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Hitman talks to Steve Carlson from the 1977 Paul Newman Movie Slap Shot · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Corpus Christy's Classic Kids MiG ninety three nine. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: It is hit Man with you and you know it's
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  Speaker 2: happening on Saturday over at the Hilliard Center with the
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  Speaker 2: Corpus Christy Ice Rays.
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  Speaker 1: It's old time hockey Night and one of the big features.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be there from the nineteen seventy seven
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  Speaker 2: Paul Newman movie Slap Shot. Mister Steve Carlson is going
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  Speaker 2: to be there. Steve, how are you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing great, Jeff. Everything's going well and I'm really
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  Speaker 3: looking forward today the Corpus CHRISTI.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now you know the movie slap Shot. You're one
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  Speaker 2: of the Hansom brothers or Steve Hanson. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was the origin. I think of some other great movies,
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  Speaker 2: like the movie Major League and also Ted Lasso, the
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  Speaker 2: TV series. There's a bunch of other movies because the
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  Speaker 2: same type of storyline as the movie Slap Shot.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, actually not really, because Jeff, just to make it
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  Speaker 3: everything clear, the movie is based on three Carls from
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  Speaker 3: brothers that played in Johnston, Pennsylvania for the Johnson Jets.
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  Speaker 3: We're at the Farm Tuman in Minnesota fighting Saints of
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  Speaker 3: the World.
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  Speaker 4: Hockey Association.
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  Speaker 3: We all, me and my two books all had long
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  Speaker 3: hair and black glasses, and we wore safety glasses when
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  Speaker 3: we played.
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  Speaker 4: And I wasn't one of them. I was kind of
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  Speaker 4: a tough guy.
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  Speaker 3: But my two brothers were the enforcers and we played
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  Speaker 3: as the line and a lot of that stuff in
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  Speaker 3: the movie is actually happened. You know, we went to
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  Speaker 3: the stands and got arrested. We did jump a team
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  Speaker 3: in warm ups. That's the way the game used to
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  Speaker 3: be played. It's the old Broadstreet Bully type of days
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  Speaker 3: where when the puckers dropped, the gloves came off.
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  Speaker 2: Also, yeah, was it actually when I was reading about
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  Speaker 2: the synopsis of it on the IMDb, they were calling it.
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  Speaker 1: They called it goon hockey? Is that what they called it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they called it boon hockey.
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  Speaker 3: But I call it enforces because you know, when you
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  Speaker 3: had back in those days, you had your superstars like
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  Speaker 3: the Gretzki's and the g Lafloor's and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and you had to have and Bobby Clark for the
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  Speaker 3: flyers and all that stuff, Bill Barber, you had to
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  Speaker 3: have the enforcers to protect them because back in those days,
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  Speaker 3: when you had the puck. When you had the puck, you.
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  Speaker 4: Had to be hit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, that was the game.
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  Speaker 4: Yea yeah, and if a fight break, but so be it.
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  Speaker 4: That's the way he used to be played.
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  Speaker 3: And granted the game has changed a little bit, and uh,
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  Speaker 3: but uh it was pretty studying hockey. And uh that's
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  Speaker 3: why I really look forward to the playoff hockey because
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  Speaker 3: that they the rfee puts their whistle away and that's
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  Speaker 3: the way they go back to the old time, the
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  Speaker 3: way he used to be played.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we're talking with Steve Carlson. He's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: part of Old Time Hockey Night.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: That's happening on Saturday at the Hilliard Center with the
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  Speaker 2: Ice Razer. In fact, they're coming out with a special
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  Speaker 2: slap shot hockey jersey that they'll be wearing that night.
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  Speaker 2: And of course you'll have a chance to meet mister
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  Speaker 2: Carlson there and uh, much much more. Speaking of Gretzky,
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  Speaker 2: I heard I read in your bio that you were
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  Speaker 2: your roommates with him and also played with the Edmonton Oilers.
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  Speaker 3: I did play with the Edmonds because when Gretzky played,
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  Speaker 3: when he first started pro with the Indianapolis Racers, they
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  Speaker 3: folded after about a month and a half. Two months
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  Speaker 3: into the season, and Gretzky, Eddie Meal and Peter Driscoll
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  Speaker 3: was traded to the Vonton Oilers. And I was up
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  Speaker 3: in Edmonton planer and he with my roommate for a
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  Speaker 3: little bit there.
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  Speaker 1: Wow wow. And then later on you played for the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Kings. How is that? Well?
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  Speaker 4: Skip friends?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know when I'm from northern Minnesota and
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  Speaker 3: in LA. You know, when you come on the hockey
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  Speaker 3: rink and you got all these fans that really don't
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  Speaker 3: know the game very well. They would say, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the game was really great, but you got to stage
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  Speaker 3: those fights a little better. They really didn't understand the
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  Speaker 3: game very much.
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  Speaker 4: But like I said, it's changed a lot.
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  Speaker 3: And also just one more added information is I also
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  Speaker 3: centered Gordie Howard Mark how with the now Wavers.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, wow, man.
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  Speaker 3: Seem I'm one of six players that played with Gretzky
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  Speaker 3: and Gordie Howe.
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  Speaker 1: Wow that man, you need to write a book. I
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  Speaker 1: swear I.
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  Speaker 3: Got over one hundred page dis already written. But I'll
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  Speaker 3: give you a good example of how good Cody Howard
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  Speaker 3: Mark how was I centered them? And when I first
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  Speaker 3: got underline, I said, Steve, going planner in net, stick
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  Speaker 3: on the ape and point your blade towards the net
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  Speaker 3: and we'll shoot it off your stick to go in
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  Speaker 3: the net. I got four goals that week.
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  Speaker 4: I Player of the Week.
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  Speaker 3: I'd already be shooting the puck one.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, we're talking with mister Steve Carlson. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: be here Saturday with the corpus Chrissy Ice raise.
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  Speaker 1: Hey.
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  Speaker 2: I got to ask this one question. You know, because
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  Speaker 2: of the popularity now of the both the men and
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  Speaker 2: women winning the gold medal and hockey in the Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: and of course that Netflix show he did, Rivalry hockey
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  Speaker 2: is actually starting to make a bigger comeback, better than ever.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jeff, I just want to add one more thing
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  Speaker 3: to this. I've been watching the Paralympics right now in
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  Speaker 3: the United States. Just beat China this morning seven to one.
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  Speaker 3: They're going for the gold also, so we're going for
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  Speaker 3: a three way sweep this year in an Olympics. So
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  Speaker 3: I tell you I watched the Paralympics, that I met them,
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  Speaker 3: I've been on the ice with them.
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  Speaker 4: These guys and gals are so talented. It's unbelievable what
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  Speaker 4: they can do.
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  Speaker 3: On the ice with the whole blade touching the ice.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they were supposed to win the Gold and
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  Speaker 3: Canada Game. A good run for it, United States. You
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  Speaker 3: know they say the United States is coming back. We
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  Speaker 3: never left because you look at the last Olympics, they
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  Speaker 3: beat us in overtime. You look at the Four Nations, they.
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  Speaker 4: Beat us in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't like they're comedy of we've caught them. And
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  Speaker 3: right now I would say, I'm not saying that we're
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  Speaker 3: better than they are, but we're really really darn close. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, we're talking with Steve Carlson, who's going to be
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  Speaker 2: your Saturday with the Corpus Christy Ice Rays. You also
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  Speaker 2: was a great coach and also with the Bishop McCourt
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  Speaker 2: High School where you won five state titles and now
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  Speaker 2: you run it's called Steve Carlson Hockey.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me a little bit about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're looking at that. We won four state championships,
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  Speaker 3: two years in a row. We were undefeated. It was
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  Speaker 3: pretty interesting because my last year I coached the Bishop
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  Speaker 3: McCourt High School team, we had thirteen freshmen two seniors
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  Speaker 3: and two juniors, and we finished. We finished eighth in
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  Speaker 3: the in the league. We put we're playing number one
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  Speaker 3: seed in the in the conference. And I told him,
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  Speaker 3: I said, if we go run and govern with these guys,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to kick guard. But so I taught my
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  Speaker 3: players how to play the left wing trap. You know,
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  Speaker 3: nothing really works out as a coach, nothing really works
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  Speaker 3: out as you planned. So I told him, I said,
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  Speaker 3: let me bitness game for the first two and a
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  Speaker 3: half periods.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to play uh left wing trap.
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  Speaker 3: And with five minutes left in the game, I said,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to call time out.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to go and we're going.
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  Speaker 3: To start attacking him. I said, when we score, don't celebrate,
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  Speaker 3: come right back to the bench, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: go back to the left wing trap. There was nothing,
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  Speaker 3: nothing with five minutes left.
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  Speaker 4: The game, but called time out.
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  Speaker 3: I said, okay, let's attack them because they're not going
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  Speaker 3: to expect its.
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  Speaker 4: Sheers heck jeff bam. We went and scored a goal.
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  Speaker 3: We read them one nothing. We went on to win
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  Speaker 3: the state championship. It was pretty interesting because I said,
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  Speaker 3: as a coach, you can you can diagram it.
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  Speaker 4: You can put exs and o's all over.
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  Speaker 3: It never worked. It's got to do after your mistake
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  Speaker 3: is very crucial. But it was fun. Steve Carlson Hockey.
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  Speaker 3: I ran power skating causes. If you can't skate, you
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  Speaker 3: can't play. I tell you play. These young kids, five
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  Speaker 3: six seven year olds, learn to skate. Don't put a
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  Speaker 3: puck on an egge. Learn to skate because if you
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  Speaker 3: can't skate, you can't play. You got to get point
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  Speaker 3: A to point B quickly and your skills you can.
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  Speaker 3: You can stick here in the basement with a tennis
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  Speaker 3: ball all you want, but you can't skate in the basement.
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  Speaker 4: So these kids have to learn how to skate.
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  Speaker 3: You first, Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Now of course I got to ask you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how was it working with Paul Newman?
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: We're not real but glisk he was seventeen years old.
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  Speaker 3: They really couldn't shoot the puck very well, couldn't skate
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  Speaker 3: very well.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't have much talent. They'd just say through it.
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  Speaker 4: Newman he was You ever noticed that Newman never won the.
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  Speaker 3: Academy Award till Actors slap Shot. You know, it was
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  Speaker 3: one of these things that no one really liked the guys,
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  Speaker 3: so we brought him over at our house. A handsome mother.
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  Speaker 4: They brought him over at our house. You know, we
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  Speaker 4: had a great supper.
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  Speaker 3: We made a great salad with their whole mother's solid dressing.
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  Speaker 3: We made our spaghetti with mom style or spaghetti sauce.
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  Speaker 3: And what's the guy doing?
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  Speaker 4: He stole all of our recipes. We let him slide
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  Speaker 4: because he gave all his money as a hol in
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  Speaker 4: the og gang or cherry on that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what, Paul of them was a great man,
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  Speaker 3: great athlete, great humanitarian and a great great actor, just
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  Speaker 3: unbelievable human being and godness, Ushul, he's looking down as
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  Speaker 3: in heaven right now. But it is an honor because
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  Speaker 3: during the film, in the slopshot, he would come to
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  Speaker 3: us as a hockey as an actress at Steve or
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  Speaker 3: Jeff or whoever, what would a coach do? What w
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  Speaker 3: were a player do in this situation? And we would
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  Speaker 3: do the same thing, mister Paul Newman, Paul, what were
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  Speaker 3: we do? You know he would come to us and
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  Speaker 3: give us an advice on how to act because we
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  Speaker 3: weren't accause I was nineteen years old twenty years old.
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  Speaker 3: I had no clue. I didn't have to work that summer,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, my first three paychecks with the Minnesota Funny
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  Speaker 3: Saints and the minor leagues bounced. You know.
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  Speaker 4: We kept on playing because we loved the game that much.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, Well, I'm looking forward to meeting you on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday at the Hilliard Center. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: great old time hockey night featuring slap shot star Steve Carlson,
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  Speaker 2: one of the Hanson brothers, and looking forward to seeing
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  Speaker 2: you there. I appreciate you taking the time to talk
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  Speaker 2: to us today and like I said, looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: seeing you on Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks SHEFFERD.
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  Speaker 3: Make sure when I see you, make sure you have
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  Speaker 3: the foil on.