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Nate Thompson Returns: Maple Leaf Meltdown, Olympic Replacements and Oscar Nominations Reaction. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: podcasts coming up on an NHL and scripted cinefiland sixty
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  Speaker 1: reaction to the Oscar nominations as Sinners makes History. Plus
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  Speaker 1: Nate Thompson will be joining us and he'll be with
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  Speaker 1: us intermittently here at NHL Unscripted.
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  Speaker 2: Plus the Wall of Saint Paul could be in for
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  Speaker 2: a new nickname, JD. Good to be with you.
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  Speaker 1: As always, travel nightmares for most people coming back anywhere
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  Speaker 1: that were traveling this weekend. Snowmagedin, afflicting all of us
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  Speaker 1: here in New Jersey. Tal somehow spared in southern California
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  Speaker 1: had to get to Deadmonton. So it was just we're
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  Speaker 1: able you all to get up Sunday. So first flight Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: United cancels it Saturday nights. At least I know it's canceled, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: supposed to go to supposed to go to Toronto, then Edmonton,
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  Speaker 1: but I knew what was going to happen, so alertly
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  Speaker 1: we tried to pivot to Denver, but United canceled that
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  Speaker 1: flight Saturday night. Dead I'm sending job by the Amazon
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  Speaker 1: travel folks there. Let's go to Denver because Denverson expecting snow.
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  Speaker 2: Denver, Edmonton.
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  Speaker 1: All right, get to LaGuardia Sunday morning dead, No one's
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  Speaker 1: on the road.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Couldn't have been a smoother ride at Denver, which notoriously
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  Speaker 1: has bad turbulence because that airport. We're rock abount in
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  Speaker 1: near we can all speak to this. But shockingly, no turbulence.
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  Speaker 1: I land within fifteen minutes, made by connection to me
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  Speaker 1: and Thomas Iicki Blake Boldon living the good life.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, on the way back, not nearly as desirable. Red
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  Speaker 1: eye out of Edmonton to Toronto in danger of that
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  Speaker 1: not happening because the second leg of my flight, which
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  Speaker 1: was Toronto to Newark, was canceled. So as I've checked in,
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  Speaker 1: we've gone to security about to line up. Guys, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a ticket, That's what I mean. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: they canceled the second leg of your flight. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Toronto to Newark. But I'll rebook that when I
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  Speaker 1: get to Toronto. He's like, nope, the whole thing's canceled.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, I need to get on.
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  Speaker 1: I can't be a vagabond sleeping the Edmonton airport. I
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  Speaker 1: need to get on this flight. Then get to trial
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  Speaker 1: rey book. He's like airport too, he said, well exactly,
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  Speaker 1: not great, because I'll see what I can do.
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  Speaker 2: Anything gets me in the flight, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: I get to Air Canada. Go there, Hey, seven thirty
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  Speaker 1: was canceled. I know I need to rebook. We can
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  Speaker 1: get you in the four thirty. I gotta be at
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  Speaker 1: work at two MLB tonight. I'm on the air from
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  Speaker 1: five till six. There's a noon flight, there's a two
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  Speaker 1: o'clock flight.
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  Speaker 2: Both those are booked. Okay, call him is on travel.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just cancel the flight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeap United nine to thirty, No problem, get to United
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  Speaker 1: nine o'clock flight canceled? Oh for two because there's a
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  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen delta. Like all right, he goes, But
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  Speaker 1: you're in America right now, like what you've gone through customs.
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  Speaker 1: You have to get out of customs now, then go
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  Speaker 1: to a different terminal, a piercing get to delta. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: by the time I got through customs, by the time
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  Speaker 1: I got to the terminal, forty five minutes check in.
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  Speaker 1: I'm forty check in. We're now zero for three. I
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  Speaker 1: call on man, oh and I go, this is our
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  Speaker 1: last shot. I gotta get to work at two. How
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  Speaker 1: do you feel about Porter? He's like, all right, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'll hop in an uber forty five minutes drive downtown Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: There's a twelve thirty Porter. No security, very few planes.
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  Speaker 3: Orter, just let you walk on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm sort of I don't thin I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonnacheck my passport. I think I just walked in the guy.
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  Speaker 1: We trust you, we believe you. Go ahead, and you
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  Speaker 1: go on one of those planes. And I felt like
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  Speaker 1: Richie Allen's and LaBamba, like you're taking your life in
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  Speaker 1: your hands. I mean, this is one of those it's
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  Speaker 1: always a concern the plane where they say tell us
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  Speaker 1: your weight and don't lie, because they're worried about weight
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  Speaker 1: distribution in case there's too much weight in one part
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  Speaker 1: of the plane. Good news as I got there forty
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  Speaker 1: minutes late. Missed the meeting, but a hell of a
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  Speaker 1: show and will be tonight. Me and Michael will killed it.
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  Speaker 1: This is air travel in today's day and age my flower'
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  Speaker 1: gonna give flowers later. I'm giving flowers to Owen.
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  Speaker 2: That's my guy.
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  Speaker 1: Did a phenomenal job at Amazon Travel, despite two cancelations
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  Speaker 1: in a misflight still got to work on time.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's good too, and you missed the meeting, which is,
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  Speaker 4: as we know, the pre production meetings sometimes, especially for
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  Speaker 4: like MLB Tonight and Chill Tonight, it's like, hey, guys,
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  Speaker 4: what's up. All right, we're gonna talk about some games.
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  Speaker 4: You guys obviously on a base that you've other stuff
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  Speaker 4: to cheap to worry about. But right, yeah, it's good.
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  Speaker 4: They got you running around the country like good news is.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, that's a hell of an arena.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, once you get to Deadminton, it's a trek
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  Speaker 1: to get their northern number. Once you're there, though, hell
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  Speaker 1: of an arena. Great game, I mean, oilers running wild
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  Speaker 1: on the the Anheim Ducks.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good game, at least to me. I
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  Speaker 2: got it.
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  Speaker 4: It's like you're in witness protection and you're getting chased
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  Speaker 4: around the country and they just keep shuffling from place
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  Speaker 4: to place.
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  Speaker 2: It does feel that way.
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  Speaker 3: Artists, working man and sports I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to go that far. You had a stretch. It
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  Speaker 2: was tougher than me.
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  Speaker 1: You had a two week stretch from about December around
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  Speaker 1: Christmas time at January when you were carrying the company
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  Speaker 1: and the podcast for the Winter Classic.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, we try, still trying to battle to get
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  Speaker 4: that extra day's pay, but we'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good look in the double invoicing.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's talk about the sky is falling
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  Speaker 1: right now for the taummea beliefs.
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  Speaker 2: Up in the sky, it's a bird.
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  Speaker 1: William Neelander found a way to make the least for
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  Speaker 1: one lost Sunday night to Colorado just a.
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  Speaker 2: Little more interesting.
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  Speaker 1: During a break in action with the Avalanche leading Toronto
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  Speaker 1: three to nothink Camerascott Nielander some of his injured teammates
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  Speaker 1: in the skybox taking in the game. That's when Slick
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  Speaker 1: Willie gave the old one finger salute to the camera.
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  Speaker 2: You apologize for it.
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  Speaker 1: Monday morning, NHL find him five thousand dollars. I think
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  Speaker 1: a greaters is the fact that team stinks. They followed
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  Speaker 1: up by falling seven to four to Buffalo on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost seven of eight. Craig Bruby he got fifty
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  Speaker 1: stitches for a gash in his head courtesy of a
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  Speaker 1: workout mishap. They also got pumped six y three by
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  Speaker 1: Vegas and Mitch Moore's much anticipate return of Toronto and
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  Speaker 1: Austin Matthews isn't talking to the media.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Leafs done well?
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  Speaker 3: I did?
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  Speaker 4: I tweeted out, have been active on Twitter recently They've
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  Speaker 4: been getting some traction.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like, oh, nice, this is fun.
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  Speaker 1: Kick's mentioned that to me, if you want to go
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  Speaker 1: down that road. You said, David Pasternak has always been underrated,
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  Speaker 1: much like Adrian Kempy.
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  Speaker 2: And then people start firing back at you, and then
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  Speaker 2: you got into a little bit of war words with
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  Speaker 2: some people there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, that's the first one the way that And
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  Speaker 4: again I have to take some fault on this that
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  Speaker 4: I may have worded it poorly, but the grammar police
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  Speaker 4: was out, but this guy was like these people were like,
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  Speaker 4: are you fucking nuts? Like you're putting Kempe and Pasternach
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  Speaker 4: in the same section, but I wrote in parentheses, not
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  Speaker 4: the same tier. Like Pasternak I consider I'm saying he's
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  Speaker 4: underrated because we can talk about this, like I'm saying
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  Speaker 4: David Pasternak is under rated in like the top five
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  Speaker 4: NHL players in the league, Like I believe he's like
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  Speaker 4: ascended into that, and I think he's underrated in that
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  Speaker 4: People thinking like McKinnon and Koutrorov and McDavid or leaps
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  Speaker 4: and bounds ahead of him. I think he's like climbing
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  Speaker 4: that he's adding shit to his game and can be
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  Speaker 4: for the tier that he's in, which is like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: top twenty in the NHL.
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  Speaker 3: He's underrated.
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  Speaker 4: So again I played a little It was a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a word salad as you can see, can
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  Speaker 4: see you glazing over, But I believe I was one
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent correct.
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  Speaker 3: And then I just was.
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  Speaker 4: Doubling down, which was you know, which was pretty funny
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  Speaker 4: because people were like coming back and be like, you
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  Speaker 4: can just admit that you wrote like a shitty tweet
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  Speaker 4: that no one understands, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, no, I refuse, Let's keep that down. Let's refuse.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, refusing to back down is similar to
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  Speaker 4: the Toronto media and the fact that they never think
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  Speaker 4: they hold a part in the poorest play of the
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  Speaker 4: Toronto on aple Leafs and they never want to admit
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  Speaker 4: that they all have this weird sexual fetish with.
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  Speaker 3: Them losing in Toronto?
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  Speaker 4: Is there a different Is there a media that wishes
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  Speaker 4: for the team to lose and like, I'm a big
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  Speaker 4: believer in like vibrations and manifesting and visualization. There's a
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  Speaker 4: collective meditative state that the Toronto media is in where
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  Speaker 4: they are willing this team to lose and they love it.
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  Speaker 4: Don't tell me for one fucking second that these guys,
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  Speaker 4: these media guys like when this team wins.
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  Speaker 1: To that end, Kafle Kelly, my buddy Irving House sent
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  Speaker 1: me this blurb. I believe cathl still writes for the Call.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly Beebles pronounce I think he so much to the
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  Speaker 1: Toronto Star. This is the blur he wrote the leafs
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  Speaker 1: of the Hotel California sports teams you can check out,
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  Speaker 1: but you never leave. I have no idea how it
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  Speaker 1: got this way or how you fix it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: the root cause that leaves inability to perform. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that they're not good enough. It's that they hate going
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  Speaker 1: to work. They hate the people they see at work,
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  Speaker 1: but the perks are so good and the job has
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  Speaker 1: so few expectations of them that they'll do anything to
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  Speaker 1: avoid finding new work.
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  Speaker 2: They prefer to stay here forever, feeling sorry for themselves.
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  Speaker 4: See, it's just like they they make up these things,
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  Speaker 4: to the point where Mitch Marner was like, well, I'm
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  Speaker 4: out of here and was looking to get like there's
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  Speaker 4: just you know, it didn't work. They tried to put
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  Speaker 4: something together. Now the Leaves have played bad. They haven't
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  Speaker 4: played good in this home stand. I mean, oh, four
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  Speaker 4: and one, that's unacceptable. They didn't piss the drop. But again,
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  Speaker 4: they've dealt with a ton of injuries this year. I
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  Speaker 4: think they're in the top two teams in Man games lost.
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  Speaker 4: But like key players, you know, Willy Neelander's out, you're
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  Speaker 4: missing Willy Kneelander, Chris Tanna, if you're missing Dakota Joshua
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  Speaker 4: nick Wah was out in the I think he missed
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  Speaker 4: the rest of the game last night too, so he's
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  Speaker 4: out now. So you're like they've been battling through Austin's
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  Speaker 4: wasn't healthy for half the year. So like to me,
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  Speaker 4: I did see something online which is and I'll get
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  Speaker 4: to the Willy Nielander because I got some thoughts on that,
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  Speaker 4: but the what you see here is like, in my mind,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm a Toronto Maplea's fan, I'm a little excited
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  Speaker 4: because I'm like, hey, at this point, let's not fucking
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  Speaker 4: pretend like even if you make the playoffs and you're
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  Speaker 4: fully healthy.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think this team makes.
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  Speaker 4: A run without adding any pieces or do you now
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  Speaker 4: look and go, hmmm, is a top five pick potentially
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  Speaker 4: in the cards right now? Is there a way to
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  Speaker 4: bring in a severely a very very good Noticephila, a
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  Speaker 4: very very good talent in this draft because it's a
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  Speaker 4: good draft this year.
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  Speaker 3: So do you start looking at that?
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  Speaker 4: I know Matthew Nyes came out, which was listen, good
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  Speaker 4: for him, but he was like, I don't look at that.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't looked at the scoreboard.
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  Speaker 4: I think we're like still firmly in the race and
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  Speaker 4: make your eight points out and you're you're struggling right
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  Speaker 4: and eight points when you have to jump The problem
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  Speaker 4: with like making the.
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  Speaker 2: Playoffs too many teams to catch.
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  Speaker 3: At this point.
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  Speaker 4: You got to leapfrog teams and that's hard because those
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  Speaker 4: teams are getting points and you got it, they gotta
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  Speaker 4: leaprob what four teams right now? Yeah, so you got
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  Speaker 4: to go on a run like Buffalo did, and even
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  Speaker 4: sometimes that's not enough like Buffalo, what on? This has
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  Speaker 4: been on this incredible pa and there's still like three
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  Speaker 4: points out of there are three points into a playoff,
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  Speaker 4: spot like it's not. They lose two or three games
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  Speaker 4: and they're back out again, so it's very it's very tight,
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  Speaker 4: so there's still a way to cut. But I think
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  Speaker 4: they're kind of getting to that point. And I tweeted
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  Speaker 4: last week about teams that I think are eliminated right now,
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  Speaker 4: and that caused a stir as well because somebody who
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  Speaker 4: grammer policed me again, but I said, only in the East.
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  Speaker 4: The only team I think is hypothetically, not statistically but eliminated.
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  Speaker 4: It's like the Rangers. But it's getting close. So but
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  Speaker 4: enough of that. Now to the Willie Neelander. Once again,
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  Speaker 4: I think very biased Toronto media. I hope they clipped
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  Speaker 4: this and post on social media. Mikhail Sergachev did this
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  Speaker 4: recently or did it earlier in the season in Utah?
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  Speaker 4: No one said a fucking thing. He did it walking
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  Speaker 4: out of the tunnel. Toronto's gonna find a way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Was Willy Niland or wrong and doing that? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think Sergachev should have did anything. It's stupid. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think Kneeland studet. You get paid, you're sitting in
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  Speaker 4: a press box and tank top most of the time.
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  Speaker 4: You kind of get to do whatever you want. You
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  Speaker 4: play this cool fact, you're great, love it. That's your personality.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're trying to bring this to the game.
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  Speaker 4: We're trying to evolve the game. But there's a guy
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  Speaker 4: that gets paid a salary that is much less than
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  Speaker 4: to you, that films the rink, and he's told to
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  Speaker 4: by a producer to film the press box, and that
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  Speaker 4: producer is told by somebody higher up than to film
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  Speaker 4: that Willy Neelander that box. So for you to do that,
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  Speaker 4: it's a little bit like, Okay, you're cool, great, sweet,
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  Speaker 4: you're in a press box. But I think Toronto media
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  Speaker 4: blew it up. But I think that Willy Neelander like
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  Speaker 4: a fine I understand, and I agree with Haros's decision
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  Speaker 4: of like his explanation was like, you have to conduct
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  Speaker 4: yourself like an NHL player inside the rink, on the
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  Speaker 4: ice just as much as outside. But Sergachev didn't get
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  Speaker 4: anything when he did it, so I seem like there's
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  Speaker 4: a little bias, But that's kids thrown. The media is
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  Speaker 4: a lot bigger and kind of I think the noise
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  Speaker 4: got too loud, but again I don't think you should
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  Speaker 4: be doing that. But it's fucking it is what it is,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, this is it's a dumpster fire right now.
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  Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, circa chief flipped bird last April. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: nobody cared as far as the injury. Still Warts has
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  Speaker 1: been a big when he's been out all season and
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  Speaker 1: the lead's gotta jump three teams to get in the
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  Speaker 1: wild card eight points back.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: With the Panthers recently, just saying, you know, what's that margin,
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  Speaker 1: what's that deficit once you get to the Olympic break,
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  Speaker 1: because I think if it's eight points and four teams,
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  Speaker 1: you're pretty much dun ski like, there's just no way
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  Speaker 1: you can make the math work.
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  Speaker 4: Panthers are kind of there, I mean a little, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's I think eight points is very difficult.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Shows meantime, the Ducksters, I want to ask you opinion
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  Speaker 1: on Bruby Wright. That's an unbelievable injury. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: a workout misap is that? I mean, you're a pretty
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  Speaker 1: fit guy. Don't think you've ever read an injury like that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we kind of glossed over that. I think everybody did.
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  Speaker 4: He's just like I'm going to show you. I was like,
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  Speaker 4: you must have drumped up play or a bar in
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  Speaker 4: his head. I think the what you know, he might
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  Speaker 4: have been doing like chess press and he kind of
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  Speaker 4: was going to fatigue. And usually when you go to
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  Speaker 4: fatigue in the chess press with dumbbells, he kind of
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  Speaker 4: lose the handle on it. He might have just hit
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  Speaker 4: his noodle with a dumbbell or I don't know, but
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  Speaker 4: what's Craig Brube lifting like heavy?
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  Speaker 3: Likeuck? How old is the guy? He's in sixties.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's seventh all time in Pelhiman, second all time
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  Speaker 2: in majors. I would guess he's like fifty eight. He
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  Speaker 2: still wants to kick ass.
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  Speaker 4: He just eating, just eating plates and weights in there
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  Speaker 4: was munching on. He's just going on there and fighting
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  Speaker 4: the gym.
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  Speaker 2: I'm appreciated, but I don't think it's his fault. Like
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  Speaker 2: everyone could all file the coach.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, injuries and again injuries to key players, and I
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  Speaker 4: mean he's playing the roster that was developed. It's just
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  Speaker 4: hasn't been healthy for most of the season. So like
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  Speaker 4: it's hard, it's frustrating, but you know they're not playing
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  Speaker 4: the right way though.
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  Speaker 3: Right now.
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  Speaker 4: They're cheating all over the ice and defensively gross cut.
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  Speaker 4: All those bowls last night were I mean, Buffalo looked fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Great news for Linda.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Lindy ruh Yeah, Lindy at home, Rough on the road,
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: rough to play against, I mean, stick on pie. I
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: thought Lindy Rouff was dead in the water. But this
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: fuck guy's got nine lives like.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: A Cat's incredible.
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Everyone said, Okay, new GM, new management, Lindy Roughs, don't
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: know Lindy resuscitated, Lindy killed him.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Savers gonna take the playoffs. Jack Adams, Ye.
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: He's gonna win. Spun guys win the Jack Adams.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: By the way, chief is sixty for the record tal clarifying,
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: So yeah, six years Yeah, still get mugged by the way.
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: Ducks are soaring right now. They've reben in a major way,
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: looking like their breakout season appeared to be going off
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: the rails. They went seven in a row. I saw
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: them lose that game seven Ford Edmonton. However, it was
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: pretty expected because third game of four nights had a
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: great first period, but after that, Edmonton's defense in particularly
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: was unbelievable. Buscher was coming out that six point game
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: on Saturday four to three and were Calgary Sunday, though
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: they guy to talk was the rookie Beckett Seneca first
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: career NHL hat trick. You followed up two assists against
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: the oil every time he was on the ice.
• 15:05
  Speaker 5: JD.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: John Forslan and Jody Shelley and Thomas Sake every ravened
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: this kid, like, my god, look at beck at Seneca.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: You can't keep your eyes off him.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: And so this Calder race, which felt like it was
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: demidoph and Matthew Schaeffer demandoff leading right now in points,
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: but Seneca right now leads in goals with eighteen. He
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: was drafted third overall by Anaheim in twenty twenty four,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: and as Chris Poger asked for the video when he
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: got drafted, which was hysterically he literally gave an open
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: mouthed oh my God, because he was stunned that Amaheim
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: picked him.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: And Patferbeek said.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: He purposely had taken other people out to dinner and
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: had avoided talking to Seneca. He didn't want to have
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: any indication that he was going to take him all along.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: He was his guy, and Seneca was genuinely shocked and
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: he got picked, as was his dad. But this kid's
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: a player right now. This Calder race, we thought it
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: was a two horse race, JD might be a three
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: man race.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: A this is one of the I'd have to like, look,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: this has been one of the better classes of rookies
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: in a season. I mean when you really go down
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: the list, like you mentioned the three, but you got
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Ryan Leonard at thirty points, you got Oliver kap And
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: who's been fantastic.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: At twenty seven points, you.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Got Fraser Minton that's having a great year for Boston.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: And then you kind of, you know, after that, you
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: got Justin Sordiff that's in Washington's. It's on a heater
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: right now. It's the future is really bright. So it's
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: been fun. It's been fun to watch every night. I
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: feel like there's a rookie that we're like, oh wow,
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: great play, had a great night. But Beckett Seneca I
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: did a tape Rouman hum earlier in the season, him
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: and Braden Bowman. But I was kind of telling people like,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: look out for this kid. I think he was a
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: dark horse to win the Calder. I mean he's tied
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: in points with Demodov, but like the kid shoots the puck.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can go through his stats, and you
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: know he's got one hundred and twenty shots. I mean
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: shooting percentage at fifteen percent. He's playing seventeen minutes of night,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: so he's playing more minutes, two more minutes in Demodov
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: a night. Obviously, Schaeffer, I think is it's hard to
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: go against Shaeffer for the Calder. But I mean Beckett's.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: Man.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Who Yeah, what do I think Demanov's better than beck.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Hit No Demodov Rookie of the Year.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: No, it's Schaefer Schafer all day.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Hands down, eighteen years old playing those kind of minutes.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Islanders playoff team.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, shae for one hundred percent. But I'm just saying
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Demanov versus Beckheit Seneca. And that's the thing is people
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: don't see him enough because you know, as games are
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: at if most people are on the East Coast and
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: most of the people that vote, which I don't think
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: half of them should have a voting right is get
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: gets a chance of m and they don't even stay
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: up for the games and they're just like, oh, yeah,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: this guy had a couple points last night.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I'm going to vote for him.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: It was talking to Joel Quenvill because he goes this
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: is the most media I've spoken to in months, and
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: we started laughing and Anaheim He's like, I go with
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the athletic. He's like, yeah, guy from the athletic Orange
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: County registered. And that's not even every day like sometimes
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I just I finished practice and I go home.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I had the one game in Edmonton, which was like
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: my biggest meetia because when you think about it, I
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: played Florida, Arizona, Dallas, San Jose, so I never had
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: media until I went to like the Canadian city. So
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: it's exactly that, Like in San Jose would be like
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: the one beat writer that like basically sleeps at the rink,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: but just like kind of you know, Trot's in and
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: it's more now there's like three or four guys, but
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: these guys just cover the team.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: They're like with you on the road all year.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Like it's like you talk to one guy, yeah that
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: you basically know him by name, he knows, he knows
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: ATM pin code, Like he's just part of the he's
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: part of the group. You should talk him, you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: you probably It's funny those guys get chirped so much
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: in the smaller markets because they're just you can't hide.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: Like if you're in Edmonton, there's like twenty media people
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: coming for you. Yeah, so like you can't there's all
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: these articles and how shit you are. In San Jose,
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: it's like, you know, it's like Sheng Peng is the
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: one guy there and he's the one that's shitting on you.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: So you see him every day, you're face to face
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: of them, and he's like, you know, it's it's it's funny,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: it's it's hostile environment. But yeah, it's it's interesting with
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: those those markets, how less you know, how it's not covered.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: But he's he's as advertised, his skating, his ability to
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: pass the pup shoot, he's gonna be a stud man.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: The Anaheim's in a good spot. So but I you know,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: he's he's borderline. Was one of the guys that was
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: going to get flowers today. But there's a lot out
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: there in the NHL that deserve flowers. So but Beckett
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: is he's a stud. He's a he's a flourishing, budding
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: superstar already.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Could also throw a couple of rookie goalies.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe Jacob Dobish gets some love of the halves, and yes,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: per Volsta, which gets us to the vole of Saint
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Paul Olympic break Fast approaching the trade deadline. Not long
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: after that, Elliott Fraeman Kyle Bukowskis over the thirty two
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Thoughts podcast mentioned the Wild open a trading Yes, per Volstat.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: The Wild rookie rank second NHL four shutouts, He's seventh
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: of the nine to fourteen say percentage, big trade for
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes. Bill gar in the Wild clearly going for it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They've an established her already in Philip Gustafson.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: What do you think, JD. Do you drade the wall
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: of Saint Paul if you're Bill.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Garon, Yeah, he's shooting from the hemp I mean, you
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: have two goalies. One's got to go. You've already becked Gustavson.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind it.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I know they're looking or they need center depth, but
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: I know, you know Trocheck's been floated out there, which
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: would be an interesting I think would be a good
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: pick up for them. They're looking for depth centerman, not depth,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: but like you know, second third line centers. I think,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: uh yeah, he's shooting from the hip. He wants this bad.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: I don't think with what they have, I think they can.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: I don't think they can win a Cup up front.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: You know, you're well, like Corey Wongur, buddy, it was
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a part of Wolfpack. He's saying, the guy get some Russians.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Make Carell Caprizo.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Happy, Well, he is. He needs his Rooskies Roos travel.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but like his last Yeah, he hasn't played the
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: way he's played at the start of the season. I
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: mean his last ten games, he's got a sub nine
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: hundred save percentage, and it was he was hot as
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: a pistol early in the season. So yeah, I think
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: it's definitely that's a good trade piece. There's a lot
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: of teams that could use a goalie of that age
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: and caliber, and I'm sure he could maybe, you know,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: but again they're the ones that see it more than anybody.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: But I like, but again, you can't trade wolves. You
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: can't trade Wolfstead to New York for like a tro
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Check because Trocheck's you got your stirk in, you got
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: you got quick.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: You don't need anything, you know what I mean.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: So looking around the league, if I were to go
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: off top of my head, some centermen that are out,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: but there's a lot of teams that need centers.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Man, it's it's one of the it's one of the airs.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: When we're we're missing top six centermen in the NHL,
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: like we're missing the top two line centerment. Like you
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: look like Utah needs center depth. Obviously you got Minnesota
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: that's it. So yeah, only too. There's a lot of
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: centermen that are missing. Just fucking with you, there's more.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I'll think about it. Montreal is another one that I
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: think needs some center depth. Washington with Pierre Luke Tubois
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: that's out, so you know it's it's gonna be interesting
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: and I think a lot of I think Trocheck's name
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: is going to be on a lot of people's lists
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: for sure, so wouldn't be surprised. But I don't think
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Wolftead would go to New York, so that kind of
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: throws that out there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: It's a challenge for Begeren.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: As you mentioned, the division is just so strong no
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: matter what, like you can put this kind of season
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: together and still knock out of the first round.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: As we've discussed.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Before, Jonathan tabs interesting trade piece depth Centerman.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know how much he has left in the tank.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: He's dead he's like a fourth line center. He's not
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: like a second He was.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Doing a vedic medicine in India. Thanks full Man.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: What about nozom Cadri Teles thrown.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Out NASM's another one is so NAZM Wolfstead to Calgary
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: for Nasum. I could get around with because you got
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: wolf and then you got Wolfstead. Wow the w W
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: W Wolf Wolfstead tandem Calgary fans.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Tell thrown it out there.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Meantime, speaking of making moves, the Islanders are doing that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Just a week after Rangers president GM Christchiuriy wrote a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: letter alerting fans that a retail was coming. First move
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: made on Monday at the Rangers uh In fact, defenseman
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Carson Seussh was held out of the game Monday before
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: him to the rival Islanders, a rare Rangers Islanders trade
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: for a third round pick. And then on Tuesday the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Islanders go another trade another local rival, getting Andre Pallott
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: third rental this year and a six uner next year
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: for maximum siploicoff. What move could come next? What do
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you think about the Rangers and Islanders make a moves here?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: JD don't see that every day.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, a little bit of that's an easy fight, little
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: cross cross bridge action there. Yeah, easy, that's a little
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: puddle jumper. I mean, you got to talk about Matthew
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Darch in this because what he's done. He got Palot Susie,
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: a six round pick and a chance to move up
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: a few spots in the third round for basically Maxim
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Siplicoff like that, And that's a young kid that wasn't playing.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: That's a tidy piece of work from this little fucking
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: frendcheet that's that's coming in here, and he's taken the
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: world by storm in this GM role. And it started
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: with Matthew Schaeffer, but I think he did a good job.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: They have some injuries on the back end, so I
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: think they needed a depth defenseman. Carson Seussie doesn't necessarily
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: move the needle for me, but he's gonna help them
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: out with they're missing some d man, some important guys.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: And then Andre Pilots, a guy that has won Cops
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and he's got a pedigree and he not playing his
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: best hockey, but he can help this team, I think,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: and usher them along. And you look at the Kyle
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Palmarily injury and a couple other key pieces that they've
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: been missing, like you're bringing in some veteran ness probably
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: not a word, but you're bringing yeah, veteran, savvy, veteran
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: presence with somebody that's won to kind of get you going.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: And again the Metropolitan Division. This team is Islander team
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: most likely will finish number two if they keep going
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: the way they're going.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: They're playing some really good hockey. So uh so, yeah,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: I think it's a.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Great way for Drury. I mean, listen, how much love
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: do I have for Drury right now? And what he's done?
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I mean he I think, okay, yeah, like he got
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: britis and pieces. I think it's gonna be how does
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: he move trocheck and what is he doing bringing in
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: like very very good assets.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: So we'll see.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think good trade for you know, that's
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: it's a little bit of friendly fire, which is nice
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: to see that they just platuned each other between the teams.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I thought it was like taboo to trade somebody from
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: the Rangers to the Islanders.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: They rarely red sox you don't see, you know, like now,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: like it's like.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: A fucking unwritten rule.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: This guy is writing AI letters to the fans and
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: he's trading to the arch nemesis guys unhinged.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Tell us why you like Matthew Darsh.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: McGill graduate Matthew Darsh first of all, and uh and
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: his his brother j P played in the NFL. By
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: the way, it's a long snaplay for the Seahawks. Yeah, yeah,
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: and is and is now a doctor. Very smart and
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: very athletic family.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Do you see that?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: You see the brain power in that household? She's playing
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: four dy chess. It's like you, and it's like you
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: and O and trying to travel across country again.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: He's got my flowers. That guy's unbelievable. I mean that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: kind of calmness under stress. One flight's canceled, no problem,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: going to the business travel.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: No problem.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: There's people that are solutions based and there's people that
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: are emotions based. Gotta be solutions based.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: That's well said, Keep emotion out of it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Meantime, Barkie's back sort of two time defending champion of
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Florida Panthers. Absolute dogfight again in the playoffs, huge emotional boost.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Captain Alexander Barkoff skated in full gear first time.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: On the ice.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Is tearing his ACL and m sail in September only
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: been four months since he sustained an injury that was
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: supposed to.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Keep him out seven to nine months.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Jam Bilzito said he doesn't expect to the captain played
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: during the regular season, but how big of a boot.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Just see him on the ice here, JD.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: The guy's going to be back before the playoffs. April
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Tasha Barkoff will be playing in the regular season this season. Wow,
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: take it for what you want, but it's going to happen.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: It's going to happen.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, what happens if they're ten points out, its April
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Fool's day. They don't worry about it.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: He's you ain't stopping him, whether they're in or out.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: He's the captain.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: He's going to be back. I'm telling you he is.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: He trains himself.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: And funny enough, I talked to some other trainers there
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: in Florida, and the way they described is like he
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: trains his body for this kind of not this kind
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: of thing to happen, expecting injury, but like so his
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: body can bounce back and respond quickly once he has
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: an injury.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: And and you know, the medical the medical.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Industry so so like surgeries and all that, like when
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: I was getting myself done. Like it's so far advanced,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: and it's fifty years ahead of like all the advancements
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: in technology for medicine. It's crazy what they can do
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: surgically to repair you. But the thing that hasn't kept
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: up with it is physiotherapy and rehab and now. But
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: there's people that are within that realm that have different techniques,
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: and Sasha Barkov firmly believes in those techniques of like
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: how to really recover more, you know, more quickly. Is
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: it that my grammar's all off too early today?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: As quick as you can, you're right, Marko.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's able to recover faster because of these techniques.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: And it's like it's not black magic or anything. He's
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: just trains his body to recover from injury quicker. And
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: it's it's not like because they say you're four to
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: six months because you have an ACL surgery, that doesn't
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: mean you can't play in four to six months. It
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: just means that for insurance purposes, the doctor has to
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: tell you, don't ruin my surgery, it's four to six months.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: But once you get off the table and you've surgery
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: is completed, you're healed.
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: You're not.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: You're healed, you're repaired. You just need to stay off infection.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: And then once you stay off infection and the incision heals,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're good to go because everything's are pretty
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: You just got to slowly build it back. But people
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: think that you just have to sit around and not
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: do anything until the three month period. But he's I
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: bet you he was in the pool probably two three
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: days after surgery with waterproof bandages.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: He was probably walking moving.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: So I expect him to be back one thousand percent
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: before the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Then why would Bilziodo say so confident he's not gonna
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: see him in the regular season.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I don't believe anything those guys say. They're all political
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: theater out there.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: But what's the benefit of Bilzieta's saying that?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Well, so people leave him alone.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: He's not playing.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Why would he be skating now.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: If he wasn't trying to play it this year and
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: wasn't confident he was gonna play like he's early, Like
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: he's early.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: He was skating.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Everybody's saying Barkie's back. He was. He was on the
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: ice of Winter Classic skating. I saw him. I had
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: eyes on him, I saw him a peepers.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Could be a date he's gonna come back?
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Then, well I did.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I can't say I spoke to him, so he told
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: me something and I can't say it online, but I
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: can leave it hanging in the wind.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: But okay, how about this.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: I'll say March twenty first, before or after, just because
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I'm only mentioning that day because it's to start a.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Spring, so you can it's gonna be, It's gonna be after.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, Barkoff will be back after winter. That's fine, before
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the start of spring. Sometime in the season.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the what's the groundhome sayings Puckstatwani Phil or whatever?
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, punks and I Phil, Punks, Tony Phil. He'll be out,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: he'll be He'll be there before Phil comes out of
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: his hole.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: So yeah, he has to see his shadow. That we
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: had six more weeks. That's February second, So you're right,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: so March it's in that range.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Late March.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Well, that's when he comes out, is that early.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: February second Groundhog days and that six weeks after that,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: so then.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: You're any fucking spring.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: They say March twenty first to spring but it's really not.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Not in New York.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: No, New York.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: It's June twentieth.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: No, that's not true.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: You just gotta get to April and you're okay, how
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: about spring and March? I mean in monch we all
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I was. When I was there, I asked this guy,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: he goes winter here is eight months ago.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: That's not triggers.
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: You can because I'm not exaggerating.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Ask my parents. We have we have what we call
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: it the fake out. You'll get to like March April
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: and it'll like, it'll be nice, and then all of
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: a sudden you'll get just the fucking dump the snow
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: and it'll drop down to minus and you're like, what's
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: going on right now?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: The super draft? Tell me he goes, No, he goes.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you from Labor Day until April, even in
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: well into April, it's Montreal is still freezing.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Geez. Four months. But that four months is electric.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: All right, speaking of electric, Special guest host Nate Thompson,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: it's coming up right after this.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: You're an NHL in scripted.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back. Ad Nan Verk had to take
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: a quick sabbatical. So first off, a war and Welcome
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: to our friend Nate Thompson, who's joining us for this interview,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: and we'll be with us here and there this season
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: and hopefully into the future.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: So our next gift.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: Was drafted thirteenth overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty NHL Draft. Since then, he has turned into
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: one of the most consistent goal scores in the league.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: He's on the verge of his third straight thirty goal
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: season and is a key piece for a Hurricanes team
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: that has been picture of consistency for years. It's the
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: man himself, Seth Jarvis, and if you're still with us,
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: he could not make it, but we gave a nice
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: intro to him. But we do have Nate Thompson here
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: alongside tal Pinchewski, So Nate, we're not gonna waste his.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Time with you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Seth couldn't make it, unfortunately, he's very apologetic. We're gonna
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: try to get him next week. But Nate, let's just
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: chop it up for twelve to fifteen minutes. Get you
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: kind of comfortable with the boys, and uh, how you doing, buddy,
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: what's been going on?
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: I'm good now? Everybody left, everyone left turned off.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: We got downloads though.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: Just subscribe that ship. That's it.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: I'm good, buddy. I'm gonna be like, oh yeah, for sure, No,
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: I'm good, but I'm good to be here. It's it's
• 32:56
  Speaker 7: it's nice to be a part of the crew. It's
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: this will be fun.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Well, you've been doing a ton of stuff with you know,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: you've done some stuff with the Canadians, you dipped your
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: tone with the NHL Network, and now you've you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: you're doing some stuff with the Tampa Bay Lightning and studio.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: How's it been kind of managing that travel schedule and
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: it's kind of ramped up for you this year more
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: than last.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it has, and you would know more than everge Ad.
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: I mean you're you're a busy guy as well and
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: doing stuff with the NHL Network. So yeah, it's just
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: been balancing at all. I mean, I I you know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: having one year under my belt. I guess you could
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: say doing some stuff with the Kings, you know, in
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: between the benches, you know all that stuff. You know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Ben doing radio. I know you've done radio too. I
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: mean you're just you're you're just trying to say yes
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: to everything right now, and I'm just you know, I
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: think it's about getting your foot in the door. And
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: and then now doing NHL Network, getting to go out there.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: I go out there once a month and do a
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: few shows. That's been great too. And it's just such
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: a great group of people too to work with their
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: as well. So I mean it's been it's been a
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: lot of fun. It's been busy. As you know, it
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: gets it gets crazy. You watch a lot of hockey,
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: that's for sure, been watching a lot of hockey, not stop.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: But that's been good, and you know, it's great though,
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: I mean it's been it's a transition to get into
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: this and now, like you said, like I'm sure for yourself, Judy,
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: I know, I see all the time, as you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: things start to ramp up as you obviously do more
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: and more and more.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: So it's it's been it's been exciting. I mean, I mean,
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: I've been enjoying it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: How great you know, because the three of us predominantly
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: reside tall as well on the West coast. How brutal
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: is it that, like the studios are all on the
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: East coast, and like when you're covering the Tampa Bay
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: lightning and and you're also doing the network stuff like
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: you're up to like two in the morning watching hockey
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: versus out West, You're like in bed at ten you've
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: seen all the games, you're fresh, you can rewatch the
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: highlights like I've been. I'm like, we need to open
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: a studio somewhere on the West Coast because it makes
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: no sense to be covering sports in the East.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: I'm so with you on that, just because I always
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: tell people when you I'm sure the same thing. Like
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: watching football on the West Coast, there's nothing like it
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: because you're starting at the perfect time. It's like ten am,
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: nice little brunch, breakfast, get it and yeah, look look
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: coffee first lieu of games, and then you go one
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: pm and then you finish at five thirty and you're done.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: You're just sleep by You're done football by eight thirty. Yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's that's the best part about being on the.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Like what guess what they call it? The best coast
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: is the West Coast, right, So.
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's there's no complaints about that with
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: with the timing because yeah, watching hockey, I mean, I know,
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: going out East and going the NHL Network and doing that,
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: you know, JD when you're watching hockey late. It's like
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: you feel like a zombie the next day when you're
• 35:35
  Speaker 7: you're up that like, well.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: It's so fast, right, so you're like you're trying to
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: keep your eyes and you know, I always find like
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: during the playoffs, it's like I can I'm a wreck
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: after the playoffs just because those games that go to
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: overtime and double overtime and you got to do shows
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: the next day, so you're kind of you want to
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: be up to date.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: You can obviously watch them in replay.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Now we're in the twenty first century, it's twenty twenty six,
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: but you still want to watch it live. It's sense
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: to kind of feel it. But you know, getting this
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: some of the teams you're covering, you know, you do
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: some stuff with Tampa. You know, let's talk about obviously
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: the state of the Tampa Bay Lightning right now, and
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: then you know, kind of bleeding over into is tal
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I wanted us to chat about and tell you jump
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: in as well as just the the stadium series in
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Tampa during Gasparilla, Like that's gonna be an incredible event,
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: So let's start there.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, firstly, I mean the Tampa Bay Lightning the way
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: they've been this season, and I'm sure you've you could agree,
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: and I mean you've seen you talk about it. But
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: you know how I mean, I put Colorado and then
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: I put Tampa and then I put everybody else. That's
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: where I think they're at this season. I think just
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: think they're so elite and it's weird to me that
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: they're so close in the standings because I don't think
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: that they're close to the other teams at all. If
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: it came down to a seven game series in the East,
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: I think you have to just talk about their depth
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: and what like guys like Darren Radish and Moser and
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: Des stew and all these guys like now you look
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: at their team and I arguably the best decour in
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: the league now with with guys with Headman and McDonough
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: out and lilla Berg and these guys that are that
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: are you know, not playing and even Braydon point like
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: Braiden points hurt and they're doing what they're doing.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: It's crazy. So I yeah, and Darren Radish, I mean,
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: what do you pay him right now?
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: I mean, if it's me, if and this is what
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: I would think Julian Breeswell would do because you're playing
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: in Tampa. You're playing on the PP with Cooch. You know,
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: he's dishing it over to you all the time. You know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: what about us eight year deal around six or seven,
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: seven or seven to eight around there, Like you know
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: a little bit of security you've been you know, he's
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: been in the American League for a while, he's you know,
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: he's been around. Like it'd be tough to turn down.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: I Like, I was just curious, Nate, just as someone
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: who's familiar with the franchise. I mean, people have been
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: kind of for years now. I feel like totally underplaying
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: this franchise. They don't draft well, they don't develop well.
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: There are two veteran heavy you know, but clearly there's something.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: You know, culture is an overused word, but there's something
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: going on there. Like I'm learning about Dominic James and
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Charles Eduard dust Stus and just like the next man
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: up philosophy is so next level clearly with this organization,
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: with all the injuries they've had and how they're i mean,
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: they're basically running away with the division right now, and
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: it's a pretty good division.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: So what's going on there?
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: From what you've seen?
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean even from my time in Tip when
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: I was there.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: I mean, they were always known for their really good
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: scouting staff and how good they were, how how good
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: they were at finding players. I mean, look at bradon
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: Point that thinks the third round pick, the Koutrov second
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: round pick. I mean, you go back, you go to
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: Andre Palott was a seventh round pick. I mean, you
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: can go down the list. There's just a number of
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: number of guys they've they've found. And then I think,
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: you know, the it starts from the top. I think
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: when you have an owner that comes in Jeff Vinnick
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: and he kind of changes the whole culture of not just.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: The organization, but the city. The city itself has changed
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: in the last ten years and it's grown because of
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: him and how much he's done for the community. So
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: it starts there.
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: And then you know, you had different leadership with Steve
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: Eiserman than Julian Breezewail, who's a tremendous GM two, and
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: they've they just created this you said it, this culture
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: there where everyone buys in, everyone knows, and and then
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: they know it's a winning ingredient. And because of that,
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: I mean, you just have players that love being there,
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: love playing there. Love being a part of the organization
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: and want to stay there. So I think when you
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: have that, it's it's a recipe for one of the
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: best organizations in the league. And I think they are
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: because that reason.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Uh, where's the love?
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: Big?
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Hold on?
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: Hold, let's see if we get him back with on
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: one second?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Did he get back?
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you froze on us for a second. Yeah, just
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: for a little bit. So maybe just finish that thought.
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: We'll go on at an extend.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: I did a NHL Network radio on this three hours yesterday.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Weird in a rivers.
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: It's cool.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Just just finished, you know, finish that thought.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: It usually records anyways, even when you freeze, so it
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: should be okay. But maybe just fire finish your thought
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: and then we'll go on from there.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: I don't know where it was at.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know what you were heading with it, but
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: it sounded good.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: I was just saying, you know, Jeff Vinnick, I think
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: when he took over for that team, Uh, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: it changed everything.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: Change the leadership, change the culture.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: Because we know, we all know that when you have
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: a good owner, it starts there and trickles all the
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: way down. You can look at the Florida Panthers and
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: what they've done. So I think with Tampa, it starts
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: there and then they've had great leaders Steve Eisman and
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: Julian Breezewas has done an unbelievable job and just created
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: a culture there where players want to play there, players
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: want to stay there. And then you have a coach
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: like John Cooper who has evolved every year and just
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: made himself. I mean, I think a Jack Adams coach
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: this year.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you look at their You you get
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: a job there and you're set for life in the NHL.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: But I think like those franchises and organizations like San
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Jose always put in that category because the city's you know,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: smaller market, you need to be so much more creative.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Like you go to them getting you know, now shifting
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: over to stadium series, you go to the way that
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: they create, you know, creatively got the stadium series with
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: billboards after the All Star Game apparently like Betman was,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: you know, taking the car out, the car service out
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: to the airport and then all these billboards put up
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: strategically to be like hey, let's do outdoor next, and
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: I mean talk about the atmosphere that's gonna be with
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Gasparilla at Buccaneers Stadium. You know, I was on the
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: plane with Bob Chesterman, who's you know, one of the
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: great execs that puts together these beautiful events at the
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: stadium series, and even he's excited, like, if this ice
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: holds up, this is gonna be epic.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: I can't believe it's still that it's even still happening
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: at Raymond James Stadium. It's wild to me, but it's incredible,
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: and I think it's i mean, look the atmosphere of
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: the Lightning fans and the Bucks fans together and then
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: you know it's all it's all in one. It's gonna
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: be wild, and and for them to be able to
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: make this happen and it's unbelievable. I mean, I'm going
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: down as an alumni. Uh so I'm just gonna get
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: to experience it that way. So I'm really looking forward
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: to because I've I've never ever in my wildest dreams
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: that I ever think Tampa was gonna have an outdoor
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: game while I was playing there. It's just I never
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: even thought about it. And the fact that they're doing it,
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: which is funny. They're doing it against Boston who I was.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: I was drafted by two. So it's funny.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Both teams are there will be there for so it'll
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: be it'll be it'll be crazy.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: I gotta ask because you know both you guys have
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: played in a few of these alumni games. What's the
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: vibe like at these things? Like the stakes are I
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: imagine kind of low. Maybe there's some money on the board.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know, Like, obviously, the big spectacle is the
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: actual NHL game this weekend, But as as someone who's
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: still a part of the organization, joining the rest of
• 43:01
  Speaker 6: the alums, what's the vibe like when you get to
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: compete in these things things.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: I don't even know what kind of competition we're going
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: to be doing, or how what kind of games we're
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: gonna be playing.
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: I think we're gonna be playing in some kind of
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: game with.
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: Maybe other fans or whatever on Sunday. But it's I mean,
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: more than anything in JD can attest this. You know,
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: when you get back with alumni or guys you've played
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: with or you know, previous players, there's nothing like it.
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: It's like being back playing again and just being with
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: the fellas.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I you've kind of made a name for yourself
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: and them recently. You you kind of dropped the mits
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: every single time I've seen your last.
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: You kind of have your stage till Yeah, the I
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: will say the best, right, Yeah, the last two were
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: it was it wasn't me too.
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: It was like the first one was outdoor was Barnaby.
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: He was like, came up to me. It was like, hey,
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: come on with that or whatever. I'm like, all right,
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: let's let's do it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: Then the next one was at Choresy Classic and they
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: told me before Jordan Nolan was like, hey, you're gonna
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: fight Jim at this time of whatever John Rasty. I'm like, yeah, Jim,
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: John Rasty. So they were set up. They were set up.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but how close I watched that A couple of
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: those were getting close to Johnny. I saw the eyes
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: start rolling back in his head. There a couple of
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: those times.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Well it was yeah, I mean I had never seen
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: him like up close like that before, really right, and
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: I was and holding on to him. I'm like, oh geez,
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: you know, and I could feel you're right. Actually, there
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: was a couple I could feel like wind like it
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: was hitting my face and I was like, oh boy,
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: if these hit me, it would be uh, lights out.
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: But he's uh, he's built like a absolute tank, like
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: just just like a cinder block, you know.
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: So I was like, this is crazy. The guy's even
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: fought him.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: He's a scary, scary motherfucker man.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: But like shifting, you know, shifting to like the overarching
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: the league as we kind of close this out O
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: this great interview with Seth Jarvis is we were talking
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: a little bit before about the schedule and probably the
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: reason why you had to cancel is the schedule is crazy.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: It's hard to find any time the NHL schedule already
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: in season, you're in a bubble, but it's very hard
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: to find time to kind of you know, do things
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: you want, you know, the time. Some days run away
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: from you and you're in this weird bubble. So but
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: never more so than on these years for the Olympics,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: when it's when it's crazy, it's so condensed, so like,
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: you know, how do you and have you been you
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: played in an Olympic year where like the schedules condensed
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: like how tough it is, because I know how tough
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: it is. That we could both chop in back and
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: forth like you kind of just feel like you get
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: into this like spin cycle and you're there's like less practice.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: It almost feels like for a little bit, if you
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: can stave off injury, that you get into this like
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: weird rhythm.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: But you're like just always tired.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're permanently tired.
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: I know exactly what you're talking about, and and uh,
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: I want to ask your opinion after I talked about
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: but because I'm curious, But yeah, I know it is
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: it you you you said it. You're playing at the
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: other day basically, and the days that you're not playing,
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: you know, you're off or you're going to the rink
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: and probably a maintenance day or something like that. Right,
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: you're not usually skating. But I yeah, I feel like,
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: and this is the best way to put it, and
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: you probably would agree, is every night is a game night,
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: minus the nights you play every night it's a game night.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: You're like, Okay, I got to play another game tomorrow.
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: You're right, you kind of you're almost in like a
• 46:28
  Speaker 7: twilight zone of just playing games, and you know, you
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: realize what.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Day it is, what time it is. It's just next game,
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: the next game, the next game.
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: But that's what I was gonna ask you, like, did
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: you because I don't know if you saw like McDavid
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: came out and said, you know, I like the schedule.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: I like doing this.
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: I like how we're just playing games and this and that,
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: Like did you like this? I know, I know, did
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: you like this or was it just like uncle too much?
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: It's weird because you know, if the schedule was like
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: this and that.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: You know, again, I never listen to anything McDavid says
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: about the state of this date to the league or anything,
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: because he would he would play every single day. And
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: again that's him, and he's in a class like with
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: like the celebrinis or like that. I've heard Maclin's like that,
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: but there's a reason why they're superstars. I could not
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: have done that just mentally. I could not stay in
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: it to do it that much. You know, I needed
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: the time off away from the rink, like just because
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: you know we had talked a little bit. I dealt
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: with so much anxiety and stuff like that. So for me,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: I was like, fuck, I can go to the rink again.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: I'm crazy, Like these guys just love it, they live
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: for it. They're just built different. But I did I
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: did like less practice for sure, because you know, I
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: always loved like my pregame rituals, like I'd rather have
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: the practice, stay off, get a workout, and then do
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: morning skate. I like getting like an hour morning skate,
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: whereas flow drills we do some power play stuff like
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: I always enjoyed that on a game day versus I
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: know a lot of guys like the practice day and
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: then no morning skate. So for me, I just liked
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: it that we always just did morning skate when it
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: was condensed, like you're just a morning skates, so you
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: get into this rhythm of like, okay, it's an off day.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: You go maybe get a little lyft in and you
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: get a son on and you get a massage and
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: you kind of just you warm up. But yeah, I
• 48:17
  Speaker 4: just for me, it just always was to your point,
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: and it was different like when you look back to
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: twenty ten, like you were playing your division what eight times? Yeah,
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: and you weren't playing any East, so the travel was
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: more like within your division, so it was a fucking grind.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: You're playing like, oh my god, I'm playing LA for
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: the sixth time in twelve days, like uncle, But I
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: guess it's it's so tough because you know, we can
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: talk about schedule, I think until smoke comes out of
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: my ears because it's still gonna you know, the season
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: is getting longer and longer, and it is what it is.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: They're trying to find a rhythm with the NHL schedule.
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: But you know, obviously I think some guys will like it,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: but I just don't like seeing so many injuries.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: That's yeah, me, I hate it.
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: I think that's a big one too for me, is
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: so many guys getting hurt and able and not able
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: to sustain the schedule.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Like you said, yeah, Towl's got a quick HABS question.
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: I got, I got to get in the habs. I'm
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: going there this weekend. I'm gonna trail this weekend for
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: my dad's birthday. My son's going to play in the
• 49:19
  Speaker 6: snow for the first time ever. And obviously, Nate, I
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: know you. You started doing uh, you know, color for
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: the HABS broadcast, which is very exciting. So first wanted
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: to hear about the transition to doing that, and second,
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: just getting a closer look at this team, exciting young cores,
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: all offense, no defense.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: Who's stuck out?
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: But is there a particular player who stuck out for
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: you when you got a chance to look at them
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: more closely as a as a broadcaster.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: There's some defense. There's some defense that just got rid
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: of their goalie.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Coach, So yeah, I saw that. Relieve, Yeah, we know
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: who is the issue exactly they found it? No tell that.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: To answer your first question, I had a little bit
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: of practice before I did those in game color. I
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: I got to cover the WHL Finals last May for
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: TSN with Medicine Hat and Spokane, So that was the
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: first time I've ever done in game color.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: Was was those games.
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: And then did some stuff with the kings obviously between
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: the benches, but nothing like in game color. So to
• 50:26
  Speaker 7: have that practice helped doing those games for sure.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: But it was awesome.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: I mean to get to do in game color for
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: the Montreal Canadians, a team that I played for, and
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: it's it's the habs. I mean, JD can attest that
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: he's from there, so he knows what it's like and
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: the novelty behind it to do it. So it was
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: it was it was special, It was awesome. It was
• 50:48
  Speaker 7: it was a great experience. But I mean, as far
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: as their team and players, I mean, I think a guy.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: I don't know why.
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: I mean, obviously it's it's obvious to pick him out,
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: but I think I picked him out because I just
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: saw how physically dominating he can be. Was Slavkovski, I
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: think just seeing him up close.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: Sleeping people are sleeping on him.
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, and he.
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: I totally agree with you because he like and yes,
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: Suzuki drives a play and they have all these guys.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: But for me, like Slavkovski might be the most impactful
• 51:25
  Speaker 7: player on that team when it comes to changing a
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: game because he can do it in so many different ways.
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: And I saw that firsthand. I mean, he's was super impressive.
• 51:35
  Speaker 7: Out of all the talent they have, he was. He
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: was the one that really stuck out to me. And
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: and you could go down the list. It wasn't just him, obviously,
• 51:41
  Speaker 7: demied Off and Hudson and you know I named Suzuki, Cowfield,
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: all these guys. I mean, they have a list of
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: young superstars coming. But I mean this team, I think
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: in the next three to four years, I think they
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: win a Cup.
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: I really do.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, I gave it the five years. He went a
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: little bit. He went a little bit. He kind of
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: undercut me there.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Or you went five years, they went five years. Yeah,
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I said I went five ers on Twitter. I think
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: they're Yeah, they're what they've done top to bottom. We
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: talk about organizations. I think they've fixed a lot in
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: upper management, GM, coach, they got everything in place.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: It's just going to be a matter of time. And
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: maybe the goaltending.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: I mean all three goalies were struggling, so sometimes you
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: have to look outside.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: It sucks, it's a bad job, but but it is
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: what it is.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: So Nate, thanks so much for coming on and Uh
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: be in our interview, and we're definitely gonna have you.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: I think we're gonna see Maria, especially when I'm off
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: for the Olympics, so you'll be jumping in with Adnan
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: and I'll be boots on the ground sending it all
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: hostage in Milan with some pasta. But thanks off for
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: Nate Thompson and Uh. Back after the break, we got
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: cinephil and sixty with ad Nan back from a sabbatical, sixty.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Here with Chason. I appreciate you to go.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: You go ahead, I don't have anything play well.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get your impact here, at least your
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: reaction to the Oscar nominations sixty nominations for sinners Ryan
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Coogler's films, unbelievable. It sets a record. Now there's more categories.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Best Casting is now new category. It's benefited by that.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: But there were some surprises. Best Supporting Actress they got nominated,
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: and Best Supporting Actor Delway Lindo, which was a genuine surprise.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: It's the greatness of the Oscar nominations is no matter
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: how much closely you fall the Golden Globes, the Actor
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Awards as I do formerly, the Segs or the baftis no.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Matter if there's always one or two genuine surprises.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Ago did not see that coming and I had not
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: see Delward Lindall getting nominated, a true dark horse in
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: that category, was able to get in. Tough for Paul
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: mescal who I did love playing Shakespeare's Hamnet, but there's
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: only five spots. The nomination I cared the most about
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: every Ciskel Nev used to do everyth they go out.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: There's one nomination you care the most about.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: What's the one, and for me it was Ethan Hockey
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: did get nominated for Best Actor for Blue Moon, which
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I was thrilled, and the script was nominated as well.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: So it was really happy. Two nominations. Richard Linkln are
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: unfortunately missing out for director.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: The other one I was really happy about was it
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: was just an accident, the Great Iranian Film, which was
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: submitted by rants because the Iranian government has literally imprisoned
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Jafar Panahi, the directors who has to release his film
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: because he's in hiding in France. But the movie was
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: nominated for Best International Film. He also got nomay for
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Best Screenplay, so I was thrilled with that. And the
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: thing that I am the most thrilled with is this.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: For twenty plus years, every year I watch every nominee
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: for Best Picture, Best Director, all four acting categories and
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the two screenplay categories, and generally I try to get
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: to as much of the rest as I can editing, score, etc.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: But those ones I always get. For twenty years, we're
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: been good and people say, how does that happen? I said, well,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: you got to get out in front of it, so
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: you know, in May at the Canned Film Festival when
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: they're talking about it was just an accident, you got
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: to know go ahead and watch the movie then, so
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: it's not like January twenty second and all of a sudden.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: You have to watch all these movies. So when the.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Nominations come out, I'm always happy, going yep, all the
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Best Picture nominees seeing them, Train Dreams, Netflix, whatever, actors
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: seeing them, Okay, great. The thing I was happiest about
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: JD is I was reluctant and refusing to watch Wicked
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: for Good because I said, I didn't like the first one,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: which was well received, and not I have to sit
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: through the second one, which I'm hearing is not well received.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: So I said, I don't have to.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Suffer through two hours, but if it gets nominated for
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Best Picture, or Ariana Grande is up for Best Sporting Actress,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: I have to watch it. Not only was it not
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: nominated any of the major categories, it didn't get nominated
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: for anything, production design, costume design, et cetera. So I
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: am thrilled for the Oscars. Saved me two hours of
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: my life. I didn't have to watch Wicked for Good.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Well done by the Academy.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: How excited it? You're just tickle pink. You didn't even
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: like the first once? You're like, yeah, right, well was
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: it about the first one?
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: The first one?
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: I just thought it was really labored and drawn out,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: with the exception of the final twenty minutes, which I
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: thought was great when Cynthia Rivo sings.
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: That that last song, but mostly yeah, yeah, yeah, define
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: gravity as the song. But the rest of them was
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: just painful to get through. So I was like, I
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: can't like to sit through a second one.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: But now do you like Wizard of Oz?
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: Do you love the Wizard of Oz?
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: Timeless, all right, but even the music and my wife
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I saw it on and we saw in Chicago, we
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: weren't crazy about Wicked.
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Broadway community can't get a win, rising ticket prices
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: and closing shows, and now Wicked no nominated.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Some people suggesting Sinners could be one of those movies.
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: You know, you get a ton of nominations, you don't
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: actually win anything. Gangs of New York one of my favorites,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: you know, ten nominations went oh for ten. Killers of
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the Flower Moon got a ton of nominations, shut out.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: The Irishman, one of my favorites, Oh for ten at
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: the Oscars. So just because you get a lot of
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: nominations doesn't mean you're gonna not gonna win.
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: I don't think it goes oh for sixteen.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: To be clear, I think Coogler wins Best Original Screenplay,
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: but I still don't have it as the favorite. I
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: do think one Battle after another is gonna win. I
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: think Petanna is gonna win Best Director. But it's crazy
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: to think JD to your point when she's the Wizard
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: of Oz. If someone said to you, like years from
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: now and you look at history and say, okay, what
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: film got the most nominations of all time? The Godfather,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, No Sinners? What this horror
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: movie that came up from Mike Good that got the
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: most dominations?
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: Not Good?
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: You didn't like it at all?
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: No, They're like, there was some fun, interesting parts of it,
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: but again it's like, I don't know, it's just to me,
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: I thought it was a good movie. Yeah, but to me,
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: it's not like this sixteen nomination chucker fucking movie. Yeah
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: about whatever the hell this was about where they're stealing
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: souls and stuff like that and taking the singing. I
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: like the music, and I think they should win, you know,
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Best Musical Score like all that stuff.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: I think they should win, and and set design. But
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: I mean it was interesting. There's yeah, there's stuff that
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: I think they should win, but sixteen nominations.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: They're just showing white people are vampires, just sucking the
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: blood of the black music.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Tell your thoughts in the Oscar nominations.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: Well, my first text to you, Ed I was flowers
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: for Delroy Lindo.
• 57:36
  Speaker 6: I love it when when an actor who he've kind
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: of always enjoyed, and it seems to he's had a
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: great career, finally gets an acknowledgment. We saw it a
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: few years ago with excuse me, Sam Elliott when he
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: was in A Star is Born. And I feel like,
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: I don't know how these things work and how they
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: decide who wins. I'm not saying Delroy Lindo was gonna
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: win an Oscar, but he's someone who I've loved for
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: a long time. I really liked Sinners and loved him
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  Speaker 6: in it, and I'm just excited to see him that
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: he's going to be there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what do you like about it?
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed the story. I liked I liked the I
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: like the action. I like this original premise. I like
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: basically so I also like the subtext. Listen, the subtext
• 58:20
  Speaker 6: here is that the African American contribution culturally to the world,
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: which was born out of this out of slavery is unmatched. Right,
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: How blues led to jazz led to soul led to
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: hip hop and that's the culture, that's what defines culture
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: around the world. That's kind of we don't need to
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: dig too far into it, but that's you know, there's
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: the big scene that has been very divisive among critics
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: from from Sinners that everyone talks about, the big dance scene.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: I like the idea behind it.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a big.
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  Speaker 6: Cooglar guy, big Michael B. Jordan, I'm all in on Sinners.
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: I don't know if it'll win in any Oscars, but
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: it's cool to see a film that's a bit more
• 59:00
  Speaker 6: of a popcorn movie get acknowledged at the Oscars.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say that as far it was like
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: big budget movies. I mean one Battle of No Hat
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  Speaker 1: of a big budget you know, made over one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. That's getting thirteen nominations. Sinners to Tallas Point.
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  Speaker 1: That's a gigantic movie. I mean it made a ton
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  Speaker 1: of way. This is not one of those years like
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  Speaker 1: oh the independent movies broke through. Yes, there's a handnit
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  Speaker 1: which is being recognized, which is a great film. I
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: really hope Jesse Buckley wins for Best Actress. Yes, trained
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: dream says get in a film on Netflix. Jewel Edgerton
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: small quiet movie, but like big budget blockbusters did well,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: sequels did not. Though Wicked for Good ignored as was Avatar,
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: the Academy clearly saying we're tired of blue people, like
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: how many more movies.
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: Does James Cameron want to make? Like enough, We're not
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: gonna give you another Best Picture nomination?
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  Speaker 3: What the what was the line in the famous line
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: and sinners there he licked mccoo's.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: And well, he said, he asked about to eat posty,
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: so he said, it's like eating an ice cream cone.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: And then Haley stein what's Hailey Steinfeld's line?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I just remember the one woman is walking mccoo's and
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: my knees with shake or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, good music, good movie. Congratulations Delroy Lindo, though I
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  Speaker 4: do agree. Be nice to see him get his flowers.
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  Speaker 2: You saw Marty Supreme Gaty, what else are you gonna
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  Speaker 2: see now?
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  Speaker 5: Like?
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  Speaker 1: And once the nominations come out, people end up seeing
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: more movies. You Jill, So okay now that this gott
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: nomin we're gonna go watch this Blue Moon.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps, Yeah, what would you recommend?
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now, it's an actor. Jill's
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: gonna love Blue Moon.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you it's just an Ethana Hawk one act play.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: There's no way she's not as an actor. She'll appreciate
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: how good is acting?
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  Speaker 5: Is that movie? Yeah?
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: I like Ethan Hawk, He's good.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Blue Moon, you guys obviously, Yeah, all right, Blue Moon?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: I seen Marty, I saw, I saw one battle after another.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Right, also recommend Hamnet for you too.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Hamlet Shakespeare wanting to go Shakespeare.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I want ad Jason to her his Hamnet revealing right now?
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  Speaker 3: Like it? Okay?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks?
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  Speaker 2: Step Olympic not to that is a question. Well, that's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: a big question. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was Hamlet. They go to the movie
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: is called Hamnet. I go, No, you have to watch
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  Speaker 1: the movie. But yes, it is based in the creation
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: of Hamlet.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: But is ham Net?
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: As far as the Olympic replacements are concerned.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: Just a few weeks after the Olympics already geting announcements,
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Jackson Lacombe will play Seth Jones. We love Jonesy, Guysavenhell
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: in scriptive for the Americans, but la Combe is in.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: Just watched him on the Ducks on Monday. Announcements aren't
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: likely to end there. Bradon Point remains out the leg
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: injury participation is in question. Swedes already decimate of injuries.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: Victor Hedman, Gabriel Landeskogg could miss the ternament. Leo Carlson,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Uncle Leo, and Jonas brodyin confirmed out, replaced by Marcus
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Johanson and Hampus Linnholm. What do you make JUDI like,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: imagine you're in this situation where you know you're a
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: bubble guy, you got cut and you get the call
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: you're in. That's thrilling, But I just imagine what it's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: like to go the other way and you feel like
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: this is the moment you've always dreamt of to play
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  Speaker 1: for your country. You played for Canady. You know what
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: that's like to not have the opportunity. I really feel
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: for these guys to have this happen so close to
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: the end of the race.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough with the schedule. I mean, it's out
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: of your control, so it's really tough. I mean, if
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 4: I was on the bubble, I'd be targeting every single
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: player that was ahead of me and just be just.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: A foodoo doll, just poking pins. Hope this guy gets
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: hurt tonight.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just one kill after another. Just make sure I
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: get myself there every day. I have every game circle.
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  Speaker 3: Uh no, I listen. It's it's tough, it's amazing.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: It's such ann to represent your country, and you know,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: I'm sure these guys are gutted, but at the end
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: of the day, you know it's out of your control.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Nothing you can do. But yeah, it's it's gotta sucking.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta think about the amount of guys that are
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: playing through injuries right now to get there, because you're
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 4: at that kind of weird spot where you kind of
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: probably have something that's going on a little bit and
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: you're not telling anyone. You're not necessarily telling youone. It'll
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: be like, oh, it's not as bad as it seems.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: Just to get yourself the Olympics, you can play. So
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: I'm sure there's a lot of that. I mean, this
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 4: season with injuries has been crazy. The league's been decimated
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: by injuries.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a lot. The schedule's tough.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be crazy to commit to the Olympic breaking Okay,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: this is a spread. They're gonna be playing every other day,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: you know whatever, thirty games in two months.
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  Speaker 2: It's just going to be absurd.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: HL outdoor Game. We don't usually talk about HL regular
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: season games. We want to talk about Sheolut the players
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: who can play in the outdoor game and Hastings, Minnesota.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: On Friday night, Zach Luu scored the ot winner to
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: give the Milwaukee Admirals three two win or the Iowa
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: Wild outdoor game play at the Heroes Little Complex.
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  Speaker 3: You got me there, Zach LaRue.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: The temperature at puck drop minus eight degrees fahrenheit. That's
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the coldest outdoor game ever played in either the HL
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: or NHL. One point, the power went out and two
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: different generations fail before the third one finally got to generate.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, third one finally got the power back on
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: the third period. Like, at what point you do again?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: We all played hockey growing up. You played at the
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: highest level. I played at the lowest level. We've all
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: played outdoor hockey, played on ponds, had a good time.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: At what point you go, Hey, this is not reminded
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: of my youth. I think this just sucks. I'm gonna
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: pack it in.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all words salads aside. It's when it's too cold,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: it's too cold, and when it's it's it. There is
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: a level where it gets a little bit too nippy
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: and you're in your nutskull all the way they disappear
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: and you're like, no, not for me anymore, and you're like,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: you know, when you're I always say when it's really cold,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: you'll have it's like when you're leg like your quads
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: and your legs are like they're starting to feel cold
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 4: and like it's like almost hurting. You're like too much,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: and then your feet go numb. I mean, those are
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: the beautiful moments of outdoor hockey, like when you're you
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: think back, like I remember, I don't know how many
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: times I was on the outel rink till my I
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: couldn't feel my toes and I was limping home but
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: just would not come off the ice. So but yeah,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 4: for there's levels where it's just it's now, I'd be
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: like fuck that, no chance. So yeah, and especially for
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: like you're in the jungle on the you know, on
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: the iron lung on the greyhound bus playing in this
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: style of game and you're probably like, what the hell
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: am I doing here making fifty grand a year.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: That's a good point with the quad star quivering, because
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: like fingers and toes always get cold pretty much immiately.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: But if your quad start shaking, like, oh my god,
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: that's that's a different level of cold.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: It's time to hand out some flowers. I know you
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: were particularly passionate about this one. To Sabers captain Raspus Doleen,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: real adversity he's dealing with at Home's wife Carolina almost
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: lost her life due to a heart condition, revealed an
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: Instagram messages. This week, the couple lost their unborn child.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Doleen responded to Tuesday night dominant, three goal, five point night.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: Incredible showing with the Sabers captain.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's really kind of shouldered this team this season,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 4: and he's really showed a level of leadership and calmness,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: and I mean his game has gotten to another level.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: So but I mean, I can't imagine going through that
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: playing in the season. You know, there's a couple of
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 4: guys I played with that's went through that, that had
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: something like that happen, and you really lean on your
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: teammates in those moments, and you lean on the guys
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: around you and and your support system, and I think
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 4: he's done that and he really you know, I saw
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: comment from last night him he really talked very nicely
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: about the team and how those guys are his brothers
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: and they've really supported him. So I think as an organization,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: it just you realize in those moments that you know,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things bigger than hockey, and we
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: play a game and you know it's we make it
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: high stakes, and but you know, amazing to see what
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: he's been able to do this season, and especially last night,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, he was He's been so fun to watch.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: I watch a lot of their games.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: You know, they're they play an exciting brand of hockey,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: but he's kind of found another level that I think
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: we've all thought he could get to and we're wondering
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: when he was going to get there. Is like the
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: elite top five NHL defenseman, and you were seeing it
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 4: like he's he's he's playing some amazing hockey, and you know,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: just thoughts go out to his family and to his wife,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: and you know, I'm sure they're going to have a beautiful,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: big family in years to come, and they're going to
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: be all good, so well.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Said, let's send us some flowers.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Evan Bouchard four hundred regular season game, just the fourth
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: defense when the history has scored three goals and three assists.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Only others to do it Bobby Orr, Tom Blaydon and
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: Doug Crossman. Shock that Crossman did that, by the way,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: achieving that feat. He did it with the Lightning in
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two in just the sixteenth game in Francise history.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: Good research at the tell Bouchard's achievement so impressive. Connor
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: McDavid five point game, including the overtime winner against Washington.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: Nobody even cared.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Matias ACoM got three goals at the game on Amazon
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: Prime in Canada Monday night against the Ducks, first time
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: in NHL history that team has had defenseman score hat
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: tricks and consecutive games. You always talk with mc even
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: in drystyle, but this Edmonton defense, Chris Knablocks got these
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: guys fired up, joining the rush, scoring taking shots.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: And Bouchard gets shit on so much by people because
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: his defense. No block told me he goes. It's been
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: two months, he goes. Since December onet he's given up
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: one turnover which led to a goal because everyone has
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: to crush this guy. How about he is defensively but
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: that is not the case, and we have evidence on
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: this for two months now. He hasn't done it an offensive.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: He's a one a game player and he's not representing
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Team Canada. Unbelievable.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the Team Canada picks some defense are starting to
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: look there's some guys that were left off. I mean
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: Chickering and Bouchard for one. You know they're playing a
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: lot better than the other guys, but you know, familiarity
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: seems to work with Team Canada. Once you're in the club,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: you're in the club. But Bouchard's story arc every season
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: is the best. He starts the season got awful, everybody
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: hates him, says he's overpaid. Then here's this weird little lull,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: and then all of a sudden, he goes in a
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 4: fucking heater. Yeah, and like has more points than God
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: and gets to the playoffs. They'll probably make it to
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 4: the finals, and then he'll make it turnover and everybody's
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 4: gonna say he's overpaid again, and then we restart the
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: story again. But it's every season he's the most talked
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: about defenseman, Like he's one of the more, if not
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: the most polarizing defenseman in the NHL.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: And you think that's for a combination of things.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: One, it's that he makes a lot of money, he
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: plays in a big market, and because even his game
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: is polarizing.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: As you said, he himself is streaky.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: So if you're streaking, you get paid a lot of money,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: and you're in a big market, then naturally people are
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: going to coming at you.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's but he's here.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: He's no heartbeat in a good way, like he's able
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: to let that roll off his back. He takes a
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: lot of shit, man, and he just keeps on ticking.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: Bouche bomps, getting it done.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for checking in andhallan Scripted thanks to
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  Speaker 1: JD in town of course Nate Thompson, our special guest
• 1:08:47
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• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Olympic Break is indeed coming up.
• 1:08:50
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• 1:08:52
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• 1:08:55
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