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Hockey Culture, NHL Expansion, and the Wild-Blackhawks Rivalry · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome into the Scene Project Sports Network.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and you are here tonight for the crease prod...
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  The crease report.
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  New show, Jitters, boys.
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  Welcome in my cohost, Brevi, Bright Lights.
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  Brev, what's going on, brother?
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  Doing good.
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  It'd be doing a little bit better if the wild aren't getting pummeled right now, but, we're
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  doing we're doing alright.
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  They'll figure it out.
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  It's a long season.
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  The, yeah.
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  They're down Brock Faber, right, for a for a while.
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  So Yeah.
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  That's, yeah, that's that's that's a tough loss for them for sure.
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  Let's get our other cohost in.
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  Big b, what's going on, b?
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  No.
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  Doing good.
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  Has a free time.
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  Thought we jump on.
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  Beyond the belt will not be out tonight.
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  So good talk some puck for tonight, especially in the state of hockey here.
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  Yeah.
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  Our our first, first show of the new, hockey program here on the scene, Project Sports
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  Network.
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  Excited to have Brev, joining us again after getting to talk some football with him on
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  Tuesday night.
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  And, you know, it's gonna be a a fun new show, hockey season, just a week in now.
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  We got our basketball show on Wednesday night.
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  So this pretty much fills in my week.
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  You know, with everything else that we're doing, it's hard to fit anything else in at
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  this point.
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  Bee's got rank them and beyond the bell going.
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  So we're we're adding more and more in here, and it's gonna be an exciting season as I think
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  both of our teams look to, you know, the wild looking to return to the playoffs again and and
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  make an even deeper run.
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  And my Chicago blackhawks definitely looking to finally kind of get out of this bottom, middle,
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  third of the league with all of this young talent that they have and get out there and
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  finally make some noise and hopefully make a playoff push of their own.
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  Brev, you're relatively new to the network still, so kinda wanna give you a little time
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  here, introduce yourselves, and, tell us a little bit about your background in hockey.
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  We know you're a big football guy as well and what you do over there, but, we'd love to know
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  a little bit of your hockey background.
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  Yeah.
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  So I'm actually, like, compared to football because I've been a football fan basically my
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  entire life.
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  I'm actually somewhat newer to watching hockey as far as, like, relative to football.
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  So, like, in the last ten years, I've really started to love hockey.
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  I I think my, technically, my first ever writing job whatsoever, though it was unpaid,
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  it was just for experience, was, with hockey, wilderness, and zone coverage.
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  So my my first ever writing experience is technically about the Minnesota wild some years
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  ago.
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  So I've got the writing background with that.
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  Also covering, along with the Vikings for heavy sports, I've also got, the Minnesota Wild,
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  which I do some work on as well.
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  So big wild fan.
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  Again, unfortunately, it's for Minnesota sports teams.
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  Their problems seem to be somewhat the same as the Vikings' problems with being really good in
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  the regular season and then just disappearing at the end of the year.
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  But we got out of the first round last year for the first time since 2015.
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  So, you know, take your take your banners when you can get them.
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  Barbara, our guy, tapping in on all the shows across the network.
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  Appreciate you being with us today.
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  Barbara, who's your hockey team, man?
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  I know you're a bulls fan when it comes to basketball.
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  Obviously, huge Vikings fan in football, but would love to know
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  And Bob,
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  you're right.
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  I mean, our our Minnesota sports teams here all have the same kind of flow.
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  They do good during the regular season.
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  They get to the playoffs, and it's like they forgot how to play ball, shoot the puck, you
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  know, all that fun stuff.
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  So, I mean, it always...
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  You know, it looks good in the preseason.
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  Everybody's talking up the wild, the wolves, you know, Vikings are now getting some love.
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  So, you know, keep it up.
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  It could be Titletown, Minnesota for this year, which would be a blessing since '91.
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  It was the last time we got titles.
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  Yeah.
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  And even then, if that happens, I'll be pinching myself.
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  Oh, you won't be the only one.
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  You might...
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  You guys might not see me for a week if that happens.
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  I might be passed out drunk.
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  It's already.
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  Nice.
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  I
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  I would hate to know how much it would take to get you drunk, sir.
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  It probably would be as much as you guys think because I don't drink.
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  So...
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  And when I do, there's only a couple here and there.
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  But I tell you what, if if we walk away...
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  Even get to a Super Bowl, I might have a few...
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  I might push Cody for the run.
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  Did you get a new mic?
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Sounds good.
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  Clip on Mike there.
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  So No.
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  Sounds good, man.
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  You could probably leave it, like, sitting on the table, and it'd be better than what it was
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  with the iPad, Mike.
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  Yeah.
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  So Probably.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  Barbara says he doesn't have a favorite hockey team.
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  He just likes the fights.
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  Hey.
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  A lot of people out there that will agree, man.
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  Yeah.
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  And, Barbara, you're wrong.
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  Fights, the league...
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  The leagues to go watch are like the ECHL, the USHL, maybe not as much.
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  I I don't know what it's like, but the the...
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  It's called the East Coast Hockey League.
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  Did you get one?
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  We got Quinn Hughes.
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  Just put one, put one past.
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  Nice.
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  Oh, they don't have Vasi in there, but two one Tampa Bay.
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  And I I was gonna tell, Barbara he's wrong because Barbara's down here in Virginia with
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  me.
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  So he is more than welcome to join the Minnesota.
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  Right now is the time to join the wild bandwagon because they got the cup window now.
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  So now's now's the time.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  If you're gonna bandwagon, do it while the team
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  And and the thing is is right now, the wild also too are on a massive road trip.
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  This is like the most road games that start off the opening month because they got some stuff
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  going on at Grand Casino.
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  So Oh, yeah.
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  The circus is in town.
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  The...
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  For the black hawks, that was always a big part of it.
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  The Barnum and Bailey will come into town in January, so that always ends up being a
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  massive, like, 10 game.
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  Usually, we...
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  They head to the West Coast and do the whole run where you're playing the Kings in San Jose.
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  Now the Kraken, you're getting the, what, the Mammoth in Utah
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  Yeah.
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  Vegas, obviously.
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  And now that a lot of those teams are ascending, that becomes a really tough road
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  trip.
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  There was a time where, you know, obviously, you had fewer teams, but going out to LA and
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  San Jose, Anaheim, you you were coming home and banking a whole bunch of points in that road
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  trip.
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  So it's nice to nice to see that the, you know, the Western Conference has just gotten so much
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  stronger in hockey over the last time.
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  Now the East...
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  The Eastern Conference has really been the ones winning all the cups between Florida and
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  Carolina lately, but it's nice to see a balance back out.
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  I know they're talking about another expansion too to bring the league up to 32.
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  And with that, it's putting a team like Chicago on the verge of maybe going into the Eastern
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  Conference, which brings back some of the old Detroit, you know, rivalries that we had when
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  Detroit was part of the Western Conference.
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  I remember those vividly as a kid.
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  Right?
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  Still hate the wings for a lot of reasons, but it...
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  It's nice to see that the NHL continues to grow and continues to bring in, you know, new
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  markets.
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  I I think it's really awesome to see a, a hockey team out there in Utah, and now they're
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  talking about maybe bringing one back into Arizona again, which, it just...
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  I mean, it didn't work the last time, so I don't know why you you would go back.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know why they would think about going back to Arizona.
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  I mean, it's kinda weird having a few teams in Florida, you know, because to me, I mean, you
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  think of hockey, you think colder weather states, and Florida by far is one.
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  So...
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  But, yeah, I know they're talking about a few...
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  I don't know if they narrowed down what...
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  Where the expansion would be, but I think they're trying to get up there with football
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  and basketball with 32 teams.
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  Yeah.
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  They're trying, because the Seattle, they now have 32 teams.
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  Yep.
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  Like, Seattle was the thirty second team, but the the rumor is that they wanna get another
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  team in Texas.
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  So, like, Houston, I think, is at is at the forefront.
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  And like you were saying, with the warm weather team, like, here we go again.
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  They're gonna add another.
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  And I I get why they wanna do it.
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  I mean, it it annoys me.
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  And I'm from Virginia, so I don't know how much it can make me mad even though I'm a Minnesota
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  fan.
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  But, like, it annoys me.
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  You see, like, these southern states, like, down...
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  And I can speak from experience.
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  Like, Richmond Richmond's like a sneaky hockey city here in Virginia.
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  Like, a lot of people love hockey.
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  They did take away our ECHL team, though, of course.
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  Why why would we be able to keep that?
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  We we need to keep our soccer team.
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  Anyway, but, like, the the the South, like, I've seen firsthand, like, it's just not a
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  region of the country that really cares about hockey.
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  And I...
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  There's the accessibility issue to hockey.
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  It's stupid expensive to get into.
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  It's stupid expensive to maintain an ice rink for whatever facilities you're gonna do it.
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  And Richmond's doing a great job here.
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  They've built a couple ice dens around the around the region the last couple years.
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  But, I mean, you you have to look at, like, the taxes for NHL players like Florida, Texas.
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  It's gonna make sense for the good players to go there.
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  But but it is annoying.
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  Like, I want the game of hockey to grow.
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  And for that, I have to be okay with them going to Houston and maybe Austin and and back to
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  Arizona.
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  But there's also just like the the people don't...
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  Here don't really care about hockey, and I wish that was different.
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  But I want the game to grow.
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  It's it's a paradox.
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  Well...
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  And the thing is too is now that they're getting into those stadium series, well, where
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  most stadiums outside, I can't see them trying to put a ice rink outside of Texas and Houston.
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  Yeah.
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  I think it was hard enough for them when they did it up at Lake Tahoe a few years ago.
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  Yeah.
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  And you got kinda one of those bluebird days, and it was 70 degrees out there.
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  It's tough to do.
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  And, yeah, I I...
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  People don't realize how much that warm weather even outside of the stadium affects the ice
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  inside of the stadium.
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  Right?
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  Like, there's only so cold you can keep it inside of these places to keep the ice in good
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  condition.
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  It has a it has a real effect.
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  I'm sure there's technology that's advancing on those things too to keep things at a lower
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  temperature below the ice.
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  You know?
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  It's crazy.
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  Have you ever seen some of the the stadium tours and stuff for some of the old buildings
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  of how they actually keep those cold?
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  And Yeah.
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  It's pretty crazy when you crawl under those, you know, those stadiums because it's the same
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  surface.
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  They'll lay the hardwood courts for the basketball teams on top of that in places that
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  don't have it.
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  Minnesota's very unique in the fact that it has two different stadiums.
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  You have Grand Casino in Saint Paul for the wild, and then you have the Target Center for
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  the basketball team.
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  In Chicago, it's the United Center for both teams.
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  So Oh, I know.
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  Logistically trying to plan around two major sports teams using the same building, but the
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  added And that's whole
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  thing back in Boston is that they would have the same ice and, you know, ring for the
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  Celtics and the Bruins, and they would put the the hardwood right on top, and they would have
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  to watch so it doesn't get moisture on the cord and stuff like that.
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  So, yeah, it...
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  It's it's it's nice to have two states.
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  I know some, you know, cities, states can't afford it.
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  It is definitely a blessing here in Minnesota.
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  Even though they do play high school hockey Target Target Center when they do their
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  playoffs.
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  Yeah.
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  And we got three one Tampa Bay now down there at Amelie Arena, of course.
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  Tampa Bay scored on the power play.
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  Yeah.
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  Like, you you talk about the stadium series and you think about, like, the winter classic.
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  Like, the winter classic should be what we saw in Minnesota a couple years ago on New Year's
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  Day.
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  Like, it is frigid.
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  It's unbearably cold at at Target Field.
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  And so, like, the setup is...
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  It's got, like, the Minnesota cabin feel to it.
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  Like, that's what the Winter Classic should be.
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  So Yep.
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  And the stadium series, of course, is a different thing.
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  But, I mean, I think it's good that they're trying to expand. You
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  You know, they're playing these games in Europe now and going to Sweden and and all these other
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  countries.
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  So, like, it's cool, but it's just like...
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  It...
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  It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you're the NHL kind of expanding like this
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  because, I mean, it...
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  The NFL is king, and we all know that.
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  So just, like, getting this region of the country, like, south to to care about it is
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  like...
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  I don't know.
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  And then, of course, they're the ones that are winning all these cups.
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  Yeah.
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  It's kinda it's kinda funny, isn't it?
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  That that the game struggles to grow, but that's also what kind of helps grow the game
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  too.
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  When your team is good, it definitely helps.
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  And I think that was also a problem with with Arizona is that the teams were just god awful.
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  The organization, the ownership group was really awful and didn't know how to engage with
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  those fans and to really, be in that.
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  Some people get into sports ownership for different reasons.
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  Right?
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  Some people really love the game and wanna see that grow.
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  And, you know, others are are just in it for a money grab, and you don't know where where
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  that's coming from.
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  Right?
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  There...
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  There's a lot that we don't know about how these organizations are run and, you know, how
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  how the the cookie dough is made.
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  Right.
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  And then you got the
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  guys like Mark Cuban who got in it.
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  Yeah.
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  Because he enjoyed the sport, but he was pretty much playing fantasy basketball.
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  He was trying to build his team to be the best, I mean, every year.
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  And I I think he came out and said that then, yeah, he liked the sport, but it was more of
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  him just trying to build a good team and be a fantasy.
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  And the challenge of it for a guy like that that's as good at business to try and figure
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  that out, that there's definitely something to it, especially if you're a fan of the game.
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  I I think it all starts there.
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  It's really nice having, you know, Selly around us with his sports management degree and
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  different connections that he made through school that that I hope we we get to bring some
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  of these people in.
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  You know, Brian Harper being someone who works.
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  I don't know if he's still with the Vikings organization.
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  I haven't tried to look him up.
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  But getting these people that are inside...
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  And for me, it was really cool to talk to Steve Reed with the Vikings who's been with them for
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  twenty five, twenty six years as the, now manager of season tickets and and premium
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  seating sales and being a part of that.
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  And, it's cool to have those insights into how these organizations actually work and what
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  keepsake.
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  Because as fans, right, we're very hyper focused on what's happening on the field or on
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  the ice and not so much thinking about it from a...
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  This is a functioning business that doesn't necessarily rely on the team being successful
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  and winning championships every year, there...
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  There's bigger things to worry about.
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  You know?
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  How do you sell 70,000 tickets nine times a year, is more what they're thinking about.
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  So No.
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  For sure.
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  Nice, big.
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  Yeah.
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  Morehead.
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  A lot of hockey going on up there for sure.
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  More...
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  More...
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  When I was through high school was, like, the top dog.
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  It was Morehead.
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  I think Creighton was another team.
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  But but those small schools...
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  I know Moorhead might not be a small school, but when it came to play, those small schools
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  that you barely heard of are the ones that were...
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  Everybody was afraid of because you just didn't know how they played.
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  Hawks now hit their first intermission down one nothing to the islanders.
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  Power play golf...
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  Goal from Matt Schaefer.
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  And, yeah, finally got state championships.
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  That's right.
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  I had some friends that grew up up in Bemidji and then played for Bemidji State.
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  Riley Riley Weslowski, really awesome to to meet him.
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  He played for the Rapid City Rush, which was an ECHL team in Rapid City.
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  We have a USHL team in Sioux Falls that actually...
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  I'll I'll be going up to a game and hopefully working with them with our foundation,
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  actually.
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  They they sponsored an event that we had going on and gave us four tickets, to to go have an
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  experience up there.
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  So we're gonna take a a couple of vets out and maybe do their fifty fifty raffle at one point
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  this season.
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  So getting into the stadium and doing some work like that.
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  Really exciting.
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  And for me, that's what I found the most interesting about these organizations is is how
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  they're able to give back to the community.
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  Right?
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  Being someone who works in a foundation and then has always loved sports to see how sports
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  activate and take advantage and are able to give that advantage to these nonprofits or a
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  kid's sports team and to give them this platform where you're gonna have 20,000 people
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  in an arena.
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  Hey.
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  Here's an opportunity.
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  Go sell the Chuck a Pucks.
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  Right?
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  And and go make $10,000 in a night as a fundraiser for your organization.
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  Like, stuff like that to me is so cool, and that's why I really try to attach myself to
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  these arenas and the sports teams.
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  And I just find it incredible.
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  I I I...
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  A great...
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  Another great example is the the unreal celebrity softball game that we got to go cover
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  and, you know, broad...
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  We were the only people there broadcasting the thing.
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  And I look forward to next year having another opportunity to do that and bring an even better
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  setup than we did this year.
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  That was a lot of fun, but I think there's a lot more opportunities like that.
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  And definitely,
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  hopefully, get a banner over there in left center where Adam Thiela hit the game winning
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  home run at.
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  So Yep.
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  Great stuff.
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  So both games kind of at intermission now, or you guys come out of it, right, while they're
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  out of the intermission?
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  We're about halfway through the second period.
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  Me...
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  I'm gonna dig into the notes here.
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  We're gonna cover some topics.
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  So format of the show, obviously, we're gonna talk about our favorite teams and just kind of,
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  you know, talking sports in general, but we're gonna make sure to hit some topics, probably
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  run through the standings as we get farther into the season.
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  Right now, it really doesn't matter.
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  We're four games in, but we'll be keeping an eye on that and then ramping up into the
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  playoffs, maybe having some specials, maybe doing some watch alongs and different things
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  like that during the games.
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  And, you know, Thursdays are a busy day in the hockey world, but it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  You know, the channel continues to grow and and be something that is a community.
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  And, you know, Barbara and Fig, you guys are always tuning in with all the shows.
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  We appreciate you.
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  You you know, you guys are in at the ground floor.
• 19:20
  And where this goes and continues to grow over the next year or two, I think, is gonna be
• 19:25
  really something.
• 19:27
  Adding guys like Brev to the lineup who are just so knowledgeable about all sports and
• 19:31
  really dialed into what's happening really is gonna add something to it.
• 19:36
  Selly, the same way.
• 19:37
  The kid does his homework.
• 19:39
  We sat and talked for twenty minutes after the show yesterday about things that we wanna do
• 19:44
  for the basketball show as well.
• 19:45
  So that's awesome.
• 19:47
  So, hey, Fig, on that note, we got Jared Goering who I just had on the podcast last
• 19:54
  week.
• 19:54
  If you haven't checked out his episode, he's from the prop laboratory.
• 19:58
  And go check his stuff out.
• 20:00
  He's got a sub stack channel.
• 20:01
  He's always sharing betting tips and and different things and now providing some of his
• 20:05
  picks.
• 20:06
  Pretty sure he's doing most of his work over on x as far as, like, the picks and and kinda
• 20:10
  sharing content over there goes.
• 20:12
  But we're gonna start bringing him in.
• 20:14
  I don't know if it'll be every week, but maybe having some, you know, some betting content
• 20:19
  coming out on the channel that we're gonna work into our live streams.
• 20:23
  He's got a...
• 20:24
  I think he's got a brand new baby.
• 20:26
  So I I don't...
• 20:27
  I think they got a toddler.
• 20:28
  Maybe she's two.
• 20:29
  I think she's two, but still keeps you very busy, and they're living down in Belize.
• 20:33
  So, his life is a little bit hectic right now, but, I think I'm gonna have him film some stuff
• 20:39
  and then send them in, and we'll include them in the live stream.
• 20:42
  So sounds like he's hitting bets if he's living in Belize.
• 20:45
  Damn.
• 20:46
  Well, what's funny is that it almost came out of necessity.
• 20:51
  So when he moved...
• 20:52
  And he kinda talked about it on the on the podcast episode that when he had moved...
• 20:58
  They originally moved to Panama, and he wasn't able to work.
• 21:02
  He didn't have a work visa down there and wasn't...
• 21:05
  You know, I don't know that they spoke a lot of Spanish when they went there either, him and
• 21:08
  his wife.
• 21:09
  And then, he couldn't bet either.
• 21:11
  He's always been a big sports bettor, but he couldn't bet.
• 21:13
  So it was like, what can I do to, like, still be a part of that world?
• 21:18
  And that's where he started creating the betting content and building out this substack.
• 21:24
  And a lot of what he talks about is, like, the mental health side of betting and kind of how
• 21:30
  to come at it from the analytics.
• 21:32
  A lot of us, you know, the dumb fans of the world are betting with our hearts.
• 21:35
  Right?
• 21:35
  Everybody who took the Vikings 10 and a half over the Miami Dolphins on the weekend, and
• 21:42
  then they're mad when Hawkinson takes the knee.
• 21:44
  Those are the kind of games that he would always stay away from.
• 21:48
  And he talked a lot about kind of...
• 21:50
  You're almost better off betting on bad teams and where there's a lot of volatility and
• 21:56
  you're able to take advantage of the numbers and and the lines more so than, like, betting
• 22:01
  on good teams.
• 22:02
  And he said he doesn't bet on any of the teams that he likes for the simple read.
• 22:06
  Like, how how crappy does it feel to have your team win, but you're pissed because you lost
• 22:12
  the bet?
• 22:13
  Yeah.
• 22:14
  That's what I used to do a lot is emotion...
• 22:16
  Like, the emotional hedge.
• 22:17
  You you bet against your team, Dore.
• 22:19
  Not like a lot, but, like, I can live with losing $10.15 bucks if my team won.
• 22:25
  Yeah.
• 22:26
  But it made a good point too that, you know, with the Minnesota losing the North Star is,
• 22:31
  you know, it took them a while to get another team back here, but it it was a big gap.
• 22:37
  And then watching the North Star is going out for Dallas and win.
• 22:40
  I mean, that that one hurt big time.
• 22:43
  But, yeah, when it comes to betting, it's one of those things where you wanna bet on your
• 22:47
  team because you know the most knowledge on them, but yet you don't wanna bet on them
• 22:52
  because, you know, what happened just this past week.
• 22:54
  It's just like, they don't cover.
• 22:56
  Now you're mad because you didn't...
• 22:58
  Want...
• 22:58
  They won the game, but you didn't want the bet.
• 23:00
  You know?
• 23:01
  So I will say I won at least at least 3 to $4 in Kuril Kaprizov's rookie year taking his
• 23:11
  shots on goal prop because the books would just...
• 23:14
  The the books would just keep it at two and a half.
• 23:17
  And he's like, four, five, three, four, two, four, five, six.
• 23:21
  I'm just like, I'm just gonna put $50 on this every time.
• 23:25
  It's gonna...
• 23:26
  I'm gonna make it back.
• 23:29
  Yeah.
• 23:29
  You're willing to take the the, you know, two out of 10 times that you're gonna take an l
• 23:34
  Yeah.
• 23:35
  Knowing that you got that you got it.
• 23:37
  Yeah.
• 23:38
  I don't think that happens anymore, Fig.
• 23:40
  Obviously, Carrill, the thrill, has proven himself to be a a budding superstar in this
• 23:46
  league.
• 23:47
  A lot of fun.
• 23:48
  I'm hoping, during a couple of these, Vikings games that we're going up to cover that I get
• 23:53
  to dip into the wild.
• 23:54
  We do have some connections to the wild.
• 23:56
  Kirsten Kroll, has been a former guest on our program.
• 24:00
  She expressed some interest in, coming in and talking some hockey with us during it.
• 24:04
  Obviously, it will have to be at games, that are away games like tonight or, in the future
• 24:10
  where the wild have the night off because she obviously has her duties inside of, Grand
• 24:15
  Casino Arena there in Saint Paul, during the home games, but, really grateful to have some
• 24:21
  really great hockey people around us and my friend, Glenn Andreessen, from the Golfaloons
• 24:27
  podcast.
• 24:27
  He worked for the Wild in their media department for over a decade.
• 24:30
  Oh.
• 24:31
  And then he was the head.
• 24:32
  He was the director of Minnesota hockey, their amateur the amateur hockey stuff for another
• 24:38
  decade, I think.
• 24:39
  So, really dialed in there.
• 24:41
  Hope to, you know, kinda use these relationships that I've built up over the last
• 24:45
  six months in in some of these and bring some people on and, you know, for me, getting some
• 24:50
  of the, you know, maybe some of the Blackhawks people on with us too and, you know, just
• 24:55
  continuing to grow this platform.
• 24:57
  I I love hockey.
• 24:58
  It's one of my favorite sports to watch live, by by a long shot.
• 25:04
  I I don't know that there's anything like...
• 25:06
  And I haven't been to an NFL game not in US Bank Stadium, so I'm very spoiled in that
• 25:12
  essence.
• 25:13
  Like, I love the stadium atmosphere watching a show with...
• 25:16
  You know, for...
• 25:17
  Because that's...
• 25:17
  Like, to me, being a music guy, I'm...
• 25:20
  It's a show.
• 25:21
  Right?
• 25:21
  It's sports, but it's a spectacle.
• 25:23
  It is a it is a...
• 25:25
  An event.
• 25:25
  Right?
• 25:26
  So I I love the spectacle of the NFL, but hockey, live, the last time my wife and I went,
• 25:36
  we were up there for Wilde versus Blackhawks.
• 25:39
  Taze and Kane, what I thought would be their last games in a Blackhawks uniform.
• 25:43
  Kane are obviously back with the Blackhawks this year on a in a...
• 25:46
  You know, next year on a two year deal.
• 25:50
  It was awesome, man.
• 25:50
  We were, like, six rows off the glass in one of the...
• 25:53
  You know, against one of the goals, and it was just great.
• 25:57
  It it was an awesome experience there.
• 25:59
  And I think they got a great stadium.
• 26:00
  Grand Casino Arena, an awesome place to watch hockey.
• 26:04
  Can definitely tell that it was designed specifically for that, as opposed to some of
• 26:10
  these other stadiums that are trying to be dual purpose.
• 26:13
  Yeah.
• 26:13
  Well...
• 26:13
  And the thing is is when it used to be Saint Paul Civic Center when the stars were here,
• 26:18
  they, I believe, tore some of it down and rebuilt it to design it as a hockey arena.
• 26:26
  That was their one focal point on it that they wanted to be a hockey arena.
• 26:31
  So, yeah, it's definitely a great facility all around, but, yeah, definitely a great hockey
• 26:37
  place.
• 26:38
  Yeah.
• 26:39
  And speaking as somebody...
• 26:41
  Because, of course, Bubba, talked a million.
• 26:42
  The US Bank Stadium home opener was my first ever game, for the Vikings.
• 26:49
  My...
• 26:49
  The only other NFL game I had ever been to, I think I might have mentioned this to you, was
• 26:54
  because I live, like, an hour and a half from DC.
• 26:56
  So the only other game I had been to was the Texans and the, at the time, Redskins, the game
• 27:02
  where Alex Smith almost lost his leg.
• 27:05
  So Alex Smith's leg, Kyler Murray gets knocked out.
• 27:08
  I don't have a good track record with the NFL, to be honest.
• 27:12
  But for the...
• 27:12
  Yeah.
• 27:13
  NHL, there's something diff...
• 27:14
  Because the Vikings atmosphere is awesome.
• 27:16
  So, like, I've been to the top of the top for production quality.
• 27:19
  I've been to the absolute bottom of the barrel because FedEx field it.
• 27:22
  It...
• 27:22
  With the things they say about it, it's worse.
• 27:25
  It's Yeah.
• 27:25
  I've heard it.
• 27:26
  Not good things from the press box throughout the stadium.
• 27:30
  It's Not great.
• 27:31
  Yeah.
• 27:31
  The old RFK.
• 27:32
  Right?
• 27:32
  That's what it used to be.
• 27:33
  RFK Stadium before they did the
• 27:36
  Yeah.
• 27:36
  Used to play at the...
• 27:37
  It's a...
• 27:37
  That was...
• 27:38
  That's a whole different stadium, but they used to play at RFK.
• 27:41
  And then...
• 27:41
  And what you were saying about the NHL, like, the...
• 27:43
  There's just something magical about a hockey game, especially in NHL one at that.
• 27:47
  I've been to two wild games in Raleigh at the...
• 27:50
  I think it's called the Lenovo Center right now, but when I was PNC Arena a couple years
• 27:54
  ago.
• 27:55
  And I do have a good track record with the wild because in the first game I went to went to
• 28:00
  broke, I think, the single season points record for the Minnesota wild.
• 28:05
  And then this second game, he had a hat trick, and we beat Carolina, like, five to one.
• 28:10
  So when I'm in attendance, Kurokaprizov is the greatest hockey player on earth.
• 28:15
  And and the thing is my experience going to hockey games is you gotta sit in that lower
• 28:19
  bowl to get the feel of it, the the, you know, hitting up against the glass.
• 28:25
  Because one of my wife's friends rented out a suite, and we went to the game there.
• 28:30
  And it was a different feeling.
• 28:32
  I mean, we knew you're still here, but for some reason, you guys did that lower ball just to
• 28:38
  get that that that adrenaline, I think.
• 28:41
  For sure.
• 28:42
  Yeah.
• 28:42
  So when I was younger, we had friends that had, season tickets, to the Blackhawks, and and they
• 28:49
  were like nosebleed seats, but it was at the old Chicago Stadium.
• 28:52
  So it was kind of up in the rafters.
• 28:54
  It was so loud up there.
• 28:56
  I remember my brothers crying when the sirens would...
• 28:59
  You know, when the horn would go off.
• 29:01
  Mhmm.
• 29:02
  Remember the roar was kind of the thing when they were tearing that stadium down and
• 29:06
  building the United Center?
• 29:09
  Still allowed in the United Center.
• 29:10
  I've had the opportunity to go sit lower bowl there.
• 29:13
  Also, at box seats, we had an aunt of mine, worked for a company that had the box.
• 29:19
  And so we get to go and have that.
• 29:22
  The last game I went to at United Center was...
• 29:26
  It was New Year's Eve with, like, a bunch of my cousins and my mom and uncles, and we played
• 29:32
  the devils, Marty Brodure and that we put, like, five goals behind Brodure.
• 29:39
  It was electric.
• 29:40
  It was the...
• 29:40
  It was one of the years they were going to win the cup.
• 29:42
  So I think it was '20...
• 29:43
  The 2013 year because I've probably just gotten back from the coast and, yeah, it was just
• 29:50
  awesome, man.
• 29:50
  The experience, just absolutely incredible.
• 29:54
  Love it.
• 29:55
  Have always loved hockey for those reasons.
• 29:57
  So many great memories around the game.
• 29:59
  And...
• 30:00
  Yeah.
• 30:01
  You know?
• 30:01
  And it's something that I never played.
• 30:03
  I've I've never played hockey in my life, sadly enough.
• 30:07
  I don't...
• 30:08
  I've been on...
• 30:08
  I don't think I've ever been on, like, ice skates.
• 30:11
  I did the Glice a couple of times, and I rollerbladed back in the day.
• 30:14
  Loved the Mighty Ducks growing up.
• 30:15
  Right?
• 30:16
  Like, who didn't love those movies?
• 30:17
  Yeah.
• 30:17
  Well, how can you not love the Mighty Ducks being in Minnesota?
• 30:20
  I mean, that's Yeah.
• 30:22
  You know?
• 30:23
  But but I never played hockey either.
• 30:27
  Played, I guess, street hockey.
• 30:29
  I mean, I laced up the skates a little bit, but no, I...
• 30:33
  I'd never found the desire to play hockey.
• 30:36
  Expensive sport.
• 30:37
  For those that do it, great.
• 30:39
  I'm glad you got to do it because it can be fun and exhausting.
• 30:43
  Yeah.
• 30:44
  Big, where are you at?
• 30:47
  Where are
• 30:47
  you
• 30:47
  at, Big?
• 30:49
  I think he's Northeast.
• 30:50
  I wanna say he's New York.
• 30:51
  I can't remember.
• 30:52
  Yeah.
• 30:52
  Sounded like easy.
• 30:53
  He was talking about going to a Carolina game out there.
• 30:56
  So must be in there.
• 30:58
  Bubba, next year.
• 30:59
  Comment earlier too about the bank.
• 31:01
  And Oh, yeah.
• 31:03
  The first time I went to US Bank Stadium, I was with my brothers, bears fans, was in my bears
• 31:08
  gear, right, still there.
• 31:09
  Justin Fields was on the team.
• 31:12
  You know, the the Vikings weren't quite ascending.
• 31:15
  I can't even remember who's playing quarterback for him that day to be...
• 31:17
  Might've still No.
• 31:18
  Come on, everybody.
• 31:19
  Can't remember.
• 31:20
  Probably.
• 31:20
  But it was just the whole experience where I was like, dude, this is cool, man.
• 31:27
  Like, as an opposing fan...
• 31:29
  And I've heard it from a lot of people about that.
• 31:33
  And now going, you know, two years ago or...
• 31:37
  I can't remember when we went last year.
• 31:39
  We went for the whiteout game at bears versus Vikings.
• 31:43
  And absolutely incredible.
• 31:47
  The whiteout, just everything about it.
• 31:50
  The the extra level of, you know, production that they put into everything for those games.
• 31:56
  The...
• 31:56
  What the fans do is really my first introduction to a lot of the, you know, the VWO
• 32:01
  crew and everybody getting dressed up, and it was just like, yeah.
• 32:05
  This is this is cool.
• 32:06
  I can get behind this.
• 32:08
  Yeah.
• 32:09
  I think next year next year for the home opener when we're when we're in Minneapolis again,
• 32:16
  Bubba, I think we need to go hit a rink or something.
• 32:19
  Yeah.
• 32:20
  No.
• 32:20
  We wanna get out here.
• 32:21
  That's why I'm trying to work on these...
• 32:22
  The...
• 32:23
  Get the build the channel up high enough where we're getting media credentials, at least we
• 32:26
  don't have buy tickets.
• 32:28
  Right?
• 32:28
  Right.
• 32:29
  Let's get going.
• 32:31
  I I think
• 32:31
  they still have the rink across the old train station down from where we had the the party
• 32:40
  at.
• 32:40
  I think they still have a rink there.
• 32:42
  But, no, it's just it's just funny, you know, growing up in Minnesota, always going to the
• 32:48
  Metrodome, and now seeing that US Bank Stadium's pretty much on top of the Metrodome,
• 32:55
  like, three times the size of the dome.
• 32:57
  It's just weird for me.
• 32:59
  Good experience.
• 33:02
  Yeah.
• 33:02
  We got we got wild three two now.
• 33:05
  Kuril to Blake Coleman going top shelf where grandpa hides the Tums.
• 33:09
  Nice.
• 33:12
  Skullen, good to see you, brother.
• 33:15
  The sharks, he says,.
• 33:18
  You got it.
• 33:19
  You got it.
• 33:19
  I remember.
• 33:20
  The sharks are nasty.
• 33:22
  Yeah.
• 33:23
  No.
• 33:23
  And they're gonna be good for, I think, a long time.
• 33:26
  That's it's gonna be fun to watch them.
• 33:30
  Like I said, I hope the blackhawks are able to really start ascending.
• 33:33
  Obviously, no Bedard to start this season kinda sucks, but you did bring in Patrick Kane, you
• 33:38
  know, over the summer.
• 33:39
  I think that's really cool.
• 33:40
  Great story last night or two nights ago with their home opener.
• 33:44
  Huge tributes.
• 33:45
  Johnny Taze and Nick Jomerson came into the locker room to see Kaner, and I just...
• 33:52
  There...
• 33:52
  There's a bond there.
• 33:53
  When when you have teams that are that good and and mostly the the same core of guys that go
• 33:58
  and win three in a five, six year span like that, the bonds that you form with those people
• 34:04
  and that the fans built with them as well, it it was just...
• 34:07
  It was a awesome time.
• 34:09
  And I think that the city of Chicago and especially the hockey fans there kinda itching
• 34:14
  for it.
• 34:14
  Ready to get back to that.
• 34:15
  Ready to have the rivalries.
• 34:17
  Loved it.
• 34:18
  You know, some great series against the wild.
• 34:20
  You know, the the the ones against the predators, the sharks, the kings, just...
• 34:25
  I'm ready to bring back those rivalries.
• 34:27
  And that was something that we talked a lot about on the rim report this week or or last
• 34:33
  week rather on our first our first episode was really, like, bring back the rivalries.
• 34:38
  Right?
• 34:39
  Looking forward to, you know, some of the basketball rivalries coming back with the
• 34:43
  Knicks being the top of the heap.
• 34:45
  I think that's super cool.
• 34:47
  You know, LeBron being out in the East now, so it's gonna be fun.
• 34:51
  And I hope the same for the NHL to have that and some new ones sparking too.
• 34:55
  I love that, you know, the the Florida teams kinda have their own little rivalry going on
• 35:00
  now because they've been so good as of late.
• 35:03
  It...
• 35:04
  It's really, really awesome.
• 35:05
  Yeah.
• 35:06
  The the rough part for Chicago is just...
• 35:09
  And it's so weird because just talking about last year, like, the the central division had
• 35:14
  three of the four best teams in the league the entire year.
• 35:18
  So you got Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota, and then, of course, Vegas.
• 35:23
  Like, none of those three advance.
• 35:24
  It's Vegas that comes out of nowhere and goes to the cup, and they lose to Carolina.
• 35:29
  But Chicago...
• 35:30
  And, like, how can you not love Conor Bedard and and Tara Tara Vine and Spencer Knight.
• 35:36
  Shout out Spencer Knight in that.
• 35:37
  He's a young, rising superstar.
• 35:39
  But, like, they're they're coming up in a really rough time in the Central where you've
• 35:44
  got Colorado and Dallas and Minnesota and Vegas who are all gonna be competing for the...
• 35:48
  And it's weird to be in that spot as a Minnesota fan.
• 35:51
  Like, being one of the top dogs in the league for probably the next four to five years as
• 35:56
  long as Quinn resigns.
• 35:57
  Like Oh, boy.
• 35:57
  Chicago is just coming up in in such a a hard time to get through, but that's the beauty of
• 36:02
  hockey is that there...
• 36:04
  There's...
• 36:04
  Luck is a huge part of hockey, and that almost sounds like a a detriment to the game, but it's
• 36:11
  not.
• 36:11
  I mean, it just it just takes you getting hot one time, and that's the beauty of hockey.
• 36:15
  There's it...
• 36:16
  There's so...
• 36:17
  There's nuance, but there's not.
• 36:19
  So Chicago, like, it it might be rough for them in the near future, but they're absolutely for
• 36:24
  sure building something.
• 36:25
  Well, I think that's something that...
• 36:27
  Go ahead, B.
• 36:28
  Go ahead.
• 36:28
  You you you talk about, you know, beloved stories and stuff.
• 36:32
  How about this year, the Pittsburgh Penguins have a trio that have played together for
• 36:38
  twenty one years straight.
• 36:40
  Crazy.
• 36:41
  Sidney Kidd, Macklin, and Chris Luttang, all have been together for twenty one years.
• 36:49
  I mean, I, you know, I dropped her all job jobs, I don't never get that.
• 36:54
  But just to be able to go and count on somebody to be by your side for that long, it's just,
• 37:00
  you know, great for the sport.
• 37:02
  And like you said, Bab, you know, the up and coming teams, the wild, you know, you know, the
• 37:08
  knights and all them, you know.
• 37:10
  But again, I I still think hockey is still popular when the the original six are also
• 37:18
  Yeah.
• 37:18
  At the top of the game, you know, and it's been a while since we've had them all up there at
• 37:22
  once.
• 37:23
  Yeah.
• 37:23
  And and Montreal is another team that's up and coming for sure.
• 37:26
  Montreal, they've got a bunch of young talent.
• 37:28
  Lane Hudson and Cole Caulfield, they're gonna be nasty for a while.
• 37:31
  But, like, yeah, like, Pittsburgh, two of my best friends in the world for my entire life
• 37:37
  are from Pittsburgh.
• 37:37
  I might have told you this before, Bubba.
• 37:39
  My family's from Pittsburgh, but I didn't know for a while.
• 37:42
  So if I had known way earlier, I would be a Pittsburgh fan.
• 37:45
  But, yeah, like, having Sid and Malkin and and Chris Latang, like, twenty twenty years is
• 37:51
  insane.
• 37:52
  I I think they should have blown it up a couple years ago because No.
• 37:55
  I mean, Sid...
• 37:56
  Sydney Crosby is still...
• 37:58
  And that's a whole another discussion of Sid versus Ovi.
• 38:00
  Like, Ovi's the greatest goal scorer of all time, and he's retiring after this year he just
• 38:04
  announced, which is just a heartbreaker.
• 38:07
  Because, like, growing up with these guys, it's insane.
• 38:09
  But I I think Sidney Crosby is still one of the best in the league.
• 38:12
  I think he's better than Ovi just in terms of being a a hockey player, but Pittsburgh is
• 38:16
  like, are you...
• 38:18
  How how much longer are you gonna keep doing this?
• 38:20
  Like, you gotta get to your future eventually when we can't keep living in 2017.
• 38:24
  Yep.
• 38:26
  Yeah.
• 38:26
  And it's been a long time, since they've kind of been relevant, out there and at that top
• 38:32
  because all these teams have caught them and passed them.
• 38:36
  And you might be able to sneak into the playoffs, but they're really just no match.
• 38:39
  And we even saw a little bit of that.
• 38:42
  The hawks opened up their season with some games out west, played the the upstart Mammoth,
• 38:50
  played the Vegas golden knights.
• 38:51
  And I just love the style of hockey that the Golden Knights have played since they got in.
• 38:57
  The great mix of the big bodies and the high skilled players and, you know, obviously, you
• 39:02
  have a...
• 39:03
  You know, the the talent that they've added out there in...
• 39:07
  Of late.
• 39:08
  His name's evading me right now.
• 39:09
  Is it...
• 39:10
  It's Jake Jack
• 39:12
  Jack Eichel.
• 39:13
  Jack Eichel.
• 39:14
  Thank you.
• 39:14
  Mhmm.
• 39:15
  I mean, you're talking about generational players that we're seeing and not necessarily
• 39:20
  seeing them on one team.
• 39:23
  And I think that the playing field, and and the talent is a little bit more spread around now
• 39:30
  than it than it used to be.
• 39:32
  Right?
• 39:32
  Where...
• 39:32
  Because everybody only wanted to play for original six teams, and and it it it made it
• 39:38
  tough.
• 39:39
  Right?
• 39:39
  Like, everybody wanted to be in Detroit and in these places.
• 39:42
  And now you have these, these cultures that have been built out in Vegas.
• 39:48
  I think Seattle's building something really cool up there with with the Kraken team, and I
• 39:53
  saw their, you know, our guy, Fago, shared some of their stuff on our channel, from their
• 40:00
  opener.
• 40:00
  And just seeing the the production that these teams put into these, you know, pregame
• 40:08
  celebrations.
• 40:09
  And it's just nuts, man.
• 40:10
  I...
• 40:11
  And I can't wait to get back to another game here soon.
• 40:15
  And, yeah, hopefully, we get to go do it.
• 40:16
  Grab, you got any plans to come back to Minnesota during the rest of the year at all?
• 40:21
  Oh, god.
• 40:22
  I'd love to.
• 40:22
  I I was gonna try to make coming back for Monday night against Buffalo, the Vikings game
• 40:27
  against the Bills where they induct Adrian to the ring of honor.
• 40:29
  I would...
• 40:30
  I was trying really hard to make that work.
• 40:31
  I don't think it's gonna happen, but I would I would love to be up there by the end of the
• 40:35
  year.
• 40:35
  I I I know I gotta go to New York City in January, Raleigh in February, and I'm going to
• 40:41
  Montreal at some point next year.
• 40:44
  So I I gotta fit Minnesota in there.
• 40:45
  I wanna I wanna come up there multiple times a year, and then I'm I'm planning on moving up
• 40:50
  there in, like, the next year or two.
• 40:51
  So Oh, really?
• 40:52
  Oh, yeah.
• 40:53
  For sure.
• 40:53
  I...
• 40:53
  It it makes sense for my career.
• 40:55
  There...
• 40:55
  There's no reason I should be down here without things are ascending.
• 41:00
  Well, that's cool.
• 41:01
  That definitely...
• 41:01
  We'd definitely be able to hang out a little bit and work together and definitely get
• 41:07
  something because, yeah, depending on where you live at.
• 41:09
  I mean, where you're looking.
• 41:11
  I'd be
• 41:11
  around live at.
• 41:12
  We're about an hour away from the city.
• 41:14
  So
• 41:14
  Mhmm.
• 41:15
  You know?
• 41:16
  I would be in that same ridge.
• 41:17
  Like, I'm looking
• 41:17
  at, like, Lakeville, Hastings, somewhere in there.
• 41:20
  Lakeville is not too far from me.
• 41:22
  So Mhmm.
• 41:23
  Be there as
• 41:23
  Hastings.
• 41:24
  Yeah.
• 41:24
  Hastings is right
• 41:26
  next door.
• 41:26
  You're right.
• 41:26
  My kid just is like Hastings.
• 41:28
  So Yeah.
• 41:29
  Yeah.
• 41:30
  I was just down there playing some golf at Emerald Green last weekend when I was in town.
• 41:34
  Nice little course, and then I cruised down to Brewster's.
• 41:38
  Shout out Brewster's in Cannon Falls and...
• 41:40
  Nice little town.
• 41:41
  Cannon Falls is is a nice little town.
• 41:43
  And, Ravi, I don't know.
• 41:44
  What's it like, the the place you live in Virginia?
• 41:46
  You live in a pretty small town out there?
• 41:49
  So I live, like, Virginia.
• 41:52
  The the cat...
• 41:52
  I live thirty minutes west of the capital, which is Richmond, but Richmond's actually,
• 41:56
  like, the third or fourth most populous city out here.
• 41:59
  Everybody lives in Northern Virginia, which is basically just DC South, and that's where all
• 42:05
  the Internet in the world runs through.
• 42:08
  And then, like, Virginia Beach.
• 42:10
  I think Virginia Beach is the biggest city.
• 42:12
  But out here, like, yeah, I live, like, Richmond...
• 42:15
  I I I don't know if you've ever been to Buffalo, but Richmond and Buffalo are pretty,
• 42:19
  like, similar in terms of just size of the city population, except they have two major sports
• 42:25
  teams, and we have a soccer team and a San Francisco Giants affiliate baseball team.
• 42:32
  So no NFL teams or NHL teams for us, I guess.
• 42:35
  But...
• 42:36
  Yeah.
• 42:36
  No.
• 42:37
  There...
• 42:37
  There's there's sports nearby.
• 42:39
  But if you want a major sport, you gotta drive...
• 42:41
  You gotta make the drive to DC or down to Raleigh or Charlotte.
• 42:45
  How far is DC from you, Brev?
• 42:48
  About an hour and a half, but with I 95 traffic, which is the worst traffic in country
• 42:55
  next to LA.
• 42:55
  Yeah.
• 42:56
  It could it could be...
• 42:57
  You could get lucky and get two and a half hours.
• 42:59
  It might be four hours.
• 43:03
  Well...
• 43:04
  And then what?
• 43:04
  Another maybe, like, hour from there to get over to Baltimore?
• 43:09
  Baltimore is kind of this...
• 43:11
  Almost similar because, like, DC is right here and then Baltimore is, like, right there.
• 43:16
  I've been to Baltimore once.
• 43:17
  I don't care to ever go back.
• 43:19
  But I've not heard good things.
• 43:20
  It's not great.
• 43:21
  No.
• 43:22
  I went I went for a a Metallica and Avenge sevenfold concert, like, back in 2018.
• 43:27
  It was at the Ravens Stadium, and that was enough for me to never go back.
• 43:31
  But, yeah, pretty similar distances.
• 43:36
  Oh.
• 43:37
  And Pittsburgh awesome.
• 43:38
  Pittsburgh's, like, five hours.
• 43:40
  Philly is probably around the same.
• 43:43
  New York's a good six and a half.
• 43:46
  So technically all within driving distance.
• 43:49
  Islanders up two o on the hawks right now.
• 43:52
  Come on.
• 43:53
  No.
• 43:53
  Definitely, can a of everything's...
• 43:55
  Like you said, if you're if you're the hasted Lakeville, you're, like, hour away from
• 44:00
  everything.
• 44:00
  So Oh, yeah.
• 44:02
  That's for sure.
• 44:03
  Yeah.
• 44:03
  It's insane.
• 44:04
  It takes me five hours of driving through nothing to get from one side of South Dakota to
• 44:09
  the other, and there's there's nothing.
• 44:13
  Like, there's
• 44:14
  Yeah.
• 44:14
  They're nothing but small towns, and I love it.
• 44:17
  I I...
• 44:17
  As someone who has lived, you know, I I bused Venice Beach in my twenties, so, like, lived in
• 44:22
  LA.
• 44:23
  Not in...
• 44:23
  You know, I I lived in Venice, which wasn't bad.
• 44:25
  Right?
• 44:26
  I was on the beach.
• 44:27
  Cool.
• 44:28
  Did it.
• 44:28
  It wasn't terrible.
• 44:31
  I had enough of second.
• 44:33
  Beating on the
• 44:33
  mammoth right now.
• 44:34
  Oh, I saw that.
• 44:35
  Yeah.
• 44:36
  Six nothing.
• 44:37
  Hurricanes in the Canucks is six to one.
• 44:40
  See, that's that's one thing with hockey.
• 44:42
  It's typically one, two, two, three, and then you get these six to nothing games, six
• 44:48
  whatever.
• 44:48
  It's just like, oh my god.
• 44:49
  They're putting a beating on them.
• 44:52
  Yeah.
• 44:52
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  Those are...
• 44:53
  I gotta assume those are no fun to play in, when you're on the other side of that.
• 44:58
  Having been in...
• 44:59
  On a baseball team that got our asses handed to us a lot, I can relate.
• 45:06
  Speaking of baseball, playoffs going on.
• 45:10
  You know, Rev, who's your...
• 45:12
  You got a baseball team?
• 45:13
  I'd...
• 45:14
  I call myself a twins fan, but, yeah, I know Byron Buxton's on the team.
• 45:19
  Alex Kurilov.
• 45:20
  That...
• 45:21
  Yeah.
• 45:21
  That...
• 45:21
  That's that's my twins' input.
• 45:25
  Well well, when you get up here, we'll definitely get thoughts of some twins' games,
• 45:28
  and we'll we'll definitely get to learn about them.
• 45:32
  That's my first love right there in baseball.
• 45:34
  So Oh, yeah.
• 45:34
  Can tell can tell this man, knows twins baseball.
• 45:38
  Oh, yeah.
• 45:39
  I heard they're bad.
• 45:40
  I heard they like twins.
• 45:41
  Yes.
• 45:41
  They they are hopefully selling.
• 45:44
  There's rumors.
• 45:47
  Yeah.
• 45:47
  They...
• 45:48
  They're they're trying to play money ball is what they're definitely trying to do, and it's
• 45:53
  just not working in this market.
• 45:55
  Fig, Deadwood's my hometown, man.
• 45:57
  That's where I that's where I grew up.
• 45:59
  I'm actually headed there next weekend.
• 46:01
  We got a big songwriters festival going on out there next weekend.
• 46:04
  So, yeah, I love the area.
• 46:08
  I love being out here.
• 46:09
  I like my space.
• 46:10
  Where I'm at now in the Southeast Corner is really cool because I'm actually, like,
• 46:13
  equidistant from Kansas City and the Twin Cities.
• 46:17
  So I can get to Arrowhead as fast as I can get up to US Bank if there was anything.
• 46:24
  I wish I would've had a chance and been a little bit more prepared for the World Cup and
• 46:27
  to get down there, and I know they had a game in Kansas City.
• 46:31
  That would have been really cool just to see and experience, that one time.
• 46:35
  But, yeah, Fig, Southwest.
• 46:38
  So, like, an hour and a half from Sioux Falls, is where I'm at.
• 46:41
  I'm right along the Missouri River.
• 46:42
  So, like, thirty minutes East of the Missouri and ten minutes north of it.
• 46:46
  So if you look on a map, it comes down and becomes the border of Nebraska and South
• 46:50
  Dakota, and I'm, like, right in that little elbow there.
• 46:52
  It's all farm country, man.
• 46:54
  It looks exactly the same when you head east from here.
• 46:57
  It looks the same through Iowa or Minnesota in that southern part until you get to freaking
• 47:02
  Chicago.
• 47:03
  It's literally all the same.
• 47:04
  Wisconsin's a little more like rolling hills and dairy farms where Iowa and and the Western
• 47:10
  Part Of Illinois are all just cornfields forever.
• 47:13
  But it's all the same, man.
• 47:15
  This entire corn belt here, very similar in look.
• 47:19
  And then, yeah, you kinda spill into Elgin, Illinois, and then it's, you know, metropolis
• 47:23
  from there in pretty much.
• 47:24
  But I made that drive a couple couple of times now there and back, which has been interesting.
• 47:31
  God's country.
• 47:34
  Yeah.
• 47:36
  Well, compared to Baltimore, yeah, for sure.
• 47:39
  I mean.
• 47:39
  Baltimore is Satan's city.
• 47:42
  But you but but you can have...
• 47:44
  Brev, like, I was born in the Appalachian.
• 47:46
  So I was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee, and we would go down there from the
• 47:49
  Chicago area all the time and where my dad went to school and visit down there.
• 47:55
  And I love the Appalachians, man.
• 47:56
  It's beautiful country out there.
• 47:58
  I actually got a good friend of our show, of our golf show, who does a...
• 48:05
  He teaches some golf up there somewhere in Virginia.
• 48:07
  I'm forgetting the name of that.
• 48:09
  It's an omni resort out there somewhere, but it's kind of off in the mountains.
• 48:12
  It's a super old course that he's doing lessons at occasionally, and we're trying to get out
• 48:18
  there and maybe do some content next year.
• 48:20
  So, yeah, you never know.
• 48:22
  Might end up...
• 48:23
  If you don't beat me to Minnesota, then I might see you out in Virginia.
• 48:27
  Yeah.
• 48:28
  I used to live...
• 48:29
  So I've technically lived, like, all over Virginia.
• 48:32
  I used to live up next to where the Blue Ridge is in in Virginia, like, the top western part.
• 48:37
  Fun fact for anybody that didn't know, John Denver's song about West Virginia is not about
• 48:44
  West Virginia.
• 48:45
  It's about Western Virginia and that part of the state of Virginia.
• 48:48
  So fun fact if nobody knew that.
• 48:51
  But, yeah, like I did
• 48:52
  not know that.
• 48:52
  Yeah.
• 48:53
  I used to live
• 48:53
  on air.
• 48:54
  Would.
• 48:55
  We owe
• 48:56
  islanders now.
• 48:57
  Come on.
• 48:57
  Mhmm.
• 48:59
  So he could
• 48:59
  see West Virginia from where he was at.
• 49:02
  And Basically.
• 49:03
  Western Virginia doesn't, have the same ring to it.
• 49:08
  Yeah.
• 49:08
  I think he...
• 49:09
  I think the resort you're talking...
• 49:10
  I wanna say it's in Hot Springs, I believe.
• 49:14
  That sounds right.
• 49:16
  So, yeah, that...
• 49:17
  That's, like, over on the border, damn.
• 49:18
  Yeah.
• 49:19
  Oh, big.
• 49:19
  You're coming to the December 6 game?
• 49:29
  Wanna wanna come up to another game.
• 49:31
  Bad.
• 49:31
  Yeah.
• 49:32
  What is that?
• 49:32
  What is that game?
• 49:34
  I'm going to the Jets game in New York, at MetLife, but I wanna
• 49:40
  Yeah.
• 49:41
  The Omni Homestead.
• 49:42
  You nailed it, dude.
• 49:43
  Yeah.
• 49:44
  Oh, that place is awesome.
• 49:45
  Yeah.
• 49:45
  It's super old.
• 49:46
  Calvin Coolidge played golf there or something.
• 49:48
  I don't know.
• 49:49
  Like, I don't...
• 49:49
  If you know your US history.
• 49:52
  Oh, that's the Carolina game.
• 49:54
  Cool.
• 49:54
  Okay.
• 49:55
  Cool.
• 49:55
  So that's okay.
• 49:56
  Those tickets are cheap right now, man.
• 49:58
  I saw there, like...
• 49:58
  There's some that are $90 already, so get on that.
• 50:02
  You don't need to take the kids into the good seeds.
• 50:04
  Sick them off.
• 50:06
  Yeah.
• 50:07
  Hey.
• 50:07
  I'm just,
• 50:08
  like, another good idiot and then just walk around in the kitchen area and stuff like he
• 50:11
  knows what he's doing.
• 50:13
  Dude, that's what I do.
• 50:14
  I I never sat down.
• 50:15
  Also, I I kinda...
• 50:17
  You know, a couple cheat codes from from following guys around.
• 50:20
  SK definitely turned me on to a new area where I'm like, I am definitely trying to get down
• 50:25
  into that section if they're there.
• 50:28
  Oh, I bet you did, Fig.
• 50:29
  Fig, what do you do for work, man?
• 50:31
  You're, like, all over the place.
• 50:32
  I I...
• 50:32
  Yeah.
• 50:33
  I'm intrigued now.
• 50:35
  Section 134.
• 50:37
  Oh, 134.
• 50:38
  Damn.
• 50:38
  Yeah.
• 50:39
  You got good seats.
• 50:40
  Nice.
• 50:40
  Next to where...
• 50:41
  Right next to where I was for the home opener.
• 50:45
  Yeah.
• 50:45
  Oh, that's too.
• 50:46
  That's good too.
• 50:47
  Okay.
• 50:47
  Yeah.
• 50:49
  Okay.
• 50:50
  Yeah.
• 50:50
  One thirty four is good.
• 50:52
  Even the 200 seats there are really nice.
• 50:54
  We sat, you know, like, two thirty two.
• 50:57
  I
• 50:57
  mean,
• 50:57
  there's really not
• 50:58
  a bad
• 50:58
  seat in US Bank Stadium for our football game.
• 51:04
  Dude, you're, like, on the field, Fig.
• 51:06
  That's awesome.
• 51:07
  That's awesome.
• 51:09
  Yeah.
• 51:09
  That's like Well, get
• 51:10
  that get that arm right, you
• 51:11
  know,
• 51:11
  just in case.
• 51:13
  Yeah.
• 51:14
  That...
• 51:14
  Fig, that makes sense why you would be out here, drilling around for sure.
• 51:20
  You know, Homestake is a place that, that's the largest gold mine in the...
• 51:25
  I think on this side of the world.
• 51:27
  It was...
• 51:28
  It just pretty much a giant hole in the ground.
• 51:30
  So they have mine shafts in my hometown, Lee.
• 51:32
  Lead and Deadwood are right next to each other, tiny little towns.
• 51:35
  And they have...
• 51:38
  The gold mine has hole shafts that go down to, like, 8,000 feet.
• 51:45
  So you're from a mile high, and then you go, like, 2,000 feet below sea level chasing this
• 51:51
  freaking...
• 51:52
  Chasing this vein of gullies.
• 51:53
  Crazy.
• 51:54
  So now they have the Sanford underground lab where they're sending neutrinos down there.
• 51:59
  So they dug...
• 52:00
  They went all the way down into there.
• 52:02
  They cut a massive cube out of the bed.
• 52:05
  You know?
• 52:06
  I mean, you're...
• 52:06
  The Earth, right, took all this ground out, and then they're shooting neutrinos from, like,
• 52:13
  Illinois or something and shooting particles through and trying to see what happens to them,
• 52:19
  you know, a thousand mile.
• 52:20
  It's crazy.
• 52:21
  It's it's wild stuff.
• 52:22
  Like, way way above what my brain can comprehend, but I got a bunch of friends that
• 52:26
  work down there now and worked in the mine for years.
• 52:29
  So pretty pretty incredible.
• 52:32
  Fig says we're always hiring.
• 52:34
  Hey.
• 52:34
  Anybody who needs a job, hit Fig up.
• 52:37
  Well, I don't I don't know if I could do that.
• 52:43
  Yeah.
• 52:43
  Yeah.
• 52:44
  The the Sanford the Sanford lab is what they call it, Fig.
• 52:47
  You got it.
• 52:49
  Yeah.
• 52:49
  Crazy stuff going on.
• 52:51
  But, yeah, what happened...
• 52:52
  So they had all these shafts going through, and it was a mountain.
• 52:55
  And then they had so many shafts in there, and they were poorly supported that it eventually
• 52:59
  caved in.
• 53:00
  And then they just dug it...
• 53:01
  They just started digging it all out.
• 53:03
  So it's the largest open pit gold mine, I think, in the world, and it's just a giant hole
• 53:08
  in the ground that goes down, like, three thou...
• 53:09
  You know, 2,000 feet that you can see, down into there.
• 53:14
  And they used to shoot the fireworks off during the fourth of July off over it, so they would
• 53:18
  explode, like, over the hole in the ground, and you'd get the reverberation.
• 53:21
  Oh, was badass, man.
• 53:22
  It really ruined fireworks for me anywhere else.
• 53:29
  I think it might...
• 53:30
  Because my birthday is December 22.
• 53:32
  It looks like we got a primetime game against the lions on the twentieth, so I might have to
• 53:36
  get myself a birthday present.
• 53:39
  There you go.
• 53:40
  There you go.
• 53:42
  Brev, did you say that you're writing some wild content as well?
• 53:46
  Yeah.
• 53:47
  It's not as heavy of of a...
• 53:49
  No pun intended.
• 53:49
  It's not as heavy as a folk...
• 53:51
  Of a focus as as the Viking.
• 53:53
  I mean, I can choose to do it more.
• 53:55
  And since we're doing the hockey show, I'll probably do it more just to be even more in the
• 53:59
  know even though I watch every game.
• 54:01
  But, yeah, I cover cover some wild over there as well.
• 54:04
  So is that for Heavy on as well?
• 54:06
  Heavy.
• 54:07
  Yep.
• 54:07
  Everything's through Heavy now.
• 54:09
  Yeah.
• 54:09
  Very cool.
• 54:10
  Yeah.
• 54:10
  Good for you, man.
• 54:11
  What a what a cool, a a cool gig.
• 54:14
  I've always looked at these places.
• 54:15
  And for me, I was like, look.
• 54:17
  Nobody's gonna hire me.
• 54:18
  I'm, like, 40.
• 54:18
  I've never done any of this.
• 54:20
  I didn't go to school for any of this.
• 54:23
  I'm probably just gonna have to, like, do it myself and to be that guy, which has brought us
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  to here, and I I don't regret the decision at all.
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  But for a young man like you to to fall into, some really great...
• 54:34
  Not fall into, but to work your ass off to get to where you're at now, and to have these
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  situations kinda presented, it's, very cool, man.
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  Very very cool.
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  And, yeah, great to know you.
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  I had a great time getting to meet you at Skullfest and hanging out over the weekend.
• 54:50
  Yeah, man.
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's been great.
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  And now having you as part of our network as well and getting to talk ball and pucks and and
• 54:57
  whatever else we can throw at you, you're always welcome here, Brevi.
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  For sure.
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  You know you know just as well as I do how much of a grind this is.
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  I mean, it's there.
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  Even if you're not producing an article or a show, there's eight hours a day of just
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  researching the sports and the numbers and everything.
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  So it's a lot of twelve to fourteen hour days, and a lot of that, you're not even producing
• 55:20
  anything.
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  You're just getting informed on it.
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  Appreciate you, Fig.
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  Yeah.
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  I try to be, you know, second or third level thinker.
• 55:30
  Right?
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  It's easy to just take that surface level take.
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  And what I what I saw with a lot of people and a lot of the content that's getting out there,
• 55:40
  it's just different people saying the same things.
• 55:43
  Mhmm.
• 55:43
  And I didn't wanna be someone who is necessarily just reporting the news.
• 55:48
  You can go to Purple Daily and get all your news.
• 55:50
  Right?
• 55:50
  Those guys are in the room.
• 55:52
  They're in the media.
• 55:53
  They're there all the time.
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  So what I like to take is, you know, they give me the news, and then I'm able to kinda give
• 55:59
  you my thoughts on it.
• 56:01
  And and what I really appreciate about, you know, rap and and sly and...
• 56:05
  God.
• 56:06
  We had an all star cast on the show last night.
• 56:08
  That was a lot of fun.
• 56:09
  I'm such a huge fan of sly.
• 56:12
  If you aren't following, you bum me to me on everything.
• 56:15
  You probably aren't a real Vikings fan.
• 56:18
  Like, this guy doesn't...
• 56:19
  And I know he does a lot of other content too around the league, but just getting to be on
• 56:24
  with them and have an SK kinda pop in with us too, who's a little bit of an OG.
• 56:29
  Right?
• 56:29
  Just kinda getting to know a lot of you guys and knowing, you know, SK involvement with a
• 56:34
  lot of, you know, Vikings content before it was as big as things are now in the, you know, user
• 56:40
  generated content space.
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  It's, it's really cool, man.
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  It's, cool.
• 56:45
  Yep.
• 56:45
  I appreciate you, man.
• 56:46
  Appreciate you coming over here and tapping in and, you know, we're gonna build this community
• 56:51
  out.
• 56:51
  People are gonna keep tapping in with us.
• 56:54
  We're about to do some really cool things with the tailgates, continuing to do that.
• 56:57
  We got a couple, you know, marketing campaigns that we're gonna be running, around the stadium
• 57:03
  and different things too that are gonna, you know, grow our name.
• 57:07
  And, eventually, we're gonna look back and, damn.
• 57:09
  There's, you know, like a Purple Daily.
• 57:11
  Right?
• 57:11
  There's thousands of people in this chat right now.
• 57:14
  How did we get here?
• 57:16
  And it's because we put in the work, and we continue to kinda grow those platforms and, to
• 57:21
  be to to be different.
• 57:23
  And and that's what I think, you know, I appreciate about YouTube, Brev, is I I think we
• 57:28
  think about some of these players similarly.
• 57:30
  It was nice to have someone on my side with the Addison conversation.
• 57:34
  I'm not saying he's a bad football player.
• 57:36
  Like, just because I'm saying that he's not a wide receiver one doesn't mean that I think he
• 57:40
  sucks.
• 57:41
  I'm just telling you that I think he's not very good in that position and and doing that job.
• 57:47
  And, yeah, it was nice to have Sly on too where he's saying the same thing.
• 57:50
  I was like, see, I I knew I was onto something, and y'all telling me that I'm crazy.
• 57:55
  Well, the thing is is what's stopping him from being...
• 57:58
  I don't know where hockey is.
• 57:59
  But what's stopping Anson from being the number one is that eagle and learning and holding
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  accountability.
• 58:06
  Size and the way he plays the game.
• 58:08
  And if size doesn't doesn't help.
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  But If you're gonna be a number one man, you gotta be six two, run a four
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  four,
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  and be able to go up and get the ball.
• 58:17
  Right?
• 58:17
  You gotta be able to get yourself open and and, you know, not to get too far back into our
• 58:22
  football talk, but some people don't have that.
• 58:24
  It would be the same as calling, you know, someone, you know, your your...
• 58:28
  On your top line who just doesn't have those capabilities.
• 58:32
  Right?
• 58:32
  It's for the same reason that a lot of times Patrick Kane was playing on the second line
• 58:37
  because he wasn't going to defend.
• 58:39
  You can't trot that guy out there on your top line with Johnny Taze who's going to defend the
• 58:45
  shit out of everyone for 900 feet of ice.
• 58:48
  Right?
• 58:50
  You you couldn't do that.
• 58:52
  And that's why you ended up with a lot of guys with taser like a pickle and these guys that
• 58:56
  could be tough and really hard to play against.
• 58:58
  And for me to kinda take this to a hockey conversation, your first line to me should
• 59:03
  always be that.
• 59:04
  They should be the hardest line to play against both in the offensive zone and in the defensive
• 59:09
  zone.
• 59:09
  And that's why I think those those Chicago teams in the, you know, the twenty tens were so
• 59:15
  good is because the captain, man, was the guy leading the charge.
• 59:19
  And, that's the one thing that kind of gives me a little bit of pause is, like, who's that guy?
• 59:25
  You know, obviously, Bedard's gonna be the captain.
• 59:27
  He's gonna be the leader of this team.
• 59:29
  But can you...
• 59:30
  Who's gonna be that Robin that plays that Taze role?
• 59:34
  Is it gonna be...
• 59:35
  You know, it's not gonna be a Nazar.
• 59:37
  It's not gonna be some of these...
• 59:38
  Can it be an Oliver Moore who brings a lot of speed to the game?
• 59:41
  Can it be some of these other guys that I got on this team?
• 59:44
  So it's exciting, especially with Bowen Byram coming in now who's someone we should have
• 59:48
  selected in the draft six years ago.
• 59:51
  It's kinda cool to see him coming to Chicago now.
• 59:54
  And, you know, I know they haven't got off to a great start.
• 59:56
  They're getting their asses handed to him by the Islanders, which not great.
• 59:59
  Still haven't scored.
• 1:00:01
  They miss Bedard.
• 1:00:02
  There's so much of your offense runs through one player.
• 1:00:05
  It's really hard to do, but, you know, it's it's...
• 1:00:10
  This figuring out phase with such a short, you know, lead up to the season, especially in
• 1:00:16
  hockey where it feels like they just started practicing and now you're a week into the
• 1:00:21
  season, that it takes a little while to catch up.
• 1:00:24
  And, unfortunately, for the Blackhawks, they might be out of it, you know, and from the
• 1:00:31
  outside looking in before you even get Bedard back, hopefully, you know, right before
• 1:00:35
  Thanksgiving.
• 1:00:36
  And if you can't start putting some points, in the win column, it's gonna be a a real
• 1:00:41
  struggle.
• 1:00:42
  Yeah.
• 1:00:43
  I think I think that's just the phase that Chicago is in right now anyway.
• 1:00:46
  Like, even if they didn't have Bedard, my my opinion of, like, their chances to make the
• 1:00:52
  playoffs weren't that high anyway.
• 1:00:53
  I think Chicago is just still kind of in that multiyear.
• 1:00:58
  Let's build it up.
• 1:00:59
  We're still really young.
• 1:01:00
  We're really fast right now, but we're really young, getting the experience.
• 1:01:03
  Like I said, Spencer Knight could be an absolute superstar in that.
• 1:01:07
  So, Chicago, like, it...
• 1:01:09
  It's great to get Kaner back, primetime Patty.
• 1:01:12
  Even though I don't like Chicago, their arrival of Minnesota, and just about almost every
• 1:01:17
  sport, I love me some primetime Patty, some elite childhood memories of watching him play
• 1:01:23
  the game of hockey.
• 1:01:24
  So he...
• 1:01:25
  He's not gonna be around when Chicago has it all figured out, but I'd...
• 1:01:29
  Obviously, it's a good move to just have him back in the building to be part of the next era
• 1:01:33
  of of Chicago hockey.
• 1:01:37
  Yeah.
• 1:01:37
  Exactly, Fig.
• 1:01:38
  And it's not looking great right now.
• 1:01:41
  A lot to figure out in a short amount of time and a lot of youth.
• 1:01:45
  You got some of these guys playing their first full season in the NHL and getting it down.
• 1:01:50
  And if you wanna make comparisons to the Blackhawks teams of old, they're in, like, that
• 1:01:54
  2007, 2008 somewhere in there, right, where it was like, we have this talent.
• 1:02:01
  They haven't put it together there.
• 1:02:02
  And then by 2009, they were kind of knocking on that door of like, no.
• 1:02:07
  We...
• 1:02:07
  We've arrived and have the experience now to lean on.
• 1:02:11
  So I'm I'm excited to watch this team this year.
• 1:02:15
  Really excited to watch the wild.
• 1:02:16
  I I think it's gonna be a great season for them.
• 1:02:19
  I know losing Brock Faber, early here, kinda sucks, and may keep you from, you know, staying
• 1:02:27
  at the top, but hopefully, they get him back.
• 1:02:29
  Was it season ending, Brev, or just long term?
• 1:02:32
  Pretty long term.
• 1:02:33
  Like, I just shot I think it's unknown right now.
• 1:02:36
  Yeah.
• 1:02:37
  He's probably definitely not gonna be back, like, before 2027 in terms of, like, the turn
• 1:02:41
  of the actual calendar year.
• 1:02:43
  So he'll be back, I guess, halfway, a little past halfway through the season.
• 1:02:47
  It was a really, really nasty skull fracture.
• 1:02:51
  Oh, Jesus.
• 1:02:52
  Yeah.
• 1:02:52
  He took a puck off the head from...
• 1:02:54
  I think it was Mira Heisken and and the...
• 1:02:56
  Either the last or the second to last preseason game against Dallas.
• 1:03:00
  So he fractured his skull, went out of the game, came back in, and finished the game, and
• 1:03:06
  then went to the hospital.
• 1:03:07
  So that's hockey tough.
• 1:03:09
  They didn't know it was a fractured skull at that time.
• 1:03:11
  He just thought his head hurt.
• 1:03:13
  So they they came out.
• 1:03:14
  The reports came out.
• 1:03:15
  He fractured his skull, and we have no idea when he will be back.
• 1:03:18
  So everybody's just like, like, is he gonna play hockey again?
• 1:03:22
  Like...
• 1:03:23
  And there's a...
• 1:03:24
  I think Michael Russo reported that there's a lot of stuff to it that also hasn't been let
• 1:03:30
  out in public knowledge yet.
• 1:03:31
  So, like, right now, like, we just...
• 1:03:33
  We don't know.
• 1:03:34
  And it's a year where we need to perform because that's Quinn Hughes', defensive pairing
• 1:03:40
  mate.
• 1:03:41
  So we're in a year where we're hoping to god Quinn Hughes wants to stick around and pay him
• 1:03:46
  a huge bag.
• 1:03:48
  And so to not have Brock Faber help kind of push that home, kinda sucks all around.
• 1:03:54
  Of course, the main concern is Faber's health, but just thinking about the team, like Brock
• 1:03:58
  Faber's one of the best young defensemen in the NHL.
• 1:04:01
  He's from Apple Valley.
• 1:04:02
  I mean, that that that one hurts a lot.
• 1:04:06
  Yeah.
• 1:04:06
  I know.
• 1:04:07
  Right now, as of the twenty ninth report, he went in and had surgery on Tuesday.
• 1:04:16
  There's no timetable set.
• 1:04:18
  Yeah.
• 1:04:18
  He's 24, so definitely hope for the best for the young kids so he can play the game that he
• 1:04:24
  loves.
• 1:04:25
  Yeah.
• 1:04:25
  The the number I've been still a three two lightning, in the wild game, and, we're not
• 1:04:31
  gonna talk about the blackhawks.
• 1:04:32
  We're good.
• 1:04:33
  Yeah.
• 1:04:34
  For the the number I've seen getting thrown around as as far as the recovery timetable for
• 1:04:39
  Brock Faber is, like, four months.
• 1:04:41
  But who know?
• 1:04:42
  With that kind of in...
• 1:04:43
  Like, that's not an injury that just happens.
• 1:04:45
  So it's like, I would
• 1:04:47
  Not maple burial.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah.
• 1:04:48
  Yeah.
• 1:04:49
  It's not an ACL where we got a pretty good idea of of how those heal up now and the recovery
• 1:04:55
  times and everything.
• 1:04:57
  Yeah.
• 1:04:57
  Fractured skull might be having to get a plate put in there or something.
• 1:05:01
  Right?
• 1:05:01
  Like, that's...
• 1:05:02
  That sucks, man.
• 1:05:03
  24 years old.
• 1:05:04
  Prime of his career to suffer something like that.
• 1:05:07
  Just a shame.
• 1:05:08
  So prayers up for Brock Faber, you know, for him and and his family dealing with this really
• 1:05:14
  scary moment there for all the Wild Nation, knowing that they're behind him here.
• 1:05:20
  So, boys, great first show, man.
• 1:05:23
  I always appreciate talking, everything.
• 1:05:26
  Obviously, you know, you guys who have been here with us before, I think we're always gonna
• 1:05:31
  dip into a little bit of football talk.
• 1:05:33
  There...
• 1:05:34
  There's always gonna be something of that.
• 1:05:35
  We're always gonna talk a little bit of all sports on all the different networks that we're
• 1:05:39
  on because we're watching them all and and covering them all.
• 1:05:42
  So if you don't like it, go somewhere else.
• 1:05:45
  Guess there's plenty of content out there.
• 1:05:47
  But if you if you like talking sports and hanging out with us, we sure appreciate you.
• 1:05:52
  Make sure you subscribe to the channel, hit the like button, give us a share out into your
• 1:05:56
  community, and let them know this is the place to hang.
• 1:05:59
  We are on pretty much nightly at this point with the podcast episodes going out usually the
• 1:06:04
  day after.
• 1:06:05
  So the rim report episode came out this morning.
• 1:06:07
  So everything's on the podcast as well.
• 1:06:10
  If you miss it, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, everywhere is that.
• 1:06:13
  You can search scene project sports network or SPSN, kinda find us through there.
• 1:06:19
  Really awesome, man.
• 1:06:20
  Appreciate you guys.
• 1:06:21
  Hey.
• 1:06:21
  Thank you.
• 1:06:22
  Thank you.
• 1:06:22
  I'm really liking this Bubba Smarts thing too.
• 1:06:25
  You guys keep this going.
• 1:06:26
  I am...
• 1:06:27
  I'm cool with that.
• 1:06:28
  I've been called a lot of things in my life.
• 1:06:30
  Smart was never one of them.
• 1:06:32
  Maybe when I was, like, eight.
• 1:06:33
  I think I did really well on a math test, and my mom was like, oh, you're so smart.
• 1:06:37
  Yep.
• 1:06:37
  And that was the end of it.
• 1:06:39
  Yeah.
• 1:06:40
  Appreciate you guys.
• 1:06:41
  Brev is gonna be a part of this one moving forward.
• 1:06:44
  Bee may jump in and out.
• 1:06:46
  He's usually got beyond the bell that goes out tonight, so he may dip in early and have to go
• 1:06:51
  set his stream up at points.
• 1:06:53
  We're gonna have some other special guests.
• 1:06:55
  Like I said, built a relationship with Kirsten Kroll over the summer, so she may come in and
• 1:07:00
  give us some wild takes over the over the time and always reaching out and talking.
• 1:07:05
  If you guys ever wanna jump in, talk some hockey with us, you know, the the the lines are
• 1:07:09
  always open here too.
• 1:07:10
  So appreciate everybody, Brev and Bea, especially you guys for dipping in with me.
• 1:07:15
  We will see you all Sunday for the pregame, hopefully.
• 1:07:20
  And, yeah, if not, we'll see you all Tuesday night for the tailgate show.
• 1:07:24
  Peace y'all.
• 1:07:26
  Have a good one.