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Hitman talks to Joey Erickson Corpus Christi IceRays vs Oklahoma · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Corpus Christy's Classic Kids, Big ninety three nine, Hit Man
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  Speaker 1: with You and I've gotten the studios right now. The man,
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  Speaker 1: the myth, the legend, anything, he's a I call him
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  Speaker 1: the Hockey Lord. Now here we go, Joe Erickson with
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  Speaker 1: the Corpus Christy Ice Raised. Dude, what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a wonderful introduction.
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  Speaker 3: It's been too long. We were on the road for
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  Speaker 3: ten days straight. Isn't that crazy out in West Texas?
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  Speaker 3: A lot of bus rides, a lot of hotels, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad to be back here in the coastal Bend.
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  Speaker 1: So we got games going on Tomorrow and Saturday at
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  Speaker 1: the Hilliard Center. Tickets are still on sale right now,
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  Speaker 1: go ice Raise dot com. Correct, and there's some special
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  Speaker 1: things that are happening Friday and Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a big weekend for a sort of kicking
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  Speaker 3: off an eight game homestand which is awesome. We'll be
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  Speaker 3: home for the next four weeks, so that is a
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  Speaker 3: big deal in itself. But Friday, we have a toy
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  Speaker 3: drive which will benefit Nate's Next Kid Up, which is
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful organization started by Nate Gonzalez. He's a young
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  Speaker 3: kid here in Corpus Christy and he gets back to
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  Speaker 3: the foster care community here and Corpus Christy. So the
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  Speaker 3: toys will be donated to the foster care system, and
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  Speaker 3: fans that do bring in one unwrapped toy you can
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  Speaker 3: bring it to the Hillier Center box office outside we'll
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  Speaker 3: get a free ticket to the game. So it's a
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  Speaker 3: great way to give back to the community and also
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  Speaker 3: enjoy some hockey. And then Saturday is really really fun night.
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  Speaker 3: It's our Teddy Bear toss Night and it's a big
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  Speaker 3: deal in the hockey community. I know, we just talked
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  Speaker 3: to you Ara bit about some of the craziness that
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  Speaker 3: connect Rude.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know what a teddy bear toss out is,
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  Speaker 1: basically you need to go online and go to either
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  Speaker 1: YouTube or Instagram or Facebook and look what happens. It's
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  Speaker 1: when they make a goal.
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  Speaker 3: Right, correct, So when the ice Rays score first, everybody
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  Speaker 3: in the stands will have a bear and you just
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  Speaker 3: throw them on the ice. When the ice Rays score,
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  Speaker 3: you just throw those puppies on there and those will also.
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  Speaker 2: Benefit Nate sex coult up. So it's a kind of
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  Speaker 2: a double way Ami weekend for them.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, and then you just litter the ice with
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  Speaker 3: bears and the guys are celebrating, and then you get
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  Speaker 3: trucks on the ice to clean them up.
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  Speaker 2: It's a whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: I think Hershey, the Hershey Bears made it really popular.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if they invented it kind of the idea,
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  Speaker 3: but they made it really popular. So if you do
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  Speaker 3: go on YouTube, look at the Hurshey Bears, because there
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  Speaker 3: are insane what they were able to do.
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  Speaker 1: So Saturday, make sure you bring a Teddy Bear. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care where you get to. Go to the
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  Speaker 1: dollar store, give you life size, yeah, live size, and
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  Speaker 1: bring them to the and bring them to the game
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  Speaker 1: so you can toss it out on the on at
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  Speaker 1: the game. It's gonna be it's gonna be really really
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  Speaker 1: cool that. Now have you done this before?
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  Speaker 3: So I've done a couple of them now since I've
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  Speaker 3: been in the league. So once I got in the
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  Speaker 3: lead a couple of years ago. The first one I
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  Speaker 3: did was in Wisconsin. I was with the team. But
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  Speaker 3: last year is my first year in Corpus and it
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  Speaker 3: was one of our huge nights. It was around Christmas time,
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  Speaker 3: as well right, it's it's just a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: Grayson Gerhard, I believe, scored the the Teddy Bear toss goal.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's always a big thing. Who's going to score
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  Speaker 2: the goals? So get get your pick sins.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go with Chase Nearing. I feel like I want
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  Speaker 2: to go on the record with this. I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 3: Chase Nearing gets it done for the boys. He's been
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  Speaker 3: on a on a good tear lately.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, So what's the latest concerning the Corpus Christy
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  Speaker 1: ice race.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us what's going on right now? Man, They're doing awesome.
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  Speaker 3: They've won six out of the last seven games. We
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  Speaker 3: just came back from that big road trip. We won
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  Speaker 3: four of five over the last brilliant seven days. Five
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  Speaker 3: games and seven days, which is quite a lot. They
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  Speaker 3: won four or five. So they're starting to turn things around,
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  Speaker 3: playing some of the best hockey of the year. So
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  Speaker 3: we're really looking forward to this home stand to be
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  Speaker 3: back in front of our home fans. We got Oklahoma
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, the Warriors, first time we're playing them this season,
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  Speaker 3: so things are looking up for Corpus. Chrisy has a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a tough start, but they're starting to put
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  Speaker 3: it together, which is a good sign.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So on Friday and Saturday, what time does the
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  Speaker 1: hockey drop seven o five, Pucky drop hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Puffy hockey, pup drop seven o five put drop doors
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  Speaker 2: open it at six?
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  Speaker 3: So of course if you're bringing in lots of teddy bears,
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  Speaker 3: get there at six. You can fit them all in
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  Speaker 3: the door when you Yeah, when you get in, there's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be letters of Santa, pictures with Santa as well
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  Speaker 3: ornament making throughout the we can of the concourse, so
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna be exciting. And one more, it's a postgame
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  Speaker 3: skate on Saturday, which is always fun, presented by RTFC,
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  Speaker 3: which is free.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, a lot of a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Things upcoming And if you want to find out more details,
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  Speaker 1: everybody can just go to go ice rays dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's also where you can get your ice raised merch
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  Speaker 1: and much much more. It's if you've not gone to Actually,
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  Speaker 1: the weather right now is perfect, yes for to go
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  Speaker 1: to an ice hockey game, So if you've never been
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  Speaker 1: to one, make sure you get your tickets and make
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  Speaker 1: sure you make it out there again. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to find out more details. Go to go ice rais
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  Speaker 1: dot com to get some more info. Is there anything
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  Speaker 1: else that's going on?
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe so, just a lot of good hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Probably some fights.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to guarantee anything, but yeah, it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing I think, I think the one thing
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  Speaker 1: everybody's looking forward to is the Teddy Bear toss. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be huge Saturday. You need to
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  Speaker 1: make it on out for that. I think that's something
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  Speaker 1: that and somebody better film this and put it up.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Oh I'm gonna I'm I think I think I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna have a camera out. Why I'm broadcasting that way
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  Speaker 3: we can kind of see the whole thing, so I
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  Speaker 3: can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: Usually I go with let those Teddy.
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  Speaker 3: Bears fly after the goal, so that it'll probably be
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  Speaker 3: the call it lots of fun.
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  Speaker 1: All right, man, Well, thanks a lot for coming in today.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thank you. All right.
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  Speaker 1: On the way, we've got more classic gets coming up
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  Speaker 1: on Big ninety three to nine.