. Yeah. He told everyone he was retired. And
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: then Edmonton said, we'd like to hire you. And he said, what? Okay, sure.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I'll do that. I'll coach the greatest player in the
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: world and Connor McDavid. But yeah, he, he, you know, he,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: he got the ducks to the cup final way back when,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: and then he won a cup with a really, really
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: good Detroit team. And then he went to Toronto and
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: it was like a disaster. And then he went to
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Columbus and he got fired before he even coached a game.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Cause he's, A lot of things have come out about
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: what a D-bag he is. But the Oilers apparently said,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: we don't care. Go ahead and bring him here. And
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: they're doing anything to try and appease Conor McDavid, so
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: he resigns there. So we'll see how that works out.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: It could be good. It could be a complete disaster.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Not sure of that guy because he's a bit of
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: a wacko.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Come on, Eddie. Conor McDavid of the Kings. Who says no?
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: It happened before. Edmonton star goes to the Kings a
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: million years ago.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: All we need is the Edmonton Oiler to be in
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: financial ruin and sell off his best player for cash.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I don't think that that's going to happen, but I'd
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: be okay seeing it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Where's Bruce McNall when you need him? Can we get
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Bruce McNall back to make that?
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: That was a hell of a thing. That was not
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: quite the Islanders guy. Remember that New York Islanders guy
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: who came a hair within buying the team and he
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: actually had no money?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, actually, I just watched the 30 for 30.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: It's one of the best.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is great. The guy had he just got
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: in with rich people. And it turns out when you're
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: around rich people, they assume you're rich if you get
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: into these country clubs and things like that. So he
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: was like hanging out with these guys in the Hamptons.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And then just by hanging out with him, he ended
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: up getting in a position where he almost got an
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: NHL team. That is incredible. That is one of the,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: it is really, it's an old documentary now, but it's great.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: It's one of those 30 for 30 on the Islanders,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: which is, which is wonderful. I actually went on by,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not, I don't remember the name. I was on
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the morning show in Minnesota and one of the guys,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: they have like a morning zoo type thing with a
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: bunch of people. And one of the guys was a
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: former New York Islander who had, who had been with
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: the team kind of around that time. And so we were,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: we were chatting about that, which was, which was kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of cool. What happened to my guy Torch? Vegas goes
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: to the Stanley Cup, and they rudely kicked him out.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: That's not very nice, Eddie.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Well, they're not very nice in Vegas. They really don't care.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I was thinking they're kind of like the Raiders under
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: Al Davis. Like they don't give an F about anybody
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: or anything. It's just win, baby. And there's a part
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: of me that does kind of respect that. But, you know,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: they've kind of... They don't treat people very well, but
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: they've had a ton of success. I mean, there's probably
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: no North American sports franchise, at least from day one,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: that's been as successful as that team. But Torts really
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: killed himself, honestly. He had that thing in Anaheim where
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: he told he didn't talk to the media or let
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: his players talk to the media after a playoff game.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: And that's a major no-no with the NHL. And so
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: they got docked a draft pick and he got fined.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: And that did not sit well with the general manager
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: and the ownership there. And, you know, if he wins
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: the cup, maybe they bring him back. But you never
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: know with Vegas. They do all kinds of– they do
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: their own thing and they don't care about it, about
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: what anybody thinks of it.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I would think that that's it, right? He's almost 70,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: John Tortorella, at this point.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think so, Ben. I think he's going to
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: get another job. I think it'll be a similar situation
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: where some team is really underachieving and they need somebody
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to come in and kick him in the ass, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: he will definitely take the job. Guaranteed that. So I
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: bet he gets another job. I don't think anyone will
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: hire him at the start of the season, but as
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: a mid-season replacement, I could see it happening.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm all for it. As you know, the
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: greatest quote by a coach that is generic is we
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: sucked at a time we cannot suck, which is universally
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: great for any sport. John Tortorella's rant.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: And true.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. But it's so perfect. And I use it
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: all the time. I shadow. I don't give him credit anymore.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: It's been too many years, but I love that quote.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: We suck at a time you cannot suck, which is
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: so great. Rather than just the usual bull crap that
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: we get, just come out and say it, and that's it,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and Tortorella did it. What else is going on? There's
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: more games. Explain this to me, Eddie. I'm not that smart.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Explain it to me like I'm five years old. So
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: for years, we have done, on the overnight show, I've
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: done rants about, there's too many games you know people
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: complain there's too many baseball games there's too many basketball
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: games and the NHL this year has decided to play
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: more regular season games they're playing what is the logic
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: behind this.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Eddie Um, I guess, I don't know, more money, uh,
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: two extra.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Money, but they're going to 84 games. Is that right?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: They've got more games.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, they did like the NFL. They got rid
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: of some preseason games and added on a couple of
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: regular season games. So yeah, we'll see. It doesn't, I don't,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: it doesn't bother me. I love hockey. So more hockey
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: is good for me, but get ready for expansion. Ben,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: we're going to have new NHL teams coming in here
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: pretty soon. So We're going to have even more teams,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: more markets, more players. It's going to happen.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: More teams in warm weather cities that will annoy our
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: friends in Canada?
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Yes. It'll be Houston, Atlanta, or Phoenix. One of those
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: three places will get a team.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Our old buddy Scott Farrell can come back and be
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: the voice of the Atlanta team. That's my Scott Farrell
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: in person.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I thought it was him. I thought he had joined
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the interview.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: I've had him on this podcast and Scott was in
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: a hotel room in New Jersey. He claimed to be
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: on a bed filled with cash that he had won
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: at the casino. And with him, normally you'd say, well,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: that's not true. But with him, it's possible. And I'm
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: still upset at you, Eddie. I could have had Lenny
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Dykstra in studio, but you did not allow me to
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: have the president.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? You can have him now. You
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: can have him come in all four hours, sit right
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: next to you, do whatever the hell you want, as
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: long as I'm not there.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I've heard he's cleaned up his life a little bit now.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: He literally has.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Because those guys change, right? Because those guys change.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Well, think about, though, the other day I was contemplating,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: when we were younger back in the day, the biggest
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: sports stars of the 1980s, let's say, you would have
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: assumed that a lot of those guys would not make
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: it to be older guys.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Mike Tyson.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: He's still alive.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Can't believe it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Dwight Gooden, Daryl Strawberry. These guys were out there living
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: crazy lives. It is wild. Mike Tyson's becoming an older man.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson, that's a gift. And it's something that we
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: just assumed he would not He would not have. All right, well,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: real quick, I'll get out on this. So the most
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: improved team in hockey right now for the hockey people, Eddie,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the most improved team is blank.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Most improved? Like, was it good last year and will
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: be good this year?
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Baker won the offseason. How about that? Team that won
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the offseason.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Washington Capitals, I think, won the offseason. They had a
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: lot of really good upgrades. They didn't make the playoffs
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: last year. They'll make the playoffs this year. I think
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: the San Jose sharks are going to make the playoffs
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: this year. They've been rebuilding for a long time. They're
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: probably going to get in this year as well. And
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: Montreal Canadians are building something really, really good, really good now.
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  Speaker 3: And really, really young and a lot of good prospects too.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to be very good. for many years to come.
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  Speaker 2: All right. And I did read the other day and
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you love this. I read that the ducks
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: had the worst possible off season. They lost like three
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: or four of their top players. Is this accurate, Eddie?
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  Speaker 2: They had a terrible time and they're going to suck
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  Speaker 2: this year. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. They had something I think you would have enjoyed. They,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: the Philadelphia flyers screwed them over. They signed their best
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: young player to this massive offer sheet. And then the
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: ducks had to either match it or let them walk
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  Speaker 3: for four first round picks. They matched it. So they're
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: massively overpaying this guy and they've had a, And they've
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: got another young player they have to sign, which they
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: haven't signed yet. And so they're cutting players loose to
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: make room under the salary cap. So yes, they're, they're,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: they're a bit screwed. They were going in the right
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  Speaker 3: direction and now not so much.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I got you. Well, Eddie, how can people
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: find your, your podcast? If they haven't found you yet,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: if they're like, Hey, what happened to Eddie? How can
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: they find you? How can they listen to your podcast?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: I know you've got three of them. So where can
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: people go?
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Well, there's the puck podcast, which Ben is the longest
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: running hockey podcast on the planet earth. We were in
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: our 20th year of doing a show every week. There's
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: no other show that's been around longer. Prove me wrong.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: It's the longest running hockey podcast in the history of
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: the world. So just search for puck podcast, wherever you
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: get your podcast, Spotify, Apple podcasts, all that kind of
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: good stuff. We're, we're everywhere. If you, if you like
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: the LA Kings, there's locked on LA Kings, which I
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: do at least five days a week, usually six days
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: a week, especially now that the season's coming. And if
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: that weren't enough, there's locked on NHL game night where
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: four days a week, I will recap the night in
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: the NHL and tell you what's going on in hockey.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: So check out all those things, wherever you get your
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: podcasts and on YouTube for the lockdown shows as well.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Outstanding. Thank you, Eddie. I appreciate it. Support Eddie. Come on, listen,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: even if you're not a hockey guy, subscribe to the
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: podcast and listen to Eddie. He'll yap your ear off
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: about all things hockey. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I'll see you at a charger game down the line.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: We'll hang out again.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Hopefully we'll see them get a win for my poor wife.
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  Speaker 3: But yes, I'll see you there.