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Alex Moffat makes us laugh: East teams advance, Kings blowing their chance and Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: podcasts Great Tammy with us here in NHL Unscripted. Man,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a lot of action going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: The East right now feels like the leaves the leaf's
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  Speaker 1: going to choke again. The coaching carousel continues. Plus Alex
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  Speaker 1: Mott from Saturday Night Live in an interview which is
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  Speaker 1: just too bizarre to even be described. He was playing
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  Speaker 1: golf during it, kind of all over the place, but
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  Speaker 1: I think you'll enjoy at least at some level. And
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  Speaker 1: cine filing sixty, We're good theater this week. Glenn Garry,
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  Speaker 1: Glenn Ross, one of my favorite players, got to watch
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  Speaker 1: it on Broadway for the third time.
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  Speaker 2: Love that play.
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  Speaker 1: David Mannontt bringing the heat with Bob Oden Kirk as
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  Speaker 1: Shelley the Machine, Levine Kiaran Kulkan as Ricky Roma, and
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  Speaker 1: Bill Burr as Moss. When we begin, Jay, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to hockey in just a second. But I gotta tell you,
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  Speaker 1: the entire sports world is still talking about Shador Sanders
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  Speaker 1: and I could not think of a hockey comp to this.
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  Speaker 1: I can't think of a guy who has at one
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  Speaker 1: point was expected to be a top I picked that
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  Speaker 1: it was late first round of Corny Melt Kuiper and
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  Speaker 1: then falling to the fifth round, but it was it
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  Speaker 1: was comical. And again you and I were watching hockey playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: doing baseball, NBA plus whatever. But I'm like, Okay, NFL draft,
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  Speaker 1: I know the world's talking about this, but the guy
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  Speaker 1: got picked the fifth round by the Browns. I'm just curious,
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  Speaker 1: as a guy who has no shortage of opinions, your
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  Speaker 1: reaction to shador Standers, who's expected to be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: seventy one completion percentage good quarterback, but nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: deal with his dad. Nobody wants d on their training kid.
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  Speaker 1: If he were saything like that, shador Standers falling the
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  Speaker 1: fifth round, one hundred and three guys drafted ahead of.
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  Speaker 3: Them, Yeah, it's I think they sent a statement. No,
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  Speaker 3: that seems like a statement from the owners to any
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  Speaker 3: kid thinking they're bigger in their bretches than the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everything you hear out of there was like
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  Speaker 3: his interviews were just so bad and he was just
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  Speaker 3: very arrogant. And again you couple that with like the
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  Speaker 3: Dion Sanders of it out Now, listen, do I think
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  Speaker 3: this kid's like NFL ready and a quarterback that's going
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  Speaker 3: to really produce right off the get go.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's in that program, in that division. He's
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  Speaker 3: in one of the worst divisions in college football. Correct,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm kind of like, how do is he gonna
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  Speaker 3: do in the NFL. I think he might actually end
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  Speaker 3: up being in a good situation in Cleveland with that
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  Speaker 3: quarterback room of of not great quarterbacks, but like there's.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of but they got like five quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna get enough reps action prove it can be good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, there's no way they can go in to
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  Speaker 3: training camp with five quarterbacks. So it's gonna be they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna shave it down. There's gonna be a couple of trades.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think the message was sent to any
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  Speaker 3: college player that thinks they're bigger than the game and
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  Speaker 3: they're getting that nil money, that the NFL is a
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  Speaker 3: different world.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps people are slightly subdued. Jason de Murs.
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  Speaker 1: He has a Wi Fi issue right now in Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: so he's not at full volume.
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  Speaker 2: This is like about an eighty five percent Jason de Murs.
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  Speaker 1: The content is excellent I'm just saying the delivery is
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  Speaker 1: not quite as outspoken, like you're not gonna give me
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  Speaker 1: a headfield right now. I don't even asked that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna alienate people in that library and right
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  Speaker 1: now the lobby.
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  Speaker 4: I could give a little.
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  Speaker 3: That's an octave lower for the musical fans out there,
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  Speaker 3: Dalica acoustic level.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Hockey, we go East is the least the
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  Speaker 1: hell's going on. Every Western conference series will go at
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  Speaker 1: least six games. Been great, but three of the fourth
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  Speaker 1: series out East Finals finished with a whimper in five games. Carolina, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: and Washington advanced New Jersey. Tampa and Montreal are out.
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  Speaker 1: Carolina will play Washington in round two. Tampa Bay is
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  Speaker 1: out in the first round for the third straight year.
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  Speaker 1: They have not won a playoff series since appearing in
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  Speaker 1: three straight Stanley Cup finals in twenty twenty. In twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, I think you and I agree. You actually again,
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  Speaker 1: no Sho demurs the return. You said the Habs will
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  Speaker 1: get well at the Bell Center.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: I said I couldn't care less about Devil's games. I
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  Speaker 1: think you called the dellas you thought Marster might pull
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  Speaker 1: off a rabbit of this app whatever mostop in New Jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't expect just the Walking Dead. But after
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  Speaker 3: game one, you know, losing Hughes and Dylan in the
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  Speaker 3: first game, it's like, right, and they're dead.
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  Speaker 1: But the surprise here is the Battle of Florida. Like
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  Speaker 1: I had Florida winning. How they winning at six point
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  Speaker 1: five games?
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  Speaker 5: Dude?
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  Speaker 1: What the hell happened?
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  Speaker 4: The Lightning?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of everyone's picking the Lightning. You're not alone
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  Speaker 1: in that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I had him in seven. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: safe to say, and you know, I'm one of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest I took lightning in seven for one reason and
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  Speaker 3: one reason only. It was Andrey Vasilevski. And I just
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  Speaker 3: don't know if the magic's there anymore for him. Honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think he has that. He's still a
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  Speaker 3: good goalie. I just don't think he's that goalie that
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  Speaker 3: we remember from those, you know, those cup runs that
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  Speaker 3: they had.
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  Speaker 4: I just think he's lost a step. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Lost the compete, the battle, but it just was a
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't a great effort I think by him, by
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  Speaker 3: the team as well. I think they got manhandled by
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  Speaker 3: Florida a little bit, and you know, other than Brandon
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  Speaker 3: Hagel with that hit on Barkoff, I mean, they wasn't
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  Speaker 3: much response that they really did push in a sense
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  Speaker 3: of like they fought a lot after the whistle and
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  Speaker 3: they were kind of they were engaged, but they just
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  Speaker 3: had no answer for Florida. And this is the year
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  Speaker 3: I thought, I thought, Tampa, I have Tampa going to
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  Speaker 3: the finals losing to Colorado.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean two of.
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  Speaker 3: My teams that I had going I'm worried about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Colorado as well, but Tampa just in five, like even
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  Speaker 3: this game tonight, and you know, it just seemed like
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  Speaker 3: it just seems the last couple of years, Florida's just
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  Speaker 3: got their number and they can't get out of their
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  Speaker 3: own way as well. So you know, I'm more interested
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  Speaker 3: now to see what happens with Tampa moving forward. They
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  Speaker 3: got some big decisions to make, especially at the coaching position,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean, overall, they got to either retool this
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  Speaker 3: thing or because what they have this year did not
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  Speaker 3: work at all, even though in the season it looked
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  Speaker 3: like everything was pointing towards them, you know, going on
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  Speaker 3: a run. But this is the NHL It's like there's
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  Speaker 3: levels to this, and Florida just seems to be that
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  Speaker 3: that top of the top right now. And you just
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  Speaker 3: can't now that they're all healthy, you cannot. Man, even
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  Speaker 3: missing ek Platt, I didn't think they'd be this dominant.
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  Speaker 1: You have my attention now because you said what could
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  Speaker 1: happen on the coaching side. John Cooper wildly regard as
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  Speaker 1: one of the best coaches in the game. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: get to the whole coaches carousel, the fact that Mike
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan's out. Coop's been there forever. He and Sullivan have
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  Speaker 1: been institutions in Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh, respectively. You think
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  Speaker 1: John Cooper may not be there? Are you referring to
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  Speaker 1: other aspects of the coaching staff?
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Well, you know they they gave him that one
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  Speaker 3: year option this year and I don't know if they
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  Speaker 3: exercise it. It's one of those things, is it is
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  Speaker 3: it just time? And and nothing against John Cooper. And
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  Speaker 3: also you got to look at John Cooper and you're
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  Speaker 3: here in some rumors and some murmurs of John Cooper's
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  Speaker 3: tight in Utah with Ryan Smith, and there could be
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  Speaker 3: something there and and you know he's uh there's there's
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  Speaker 3: a world in which John Cooper has done everything he
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  Speaker 3: can do in the coaching space, and maybe he wants
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  Speaker 3: might want to do something a little bit more, maybe
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  Speaker 3: go up a level, maybe go to hockey ops or
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  Speaker 3: or GMing. And you know, you can't ask much more
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  Speaker 3: from John Cooper's in terms of a coach. He's done
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  Speaker 3: it all in this league. And you know, he's won,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's been part of you know, he's grown a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys. He's won on the world stage, on
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  Speaker 3: the sort, in the international stage, and you know, this
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  Speaker 3: is this might be one of those moments where he's
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  Speaker 3: been kind of deciding on what he wants to do,
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  Speaker 3: and this it might just be the kick in the
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  Speaker 3: ass that he needs to kind of take it to
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  Speaker 3: the next level, maybe just depart amicably between Tampa and
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  Speaker 3: and and kind of usher in a new era. So
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  Speaker 3: but I don't know who would come in for him.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of coaches out there right now, but
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  Speaker 3: I think John Cooper could be a guy that just
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  Speaker 3: says by and and nothing, no animasy, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: behind it. But there's just a lot of ties with
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  Speaker 3: him in Utah and it's it's an interesting, interesting development
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  Speaker 3: going on right now, So I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen. But but yeah, that's kind of me jumping
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  Speaker 3: on the rumor mill. I mean, I could see him
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  Speaker 3: go anywhere as a coach. I think any team would
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  Speaker 3: take him right now if he was available. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at Boston as well. But if he does
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  Speaker 3: become available and decides to go into the GMing hockey
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  Speaker 3: apps role, I think he'll be welcome with open arms
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  Speaker 3: anywhere he wants to go.
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  Speaker 1: You can imagine, let me be a challenge, as you say,
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  Speaker 1: every of the coach, he wants to go to the
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  Speaker 1: next level. But you are speaking at conspiratorial whisper just
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  Speaker 1: in case John Cooper is listening to these thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: you're giving because the longest coach, the longest tender coach
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  Speaker 1: of league Cooper, Jeff Halperm been there a while as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so the lightning is disappointing, but this is
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  Speaker 2: a new level here. The LA Kings.
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  Speaker 1: They every want to use this word if you're a
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  Speaker 1: sports fan when you hear choking, Wait, wait are you
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  Speaker 1: Kidding'm like, no, no, God, the Kings blow the goalie
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  Speaker 1: interference challenging Game three, they lose. They then blow a
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  Speaker 1: two goal Yeah, they then blow a two goal third
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  Speaker 1: PERI leading Game four and Twysol wins it in overtime.
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  Speaker 2: And Tuesday at Crypti, I go, they're gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: Jay, They're gonna back home, all right, we all know, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: greatest home record ever at home. It's a different story
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  Speaker 1: at Crypto. They lose their biggest game of the season
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  Speaker 1: with a pop gun poultry, anemic offensive effort. One goal
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  Speaker 1: against beleaguered Edmonton Other's goalies three to one is your final.
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  Speaker 4: I see to you.
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  Speaker 1: Before the fourth straight year they lose the Oilers, you
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  Speaker 1: might as well just pack up shop. And I like
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  Speaker 1: Jammeller as a good coach, but I'm telling you, man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting on Jim. I'm just saying collectively, look, Grobtek, whomever,
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  Speaker 1: this is an absolute catastrophe. If they lose this game
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  Speaker 1: in six Andrea Coupetar turns thirty eight in August, Drew
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  Speaker 1: Dowey turns thirty six in December. A lot of concerns
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  Speaker 1: right now for Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this would be if they lose this.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is a blow up of epic proportions.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the coach, you know, the coaching
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  Speaker 3: staff is partly to blame, and and I just don't understand. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: the mental side of hockey is such a crazy thing
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  Speaker 3: when you really ask guys and you go, hey, how
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  Speaker 3: does a team like just want twelve straight against another
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  Speaker 3: opponent or how do they just kind of you they
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  Speaker 3: can't seem to get over that hump, and it's just
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  Speaker 3: such a mental block that they have and they go
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  Speaker 3: up to nothing. They look like world beaters. Game three,
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  Speaker 3: they're looking like world beaters, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: they just start sitting back. They sit back, and they're
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  Speaker 3: sitting in that goddamn one three one structure at the
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  Speaker 3: blue an. There was times they had five guys in
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  Speaker 3: the defensive zone just waiting for Connor McDavid to come
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  Speaker 3: on his horse and come into the and coming to
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  Speaker 3: the offensive zone. I'm like, I don't care who you're playing,
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  Speaker 3: You're never gonna win games like that because it's the
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  Speaker 3: NHL and there's guys that have a lot of skill,
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  Speaker 3: and if you're just sitting there and waiting with five
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  Speaker 3: guys like it's you're giving them offensive zone practice and
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  Speaker 3: ozone time. I mean, I just don't. They were dominating Edmonton,
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  Speaker 3: like dominating them, they were getting scoring chances, they were
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  Speaker 3: getting offensive's own time, they're bullying him, and then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden it comes third period and it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: let's just sit back and try to hide this lead
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  Speaker 3: and pray that we get a w because we've lost
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  Speaker 3: to this team three straight years. And I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 3: not how you win. You got to get pissed off,
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  Speaker 3: have a chip on your shoulder, and then you cap
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  Speaker 3: it all off. Obviously, we can talk about that coaching challenge,
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  Speaker 3: which has been talked about a nauseum by every other
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  Speaker 3: you know, podcast and pundit that it's just one of
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  Speaker 3: the worst I've seen, and I'm not going to beat
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  Speaker 3: it up more than that. It was just he knows,
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  Speaker 3: Jimy Millar knows what he did, and I think the
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  Speaker 3: whole league knows what he did. But that game six
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  Speaker 3: performance and not be ready to play and just twenty
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  Speaker 3: two shots, like you have four shots in the first period,
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  Speaker 3: you get absolutely worked over to your point, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: against a beleaguered goalie tandem. You know, listen, Calvin Pickard's
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  Speaker 3: coming and he's been good. He's been really solid for them,
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  Speaker 3: and they've just kind of slowly pushed them out and
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  Speaker 3: broken their will. And I think that Game four was
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  Speaker 3: kind of the cap er for them of breaking their will.
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  Speaker 3: And now I don't know if there's any answer for
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  Speaker 3: them going to fucking were Rogers Arena for Game six.
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  Speaker 3: That place is going to be so loud and mc
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  Speaker 3: connor's gonna be going one hundred miles an hour. And
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  Speaker 3: I tell you what the the Edmonton Oilers, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I tweeted about it the other day. Their resiliency since
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  Speaker 3: Game four of the Stanley Cup Finals last year is
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  Speaker 3: something to be seen many. You can never count them
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  Speaker 3: out of a series. They battle to the end. Connor
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  Speaker 3: and Leon just will these guys, and that's the difference.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I think if LA loses this, which
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  Speaker 3: I'm still hoping out, holding out hope that my pick
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  Speaker 3: holds that they win in seven, but this is a
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  Speaker 3: blow up. You got to get rid of everybody. You
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  Speaker 3: keep the young guys. You keep Adrian Kempey, you keep
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Brant Clark, but Drew Dowdy and Onse Copazar probably have
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  Speaker 3: to either get moved or you get to find a
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  Speaker 3: way to bring in some new blood because this is
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  Speaker 3: just not working. And you know, I thought it would
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  Speaker 3: and I thought they had all the makings of it.
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  Speaker 4: We all took them. We all look like idiots. Everybody
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  Speaker 4: took La.
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  Speaker 3: I think, I don't know how many people took the Oilers,
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  Speaker 3: but many. And you know, the Oilers proven that they
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  Speaker 3: are just a tough team mentally, and I mean big
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  Speaker 3: credit and big hats off to my X factor that
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  Speaker 3: I said was probably gonna impact this series was Evander Kaine.
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  Speaker 3: He's gotten better and better every single game and that's
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  Speaker 3: been a big difference maker for this team.
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  Speaker 2: We'll find out what happens game six and everything.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's gonna be rocking as LA tries
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  Speaker 1: to stave off elimination. It's not quite in the level
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  Speaker 1: of the Kings because the Leaves are still in charge.
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  Speaker 1: They're up three too against Yatta Centators, but they're now
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  Speaker 1: one for thirteen and close out games in the Matthews
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  Speaker 1: and Martyr era. That is absolute catnip for all Leaf
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  Speaker 1: haters like you. You are up and you can't win
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  Speaker 1: those stars like it is, and you're right if you
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: talk about a nervous fan base. I mean, Leaf is
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  Speaker 1: that nobody can go from arrogance to like just quiet
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  Speaker 1: desperation quite like the Leaves.
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  Speaker 2: They're going, this is our year. What you when the
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  Speaker 2: Cup first times to sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, oh my god, we're gonna lose the sense,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna blow a three oh lead. I give Otto
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  Speaker 1: a full credit, ja, I mean they've played a great game,
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  Speaker 1: was great stout defense exactly getting better. They're improving, aust
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  Speaker 1: the series has gone on. Toronto's going the other way.
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  Speaker 1: Game six in Ottawa Thursday night. Again, we don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: talking about home micecause Autwo to me, Leaf fans are there.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, buddy, I want to see a
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  Speaker 1: game seven of the worst way possible.
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  Speaker 2: I had sense and seven let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they don't realize.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the fan base realizes that they influenced this.
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  Speaker 3: Like you could feel the difference in game uh in
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  Speaker 3: Game five there in the building, you could feel it
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  Speaker 3: how quiet it was and how tense it was. They
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  Speaker 3: scored that first goal. They just sucked the energy out
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  Speaker 3: of the building. The fans themselves, and I've been hard
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  Speaker 3: on the lower bowl of Toronto, but you can hear
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  Speaker 3: it like there was a pin drop that whole game,
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  Speaker 3: and they're just kind of they have so many scars
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  Speaker 3: from all the past years of losing it, so you
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  Speaker 3: can just see it. They're already like, oh no, we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna lose in seven, We're gonna get swept, instead of
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  Speaker 3: being confident that they were the better team for most
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  Speaker 3: parts of the series. But that's the issue I think
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: people and Toronto fans miss, is that it's been a
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: tight series. This series could easily be flipped the other
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: way with those overtimes. Like both those games, Ottawa was
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: out playing in Toronto for a lot of the five
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: on five and the issue was and what did we
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: say that we before? The penalty kill was the issue
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: for Ottawa. They've now fixed it somewhat. I just think,
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: you know, Toronto's gotten really stagnant and too cute with it.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: But they're now zero for seven, and what happens they
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: lose that last two games, So there's your issue for
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Toronto's they got to fix their power play and Ottawa,
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: I mean just keep going. They're kind of just playing
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: that underdog role. They don't care. They have nothing to
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: play for. There's no tomorrow, and you could see Toronto.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: You could see the stress coming in last game. Marn
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: is starting to beg for calls a little bit awesome,
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Matthew's breaking his stick on the bench, and you can
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: start to see those old wounds coming back up again
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: a lot like the Kings. So you know, I listen,
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: I had Autawa on seven. I hope Toronto wins. I
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: just feel like Toronto, that the fan base just needs
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: it deserves as much as we.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: All like kind of you know, lining just lining up
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: at the doors that we dold just so they joked again.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like at one point, it's like, fuck,
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: come on, give us one, just please, for the love
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: of God, just win this one. Close it out at
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Canadian Tire Center. But you do not want to come
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: back to to Toronto and Scotiabank Arena?
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Is it Scotia Banks? Still I.
• 15:18
  Speaker 6: See it.
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: I'm pretty good. I still remember myself. You can't. You
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: do not want to come back for seven? Game seven? Dude?
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: What's great about HL script? Does everyone has their moment
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: to shine?
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: J D says, cal mccarr's me the greatest defensive all time.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I've got Cinophile right, just get to run rampant. I
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: want Tal right now agains viral moment.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Tal.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: I want you to just take a sledgehammer to Austin Matthews,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: who has two goals in his last ten playoff games.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, pin Chewski, talk to me.
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know what to say at this point.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: And I know there's been so much of a focus
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: on Mitch Marner the last few seasons in the playoffs.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Mitch Marner is the whipping boy every single time. Can
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: we give some of the can we can we bash
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Matthews this time?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Come on, I won't. I love the kids, so I won't.
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: Get a rotation like for years it was Neilander, Right,
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: Neilander was the guy who was the whipping boy for years,
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: and then there were some playoffs where he just absolutely
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: balled out and was unstoppable and they didn't get past
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: the first round, but he.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Was probably their best offensive player.
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: And then it was Martyr and I got Matthews is
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: not scoring goals like that's what he's supposed to be doing.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: I mean, he's established himself at this point as an
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: elite two way center. Yes, and he should be considered
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: for the Selky and all that, but that's not what
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: he's there for. He's there to he's there to drive offense.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: And he has two goals in his last over the
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: last two playoffs.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: Runs over the last two seasons in.
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: The playoffs, and I feel like no one's talked about it,
• 16:37
  Speaker 7: Like I feel like it has not the hot potato
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: has not landed in his lap yet.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he was.
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: Are not talking about why is Austin Matthews not scoring
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: goals in the playoffs?
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: And I don't understand why.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: I guess, I mean he's maybe he's he's it's the
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: Bieber effect. He's a friends with Bieber and Vegetable. I
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: don't know what's going on, but I feel like I'm
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: not saying we need I'm just surprised that more people
• 17:02
  Speaker 7: are not having that conversation about Austin Matthews, who is
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: now the conneptain of this team.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: By the way, I might.
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: Add, there we go never getting Justin Bieber on this podcast.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Now, got to be a believer.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: My kind of devil's advocate is last year there was
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: those injury kind of woes with Lelander and Matthews, and
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: Matthews has had something going on for like a year
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: or two. And but yeah, I mean, listen, I think
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: it it begins and ends with him when he kind
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: of goes and I think one of their best forwards
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: this series has been Matthew and Ies. He's been a
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: bull in a china shop. But Matthews just got to
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: get back to shooting. He has been a little reluctant
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: to shoot, which makes me believe there's something going on,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: maybe because I haven't seen him unload that one time
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: or like he's known for and just kind of piss
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: pump one. So I'm a little interested to see how
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: they come out in a Canadian entire center. But I'd
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: say what the momentum is firmly in the hands of
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Ottawa senators. So and listen, we didn't mention. You know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Anthony Stolars the last two games hasn't been his best
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: elf and they kind of got to him a little bit.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: So I'm interested to see how they handle it on
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: the road here. But this is dragging them back to
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Ottawa's Brady said, dragging them back to Ottawa.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Battle of Florida was done, Battle of Ontario might still
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: be an epic if Auto can win game six. All right,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we'll get to Alex Moffatt in just a second. With
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the coaching carousel, major coaching vacancies like JD mentioned at
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the top, the Rangers, the Ducks cracking. On Monday, the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Penguins announced their head coach, Mike Sullivan. Sullivan's travels not
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: back after ten seasons and two Stanley Cups. The team
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: hasn't won a playoff series since twenty eighteen. They just
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: missed the playoffs for a third straight season, and the
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: very next day, your boy Rick Tockett will not be
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: back for two and a half seasons.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: With the Vancouver Canucks.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Looking at the coaching landscape, Boston, Philly and Chicago could
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: also make changes behind the bench this summer. Who goes where?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Who's the next coach? To get the acts before you
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: go anywhere? Sullivan's the Rangers talk to me?
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like to see you know, I think Sully
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: going there or Boston potentially, but I think the Rangers
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: is a good fit for him. I think you know
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: that that Rangers court needs somebody that's gonna hold them accountable.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: You know. I kind of was talking.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: With Brian Boyle and Mic Up a little bit and
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: being like, what do you guys kind of see and
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: because you know, they know better than me on that side.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, do you think a young coach for
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: these guys, And you know, Mike Rep's like, no, they
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: need a guy, an old guy that's going to come
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: in and kind of crack the whip a little bit.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying John Tortorella, but somebody that'll come in
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: and crack the whip and hold these guys accountable and
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: pull some ice time if guys aren't willing to battle
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: so and I think you know Sully can do that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I'm interested to see like the Chicago's and the teams
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: that are kind of on the fence with their coaches
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: and have some young coaches a Utah, because there's a
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: lot of big names out there, and I could see
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: some teams pulling the trigger quicker rather than later because
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: you don't want to lose. You know, you still got
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Joe Quenville out there, and you gotta there's a lot
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: of good coaches out there. Jay Woodcroft's another one that's
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: just been sitting waiting. You got about eight or nine
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: coaches that have had winning records in the NHL that
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: are available for hire and I'm like, you're gonna maybe
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: see a couple of them teaming up, and you might
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: see a couple that you know, end up not having
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a job next year because there's just that many options.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: So it's it's a it's a dangerous time to be
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: a coach in the NHL right now because you are
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: not giving a lot of bullets and a lot of
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: life and you're giving no rope. And yeah, it's it's
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: it's interesting to see. I don't know why there's been
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: that shift in the landscape. I don't know if it's
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: on the players, if players are just too fragile now,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: or is it on you know, ownership pressure from the
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: media to win now and and you know, you could
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: also just be like Detroit where they don't do anything,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: and you know, Steve Eiserman's still there and he's taking
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: trapnel from his captain and then responding in the media
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: in kind I don't know, did you hear that?
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you how how long does the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: iSER plan go?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Did you hear minisil Ran today refuse to answer questions
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: and he said, well, my top guys need to play better.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: He's like they're begging you to pick somebody up, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you don't have enough top players.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: It's the problem. You're missing guys.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: You brought in an aging Patrick Kane and an aging
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Vladimir Tarasenko, and you thought that would show up the scoring.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And even though Patty Kane was still himself down the stretch,
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: they needed some firepower, They needed a little bit of grit.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: They didn't get that. They you know, they on the
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: back end. I thought they're very light on the back
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: end as well. And then it was the biggest thing
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: they needed to dress was fucking goaltending. And they don't
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: go out and get it go they go get Peter Morazak.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: And I love Peter Mrazak, but he's not a number
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: one goalie and they don't have a number one there,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: so I think him dodging the questions was like a
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: little bit like seemed a little arrogant to me. As
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: much as I love him as a player and I've
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: liked what he's done, but it was a little arrogant
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: to kind of be like put it back on the players,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Like I understand Dylan Larkin's probably out of line. You
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: don't want to air your dirty laundry, but they must
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: seem like there's nowhere else to look, and and and
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: there must be a big kind of disconnect between management
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: and the players, which at the end of the day,
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: you're a player, you're getting paid, you have to play.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: I don't think the players, to a man inside the
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: locker room was was held accountable enough. But you also
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: got to thank Steve Iers mean, you got to give him,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: give him a shot, reward him for their good play.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: And they didn't do any such things.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: So yeah, so it's an interesting little it's a turn
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: into a fucking soap opera.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: In the NHL two last thoughts. Salivon was an assistant
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: with the Rangers under Jean turn Ross. That'd be a
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: homecoming on Broadway. And as for Eiserman, he said, I've
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: address Dylan's comments directly with Dylan. I will not elaborate.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: If Dylan wants to share what I had to stay
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: with him, he's.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: More than welcome. You can read the lines, not that.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Do I have time for a question for you or
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: after this?
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Please?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: My question for you too is did you see Jimmy
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: Rutherford today? I didn't.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Well, when when they Jim Rutherford in his comments, so
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: when they let go of Rick talking imparted ways. He
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: said he tried to call Quinn Hughes and he said
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes didn't pick up his call. And he hopes
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: he was golfing. But yeah, Quinn Hughes posts a game
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: posted a picture from the Knicks game.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I just think when Hughes is like me, he wants
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to see jail and bruns and breaking. Okay, that's been
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: an unbelievable scirit.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: With his little high ankle sprain the last time. Not good,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: no point out. What are they thinking not calling a
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: timeout or.
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: Drawing a foul?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: This is not basketball, this is hockey. And up next
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to Saturday Night Live. Alex moffittt from SNL an interview
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: unlike you've ever heard before.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: It's next here an NHL inscripted after this, Our.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Next guest was a cast member on Saturday Night Live
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: for six seasons.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: His film and television credits.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Include everything from Bad Monkey to Kind Of Pregnant, to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Billions to the Bayor to eighty for Brady to Clifford
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the Big Red Dog, a number of major projects coming soon,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and most importantly, he's joining us from the golf course.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: He's been caught up to this turn that cart off
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and locking with us, Alex moffatt, ladies and gentlemen.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Alex is great to see it. Thanks so much for
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: doing this, man.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: My pleasure. The cart's off for now bye. You know
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: when I have to go to my next shot, We'll
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: see what.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Happens, gas powered. I just go for it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I only play all the world's great courses. Uh this
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: time deep in the heart of South Bokland.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: Yes Andrews, Andrews.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, the st Andrews of Southern Southern Brooklyn.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I want to start with the hockey content with your
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: first Alex, your pay and ann l sketch in which
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: chance of rapper was Laslhome's the NHL. Who doesn't know
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: anything about hockey, tell me all about how that sketch
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: came together.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: It's an all time classic.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: It is a classic.
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Well, I didn't write it, and I sort of just
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: read off the cue cards.
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: But I'm happy to tell you whatever. Uh.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Mikey Day and Streeter Sidell, his writing partner, wrote that gem,
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: that beauty, that classic, and uh yeah, I I'm method.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: So I went to hockey camp and then became a
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: professional for a solid two days in preparation for that
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: shadowed Jason Demers, so I get just so I could
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: see how a real pro lives and then kind of
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: put me in the right headspace and I was able
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: to create one of television's all time great characters.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Well, listen the fact that you went method. I'm just
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: curious to Brady Sae ever approach you. Any Rangers players
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: ever talked to you about it?
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Not a one. I've never heard word one from any
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: NHL player ever regarding that or anything else.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Maybe it just didn't hit in that community. Then that's fine.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Doesn't it hit for me?
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: It hit for the retired community, which was which I
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: had a lot of time on my hands, asking.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: Well, that's great, Yeah, that was my that's who I
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: wanted to target. Yeah, the producers told me to target
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: it Jason and all his retired buds, and I'm glad
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: that we brought it home.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Alex. You know I met you quick backstory.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I met him he was doing an off Broadway show
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: with with my wife Jillian, and he was just fantastic
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: in it.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: But you know, we talked a little bit throughout the show.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: But I you know, getting back to Saturday Night Live,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: like how you know, I always equate that a little
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: bit to a sports team, just how you guys, you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: play off each other and you're working together, you're working
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: in unison. But also you know, certain people shine, like
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: like you said, in certain moments, like you didn't write
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: a certain sketch, but you're gonna help and support. So
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: how is it with that and where do you kind
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: of feel you fell within that team framework?
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Very yeah, absolutely well growing up playing team sports, I
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: do feel like I I mean I was a point
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: guard and such, and like you know, my high school
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: where I graduated with forty kids, so I'm not really
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: dampen my suspenders too much, but I like to get
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: an assist. I like to shoot from time to time,
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: just to use some sports metaphors, and so yeah, you gotta.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: I always like to think of comedy as a team sport.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, unless you're doing stand up, which of course
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: then you're not passing, you're just shooting the whole time
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: and helping that for a decent shot percentage. But yeah,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: all right, at SNL, I mean it is all about
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: like we're all pulling in the right direction, and honestly,
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: not just not just the.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Cast, but like the writers and everything.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: You just try to like supplement your ego every week
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: to try to be a team player and do do
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: what's needed to get a win.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Excellent, use to sublimate as we continue right now. You're
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: no stranger to podcast other alan you got. You're part
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of an incredible cast in the Audible series The sixty
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: fourth Man String. John Cena just saw him at Wrestlemedia
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and it as well. I mean, how cool has that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: experience been?
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: That was great?
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: I mean that was.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: You know, a little I love to do a little
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: what do you call it, boys over from time to time.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's the easiest paycheck in the world. Allows
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: me to play the Saint Andrews of Southern Brooklyn an
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: he wins that I want no, but John Cena is
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: the nicest.
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: Guy in the world.
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: And do you guys want to see if I make
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: this too fudd to fudder to too for Birdie.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: As you're as you're talking and draining a putt would
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: be the ultimate.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, finish the thought on, John Cena while you make
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the putt right Camraing, So you know your you know
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: your golf spots.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: I do well, I'm I'm okay this.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Left to right.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna you think left. Get out of here, Jason,
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: left to right.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Gee, I'm saying stage right.
• 29:09
  Speaker 6: I know he's a good golfer. That's why you did.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: I think this is this is right in This is literally.
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  Speaker 2: Good use of stage right.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, first birdie of the day, right, literally first birdie
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: of the day. So thank you guys. All right, well,
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: I gotta go. This has been a really good chat.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Let's get a couple more in that you can go
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: go ahead, Ja, I'm just kidding.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: I'm just kidding.
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: I realized, I realized what a pain in the ass
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: i've been.
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: So thank you for being paid.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: You're such a pain in the ass. And I absolutely
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: love it too.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: You're you're you're a good paid talk about being doing
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: that Broadway right, Broadways broad right, Broadway around in the
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Lower East at Orpheum Theater, Big Gay Jambrie, you were.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: You were unbelievable. You did a lot of improv on
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: a lot of your lines, and it was it was incredible.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: As off the cuff. It was scary because sometimes the
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: producers were in the building and I was like, oh
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: my god, they're just beat red because you just went
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: off and hauled off on everybody. How was that, you know?
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Coming up with that? Is that just in the moment
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: or is it something that you write down a little bit?
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: You j got down some notes before the show.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: I mainly tried to go off the dome, but I
• 30:27
  Speaker 6: would certainly write down notes. So something occurred to me,
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: It was mainly just like you know, an exit monologue
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: where I'm storming out of the theater and kind of
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: shitting on our leading lady a little bit, the amazing
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: Marlon Mindel, and then also trying to shit on the
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: play as I on the musical. So if a thought
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: occurred to me overnight, I would certainly like spring.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: Out of my bed and like jot it down in
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: my notes. But yeah, I was.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Definitely one of those exercises in trying to push it
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: as far as I could and let the produces kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: of tell me where the line was, which they did
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: early on, and in fact it was.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: For a long time it was entirely improvised. And then
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: as I.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Said, I think.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: It was one where I said I was stormy on
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: I said I'm going to go get a gun and
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: they said, you know what they said, Alex nobody liked that,
• 31:29
  Speaker 6: and and I agreed. It was sort of in the
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: heat of the moment, and I don't know what came
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: over me, but that was that was kind of when
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: they said, we're gonna put some parameters on what you
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: can say, and I said, I totally get it because
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: that was untoward. Nobody needed to say that, and I apologize.
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: And that was when they rained me in big time
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: and told me basically the four things that I could say.
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: And then it was a lot less fun, but it
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: was also.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: Within the within the you know, the boundaries of what
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: they desired. So everybody won and I lost.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I won because that I think I was there
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: for that one gun one and I might have been
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: the only I was.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: There's people laughing.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I was cackling because I was waiting for because he
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: would be walking out of the theater screaming back at
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: the cast, so everybody could see the cast trying not
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: to break and he is saying and no one knows
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: what he's saying, and he is just saying heinous things
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: to the cast and the leading lady, Marla Mindel, and
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: these these actors are just trying not to laugh, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: everybody in the theater is just going bananas. So it's
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: just an amazing thing. And I mean, you had, you know,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: being an improv guy. It's just crazy to see what
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: the talent level that you guys have. And it's not
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: talks about enough of how where that comes from in
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: the space you pull that from.
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: Thanks Ben, Yeah, it was.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: I mean, the talent level in that cast was off
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: the charts. The least I could do was try to
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: improvise my keystra off everything, because I sure as hell
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: wasn't gonna pull my weight in the singing portion of
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: the show. Where again, from the time we started the
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: process of that show where I had a full song solo,
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: so the next phase of the process where I shared
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: that song with other people till the final phase where
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: we were actually on stage doing it, and I was
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: no longer in that song. You know, they knew that
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: the mof Dog only needed to sing about fifteen seconds.
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: Towards the end, padded by other better voices.
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: So I had to bring some good, hard yuck yucks
• 33:43
  Speaker 6: in me impropit words and to pull my way because
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: your wife included everybody in that cap had an insane voice.
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: It was crazy.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: You're no slouchy Alex speaking of improvo. Coming from Chicago,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you're part of Second City. Jason and I often asked
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: as Canadians, why are Canadians so funny? Why are Chicago
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: and so funny? I mean legendary, the stepa Wolf and
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Second City, that whold experience.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: I think Chicagoans have a chip on their shoulder. I'm
• 34:09
  Speaker 6: no different. I wouldn't be surprised if Canadians do too,
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: not necessarily in a dickhead way, but one where you
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: kind of have a little something to prove, you know
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: what I mean, Like you're you guys. I mean, congrats
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: by the way, I'm becoming the fifty first state because
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: I think that'll maybe.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Please We're dicks through through smiling teeth, That's what it is.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah, very very nice natural teeth.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: By the way, thank you, not fake at all.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: I do like your chompers, but I've also seen you
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: without them, and both are just beauty.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: I think, I seriously, it's such a cool look when
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: a hockey player doesn't have teeth, like and I think
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: you told me what you like, had them replaced enough
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: times where then they were based your dentists were like,
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: actually you should just wait until you're retired, because you're
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: basically you're just gonna screw yourself up here, and just
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: go with the tooth.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Let's look, yeah, they said, they said, just look like
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: a homeless person, because if you get your teeth knocked
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: out one more time, you're going to be permanently a
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: homeless person. So they're like, just just do your thing.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: And I was like all right, yeah. And I had
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: to go to my wife and be like, are you
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: okay with this? And she's like, I mean, it's kind
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: of a funny gimmick. And I was like, all right,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: let's roll with it.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: Ice breaking, Yeah, it's a good icebreaker.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Talk a little bit more about Second City though, like
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: coming from there and how hard it was kind of
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: getting your chops there and and working on your craft
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: because that's just an iconic place it is.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I did the training center there, but and then
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: I did a cruise ship gig for four months aboard
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: the prestigious Norwegian Jewel and and other than that, I didn't.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: I never did their touring company or their main stage.
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: But training there was great.
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: It was.
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: Like my first foray into improv, and it was after college,
• 36:16
  Speaker 6: and it was.
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: Exactly what I wanted and needed, and it was.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was just a blast.
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: You start to meet really really fun, like minded people
• 36:26
  Speaker 9: who are just looking to get together a few times
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: a week and makeup bs and try to make each
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: other laugh.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: It was it was a blast.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: The main thing was like just finding my little community
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: of you know, fellow improv nerds. But the places where
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: there were a few other theaters where I would say
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: I got a little bit more experience that maybe served
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: me better for the rest of my career, which were
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: the Annoyance Theater, which anybody out there, if you ever
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: go to Chicago and you're looking to see like the
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: best comedy in town, it's at the Annoyance Theater. It
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: is like cutting edge, it's different. It's I hate this expression,
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: but out of the boss uh, and it's very like unexpected.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: So the Annoyance is the coolest, greatest there in Chicago.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Second City is fun too, But yeah, I'm I'm an
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Annoyance guy, is what I would say. And it was.
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: It was rigorous because there is a little bit of
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: a sense of competition too in the community, Like you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: you want to you want to be as good as
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: you can and so you should do it as much
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: as you can, and so like, yeah, there were years
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: where I was doing shows like six nights a week,
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: whether it was like improv or stand up or sketch
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: or one man show or whatever.
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: Like I just tried to get out there and get
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: my reps.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Last time for me, Alex, I understand you went to
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: school with all the members of Fall Up Boy?
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Is that correct?
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Same high school?
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: Yes, North Shore Country Day and when that get on
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: OI Go Raiders, uh all the field. Yes, Pete wentz.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: He was a senior when I was a freshman.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: I'm very cur the interesting research you did.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Yes, Pete and I don't really keep up. Although funny enough,
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: when just two weeks ago my wife and I were
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: back on the North Or of Chicago when I ran
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: into his mom at the grocery store and we did
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: catch up, and it sounds like Pete is doing well.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: So what are the odds.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: His other two siblings, Yes.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: They're they're touring nicely. Talk about like as a Chicago guy.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: For me, My last one just about you know, growing
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: up growing up in that sports town, coming up in
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: that sports town. You know, what were some of any
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: memories you have for many of the sports team doesn't
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: have to be the black Hawks, but any of them,
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: the Cubs, the White Sox.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's it's such a rich history there.
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: It really is.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: It's the best sports town in America, all of North America.
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: I will say too.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean growing up like being a kid in
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: the nineties in Chicago, which Jordan Pippen bowls, Uh, it was.
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: It was crazy.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: It was like being a kid in like the twenties
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: in the Bronx or something with you know, Babe Ruth
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: and Lou Garrig playing. It was like, I I still
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: can't believe that I was at the center of the
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: basketball universe because like I thankfully friends who had more
• 39:29
  Speaker 6: money took me to games at the United Center and uh,
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: I it was. It was great. I got to see
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: Jordan play, got to go to some playoff games like
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: my my best friend's dad's company tickets Holler Bell Flavors
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: and Fragrances, uh and so.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: And then also they had like seats at the United
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: States so I would also go to the occasional Blackhawks game,
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: and like there were some good Blackhawks teams.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: I was a big Chillios fan back in the night.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Some people say ad Nan looks like Chilio's, or he'll
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: he looks like Chilio's.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't see it, but that's great that some
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: people tell you that.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I was just in Edmonton. I was my dear friend Mike,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: my great friends from college. We're leaving the guy because up,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: he goes, excuse me you, Chris Jellio's. And I looked
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: at Mike. He's a huge habswag of Mike. Can you
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: verify this guy? Thinks him Chris Jellious. He loved it.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Wow, Well I don't know what happened to that guy's eyes.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: But glacka go ahead.
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: My Also, I actually had a I had a hockey
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: stick signed by every member of the nineteen eighty six Blackhawks.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Nice uh.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: And then I gave it to a friend of mine.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: That sounds right.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: I gave it to one of my best friends who's
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: a bigger hockey fan than me, and it was I
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: knew he would appreciate it more more than me. But
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: I hung onto it for a good twenty years. It
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: might be worth something, although I don't think it was
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: a great team.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: So anyhow, he's now sold in his living in a
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: mansion sodod in the world.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: I wonder how he came into that money. But also
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: this was fun. I don't know, you want sports memories,
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: what else? I went to the nineteen nine again friends
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: friends from who have wealthy parents. A friend of mine
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: took me as his bud to the what they used
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: to call workout day at Wrigley Field in the I
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: think it was the eighty nine or ninety one All
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: Star Break, whichever one was at Wrigley Field, and so
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: it was like the day before the All Star Game
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: when they used to have the old time Old Timers
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: game and the home Run Derby, And we sat in
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: the bleachers at Wrigley and watched Ryan Samberg, my favorite
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: player still maybe of all time, win the home run
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: derby at home number twenty three, the other number twenty
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: three in Chicago.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: I love Ryan Samberg, Rhino. That's a great one.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, winning the derby too, that's a fun event.
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: It was super cool.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Alex, this was super We're cool for us man.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for multitask and getting U in
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: and we look forward all your projects.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: All this is great.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: I'm trying guys, I series and really thank you guys
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: for being my good luck charm, because I was getting
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: ready to walk off this course. It was really looking bleak.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: And uh then again the court. The whole before I
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: signed on with you was I was starting to put
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: it together.
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: And then the one hole that I played.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: While we did this was my one and only birdie
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: of the day. So I can't say enough about how
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: much I appreciate.
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: You guys bringing that to me today. Thank you.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: M hmm, Well, thanks Alex. Listen your guy JD. I
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: mean you've seen him on Broadway. As you said in
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: that interview, he's gotta he's in a mean streak sometimes
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: and it's all performers. Fine, well quirky, you know, just
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: on the golf course hitting birdies. We'll talking to us, Yeah,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Tal kind of pissed him off for the show. So
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: but you know by telling him to turn off the
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: golf cart, Yeah, you can't. You can't listen.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: You gotta let a guy just get in the care
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: character and perform.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: We gotta go see him perform.
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: We gotta see Piven and Moffatt in person.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: It's great, guys, run script, he's really good. We gotta go.
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: We look at us. Are we a comedy podcast here?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: We don't know what we're doing right now, we're gonna
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: turn our attest to the theater cinephil and sixty going
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: on Broadway. I've seen now the third iteration of Glengarry
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: glen Ross, one of my favorite plays ever, the great
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: David Mammott. Years ago while living in Toronto. This is
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: what a big fan nam of Glen Garry glen Ross.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I had some buddies that go, let's drive down, let's
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: make it a Broadway weekend. We'll go watch a Yankee game,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: go hit the meat packing district. Amazing we have Shreiber
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: played Ricky Roma. For those who know the movie, that's
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: the al Pacino role. Alan Alda played the machine Levine
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and Jeffrey Tamboer, one of my favorite actors, played Erino.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: That was amazing.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: In that one liv Schreiber won the Tony Were for
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Best Actor. Then ten years ago I saw al Pacino,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: who again in the movie was Ricky Roma, on stage
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: he was Chollie Levine, so he's playing the Jack Lemon role.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: And Bobby Kinna Valley played Ricky Roma. And now this
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: recent week and I went and saw Kieran Kolkin hot
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Off succession and a real pain Emmy winner and an oscarinner.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go win a Tony. I'm gonna go do
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Ricky Roma with David mammont On, Glen Garglen, Ross, Bob
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Odenkirk stole the show unbelievable. Of course, love him as
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: better call Saul. He was showing the machine Levine and
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Bill Burr, who is not an actor.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: He's a comedian.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: I do that he's but he's amazing as Moss because
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Ed Harris was so good in the movie.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: He's just an angry character.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Fuck you, fucked the lot of you, fuck you all.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is Bill Burr doing his act. He's
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: just an angry salesman. So didn't really feel like a stretch.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: But here's what I want to tell you about. The
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: play is electrifying. It's again with Mammot's words, you can't lose.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: It's got that staccato dialect and the repetition makes you
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: think of the great joke years ago. A rich man
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: is walking by a bum and the bum asked for
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: some money. In the richman says, neither a borrower nor
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a lender. B William Shakespeare and he walks away, and
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the bum thinks for second he goes, oh, huah, fuck you,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: David mammontt So often is Mammont's dialect synonymous with that
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: gutter level profanity. The play ends and Odin Kirk comes out.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: They all dough the bows, and he goes, all right,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed the play. I want to talk
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: to you guys about this Broadway Cares organization.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: We need your money.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Uh, we have another week left here, can you please
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: in the way out give some money? And Beilbur's laughing,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Carr goes lives ex seriously, listen, the country's never been
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: better for one case, flying through the roof the tariffs
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: of no issue Broadway. I mean, these tickets are very cheap. Now,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: just please give us more of your money. Tell Broadway Cares.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: But to be honest you they're gonna raise some more
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: funds with this.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: He said.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: We have this poster. You know, those playbill posters. We've
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: all signed them. There's some available outside four hundred dollars. Okay,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I mean adgress aren't what they want formber Okay. We
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: also have somebody else signed and this is something we
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: have really special. We have one of one.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: We have the business cards of each of the casts.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: So it says Ricky Roma, you know, Glen Gary, Glenross,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: the actual business cards signed by Karen Calker on the back.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: He goes every member of this cast, even James Link,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: who is the vice principal Liberty Hig if you know
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the play to the movie. Of course, he's the one
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: wh gets due by Ricky Roma.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: One of one.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: We're gonna do an auction right now? Do I hear
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: three hundred? We heard four hundred, five hundred, six hundred thousand,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: fifteen hundred, And you know what it's like, Jay, I'm
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: not quite the back, but I'm in the middle, and
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: there's a one behind me who's screaming like you have
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: the hand up. She's ready to go, and I'm like,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: they can't sear that far the house lights, et cetera.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: The number gets up to twenty twenty, five hundred, three thousand,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: thirty five hundred. To be clear, it's seven business cards
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: signed by the cast. We're up to four thousand dollars.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: It gets up to five. Oden Grek goers, all right,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: heng Hey, he calls it to Shelley.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: What everbody goes?
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, can we get another one of these, Like I
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: know it's one of one, but like, this is crazy.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: These guys are not gonna say no, we'll sign the
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: cards again because I got one more for you.
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: Whoever wins this.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: You're gonna come back with this right now and have
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: a drink and Burs starts laughing again. You're gonna have
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: a drink with Bill Burr and me and Kate. We're
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: gonna hang out for fifteen minutes. You want selfies, you
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: want videos, you can hang out. Let's ask me any
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: question you want. Now the price goes up, the final bid,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: and they had two of them because they go, let's
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: just give it to both these guys. Sixty eight hundred dollars. Unbelievable.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: New York is alive and thriving. And they took and
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: they took the subway home with the bums.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Broadway Cares a live auction from Bob Odenkirk. It was
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: very entertaining and it's a great, great place, and I'll
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: go check it out, still playing for a couple more months.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: To one point about Clen Garry, I would quickly point out,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: because Tallasey's seen the movie, A lot of people go
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: to the play they go, I came with the Alec Baldwin. See, eh,
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: that's only in the movie. It's not in the original play.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: My buddy ry Rusilo went years ago. He's like, oh,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: where's the acbaal was?
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: There is no otball was.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Manett wrote that specifically for the movies, like what ABC
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: always be closing and go that's not in the play.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: They're like, ah, so, just somebody be aware of that.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Great say not the play.
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: That's only in the movie.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Now you're not going.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Congratulations at Taylor Hall three year, nine point five million
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: dollar contract with the Carolina Hurricanes the day after the
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: team beat the Devil's Advanced secround of the playoffs. Yeah
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Worthy praised thirty three year old Hall. It's interesting journey
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Jay first overall pick twenty ten draft. He's playing the
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: second round, just the second time. It's his sixth team
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: in six seasons. But it looks like he finally has
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: found a good fit. I just think it's an interesting story.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Sometimes these guys come, they go out. He wasn't what
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: we're expecting is the first pick. He's had ups and downs,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: but ultimately he's still playing hockey. He's still playing a
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: role in the team. You played briefly with Hall in Carolina.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: What can you tell me about Taylor Hall?
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I played with them in Arizona. But yeah, you know,
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: he's a great listen. He's a horse out there, and
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: I think he plays when he slotted in the right role,
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: he's extremely effective. And you know, I think people always
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: look back to that MVP year he had with the
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Devils and wanted him to always recreate that, But I
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: don't think at his essence that's who he is as
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: a player. I think he's very much a secondary scorer
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: that can go up and down in terms of he
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: can provide you with top line offense, or he can
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: kind of be in a supporting cast. And I think
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: he again you see the Caroline Hurricanes. If you fit
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: that system, you fit that system. If you're a guy
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: that can skate and you can follow a system like
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: Rod Brendanmore implements, you're gonna be just fine and you're
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: going to thrive in that. In that kind of culture there,
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: you could see Logan Sankovin's another one. He kind of
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: fits the mold of what Rod Brendanmore likes, and I
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: think Taylor is a perfect fit. Good trade sometimes it's
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: the second piece of the trade that ends up being
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: the one that's the home run, and it's been a
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: home run for him. I think, you know, when you
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: get him at that price point, I think it's really good.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: He takes care of himself. He did have a couple
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: of big injuries, but he's an absolute horse in the
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: gym and like I said, takes care of himself and
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: really just wants to play hockey and win. So good
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: to see. Congratulations to him. I love when guys get paid. Uh,
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: it's nice. Get your paiper boo boo, and hope we
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: have him on the show one day.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Nice, that'd be great.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, say if we can get him a.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Great nugget from tal Hart Trophy winners who have won
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: a Whaler's jersey at some point in their career, Gordie
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: how Bobby Hall, Chris Pronger, and Taylor Hall.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: He did Yeah, yeah, the Whaler's nice little throwback.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty good.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: You know, if tal would, if his research would be
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: as good as those nuggets, I'd tell you what.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Anything, whalers, you're not going to beat. Tell like he's
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: looking at.
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: The whalers, He's he's.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Fucking dialed gotta get oulf Samus on the pod Olf
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: ghosted him.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that's tough story.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: From the time Barrett Hayton tight lipped about the Utah
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Hockey Club's name when he appeared on our show. Great guy,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: but just visibly uncomfortable. It felt like we were giving him,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: like he was disclosing government secrets. He would not tell
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: us what's Utahn I mean just say yeah, yeah, he's
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: clearly the best thing. He's like, I'm really sure, guys,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: but you the pup may have spoiled the surprise. Tuesday night,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the team's official YouTube channel briefly featured the handle Utah
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Mammoth indicator the team will become the Mammoths next season. Well,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I just you said to me, you kind of like
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Utah Hockey Club. I don't thank god it's not Utah
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Hockey Club. I wouldn't mind of Utah was but honestly
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: it should have.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: Been the YI are you nuts Utah wasat You're just
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: trying to get You're trying to go viral.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: No, Utah Outlaws. Outlaws is good to be good because
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: the story of the Mormons.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: But what do you think about the Mammoth Like mammoth
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: cracking big one tonight in Utah next awful.
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: I don't think it. I just I don't like it.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, can you give me Yeddie is your second best option?
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah? No, of course. Utah Yeah, unbelievable.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Or I like the Utah.
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: Range because mountain ranges wasatch a lot of big mountains
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: of Utah Range. Something simple rolls off the tongue. But
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: I like the Utah Outlaws.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: But listen, Utah Hockey Club is kind of I like
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: U tai Che gives it a little bit of a
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: European vibe.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: And and yeah, that's why I don't like it.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: I don't like.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: You're, Yeah, you're you're.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I'm an isolationist. I don't like the European.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: You're drill, Yeah, your drill, baby drill.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: By the way, Yet he had copperate issues. Scroll pay
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: the fine. They should have done it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: Who cares they should have He's got enough money, Ryan Smith,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: three stars?
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: What do you got, buddy?
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Uh, I have to do it. I'm gonna go with
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: the rat King himself, Bradmarshamp. I think the last two
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: games in that Tampa Bay Lightning series, I just think
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: he was everything that they brought him in to be
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: and I think he's getting real comfortable and and just
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: it was great on the penalty kill, was great offensively,
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: uh did a ton of great playmaking and then was
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: physical and and shit disturbing, And that's what they need
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: out of him. And I just think it was a
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: little glimpse into what this team is really going to
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: be moving forward. And and right now I might switch
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: from Tampa Bay Lighting to Florida Panthers going to the finals.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, that's bold. Before I get to Taos.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Pick Tom Wilson goal assists as the Capitals take care of.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Darryl Demurs the Montreal Canadians.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: But it's not just because the performance on the ice
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: or his hit on Alexander Carrier. It's the fact that
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: he was wiping mocked tears. The best scene of fake
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: cranging he will see in the NHL playoffs. Tom Wilson
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: speaking of shit disturbing, agitating to the n DEGREE fun
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: player to watch out there on the ice.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Tommy Wilson's my start.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: Tal Yeah, I'm gonna go with the guy who who
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: I feel doesn't get enough acknowledgment. And Evan Bouchard with
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: the Edmonton Oilers. He is keyed this turnaround for the
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: Oilers in their series with LA. I mean, I think
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: you could say the Kings have kind of keyed it
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: by choking every game. But you know, two goals in
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: Game three, two goals in Game four. He played almost
• 52:45
  Speaker 7: thirty six minutes in Game four in that overtime win.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: He is the Chris Bosh of the Big three.
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be erring to wait too.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: Zach Hyman. Zach Hyman's not Chris Bosh. No, I would
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: say I would.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: Call bigger part of their offense than Zach kimon Is.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I would call him the Ray Allen. Is
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: that part of the same.
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: I would call him in the Ray Allen. I think.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Buchard would be more of a three point shooter than Shack.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: But to be clear, Toal's trying to say the third
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: biggest star, I think that's what you're.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Trying to say.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, he's, yeah, the biggest piece of their offense.
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: Obviously defensively, he's not exactly a shutdown guy, but he is.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: You know, he was listening five.
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: He was top five in d man scoring this season
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: on what he was considered a down year for him.
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: Compared to last year.
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: Defensively second in playoffs scoring among the men behind Cam Fowler,
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: who's you know, gone off in the first round for
• 53:40
  Speaker 7: Saint Louis. I mean, I think he's a huge part
• 53:43
  Speaker 7: of that team moving forward in these playoffs, and so
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: that's why we're going to give him a little more attention.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: I I'm always bullish on him because you know, people
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: always have really he's really knee jerk reactionary every game
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: because you're either going to get really good or really bad.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: And I just think what makes him so good is
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: what infuriates people is that he's so calm in the pocket,
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: just like a quarterback, and he makes fucking bad turnovers
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: and he has laxed today's goal at times. But that's
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: what makes him so good is his heart beat is
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: never above sixty beats per minute.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Three stars and playing More stars to come as we
• 54:18
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• 54:25
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• 54:28
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• 54:30
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• 54:50
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