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Brian Slagel rocks on: A mea culpa for the Senators, solving the JT/Elias drama and Jason's nightmare trip to Cabo. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: It is Unscripted coming at you. He's demersed, I'm Burke.
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  Speaker 1: It's great to be with all of you here on
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  Speaker 1: the Holiday edition episode of Unscripted.
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  Speaker 2: As we're going into the holiday break.
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  Speaker 1: So if anything crazy happens, he's final games, well whatever,
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  Speaker 1: we'll catch up with the other time. But the point
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  Speaker 1: is this, we have an incredible episode today because Brian
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  Speaker 1: Slegel is going to join us.
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  Speaker 2: This is a heavy metal legend. He's the founder of
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  Speaker 2: Metal Blade Records.
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  Speaker 1: He helped introduced the world Jay to Metallica and Goo
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  Speaker 1: Goo Dolls and is a massive hockey guy, right, Blaire slay.
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  Speaker 2: Kidding, that's it. One word slare and this gooulda be awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I had the opportunity when I did the Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 4: live kind of interviews with the NHL Digital. I got
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  Speaker 4: to interview a bunch of people before the games, before
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  Speaker 4: all games of the seven game series. In my favorite
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  Speaker 4: interview was Brian Slagel and just the stories he told
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  Speaker 4: and like you know, a five minute window was absolutely credible,
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  Speaker 4: So you get it for fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot a wait it's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: And again pre yeah, if you want to listen to
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  Speaker 1: Nate Thompson, he was awesome as well, talking about you know,
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  Speaker 1: his mental health journey, his journey on and off the ice.
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  Speaker 2: Nate was really awesome, So thanks once again to him.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to start with this because I'm all
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  Speaker 1: about metrics and I've seen the numbers so far on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast and episode four we not get to episode fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: So there's nothing better than a little bit of Internestine warfare,
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  Speaker 1: a little mutual destruction. I want Jad to go after
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  Speaker 1: our producer Towel right now because it was a very
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  Speaker 1: wonderful text exchange over the clips that were being posted.
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  Speaker 1: So you wanted to do a break out of a
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  Speaker 1: two on one because again, you're a very smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: You played some hard games, HL, you know your stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You get I wanted there's something I'm into. And Two's
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  Speaker 1: point was, I'm just not sure this is an audio medium.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not exactly schuol. iHeart is going to thrill the
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  Speaker 1: But you explaining a two on one, it's now time
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  Speaker 1: for you to take a victory lap. You can now
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and dunk on my mantaw because how are
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  Speaker 1: those views doing on that two on one.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm I.
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  Speaker 4: My words are my wand you know, and I painted
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  Speaker 4: beauty or my words are my paintbrush. I paint a
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  Speaker 4: beautiful picture when I speak, and I do do a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of shark radio commentary.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 4: So I've learned how to describe visually. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: to watch his face because we not only went out
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  Speaker 4: of text chain, but we did this, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: our pre production meeting, and to watch his face kind
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  Speaker 4: of just like what I was like, just trust me,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna do it. And hey, credit to him now
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  Speaker 4: because you know he fought me on it and I
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  Speaker 4: knew I was going to be right, but he did
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  Speaker 4: a great job editing, putting the clips in.
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  Speaker 1: And before we get to the howk and again, just
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  Speaker 1: to further tease of the episode, Tals really is in
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  Speaker 1: on the new Dylan bio pick I've seen it. So
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you my review of a complete Unknown after
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  Speaker 1: JD's review of Conclave, which I mean again, Pope's poping
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  Speaker 1: is about his peoplescriptions.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna get, oh, pajh, nice quick quick question because
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen a few. You went from the Black
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  Speaker 4: the backdrop, and now you got like the racing chair
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  Speaker 4: and a bunch of this like book bookcase that's a
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  Speaker 4: skew behind you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not my parents' place written now on Maple suburb
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  Speaker 1: of Toronto, Ontario. So that's why we're there via remote. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is my dad's bookcase.
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  Speaker 3: Fox, you're in Canada, you must you're using dial up internet.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I like different backup.
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  Speaker 1: If you're watching the video clips again, we've got lots
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  Speaker 1: of great hockey talk coming up, particularly outaway centers. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: you should be offering them with me a kulpa. But Jay,
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  Speaker 1: you were fired up about this, so I want to
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  Speaker 1: give you that space. This is what the podcast space
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  Speaker 1: is a place to air your grievances. What's a dumber
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  Speaker 1: airplane rule? Bags under your seat for takeoff and landing
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  Speaker 1: or no large electronics during the flight.
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  Speaker 4: I have so many gripes with the with the airline
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  Speaker 4: industry and etiquette, not only from the airlines but people
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, people are the worst.
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  Speaker 4: But the bags under my seat, I cannot, for the
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  Speaker 4: life of me stand it. Understand Like, so how I
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  Speaker 4: do it is? I'll bring my backpack on it. Typically,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I used to throw everything up there because
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  Speaker 4: I'd have status, no big deal, and I would just
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  Speaker 4: throw you know, I'd be that guy to throw my
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  Speaker 4: like two small backpacks and take up all the room.
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  Speaker 4: And but you're in first class. Why, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: oh no, I fly in the pigeon. I like to
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  Speaker 4: keep myself humble and coach.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I do.
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  Speaker 3: I liked it.
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  Speaker 4: Every now and again, I throw myself in coach just
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  Speaker 4: to be back with the people. Okay, the people guys, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: thank you, thank you. So I typically I put my
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  Speaker 4: backpack literally behind, like up against the seat, and I
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  Speaker 4: lean my legs on it and I almost like curl
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  Speaker 4: my legs. So I'm keeping it super secure. It's basically
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  Speaker 4: in front of my seat, like it's under my seat
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  Speaker 4: instead of under the seat in front of me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And every time.
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  Speaker 4: They come by and they're like, you gotta put it
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  Speaker 4: all the way under, and I'm like all the way
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  Speaker 4: I'm like why, tell me, why? Tell me how this
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  Speaker 4: is going to be life saving, and I will do it.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me. Tell me where in the.
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  Speaker 4: FA regulations, if you can explain it to me, I'll
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  Speaker 4: do it. It makes no goddamn sense, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: get it. I just don't get it. Explain it to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: Air Your grievance is a lesson. I know there's a
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  Speaker 1: rabbit audience right now watching us. I'm sure there's people
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  Speaker 1: educate me and Demurz speaking of education, the Ottawas Centers,
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  Speaker 1: we're officially wrong. And then we buried him in a
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  Speaker 1: previous episode. They've won a last nine, they got the
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  Speaker 1: Verkin Demurz bump. They losing Edmonton's Sunday Night. Brady could
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  Speaker 1: chuck those scorers. Two overtime winners in the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you specifically about Lenis Olmark two
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  Speaker 1: shutouts nine to sixty seven, say percentage in his last
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  Speaker 1: seven games before leaving against the Oilers in an upper
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  Speaker 1: body injury. Now, Ollmark, as you know, Jay is a
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  Speaker 1: very streaky goalie. So he started okay, then he kind
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  Speaker 1: of went down. He's been unbelievable one of vest No,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't like he was playing seventy five games
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  Speaker 1: a great fear obviously, two goalie system him in Jeremy Swayman,
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  Speaker 1: very strong defensive system.
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  Speaker 2: They're in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'll give them me a couple Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Outaway is a playoff team, but I'm still not
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  Speaker 1: totally sold.
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  Speaker 4: You listen, they brought an Allmark for a reason. He's
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  Speaker 4: been fantastic lights out. Unfortunately, that stings that he gets
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  Speaker 4: that loss on his record after leaving.
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  Speaker 3: That's just the worst rule. You leave with an injury
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  Speaker 3: and you still get.
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  Speaker 2: The loss h adding insult injury.
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  Speaker 3: Adding insult injury quite little.
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  Speaker 4: Really, that's why they wrote it is for the hockey
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  Speaker 4: regular rules and regulations. But no, it Yeah, he's I mean,
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  Speaker 4: when he's on, he's on. And I watched that game
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  Speaker 4: last night. I really wanted to watch the last few
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  Speaker 4: of Ottawa and sit there and and be like, care
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  Speaker 4: are they for real? And they have so much talent
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  Speaker 4: and they're very good at moving the puck up ice.
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  Speaker 4: They seem really confident right now. Obviously defensively at times
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  Speaker 4: they go to sleep, but they got a lot of
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  Speaker 4: pieces in place, So I'm really I'm I'm excited to
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  Speaker 4: see kind of where they can take this and how
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  Speaker 4: far they can go, because I'm so sick of the East.
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  Speaker 4: It's the same eight teams every season. You know, all
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  Speaker 4: these teams refuse to to make that final push to
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  Speaker 4: make the playoffs. They never can get it. They never
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  Speaker 4: can get it over the finish line. It's always the
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  Speaker 4: same aid. It's always I got Tampa and Toronto Round one, Tampa, Toronto,
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  Speaker 4: and then there's Boston and there somewhere there. You know,
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  Speaker 4: Boston will sometimes be up or they'll be like the
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  Speaker 4: eighth of the first seed. So so yeah, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: hoping they do it. I actually I want somebody. I
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  Speaker 4: would love if it's like, you know, Detroit, Sin Ottawa's
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  Speaker 4: in Buffalo's in Buffalo.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get me started. It's an absolute joke on Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: But was not Don Gronto's fault, as you said two episodes.
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  Speaker 4: Ago, It wasn't. Yeah, clearly it's not his fault. But no,
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  Speaker 4: back to Ottawa. Yeah, I dave a lot there. And obviously, listen,
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  Speaker 4: they got Brady as the captain. He's a great captain
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  Speaker 4: to have on the back. And you have Jake Sanderson
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  Speaker 4: who's literally he started off a little slow this season,
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  Speaker 4: but he's been absolutely incredible the past five six games
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  Speaker 4: and and really coming into his own, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: up to his standards, because he was a little disappointed
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  Speaker 4: with the way he started the season and now he's
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  Speaker 4: just flying. And you know they got the Shane Pintos
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  Speaker 4: Tim Stitzla's.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's what Stutzlo. Do you think Stutzlo can be like?
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  Speaker 1: To me, I'm like, he's the put up or shut
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  Speaker 1: up guy. I for all this hyper on him high
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  Speaker 1: draft pick.
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  Speaker 2: Is he ever gonna be like a forty goal scorer?
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  Speaker 2: Is that asking too much?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 4: I think he can do it. I think he creates enough.
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  Speaker 4: He plays hard when he's not doing all the whole
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  Speaker 4: diving thing. He's he's good and he seems like he's
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  Speaker 4: really kind of he's really managed that this year, and
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  Speaker 4: he's playing the right way. He's got a great shot,
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  Speaker 4: he's got a good escapability and good vision and makes
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  Speaker 4: some really nice passes. So their power play has struggled
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. That's the one thing I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 4: But they have so much talent that I think they'll
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  Speaker 4: they'll figure it out soon.
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  Speaker 1: But as you know, I mean, we had a game
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  Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime and I hadn't been auto in a while.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I grew up in Kingston.
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  Speaker 1: It's only a couple hours away, and I'm hanging around
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  Speaker 1: the area and walking my college beautifully. You know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: the you know, just just see the House of Commons,
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  Speaker 1: the Rito can out. But then to get to the arena,
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  Speaker 1: the Canadian Tire Center, I mean, it is Kanada and
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  Speaker 1: it is in a different universe.
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  Speaker 2: Jay, It's crazy. It took us an hour to get there. People,
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  Speaker 2: when can we get the Canadian Tire Center into downtown Ottawa?
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  Speaker 2: That would be great.
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  Speaker 4: And it's like a single road to get there. It's
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  Speaker 4: most depressing drive from downtown so that stadium. So spend
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  Speaker 4: a little dough there.
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  Speaker 1: Right, We'll give them me a couple of the Ottawa
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, the entire center in Kanada could use a
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  Speaker 1: little work.
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  Speaker 2: Do you.
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  Speaker 3: I think you every show you sneak in a little Latin.
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  Speaker 3: I like that about you.
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  Speaker 2: Episode four continues. Yeah, Mia, you said.
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  Speaker 4: Gratis something something show we need like a hardcore fin
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  Speaker 4: and see all the Latin that I've dropped.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you away an NHL unscripted We're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: some gear at some point. Tal That's what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: in Demurs like a hoodie.
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  Speaker 2: NHL inscripted.
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  Speaker 1: With the amount of travel we do, that'll get some
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  Speaker 1: buzz hats, hoodies.
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  Speaker 3: And a mic for Tale.
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  Speaker 4: He looks like a goddamn mine back there, just trying
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  Speaker 4: to panamize air trap controller, air traffic controller, just giving us.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So Bob Bender has approved the UH acquisition of a
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  Speaker 1: Stuer mic, but Tal doesn't have it yet, so we're
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  Speaker 1: scared to talk.
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  Speaker 2: Jada are trying to bait him into a conversation.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: I don't want people to ignore the Western Conference and
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  Speaker 1: your love of the San Jose Sharks because the amount
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  Speaker 1: of people right now, if I looked at our metrics,
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  Speaker 1: if I asked how to dial it up, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be big in the Bay Area because everyone knows Demurs,
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  Speaker 1: they know the Sharks.
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  Speaker 2: They want us to talk.
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  Speaker 1: You're lub Askaroff, which is just a name, like if
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  Speaker 1: Chris Berman was doing sports, it kissed my Askaroff.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the goldening.
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  Speaker 3: Performances at the seas.
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  Speaker 1: He hits back thirty nine saves second stee oilers three
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  Speaker 1: two overtime loss, twenty three saves in the second period alone.
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  Speaker 2: That's the second highest for one period in franchise history.
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  Speaker 1: I would guests Nabakoff would have the record, but Mackenzie
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  Speaker 1: Blackwood now an avalanche v Tech Vanachek week to week
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  Speaker 1: with injury.
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  Speaker 2: How big are you an? Askroff? Remember when he got
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  Speaker 2: drafted tenth o raw by the Preds.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say two thousand, maybe in the COVID draft,
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  Speaker 1: but there's been some some taco and Askoff, what do
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  Speaker 1: you feel right now?
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  Speaker 4: Was two thousand the COVID draft twenty twenty? Excuse me HEREX.
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  Speaker 4: He's an old man, that's for sure, but you never
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  Speaker 4: know what these Russians, you know, they can forty five
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  Speaker 4: year old rookies.
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  Speaker 2: Been amazing.
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  Speaker 3: He's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: He's yeah, he's he's as advertised. I got to watch him,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, I've talked to a lot of people around
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  Speaker 4: the organization, you know, I do radio with them, so
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  Speaker 4: I see him a lot, and yeah, he's as advertised,
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  Speaker 4: and I think they're trying to wait. They wanted him
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  Speaker 4: to get some HL games. It was only a matter
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  Speaker 4: of time before he takes over. You know, this could
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  Speaker 4: be the time. Now, you know he could. I was
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  Speaker 4: hoping more after Christmas. Just let him get after Christmas
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  Speaker 4: and four Nations kind of just let him run the
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  Speaker 4: end of the season and play like eighty percent of
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  Speaker 4: the games.
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  Speaker 3: But he's so good post the post. He's so good,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: I talked to Thomas Spear, who is he's the goaltender
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  Speaker 4: coach for San Jose Sharks, and he was telling me
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: down on the Miners. He said he needed to learn
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  Speaker 4: a little bit because he's very athletic and he'd make
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  Speaker 4: these very rangy saves be at a position, but because
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  Speaker 4: he's so athletic in that lower league, he could get
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  Speaker 4: away with it. And he had to kind of learn
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  Speaker 4: to be a little bit more structured and calm and
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  Speaker 4: when he needs to make that post the post save,
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  Speaker 4: yeah it's there for you, but not to always revert
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  Speaker 4: to it and always kind of play like you're out
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  Speaker 4: of position. So he really dialed that in. I watched
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: him against Edmonton. I mean, he made some ten bells,
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  Speaker 4: but he was just so calm in the net, giving
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  Speaker 4: up limited rebounds, you know, And they took on some
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: water for about two periods, like it was looked like
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  Speaker 4: an offensive zone power play practice for Edmonton Oilers on
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  Speaker 4: San Jose and and they've been playing good as of late,
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  Speaker 4: they're scrappy. But you know that Edmonton team when they're
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  Speaker 4: rolling downhill, but Ascroff was he was making ten bells
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  Speaker 4: save after ten bells saved. So he's he is the
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  Speaker 4: future of that team. I think he's there's a reason
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  Speaker 4: they traded Mackenzie Blackwood for as good as Mackenzie Blackwood
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  Speaker 4: was playing, he's the future. It's just a matter of
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  Speaker 4: time that he's going to get the keys and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: they maybe wait a little bit longer and kind of
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: you know, it depends though with v tech out, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's there's not many guys other than him, so I
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  Speaker 4: think he's they're gonna roll with him for a little
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  Speaker 4: bit and they have a they have. People think it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be a really long rebuild, but if you watch
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  Speaker 4: that Sharks team a couple you know, watch him a
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  Speaker 4: couple of times, you'll know that it's a it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a lot faster rebuild than people think.
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  Speaker 2: Positive thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: I maybe nice to get a Stanley Cup obviously to
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  Speaker 1: that area because you know when when when things were
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  Speaker 1: rolling there at HP was amazing Shark Stanley the final
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  Speaker 1: corps every year in the playoffs, Like you guys were
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  Speaker 1: a juggernaut.
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  Speaker 2: It was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was fun. It was fun those years. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean that fan base is crazy. They they love
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  Speaker 4: the team, they're knowledgeable. Uh, it's it's kind of their
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  Speaker 4: team in the Bay Area. There's you know, obviously forty
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  Speaker 4: nine ers in Santa Clara now, but this was this
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  Speaker 4: was their team and they were proud of it. And
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  Speaker 4: we had some God, we had some good teams there.
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  Speaker 4: So it's you still have to win. You still have
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  Speaker 4: to win. You have to put it all together, and
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  Speaker 4: it's so hard to win the Stanley Cup. But we
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  Speaker 4: had some teams where crazy how we didn't how we
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  Speaker 4: didn't get to the finish line. But it's the way
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: does the cookie crumbles.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, one more topic I wanted to hit you on.
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's Rempy of the Rangers suspend eight games,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: Mira Hayes. There's certain guys, ye, you go, they just
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: he just can't help himself. This guy just he just
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: loves getting suspended.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's I was on I was on his train
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: and like on the Rempy train for a while, and
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: I think I had to jump I had to jump
• 14:07
  Speaker 4: into this.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: I wonder what was the moment that you jumped.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: He Okay, I like this guy plays the edge of spicty,
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: but he goes yeah, you know what, maybe just goes
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: overboard too much.
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: I'm out of the fact, the fact that he can't
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: get over three games, they'll get suspended, and like that
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: one was a blatant one in the numbers.
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: Just jumped into a guy like he.
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Not only a guy, their best defenseman, Miro Heyskin in
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: like elbow to the chin, elbow to the dome piece.
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: And then as he's jumping, and not that this guy
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: needs to jump. He's six ' ten, two hundred and
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: forty pounds. You don't need to jump. You could stay.
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: He could go on his knees and still hit guys
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: in the head with his elbow if he wanted to.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I kind of I firmly jumped off the
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Rempy train. I'm just like he needs to. I mean,
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: he needs to figure out how to play within the
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: within the lines, because listen, big a big fan of
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: my a big fan of who geez Luise Jason Emers,
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: I'm a huge fan of Raffi Torres. Yeah, I know
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: he's very, very polarizing, but you could argue that a
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: lot of those suspensions near the end of his career
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: were not suspensions that they were just because of his
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: history and because they wanted a piece of them, they allowed,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: like because there's a couple of them, I played with
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: them where it wasn't even there's no way that those
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: were as long as suspensions as they were, But it
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: just he learned how to play within his style of play.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: And yes he did play on the edge and did
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: have some dirty hits, but near the end he found
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: out a way to hit without jumping and remp He
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: needs to figure that out or figure out a way
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: to not be so chaotic and crazy when he's coming
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: down the ice. But it's chalk it up to the
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Red bulls and potentially suit a fed but who the
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: hell knows.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: He needs to.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: For context here, this is a six to eight forward
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: rookie season. People love why you're good, people love the
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: he fights. He's a rookie, He's tough, Okay, great ejected twice,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: also received a four game suspension elbow to the head
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: of New Jersey's Joni segens Thaler.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: That was a home game.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: March eleven, twenty two year old zero points in five
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: games this season, this off season, he's I'm gonna be
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: a better player, not just a fighter.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Okay. Cool.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: He's been assessed four game missconects as well as eight
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: major penalties in twenty two regular season games.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: Crazy.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I mean he had one goal last year, one assist,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: seventy one penalty mites. He scored once of course in
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, had that big fight against Matt Martin. Everyone
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: loves that Matt Live Stadium outdoors. But you're a sixth
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: round pick.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: I get it. You're there for a role to be
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: a fighter, be a tough guy.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: All good, but there's a fine line between justice and
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: being tough and it could you imagine George Perris's reaction
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: again Rempy, like what are we doing, buddy?
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's probably on the call with him, Like come on, kid,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: right well, look at the tough guy. Look at Curtis McDermott.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: When he's done, he's able to hit play within the play,
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: within the rules, still fights.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Look at Ryan Reeves.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: I know we got suspended recently, but he hasn't been
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: suspended that much. And he as much as it pains
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: me to say it, I mean, he played within the
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: lines for over nine hundred games and found a way
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: to be effective still fight, but you know, listen, things
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: happen when when you're hitting and skating that hard and
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: trying to finish guys, you're eventually going to catch somebody illegally.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: And he's made no qualms about it that he had
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: to figure out a way to kind of work his
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: way through the system and make sure that he's playing
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: within the rules but also playing on the edge. And
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: that's the hardest thing to do in the NHL, is
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: play within the rules, but play on the edge and remp.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: He just hasn't been able to corral that. And I
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: mean it's only takes. You know, you only have so
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: many chances, So I don't know if time's running out
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: for him now. Did do the Rangers want him to
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: come out after the eight game suspension.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I didn't, I don't.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: I do know this though, everyone's fired up for our
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: special guest. We're four episodes in and this might be
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: as good as it gets. Brian Slegel heavy metal legend,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the founder of Metal Blade Records, Metallica, Slayer Goo Goo Dolls,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: and at one point had season tickets for five different
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: NHL teams.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's next on Unscripted.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Well, what a pleasure right now to bring in Brian Slag.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: We've been hyping this up all week, my man Jason
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: de Burr tooking this up. Jay will let you know
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: that in fact, he's not just a host, he's also
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the guest booker here on Unscripted, and it's great to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: have Brian with us. In case you do not know
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the name, You're gonna know the name because Hulu is
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: releasing a new documentary series in the history of heavy metal.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: It's called Into the Void that's coming out in twenty
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: twenty five. And Brian also hosts one hundred Songs That
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Define heavy Metal.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: It's a podcast as he is the Metal Blade Record CEO.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And of course if someone wants just a top line, yeah,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: he's going. Who introduced all of us to my brother's
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: favorite band? That would be Metallica, along with Slayer and
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Goo Goo Dolls. Brian, what a pleasure to have you
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: here on Unscripted. Thanks for making a few minutes.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, Metallica, everything on Metallica as.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Much as you can.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: My brother's only gonna listen to Metallica.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: So Google Dolls will get to the second all very
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: cool Slayer, awesome Metallica.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: How'd you find it? How'd you know? Headfield give it
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: to me?
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: So yeah, that was a crazy story. So back in
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: nineteen eighty, nineteen eighty, actually, no December nineteen eighty, there's
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: a band called the Michael Shaker Group who was playing
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: at a venue called the Country Club in Reciina, California.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: And at that time it's funny years later, like every
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: all the bands that came out of LA were all
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: at that show, but nobody knew each other. So after
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: the show, in the parking lot was this There was
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: a movement called the New Waver British heavy metal, which
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: is this big thing happening England was iron Maid and
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: def Lepper and all this sort of stuff. It was
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: just starting. Nobody in LA knew anything about it except
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: for me and my friend John corn Aerans. And after
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: that Michael Shaker show, he was in the parking lot
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: and he saw a kid wearing a Saxon European T shirt. Now,
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty, nobody knew who Saxon was, let alone
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: had a European T shirt. So he runs up to
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: this guy. He goes, you, where did you get that shirt?
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: He goes, you know who Saxon. He's like, yeah, big fan,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Da da da da. So that was Lara's Ulrich And
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: the next day I met Lars Skared to my house
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: and we started hanging out and listening to music and
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: going to shows together, and so I got the idea
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: fast forward. I got the idea to put together a
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: compilation album of local LA heavy metal bands. Because this
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: was nineteen eighty one, nobody knew it existed. There's no Internet,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: the labels don't care. So I got this idea to
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: put this compilation album together. So Lars calls me and said,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: if I put together a band, kind of be on
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: your record. They said sure, and that's how Metallica started.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Oh my wow.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: So it's a chance encounter with Lars and he's looking
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: for an in and you're.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Helping him out casually hanging out with Lars.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was funny when I first met
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: him because he had just moved from Denmark to southern California,
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: and I don't think he expected anybody La to know
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: who these bands were that he was really into. So
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: that's how we became friends, and then he started a
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: band which did okay.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Just okay, And you know they're man tying it back
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: to me. They're so important in my you know, growing
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: up process. And then you know, I played for the
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: San Jose Sharks. They're a huge part of it. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: obviously with you, you're a huge hockey fan, and if
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: people don't know you, you're like an enormous hockey fan.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: You once had five season tickets to five different teams
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: in one year, which is crazy.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: How does that work? Blind? Yeah, you can't even get
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: to that many games.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: What are we doing?
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, that's true, but I got to as many
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: as I can. I had most of those on the
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: West Coast. I had Kings, Sharks, Coyotes.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: And uh Love Shane Doan, Yeah and uh and Anaheim.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: So I had all those for it. But then I
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: also was in New York a lot. We had an
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: officuly in New York for many, many years. So I
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: had Devil's tickets and this was the old Christmas Tree
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: uniform Devils, so they were super cheap. You had all
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: those season tickets were cheap if you add up what
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: I'm paying now for my Goalden Nights. Tickets probably isn't
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: even close to that now, so, but it was a
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: lot of fun. I still got to a lot of
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: those games. I might I might have seen a hundred
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: games that year or something. It was crazy.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: What now, now? Tell me that?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Like, because you just said before we're talking, before you
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: said the name of your company, your record label was
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: kind of stemmed from hockey, and how did that all
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: mesh you? Why did hockey and you? How does that
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: mix together?
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Yeah? So I became a big hockey fan. Basically it
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: never played. Unfortunately, we couldn't afford it when I was
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: a kid. It was very expensive here in LA. But
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: I became a big fan around nineteen eighty one, eighty
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: two of the Islander Stanley Cup run and I just
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: became a big fan. Long story about a friend of
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: mine who printed my fanzine had season tickets. They never
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: used them. He said, you want these? I said sure
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: to the Kings and I started going. And I was hooked,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: hook line and sinker at that point. And when I
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: was starting the label, it wasn't really starting a label.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: I was just putting out a record. But you had
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: to call the label something, So I was gonna call
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: it Skull and Crossbones, but the bass player from Blondie
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: had a label called Skull and Crossbow. It's like, I
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: gotta think of a name like, well, metal would make
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: sense because it's heavy metal, and I go, well, blade
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: because blade there. You know, hockey skates have blades. I
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: was a big, big medieval fan with swords and stuff,
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: so like, oh, metal blades. So that's how it started.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: I love the origin of it. That's pretty cool.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: We're talking about Brian Slagel, the founder of Metal Blade Records.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've met some cool players over the years.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Give me some interactions of some guy you've met, Oh, so.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Many of them. Well, one of my favorite ones, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: I told the story part two of it when when
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: I talked to Jason the steleic Ap Finals last year
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: was the Army or Yoger he when he was playing
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: for the Penguins. Friends of mine worked for Stan Fischler,
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: and they got they got concocted that I was gonna
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: have Yager meet Metallica. Now nobody had contacted me about this,
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Nobody contact Yager about it. But Stan Fischer just put
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: in his column one week and I'm like, what is
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: what is this? So anyway, it became a possibility because
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I asked the Metallica guys and said, hey, would you
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: want to meet Yager? And they are big boggy fans
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: at that time, so I go absolutely, and then the
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Yagers like, let's make it happen. So as that choice,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: what happened? Chance? What happened? The Sharks were playing the Penguins,
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: and the Penguins had a night off before the game,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: so they're flying to San Jose. So that night was
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: perfect and Batallica's in the studio recording, so I arranged
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: it to get Yager and a couple other guys out,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: took him out in the limo, took him to the studio.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: They all hung out, but I couldn't figure out who
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: was more excited, whether it was the hockey players or
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: the band guys because Metallica's you know, head feels like
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: younger saw my stick. And Bob Rock was the producer
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: and he's Canadian. His kid's favorite player was Yager, so
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: it was a blast. And the ride to the studio,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: you know, your your army was pretty shy, and you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: wasn't really great at English, so he didn't say a
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: whole lot but on the way back we just talked
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: the whole time about hockey and stuff. He was great.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: So when he come to Prague, come to my sports bar.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: I'll take care of you all this stuff. So it
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: was when they became friends.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: After I was in the sports bar. Now go ahead, JA.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I was in San Jose for six years and I
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: would have cut off my left arm to go to
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: the studio when Metallica was recording. Oh my god, I
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: met them. It's crazy. I had, you know. I we
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: talked a little bit about before we went live here
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: about Dan Boyle and and how big of a metal
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: fan he was in you know, other than Yager. Have
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: you really have you seen a lot of guys like
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: earlier in your career or now later that are metal fans.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Probably earlier. I hosted a podcast for three years with
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: Sean Rourke from NHL dot com, and he had the idea,
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: let's let's do a podcast about athletes, specifically hockey players
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: that are into heavy metal. I go, these guys are
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: going to say anything. If you've heard these interviews with
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: these guys, who are gonna get him for five minutes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: But with the first one we did was Drew Stafford,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: who like was notoriously bad with interviews. We talked to
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: him at hour he knew more about metal than I did,
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: so I ranted a whole bunch of guys again. Mike
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: McKenna is a really close friend of mine. I know
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: he played with Jason. Yeah a minute, He's another guy
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: that probably knows more about metal than I do. And
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of guys over the years that have
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: done it, not as much anymore. A lot of these
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: guys now are more into edmf back in the days
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: shaboozy now.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'm glad that DM has made a good
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: push because demers and I do like EDM. But when
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you say, Brian, I know you're being humble when someone
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: says that they know more than I do, Like, what
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: does that mean?
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Like there their references are deeper than yours. Their quotes
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: of me, like to what to look because to be
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: at your level is pretty insane.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: No, yeah, but there's a lot of bands. I mean,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm busy enough with you know, running the
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: label and doing all that sort of stuff, so I
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: can't I pay attention as much as I can. But
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: there's so much out there, and like both Drew and
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Mike McKenna. They were talking about bands I hadn't even
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: heard of before.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's well, speaking of bands you do know great
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: segue Jason talk a little bit about The Goo Goo
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Dolls and just how you found them, worked with them,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: and that whole process.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so they're always the one that go How did
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: the Goo Goo Dolls end up on Metal Blade? But
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: we had a punk label back in the eighties and nineties.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: We had like Dri and coc and a whole bunch
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: of really big punk rock bands, and The Goo Goo
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Doll started in Buffalo, New York as a punk rock band,
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: like Johnny would sing half the songs and Robbie the
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: bass player, singing the other half, and they were super punk.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: And one of the guys who works at Metal Blade
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: is from Buffalo, so you had a lot of connections there,
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: and he said, Hey, here's this band. They put out
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: this one record called Jed the Goo Goo Dolls. Would
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: you be interested? And I listened to it. I thought
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: it was really cool. So we saw them just this
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: kind of fun, little punk band, and they kind of
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: grew into a band that if you listen to the
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: stuff that we did, it sounds a lot like the
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: Foo Fighters. And then a boy named Goo came out,
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: which is the first big record and the song name
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: which is the first big hit they had. And it's
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: funny because we were making the record and Johnny came
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: to me and said, hey, wait, I wrote this acoustic song.
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: It doesn't really fit with the rest of the record,
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: but we recorded it. Should we put it on the
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: record or not? I go, I listened to it. I go, look,
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: it's a good song. Just throw it on the record.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: And then that ended up being their first massive hit,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: and then they kind of became known for being more
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: of a mellow band, but their early stuff is really
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: really fun.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: So you know, you're a Knight's season ticket holder now
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: and you've you know, you've watched hockey for a long time.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Who is like what type of player do you like
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: number one that's most closely associate with you because you're
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: in the metal Do you like guys at like a
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: Rempier or a Kegan Colesar that like, you know, they
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: play a physical game. Are you more the the skill,
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: the sexy, you know, the the slash of it all.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: That's jamming on guitar, that's a little bit more like
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Jack Eichel or Shay Theodore.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Well, it's it's interesting because I like it both ways.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: I like it rough and tumble, but I love the skill.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: The skill is my favorite thing. My favorite player in
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: the league is Austin Matthews just because I've never seen
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: as amazing as Ovichkin is. I've never seen a guy
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: score goals like Austin Matthews does. He just it's it's
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: insane and on the nights. I love Michael. I got
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: to interview him actually for the NHL last summer, and
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: all we did was talk music. He's an old school
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: like rock and metal guy. It was great. We talked
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: fifty minutes from music. He's like, well, that was really fun.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: So I've grown to really like him. But he's got
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: a two undred foot game now, which is that's why
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: he won a Stanley Cup. Because he's got a two
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: unred foot game. And other guys that I won't mention
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: don't play two hundred feet and they don't have any
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: cups yet.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It's a great way of soon a guy became a
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: two hundred foot game.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I tell you he knows more about hockey than most
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: than you.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I think, Brian, if you want to add another podcast
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: to host, you can go ahead and take my spot.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: You and Jason apparently both though Dan Boyle quite well.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: Yes. So Dan used to wear a metal Blade T
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: shirt when he was doing interviews after the games for
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: a couple of years, and we had him on the
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: podcast that I mentioned earlier did with Sean Rourke and
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: we became friends and I hung out a few times
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: when he was playing for the Rangers in New York.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Just a really good dude. I was bummed out. His
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: favorite band was Faith No More. Yes, he went on
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: the road. It was like roading for them for a
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: couple of weeks. And they had a show in Williamsburg,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: New York a few years ago. And I went to
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: the show and it is great, and I left and
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: the manager of Faith No More was texting. He said, hey,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: are you still here? I said, no, I re splitched.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Oh Dan Boyle's here and he wants to say hi.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh darn, And he's wearing a metal bade
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: sure of course. So he's a great dude.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: What's your kind of I see all the jerseys behind
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: you a little bit. Number one. We'll get into those
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: in a second. But do you have a game or
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: like you talked about the Islanders Cup runs, is there
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: a game that really stands out to you that is
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: one of your favorite moments or teams.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: I've spent so many of them, but the second King
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Stanley Cup Championship where they won an overtime while Routina scored,
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: probably that game was the most like because I was
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: you know, I'd been a King season ticket over since
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: eighty two and never in my lifetime they ever won
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: a Cup. And when when the first Cup, I was
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: actually in Europe, so I missed the whole thing. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: missed the parades, I missed almost like they didn't win
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: for me. So the second one was a lot of fun.
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: Lars was actually there at that game too, and I
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: made a critical mistake. I was there with my buddy
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: Monty Pittman, who was the daughter's guitar player, and we
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: both lived in the South Bay. And afterwards we were like,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: so should we stick around or should we leave? Because
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: you know, LA is famous for burning down downtown La
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: when their teams win. So we left early and we
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: went to Hermosa where the Kings Bar is and it's
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: going to be this big party. Nothing crickets. It was
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: like nothing had ever happened. And then I get a
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: picture later of Lars in the in the after the
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: King's after party holding the Stanley Cup over his head
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: saying like, oh, they'll let anybody touch this thing. It's like, well,
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: that was not a good move. But that game, though,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: was just phenomenal. Just overtime and seeing the Kings win
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: was that was so much fun.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I love that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: Your favorite Cup win was the year I got reverse swept.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: I was in San Josean we got reverse swept that
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: year toohears I watched. I was watching that goal at
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: a bar in Austin, Texas with a buddy of mine
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: and I literally turned to him and I said, I
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: need to get absolutely blacked out drunk because I'm depressed,
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: no joke.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's a rough that's a rough oneof.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, we would like to squeeze in some news in
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the pot as well if we can't. Bryan, So, Chris
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Krider got a healthy scratch. If you were Chris Grider
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and you just got a healthy scratch as he did.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: What's the best metal band to help you vent that frustration?
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Oh? Well, you got to go to a Slayer like Slayers.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: If you're angry and upset, to put on Rain and
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Blood and just go crazy, it's like thirty minutes of
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: complete insanity. So ill. I'm a big Denver Bronco fan
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: and they lost a Super Bowl one year, like fifty
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: five to ten or something.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: I was so mad.
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: I put on that record and chopped I had a
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: door that was broken already and I chopped it down.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I'm listening to that right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Oh my god.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: It was very that was very vengeful. Yeah, Rain of Blood,
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: that's the one.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Brian Sligel Metal Blade Record CEO again one hundred songs
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: to find heavy Metal as a podcast? Who are going
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to release the new documentary series on the history of
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: heavy metal Into the Void in twenty twenty five.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Glad you one question before you leave? Who do you
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: got winning the Cup this year?
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Well, so I got to go with the team that
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: I picked at the beginning, and I'm usually pretty good
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: at this. I've got five of the last.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Six I've got don't tell me you picked the Rangers.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: No no, no, no, no. Five of the last six,
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: I've got at least one team in the Cup finals.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: So wow.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I put the Leafs and the Oilers to go to
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: the final with the Oilers finally winning and the leaves
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: are looking good. Oilers not looking so.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Good, oilers. No, Oilers have cleaned it up. Now they're
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: they're you're the need they need to trade some but
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: they've cleaned up.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: But I like that. I actually love that pick.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: That was a lot of people have the Oilers going
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: back and Toronto is a little one. A lot of
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: people picked him in Toronto, but no one kind of outside.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: So I I don't mind that pick. If they can
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: a healthy with that goaltending, now they have a chance.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I picked him because of the coach. I think.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I think he's a coach for them. He's gonna He's
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: already made them play more of a playoff style now. Yeah,
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: they still have the explosiveness. As long as Matthews isn't
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: out too long, they'll be good. Yeah, Evanton kind of
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: gets it together at the end of the year, but
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: they need they need help on defense, and I'm not
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: sure about their goaltending either.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Chiefs gotta be a metal guy. I mean, Craig Beruby
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: has got to be just you would hope. So I
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: mean that's if ever there was a guy Taylor bade
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: to it. We still see Brian. This was awesome and
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: seriously can't think it out. Thanks for supporting unscare in credible.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: Oh thanks for you guys having me. I loved it
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: and anytime I'm here m hm.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Again, Brian Slagel was awesome. It was such a jode jay.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: You hooked it up.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Man, I appreciate it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm doing booking, I'm doing social media, I'm doing interviews,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: and I'm the talent. And I don't say that lightly
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: but I will now uh, and I'm the content talent.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: What else do you want me to do here? Help us?
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Help me?
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: But I just want to know you did a little
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: radio hit in Vancouver. I don't know are you getting
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: paid enough with the network and do you need help?
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Listen? Every dollar count you know how this works.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: So every week I appear on the Fan five ninety
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: in Toronto on Fridays, I appear on nine to sixty
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in Calgary on Thursdays, and then I go Vancouver Radio
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: six fifty on Mondays.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: So listen, you add up.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Those radio hits, a little bit of exposure, and especially
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: after Taal told us the numbers.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Now I'm really pumping up unscripted like normal.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: When they bring me in, they go, here is Emmy
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Award winner at nam Verkar major League BASEB play insider.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: We also talk hockey in movies.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: They go, hey, guys, guys, you gotta really mention on scripts.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: They go, Emmy Award winner, MLB Network, NHL Network and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the co host of NHL and scripted with Verkin demurs.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I'm like, guys, every little bump helps.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Do they preface it with podcast startup? Are we in
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: that route podcast start up?
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: No?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: But they did ask me. They go, who is it?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: I go, it's a collaboration with the NHL and iHeartMedia.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: They go, wow, excuse us. I didn't want a big
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: hitter over here. I'm like, yeah, so it is a
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: big deal. But Vancouver this week they I wanted to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: talk about this whole well, actually, I want to bring
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: it up to them.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Was the old j T Miller Elias Peterson situations.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Now they said JT is pouring cold water on it,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and I said, Dak, But let me be clear, I'm
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: living in New Jersey. There's not a ton of Canucks
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: talk living in New Jersey. Okay, I know everything happened
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: with the Rangers right now with a tirefire, they are,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the Sabers are in mess, et cetera.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: The fact that I'm.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Aware that there's dissension in Vancouver cannot be portending well.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: So whether or not it's a minor issue, whether it's
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: a major issue being blown up, whatever, the point is
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: this Vancouver is a tricky team for me, Jake, cause
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I look at them and I go humm, Like part
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: of me says that they could make a deep run.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Of course, I mean with with Archer Sea Lofts, they
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: could make a deep run a year ago.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: But right now they're a wild card team the Western
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Conference is is it currently set? Maybe maybe the Flames
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: enter the picture, whatever, But Vancouver has been an odd
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: season for me, A little bit up, a little bit down.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I don't want my star players fighting you.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: I have a lot of opinions on this because I
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: and I'll get to I'll get to the last part.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: I just listen to like spitting Chicklets and Pod and I,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: you know, typically I agree with them, and I think
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: they're so far wrong on this about trying to trade
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: one of these guys. I think it's the dumbest take.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: And here's the thing with that, okay, regardles the media,
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Number one, just let it die, like, go find something else,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Go do your job, go find something else.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Leave it alone. You know. JT.
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Miller comes back from getting a mental reset and just
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: thrown right in the fire immediately with all this nonsense
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: of him and Peterson.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: And here's the thing.
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: Who gives a shit if they don't like each other?
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: So media, let it die. I don't know exactly what's
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: going on in that room, but if they do have
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: some issues, squash it. And if you can't squash it,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: who gives a rats ass? Who gives a shit? Keep
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: bleeping me out?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I love it? Who cares? If you I don't care.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: You know how many guys I played with that I
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: didn't like, tons endless guys that I didn't like, didn't
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: say five words to in the room.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Not that just just give us one name.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: No I won't give you.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: I won't give you one name. But but not like that.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: We just didn't get it. We didn't get along, and
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: get along like you know, I blame yourself.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: So I was a jerk to him, but he also
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: did you.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Know me, every everybody loved me there's nobody that dislikes me.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: But uh yeah, I'm sure there's guys that dislike me.
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: But when you know that I'm going on the ice,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: you know that I'm playing for you, and I'm playing
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: for the team. You're playing for the guy next to you.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: So whoever's saying trade one of them, you don't know
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: anything about hockey and if they if they have to result,
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: like unless somebody did something to you know, I don't private, yeah,
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: something private, nefarious, Yeah, but I don't see that happening.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: I don't see Elias Petterson as a guy that would
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: do that, and I don't see JT.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Miller. JT. Miller's a family.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I know both these guys from multiple guys in the
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: league that they're great guys. So they might just not
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: connect on a certain level. They might not like each other.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: It just might not work.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: You know. JT.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Miller is very fiery and Elias Peterson's more ice, so
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: he might be yelling at Petterson, hey, pick it up,
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: pick it up, and Pederson doesn't quite like it and
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: it probably doesn't sit.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Well with him.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: But again, if you guys can win and play and
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: just sit there and be like guys, I don't care
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: if you hate each other. I don't care if you
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: want to stab them with a knife when you're on
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: the ice, learn how to play together. And that's you know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: if these two guys can't figure out how to play together,
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: which it doesn't see it seems like they play fine together.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: They're on the ice for four on fours together, they're
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: playing power play together, they're scoring, they're passing each other
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: for goals. So everything's just shut the hell up and like.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: So it's not necessarily much to do about nothing. They
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: may hate each other, but you're just saying, who cares.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if they do or they don't like it.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Juke cares. Just play that.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Don't want to close with this final thought, which is
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: gonna be New Year's Resolutions, because we're gonna come out
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: with twenty twenty five on fire. I can't imagine you're
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a resolutions guy. There's no way. Maybe I'm wrong. I
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: can't imagine Jasonibursitz there and goes, you know what I'm
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: gonna do this next year. It just seems so hokey
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: and ridiculous. But prove me wrong. Maybe you are a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: resolutions guy. I do it a little bit, and it's
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: always the same resolution, which is be on my phone
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: a little left and now thanks you. I can't because
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: you are rightly putting us on social media. So I'm like,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: i gotta check out demurs add to my story. I'm like,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: he's right, we're trying to grow the audience here. Quite frankly,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: unscript has to grow. But be on my phone last
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: would be my resolution.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: You ah, yeah, I think the whole thing is contrived
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: and stupid. I just think any of that is it's consumerism.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: It's a way for people to sell things. Yeah, I
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: think if you want something to get done in your life,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: just do it. I know it's sounds stupid, and if
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: you need that day, listen, if people need that day
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: to maybe spark something. But there's a reason that gym
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: memberships go off the hook on New Year's and that's
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: the biggest month in gym's, the first month off. But
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: keeping up with that discipline is the hardest thing. So
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: it's just, you know, do what you need to do
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: to get motivated and be as best a human as possible.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: But there's nothing worse to someone said I'm gonna lose
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: fifteen pounds. That's my New Year's resolution and theime the genu.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: There and then by February they're gone.
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. So I'm just like, I like more consistency.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: If you do something really small and you do it
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: over and over again and you do that for a
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: full year. Yeah, I'm you don't have to people make
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: sweeping declarations on New Year. It's like, you get off
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: your phone a little bit more. That's a good one.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: Do something that you can do and build with that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Like yeah, and you know.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: It's like goal setting. You know, you set that one
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: to start and then you set them a little bit more,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: a little bit more, so you just kind of get
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: your body used to being in the uncomfortable of getting
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: off your phone for maybe an hour less a day,
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: and then from there you just grow. But yeah, like
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: the whole notion of all we go to New Year's
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: and say now I'm gonna lose, Now I'm gonna be
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: skinny or something, it's like, just do it to other
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: eleven months in the year. Just put down the put
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: down the doughnut, go to the gym, put pick up
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: some weights.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Just pick up some weights.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Last thought, and we'll wrap things up. Oh zempic dicey,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. If I know somebody's a cal
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I'm taking ozmpic, like good luck when you grow a
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: third head.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's another one. It's like a Camp La
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  Speaker 3: June thing.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna see, you know, and you're gonna see like
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  Speaker 4: a class action lass who come out in twenty five years.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be sitting that your kids will be like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: what's this ozempic And you're gonna be all back in
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  Speaker 4: my day, I one hundred percent percent.
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  Speaker 1: I lost weight, but I shortened my lifespan by a
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  Speaker 1: dozen years.
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  Speaker 4: The studies on the studies on it already coming out
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  Speaker 4: of like the minimal or like it's reduces bone density
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  Speaker 4: and it's crazy like what it does your stomach anytime?
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: I've some people I know that have taken it and
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  Speaker 4: they're like, oh, yeah, it's if I uh, if I
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  Speaker 4: drink any alcohol, like I get like, oh, it's like awful,
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  Speaker 4: like my stomach's and not like don't you think that's
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  Speaker 4: probably bad for you that you and maybe you shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be drinking and taking ozempic if you're taking if you're
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: deciding to lose weight.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it is the holiday season. Obviously, it's a great
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  Speaker 1: time for everyone to be with friends and family. I
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  Speaker 1: hope everyone has a wonderful time. And I'm curious from
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  Speaker 1: a hockey perspective, Jay, as people are shutting things down,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as you time. For NHL players, the roster
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  Speaker 1: phreeze keeps players from getting traded. Guys can get away
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a little bit. So what do players do? Did you
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: go to Cabo?
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  Speaker 2: Is that your thing?
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  Speaker 4: Much to my sugar and I went to Cabo, got
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  Speaker 4: dragged there every year. Some of the guys said it
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  Speaker 4: would be different, and it would be oh, I we'll
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  Speaker 4: have a good time, and I'm oh my god. I
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: like to be a little bit, you know, I get
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  Speaker 4: antsy going to the same place more than once. And
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: I started kind of Me and my wife started doing
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: different when we were dating at the time. We started
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: doing different little trips. We went to moaib Utah Wow,
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  Speaker 4: went like on a via Ferada and like climbed side
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  Speaker 4: of a mountain. Stuff like that. We went and said
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  Speaker 4: this really cool resort. We'd go up like north in Flagstaff.
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  Speaker 4: We kind of bounce around and try to do a
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: little different things. I went to Kabo like my second
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: year and we rented a huge house. There's fourteen people
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: in the house, and eight people got neurovirus for a
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: week and we were not a week. So we're there
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: for five days, and for four of the five days
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: people were out of commission. I didn't get it, and
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: it was like me and two other guys didn't get it,
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  Speaker 4: and we were just basically living in this mansion house.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was sick, like violently sick, like you. And then
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: the best part of that trip is the day we're
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: about to leave one of the girls who was sick
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  Speaker 4: the whole time, because let's get a picture of everybody together,
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: because everybody was like feeling a little bit better on
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: the last day, like theymeter. Yeah, well they went to Cobo.
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  Speaker 4: They went to Cobba to get violently sick, and then
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: went home.
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  Speaker 3: So that was their vacation.
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  Speaker 4: And then I look, you know, two days later, and
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: she's posted the picture online saying best trip ever. False advertising,
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: false advertising, And I want, I was like, weren't you
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: sick for four days?
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  Speaker 3: Great?
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  Speaker 2: What this wasn't?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: The feel good story was, But I thought, You're like, oh, dude,
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: I love a good holiday break at that But you're
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: like no. I actually I've had bad experiences with it.
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  Speaker 2: I like the well, I.
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  Speaker 4: Never got sick, but I got like I always listen, Hey,
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: daddy's gonna have a good time always.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: I mean the option of in the past players playing
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: on Christmas daily awful.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Rightly, it is nice in the league, says dude, take
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: three days just chill.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you need to give I think guys need the break.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I don't love the break they have now, the not
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: the All Star break, but they have like the bye week.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't love that.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: I think just spread it out more throughout the season
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: and have more days off throughout the season. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's what guys more need because even though you get
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: that week break, you're then just pounded. You're in the
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: you're in the everyday grind of it, and I feel
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: like having an extra couple of days every now and
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: again is more impactful for guys than just one week,
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: you know, lumped into the middle of the season. I
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: just I don't love it. I never did. I think
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: it's something that I would get rid of because you
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: have the All Star break, which is great if you're
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: not in the also give me a three four days,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: but then sprinkle just some more days off and let
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: the season finish earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I want to wish everybody Merry Christmas out there, a
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  Speaker 1: happy Hanukkah, happy Holidays. We're gonna be back and better
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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