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ANDREW "Goody" ANTSANEN | Chirping Zebras Podcast | Ep. 101 · Chirping Zebras

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Yes Just an absolute legend with a capital legend I was a little disappointed and have the tie on but he only said he weren't only when he works So that makes sense. Yeah, the tie undone if you've never it. And I love that he had a painting of himself with the tie undone behind him. So it was in there. was like, that's the only thing like, I don't know why that's the only thing I really cared about. was like the whole time, I'm like, why doesn't he have a fucking tie around his neck? was the same thing. But it was close. He had the white shirt on. it was like, we got a little bit of a... Yeah. But talking about a guy who's seen it and done it all. Right? One, the Stanley Cop, he's, know, and again, another shout out to our good friend, Frank Simonetti, who helped us make the intro and get him on the show. ⁓ He was Frank's agent, actually his first agent when he really, he really hasn't done it all in hockey. Everything agent, you know, director of hockey operations for the NHL, ⁓ head disciplinarian, GM coach, like he's in player. Literally, I don't think there's anything he hasn't You know, so very cool. So if you haven't checked that out, that was our century mark right there. I feel like he cut, but I feel like his career, like he, he took like a lot of criticism throughout his whole career. Yeah, he He's so well recognized now that like later on, but like going through it, like you, like he got crucified as a coach, crucified as a GM, crucified as everything, right? Yep. But. Everybody loves him. Everybody that, you know, ⁓ is has, you know, not a bad word to say about him. And he was excellent on the podcast and just a true professional. Yeah. No, I agree. It's, when you have those types of jobs, they can be difficult at the time. mean, look at GMs and coaches nowadays, they go through such scrutiny and can get fired, you know, more so coaches than GMs can get fired, you know, for, you know, a losing streak or not. Not having a team play to the potential and and sometimes not even their fault Yeah That's what makes good gms and like how you become like what he was you just gotta push through all that criticism and be like I know what the fuck I'm doing Well, he certainly does so we appreciate brian burke check that out. But today Today man, we had a complete beautician ⁓ we have from shoresy andrew and sannon who ⁓ otherwise known as goody. Yeah. I mean, just incredible dude. They all are. It's great. I love all these episodes. Well, no, mean, when you're watching the show and then you're like, holy crap, now you're interviewing them and it's just like, it's pretty cool. ⁓ they're all like, just like hockey guys, right? I mean, they all played the game. So it's, ⁓ yeah, hockey people are the best. Yeah. It makes it, it makes it a little easier. So, ⁓ we've had John Marastie, gym number one on. We had Max Bufard, JJ, Frankie, JJ, and now we have Goody, Andrew on, and we're going to have more, too. You know, pretty much the whole cast is going to join us eventually. and we have a tease on the episode, too. have a tease. We a tease on the episode. We'll let that happen organically. Don't tease it. Yeah. All the tees. Tease the tees. Yeah, we're teasing the tees. So. I think everyone's going to really love this one. without further ado, let's give a look and a listen to our conversation with Goody, Andrew and Sanon from Shorzy. Nice bill. can't get them off the ice, this is crazy. Here comes all the zebras, it's a zoo out there. You can't do that. I know that. That's you should have on your float is a couple of midges. Fuck yeah. We'll dress them up like leprechauns. And you guys could just fucking bounce them around, throw them around between each other. We could have the gnome on the hood. Yeah. We got a zebra gnome. Some lady made us a zebra gnome. He's going to get a zebra gnome in the closet? Yeah. And if he can, and if he can't find him, just call him nasty. He's short enough. We had him on a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah. He was on. I read him when he played in the American league. He was nuts. yeah. Right off the hop, called Michaels a f***. So we had to edit that out. Yeah. All right. Andrew, welcome to the Chirping Zebras. We're so happy to have you, man. Thanks for having me, buddy. It's pleasure. Yeah, that's, ⁓ so right off the hop here, Shorzy, how fricking fun is doing that show? Man, it's a blast. mean, ⁓ can't say it enough. Like all the guys just really gel well together. And then, you know, now we're five seasons in, ⁓ gonna be doing six in October and then the tour on top of it, like it's nothing but, nothing but a riot the whole time. And so how do you know? How did you, and it's so funny, like we've had a few of the boys on and it's like, I want to call you Goody. ⁓ that's fine. ⁓ they all call me Goody anyways. I was doing another show ⁓ with Jared there, the new one that he did and all the people that work on there calling me Goody and they should we be calling him like, I don't fucking care, dude. Everybody recalls me Goody anyways. it's all good. Just happy to be here. Yeah, exactly. Just happy you guys remember me. Well, just like a regular hockey team, you guys all have nicknames anyway. there's your nickname, right? And everybody pretty much calls each other by their character name anyways, you know, like Michaels or like Fish, know, Fish's name sticks and everything and Hitch, you know, everybody calls each other pretty much by their nicknames. So. mean, all the kids I grew up with in South, they all have nicknames and you I couldn't, you told me to tell you their full names. I probably couldn't right now. Exactly. That's where kind of where we're at too. Awesome. So now do you have an acting background? Zero. Yeah, that's what thought. So how did it come about that you got on the show? So, ⁓ one of the ladies, she was on, ⁓ Letter Kenny. name is Gunnett Dio Horn. She plays Tannis on Letter Kenny. She's an actress. She's been, you know, in the game for a while now. And, ⁓ I guess she was, she was helping out kind of find different characters and. She was kind of taking care of the more indigenous side of things. They're looking for indigenous characters. Me and her ⁓ friend or not her friend, but her boyfriend are really good friends. And she knew I played hockey. I played hockey, you know, in her hometown for the junior team there and ⁓ had missing teeth. I'm sure that helped, you know, but yeah, she just reached out one day and was like, Hey, there's a show coming about. based on, you know, it's a hockey comedy things. Like I think you should try out for it. And I had no idea. Zero clue. looking, I'm like, sure, like give it a shot. Like at first, you know, kind of not doing her a favor, but like she had asked. So like, you know, I'd be like, yeah, I'll fucking try it out, you know? But I had no idea what the fuck I was getting myself into. And I'm like looking up YouTube videos. How do even do a self tape? What, what are they asking for here? And all this shit. Where do I look like? and all this and, ⁓ slate. Yeah, exactly. What's a slate? What's the fucking this and that. anyways, I was renovating my house and I was kind of running short on time. Like actually was late submitting the thing and, was like one or two in the morning. had to call a buddy over, just finished drywall in my house. was flipping my house. And, ⁓ so I fucking pinned the, ⁓ the scripts that she had sent me to the wall. And I turned my drywall lights around one facing the script and one facing me. And I had Buddy off to the side, kind of read the other person's line. And I, and I ran through it a few times. I was like, fuck man. don't, I don't know if they kind of like this or not, but I'll give it a shot. anyways, sent it in and, she was like, Oh, like that was pretty good actually. Or, you know, it was, you know, they got a kick out of it. And I was like, all right, cool. Like, you know, glad you enjoyed it. Um, a couple of days go by, um, I've never grown a beard actually before this. was always kind of clean shaven. So I didn't even know if I could fully grow a beard. says, goes, uh, I guess Jared, told, told her that, tell him to not shave his beard. So I haven't, I didn't shave my beard for a bit. A week or two goes by now. It's like that prickly stubbly type of, type of beard. And I was, messaged her, I'm like, uh, what's kind of going on? with this, I just want to know if I could shave or not. haven't heard anything in two weeks. So she's like, no, no, no, keep it. It's like, I was kind of willing down, like they like your thing or whatever. like, why is your old lady not like it? I'm like, it's not so much my old lady, my three, four month year old baby doesn't like it. know? It's like every time I try to go and give him a kiss or whatever, he'd fucking pull away and be like, he wouldn't want anything to do with me. So in the end it worked out and ⁓ Yeah, really glad it all really did work out because I mean, would have never thought, you know, this is it came about. It's yeah, here we are. Five years in. That's awesome. Now, when you do the audition, did you have the tooth missing? I know because I mean, you have the look of like, you know, of a hockey player, right? Yeah. In the beginning, no, I didn't. And then I had messaged her, said, I take my tooth out? And she's like, she's like, fuck it. You know, take it out. I'm like, all right. It is a hockey show. So. I'll take it out and yeah, I'm sure that was probably 90 % of the reason why I got chosen for the fucking, for the role was the missing teeth. you eating through the whole audition tape too? What's that? Were you eating through the whole audition? Eating if I was man, there'd be fucking chunks of food flying out of the audition tape. I mean, it happens more often than you think. got a, I mean, I get a call once a weekend when a referee would, you know, go to hospital, his teeth just got knocked out or missing tooth. Yeah. Yeah. He just called me this morning and was like, yeah, I got a college game tonight. My junior game. Got a stick. on the way to the doctors. Yeah. Jesus Christ. I'm so happy I never lost a tooth. I chipped a tooth, but that was a divorce and stress. just, I did it in my sleep, but you know. ⁓ shit. Well, funny thing is like I, my teeth were pretty fucking well maintained up until I got a high stick. And so I lost three of them, two up here. One down here and like half of the one next to it. And so they had pulled the fucking the bottom. Actually the bottom one hurt a lot more because it cracked right down, right to the root. And I said, fuck, pull those on. These ones up here were shattered. So they were still in my root, but I could, I could deal with it for a few more days. Anyways, get to the hospital. They take this one out, the bottom one. Couple of days I have the these top ones still and I'm still eating breakfast sandwiches and shit. Took me fucking an hour to eat one, but I was still able to get it down, you know? And then the dentist thought it was a good idea to pull my wisdom teeth at the same time. So I had seven teeth pulled in a matter of a week. So this was in November. So I looked like such a grease while I was growing that. Beginning of November, I was growing this dirty little stash. Had stitches all in my mouth here, down here. And then they pulled my wisdom teeth and I fucking swell up like a balloon. So I'm like, Jesus Christ. I look like a, yeah, I look like a chipmunk, missing tooth chipmunk more or less with a dirty mustache. If you could kind of throw it all together there, but yeah. So my, my, my Colgate modeling days are over, guess. Well, my, brother's a dentist and matter of fact, Bruins dentist and I've been fortunate. Like I get free dental work, but I've. I've kept all my chiclets. I got eyes and teeth and I've been able to keep both of them. So that's good. Yeah. You're pretty fortunate. Now the cool thing about the show, and we've talked about it with, you know, with John and Max, it's kind of a throwback to Slapshot and that, like George Roy Hill, the director that wanted hockey players, not actors and you know, hockey players being actors as opposed to the other, other way around. And I think. That's the magic of Shorzy, is that that's what you have. Yeah, exactly. Jared was very, very keen on that. Like, you know, it just brings a lot more than authenticity to, this show. You know, he wants to cast hockey players so that hockey, real hockey players can relate to it more or less. And Jared played junior himself, you know, when he was growing up and stuff. So he knows what it's like in the dressing room and, and what things should look like and whatnot. And he was very open to when we had first. ⁓ started shooting and says, if there's anything out of place, you let us know and we'll, you know, we'll make changes to it and whatnot, you know, cause the set, ⁓ what would you call it? This guy's at, you know, set, what would you call it? Set dressers, not set dressers, set designer, set designers. Yeah. Not, they don't play hockey, so they don't exactly know. And I remember one time we were first in there, every stall had mirrors in it. fuck is this? These guys aren't looking at themselves in their stalls before they're going out. So they got rid of that pretty quick. But yeah, he was very, he was very open on, on like, you know, say if there's anything up, just kind of, you know, mention it. And if it doesn't belong, then we'll take it off. But yeah, so it's really a team effort and obviously he's a, he's a brains and the vehicle driver behind it. But everybody chips in and I think that's a big part of the reason why. You know, the show kind of looks the way it does. It's always nice hearing that down, you know, a few years down the road, now guys are in the NHL watching it before their practices and stuff in the dressing room and stuff like that and that they enjoy it. And so I think Jared got what he wanted out of it, which is awesome to be a part of. So well done. And he hits all aspects of the game, you know, and makes it I mean, you guys just look like you're having fun out there when you're out there anyway. Just, just doing it, doing it. And I love the, referee part of it, right? And how he just kind of just makes it like comical. Like he makes those scenes so funny. And you know, you, you see some people try to like mimic or do a referee get like scared or something. It just doesn't land, but he does it so well and just bust balls in a way that it's unbelievable. And I, I watched those, those rails and I just laughed my ass off like, is making fun of people's moms and everything else. It's absolutely hysterical because like growing up, like me and my buddy Sweeney, like we didn't take shit from anybody. Right. Like if someone gave us, you know, it's like who's going to get them, like who's going to be over there? I think, you know, put them in his place or run them out of here or whatever. And it's just like, like all those all those things happen in a hockey game where you're going back and forth with a ref and a player. did it as a player to go back and forth with referees. And, you know, it's just he nails that those scenes that I absolutely love it. Yeah, he really, like you said, he really hits almost like every part of the game more or less. Like when it comes to the family part, when it comes to the emotional part, the chirping, you know, the nitty gritty part, you know, it all comes together very well. And like I said, and the referee part is when I, when that first aired, cause I don't know everybody's scenes and what it's scripted, I can't just take care of. what I'm supposed to do and so when it came about when we first saw it on the screen I thought it was fucking hilarious. was one of my favorite parts of the show was the chirp and stuff because it was so quick, know. So hits the nail on the button and then it's all about the kids' moms too. The kids are just little twerps there and they're trying to hang with this ref that's played senior and shit so. Yeah, I just love it when he gives it to him. then, and then another one is, ⁓ that Jory Jordan kid that the kids report. That guy's hilarious too. Those scenes fucking kill me. That's so good. That's going to be the Shorzy podcast. That kid hosts it. Yeah. Yeah. What's really cool too is, is, you know, all you guys and, for meeting you guys last year, ⁓ you know, with the Bruins alumni. And then again, this year, Jared, especially, and he'd be the one you think, ⁓ he's unapproachable, you know, because he's the big star. You guys are all fucking great guys, you know, and fun to hang with. I think that, yeah, that makes it even more, you know, likable. like, yeah, like all the boys are very, very down to earth, you know, nobody's head swelled up or anything, you know, like it's not like that. I think. That's also a big reason why probably Jared casted hockey players. You guys are pretty humble in that sense. ⁓ but yeah, we take the time to, you know, talk with fans afterwards, whether it's out on the street after the game, we try our best to kind of get all the autographs in that we can until we have to get kicked off the ice more or less. ⁓ yeah, just taking time to take pictures and have a quick chat with people really goes a long ways, you know, and, and, ⁓ Yeah, it just shows that, you know, the guys aren't anything special, you know, we're just like, like anyone else. So. Is that something that like you, you're still getting used to, or are you kind of used to it now? Cause like when you guys were just in Boston and we were hanging out with you guys at the Bell and Hand after, like until it closed and it was, you guys were all sitting near like the window, like as a team. And just seeing like the Shorzy fans walk by and do like a triple take like is that the cast in there? And then they'd come in and they'd just hang with you guys. They'd be like, this a VIP thing? You're like, no, sit down. Yeah, have a beer. It's on me. Is that like, is that tough to get used to? Like you weren't looking to get into this and now it's like everyone knows who you are when you're going to these different cities. Yeah, no, it's, I mean, Tough to get used I wouldn't say it's tough to get used to, but it is something to get used to if you're not used to it obviously. more or less, it's just appreciating the fact that they like the show that much. like I said, without them, it wouldn't be where it is more or less. So like I said, we really do take the time to kind of get to know people a little bit and just shoot the shit with them. And for the most part, all the fans are... are good in a way that like they will chat for a little bit, but they won't overstay, know, they're welcome more or less. Yeah. Well, they, know, they're, pretty good. They say hi and they quick get their questions in and we answer them. And then they know that other people are coming in wanting to, wanting to have, you know, have a little conversation. So they're good about it and, and, haven't had any issues with, with fans or anything at all. So we have a pretty good, uh, fan base in that sense. What you guys have gone a lot of places this year, even more so than last year. What was your favorite stop? Favorite stop? were all, you know, they were all great in their own way. But like LA was nice going from New York all the way to LA was nice just because of the warmer weather. We had a little bit more time to really enjoy the city. had like two, three days off in the city. So the boys, you know, Rent it. you guys stay downtown or along the beach? Right next to the, the rink. So there's a nice little walk around a lot of restaurants. Great area. Yeah. But all the boys rented fucking convertibles. So we were buzzing around all over the place. Yeah. Jumping in the beach and all that stuff. I lived out there in the coast league in Ontario, California. So like we would go in LA and go to Manhattan beach and. But it was awesome, man. Yeah, it was nice out there. I couldn't imagine what it looked like before the fires happened. That was my first time in LA. but Boston's always a nice spot. We love going to Boston. It's a nice city, know, had probably one of my best seafood lunch chowders or whatever. what the place is called. It's, ⁓ Legal seafood? The Oyster House. The Oyster House? Not the oyster house. it'll come back to me. I'll fucking, I'll bring it up again, no, great. being excited about it at the bell in hand. You're like, we're getting seafood tomorrow. I was like, okay. went and had chowder and some lobster rolls. Like, holy shit, this is really good. And, ⁓ but yeah, Boston, you know, there's great places to check out and it's just a cool, cool city. So Boston's always nice. New York is, you know, New York guys are all over the place. They're checking out different things. Um, but yeah, if I had to choose Vancouver was nice too, cause it actually my first time. Um, being outside of the airport in Vancouver, I travel through a lot, but I, go up to the Yukon quite a bit. So I never get a chance to really leave the airport, but we, again, same thing like LA, we kind of finished off there, had a few days and we landed. The boys went skiing. for the first, well, my first time skiing, me and Fish's first time skiing. In Vancouver? In Vancouver, yeah. They got some great skiing up there, Yeah, so we were hitting up one of these mountains and me and Fish hit up this bunny hill or whatever the fuck, a couple times, trying to get used to our skis and shit. then were like, Fish's like, I think we could go up there. I'm like, fuck Fish, that's a, go up there. You got to come down somehow. know what I mean? Down on the chairlift. Yeah. And, ⁓ and so anyways, ⁓ we ended up going up there and there was the two Nolans, Brandon and Jordan, Dolo and then, ⁓ and our stunt coordinator Cam. And so they were up there. Good thing we had them. Otherwise we would have been absolutely fucking mangled. Like I bet you we wouldn't have been able to play that last game. Anyways, we get up there and I, like I said, first time skiing, not really sure what to expect. Everything's a rental on me, the helmet. The skis, the fucking ski pants, everything. And so we go up there and there's, and he's like, ⁓ these are pretty shitty conditions. Like I said, I don't know what to say. There's no snow. It's all like more icy and type of thing. And so we're coming down. It not too bad down the first little bit. And you know, taking a spill and then got back up, doing all right, get down. And then this last little bit is like, like a 70 degree grade downhill. And I remember going down, was doing good, got a little calm. I wanted to catch up to them. So I started going straight. I'm like, holy fuck, I'm going a little bit too quick. And I tried turning a little bit, couldn't turn. So I just, I beeline in a straight fucking form, straight down. I swear I was going like 35, 40 miles an hour, like fucking ripping. And if I would have biffed, I would have been done. So I'm going down like, da da da da da. I hit one of these little, little like fucking. Not even a jump, it's just like a rut in the thing. And I'm like eight inches off the ground for like 10 feet ahead of me. I'm like sprawling like, holy fuck. Boom, land again. These guys just, I could see him down at the bottom of the hill just eyes are like, is that goody? Like, that's not goody. Holy fuck, that's goody. First time skiing. Make it down and then I ended up fucking cutting it hard. And so there was three options. I either keep skiing and I go off the fucking mound because it curls in the. the chairlift is there, keep going, boom, I'm into the trees off the mound, gone. I bet you I didn't fucking finish. Or I aim for the mesh on the side or I hit one of the boys and I fucking tried to like, you know, cushion my land in a little bit. So ended up aiming for the, for the mesh before the chairlift and I started going there and I just hit it hard. With a stop I've ever done on my top. Don't think I'll ever be able to do that again. I just remember looking up and like. Holy fuck boys. No, what the fuck? They're like, I can't believe you just did. was like, dude, I don't know what the fuck just happened. I had like an outer body experience, man. It was so fucking crazy. And so after that, was like, like I just, like, it took me two, three days later to be like, man, I didn't realize how dangerous that really was. Like if I would have been, I bet you my knee, I would have been in full body cast if anything, but. But no, I was all good. No bumps, bruises at the game and fucking pouncing around. So it all worked you done skiing quit while you're ahead? No, I'm fucking actually got hooked. I'm like, I'm to fucking go back. If this was the worst it's been, I'm sure it can't get much worse than this. Just don't go that fast again down a hill like that. Sideways. Yeah, exactly. He didn't like skating a lot. I found it like kind of easy to kind of turn because it's like skating. Yeah. It's all like your edge work more or less. Yeah, one of the things camp so it just don't lean back. So that was our piece of advice while we were skiing the rest we kind of figured out on our own as we went down the hill. But it was good though. It was a really good time. And like the whole time we were just laughing, cracking up and now we're like, yeah, do an annual ski trip. So I think we're going to get together pretty soon and plan out a ski trip with a of the guys. Awesome. When you were in Vancouver, did you see the Lord Stanley statue? No, we didn't. I don't think we had a chance to. Where is that anyways? It's in the, it's in like a park. I had, I spent the birthday there. Um, I worked the American league, so I was up and working at Abbotsford. So I had like an off day and I like toured the whole city. It was awesome. And yeah, it was in some park. Oh, well next time I pass through, I'm going to plan on sticking around for another. couple extra days. We all got tattoos when we were in Vancouver too. One of the girls reached out or one of these guys reached out and said, my old lady does tattoos too. If you, if you want to get one. said, fuck. said, you know what? just might as like, you the boys while I went to say you guys could leave with a souvenir. And I was like, sure. Let's say I'll run it by the guy next. know, 10 guys want a tattoo so that I'm like, it's 10 guys that want a tattoo. I don't know if you'll be able to get through them all. So she ended up bringing all their shit to one. to hotel and we got her set up in our room and all the boys got fucking little tattoos. Did you get a zebra on your calf? Did you get a zebra on your leg? Right across my chest, a nice big fucking zebra pouncing across the safari. try to do this. Here we go. Nice. a boy. drew that. You did? Yeah. didn't know it going on his body. Yeah. Actually I drew one of the tattoos on Jared. It was a number. was our highest attended game in, through the Short Z tour. it was a... Was that Boston? No, it was a game in Edmonton. ⁓ okay. Edmonton fucking, had quite a bit. sold out. the whole lower bowl, but then the upper was like, think 12 to 14,000 fans, roughly I want to say. I want to say 12, six to be, to be a bit more like spot on, but there's a bunch of other spots that weren't accounted for and stuff. So I think tickets, tickets that were sold were 12, six. Yeah. Boston had a. upwards of that too. I mean, I could believe, but like being out in the ice and looking up, you're like, holy fuck. A lot of people, yeah. I remember doing the anthem and like, holy fuck, there's a shit ton of people here. People came from all over, the one in Boston, flying from Ireland, UK, fuck. I know the ones in Toronto, we had a lot of people from Australia. A lot of people from Australia. ⁓ at a bunch of the different ones. We met some people from where was it? Colorado they flew in from? Colorado and Maryland last year, not this past year when we went to the party and we're walking back to our car and you know, some of we got talking to these people in the corner and they were from Colorado and then the next person was from Maryland and they're like, ⁓ yeah, we couldn't, you know, this is the closest and we love Boston and we're like, wow, that's nuts. Yeah, it's a, it's a far travel from Australia to like those spots. I'm like, gee, and there's like a family of five of them. like, holy fuck. They should get tattoos too after that long trip. Just invite, we'll pay for it for him making that type of a hall. I might be the only one here without a tattoo. No, I don't have one. No, you don't have one. I wanted him to get the other one. time Chorzie is in Boston, Goody, you can. You can pick the my first tattoo. Here we go now. I'm down for that. I like it. I'd hold you to it, buddy. I might hold you to it. Do it. You're getting a tattoo. I'm getting the other zebra cause Gino won't. So I'm going to get the other one too. So on the other leg. This podcast got to work or I'm going to be a dick with a zebra on his leg. So we've got to make this shit work. At least you got to float out of it. Yeah. We got to float. Yeah. We got to, we got to float in the parade. That actually. ⁓ This is, this is like a big announcement right now, because we haven't told anyone yet. So this is, you're here goodie for the big announcement. Yeah. We're on the, we're got the parade float going. Some of the boys from, ⁓ Shorzy. Dude, if you want to come down, we'd love to throw you on there too, Yeah, it could possibly work. Well, ⁓ you said March 15th. Yeah. Cool. Yeah. I mean. I mean, won't say no to a couple of other boys and if they're, especially if they're involved. Yeah, my grandmother. The thing I got to tell the story. So I'm out, I'm out in front of the bench, right? The Shorzy bench. And, um, I think it was Max, JJ Frankie, offers me a beer and I said, oh no, I'm, I'm 20 years sober. And I said, if I fall off the wagon, I ain't going to be here. It's going to be in Vegas with hook and strip as a. And you almost fell off the fucking bench. And so was a thing. And, but we still call them hockey. Yeah. But now you get kicked off a tick tock and you know, you got to write letters to the little people. You can write letters to the. You can't do anything nowadays. we talked about that after the game in the locker room about how guys are getting suspended longer for saying a certain word than smashing someone in the fucking head with a stick. True. Yeah. That's very true, man. Which is wild to think about, new day and age, guess. Police not fucking thin skin nowadays. seems like. for chirping. Yeah. Wow. I gotta, now I gotta find something else for the parade. I gotta go out and find some... So... We're just inviting my father, you good? Well, yeah, I... We're gonna have to put a milk crate on for him to see over the side. Yeah, right. I think I'm gonna have to do a lot of bleeping here for YouTube. Man! YouTube's fine with it. They got the camels... They got the camels... They are one day and then they're not the other day. don't... ⁓ fuck them. We're fine. We're fine with it. Grow up, YouTube. Come on. Well, the funny thing is we, YouTube, they don't want you swearing in the first five minutes, right? So. Really? Yeah. So we, like, we take bets on who's going to do it and Gino lasted 57 seconds one time. I didn't know that was a thing, honestly. Otherwise I would have tried to. No, it's not. Only in the first five minutes. So you were good. the first five minutes. Yep. And we'll do the intro for about five. So whatever comes on this, we're good. We're good. And we're not bleepin' out midgets, all right? Let them come after us. What's the big deal? We love midgets, Yeah. You know? It's not a negative invitation. It's not the midgets that get angry. It's the people that get angry for the midgets. Yeah. And if they come after us, all we gotta do is find some sand. They're never gonna catch us. So, that's all. So we talked like in Boston was wild to me. The only two ruins players that got a bigger, ⁓ kind of response than Jared was Chara and Bergeron. That was wild. Yeah. No, Jared gets, yeah, they go nuts for that guy. would not shoot you too. I think you, you second place there for the pop from the crab. Kind of weaseled myself in there a little bit, but yeah, no, uh, no, it's nice. See, like when, when he comes out, you're like, let's see how loud it gets here. You know I mean? Boston's a pretty loud rink as it is, you know, those fans are, uh, a little loud in general anyway. Yeah. Great fans out in Boston, but, uh, yeah, I mean, if there's somebody to lose to would be, those are two good people to lose to is Chara and Bergeron. So, um, but everywhere else, like I said, gets a standing O and they get pretty loud and it's just cool to see as, you know, being a part of it, but also in a way a fan of, of, of the show. Like, like I said, I, I've been a part of the show, but also, you know, when I watch it, it's like, holy shit, like this is a good, it's a good product. Yeah. It's a good series and stuff. Especially this last season that came out season five, the last episode of season five was probably the best. season or best episode I've seen of out of all five seasons so far and and If anything out of any TV that I've watched I'm not just being biased by it by any means But I don't watch TV as much. I don't watch really TV at all but But for me that last season was or the last episode was really well and I think it comes up for you guys On the 21st of February. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I can't It took so long, but ⁓ well. Yeah, they do. think it's a Canadian thing or tariff thing, know? Tariffs. They just make us Yeah. They make us wait. Usually they drop it all on Hulu the last day they show the last episode, but yeah, who knows? Above my pay grade anyways. Right. Well, you had chicken delivered to the bench, one of the rinks, right? Dude, multiple times. They saw that shit go. Happened like, ⁓ I forget where it was. I think, where was it? Anyways, a guy had brought chicken and one of the camera guys for the ring captured it it went viral. Like it was all over the fucking place. The next thing you know, every game somebody's bringing me chicken to the bench. So it's just, it kind of stuck. So that's what I do now. I chicken on the bench in between fucking periods and shits. that a character thing or is that a you thing or both? I mean, It was just a character thing, but honestly, I don't hate, I don't hate it. I do like having tenders. It almost kind of like, uh, kind of grew on me the more that popular got. And it just kind of like, you don't want to have some too, too heavy. You're having a few drinks with the guys. Well, I'll just get some tenders nice and light and finger foods. Fuck. I think I like it even more now just cause it's such a, just it's married to me now. So. So I just kind of, now what you got to do is you got to start making videos and each rink and rate the chicken. you're, should. Yeah. We did talk about that. was like, it's like, ah, the chicken at the other place was a lot better and they kind of got offended at that. said, maybe I won't go down that route then. Awesome. Go ahead, Gina. Yeah. So like these, these tools and, and, and all that kind of stuff, what, what What sparked it? You guys are kind of like the, know, the Savannah bananas there. Um, but you know, just touring and all that, how did that all come about? I think it was just an idea. want to say. I'm not a hundred percent sure. It was more or less like a gift to the fans where they could actually see us in person and, and, know, figure out a way of how to do this. And also, you know, all the guys can play, you know, so I think a lot of people that. watch the show just might think we're, you know, pretend hockey players and stuff, but all the guys can snap it around pretty well and whatnot. ⁓ If there's a, if there was guys to play against who, you know, no other team to play against than the alumni guys, you know, so, ⁓ and then kind of getting the reception we got after the first game or two, we were like, Holy shit, there's really something here. And then we, you know, Just had a great time with the alumni guys, but honestly, more or less, I think it was just a gift to the fans and getting to see us in person and kind of do a live show. know you want to do a live show, but what's the best way to do it? We're not going to do skits like Latter Kenny did, because those guys are actually good actors and stuff and, you know, they nail their stuff like that. Like, best thing we could do is probably play hockey. You start fucking up in a live show, you get nervous and you're like, there's no coming back from it, you know? But so, like I said, I think it was just more, more or less a gift to the fans with the whole tour thing. Were you a fan of Letta Kenny? Before? I watched, like I said, I haven't, I'm not a big TV guy, but I remember watching the first season when it first came out and I thought it was fucking hilarious because there was nothing else like it. And then I haven't seen it since. And then next thing you know that on season 13 and whatnot, I'd see things here and there about it, like, you know, how you see like reels on social media or something. but yeah, I've only watched the first season and then I wanted to watch more, but it was such a long wait till the next one. And then they just kind of took off. And like I said, I don't really watch TV much. So, and I had to subscribe to Crave. So. I was like, fuck, I don't even watch TV. I'm gonna start buying subscriptions now. So I just kind of, kind of just left it at that. I have a hard time watching Jared now as, uh, as Wayne. Cause of the insurance. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man. Jared, Jared. A hell of an athlete. I didn't know how much shit he was actually in and some big name stuff. Like, yeah, not, I knew him from letter Kenny and stuff. Like I became, you know, kind of. a fan of him through letter Kenny of that, especially that one at first season, but he's in a bunch of shit like Godzilla and Don Cherry and like 19 two, I think it's called or whatever that cop movie and, whatever. like, like I was like, Holy fuck, this guy did a lot of, a lot of big shows and whatnot. ⁓ Yeah, so seeing him and Wayne and then like you said on Shoresy and stuff, the two different types of characters from being a cop to being in God's House, like holy fuck, he is really all, you know, he can play different roles for sure. So everyone seems to have a catch line and yours is kind of, you know, like sticks are unbelievable. Yeah, or settle down. Were those yours? Were they kind of crafted together? Did Jared give you those? Cause you deliver them perfect. if anyone does it, especially now, it like settled down. If someone says that you're like, ⁓ you're not doing it right. You're not doing it right. Yeah, no, I think it was just, it was just something that he had written in and more or less he was taking a big gamble on, on us as, as actors. wasn't sure if it was going to be shitty or if it was going to be great. So. He gave us the least amount of lines possible kind of thing. and I mean, Terry obviously has a book and he's done podcasts. So the guy can speak, you know, obviously a lot better than most of us. ⁓ so for me, I think he was, it was just that I was very new, try to give me less of a headache, just see how he does with it. I kind of have a monotone voice as it is. So I think like those little subtle, subtle like jump ins there saying settle down when people get a little too excited or. Or like everything revolves around food for me. Everything's unbelievable or unreal. like those little things, I mean, jumping in on that kind of makes it little bit funnier just cause I don't say anything. And like I said, uh, uh, pretty monotone. So it kind of lands a little bit better in that sense, but no, think it was just kind of coincidence, coincidence more or less. Did you, so you grew up playing hockey. But you're, you're a lacrosse guy too. Like that's not just part of the show. The lacrosse? No, I'm actually not a lacrosse not? I thought I read you were. No, I grew up in Northern Manitoba, far like fly in community. Northern Manitoba. And then I left actually to start playing hockey when I was 13, 14 years old in high school. First time playing organized hockey was at Notre Dame college. This was actually when it was like really good there. Like there's a time where like Morgan Riley went there and, all these, you know, guys that got drafted to the NHL. but yeah, I went there for three, four years for four years and, ⁓ just kept improving each year and a plain junior out, out East. got recognized for this, that these top 20 players at the national Aboriginal hockey championship. was playing team Manitoba then and they. This guy, John Shabbat, ex NHLer, he chose like the top 20 players in that tournament and they did a TV show on it. And, ⁓ so we are all brought down to Gatineau and did a sports like a professional type camp, like you would in like an NHL combine type thing, and to get us more exposure out East. So, ⁓ my rights kind of got switched from the WHL to the Q and I went to Gatineau and then. Didn't really work out with Gatineau as far as just, yeah, didn't work out there. So I left and went to, ⁓ went to a junior team in, in Quebec and I played there for, through the rest of my junior career. I was supposed to go back up to the queue and I was pretty comfortable and, and it was actually a team in Gunnawaggy. They, they treated me like top notch. They were paying me more than they would have in the queue, weekly. They gave me a job, gave me a truck that was wrapped in Like a jacked up Ram wrapped in a, team logo, stay in apartment for free, pay for my groceries. I was living large, you know, and I didn't have any means of, ⁓ continuing to play hockey after junior. I just wanted to play junior, take some time away from having to go to university and whatnot. But, ⁓ then I made the transition. started doing the whole mixed martial arts thing. So I fought for like five years after that. Doing whole, ⁓ Mixed martial arts. uh, but before I started playing hockey, was a third degree black belt in Taekwondo. So a lot of people didn't know that. And I got into a few scraps in hockey and they just thought, um, I would fight in hockey. So the owner of our team owned a promotion called Fight Quest. And I remember going, he brought us to the show. was like, fuck, I was like, I'm pretty sure I could fight in this. And he's like, no, no, he's like, get your ass kicked. You're just a hockey scrapper. I'm like, Dude, I'm telling you, I think I could fucking hang with these guys. So yeah, blah, blah. He's like, think so? He's like, okay, we'll come to the gym on Tuesday. And Tuesday was a sparring day. was more or less for him to kind of teach me a lesson. He wanted me to get my ass kicked. And so I ended up going there and kicked a few of the guys in the head and two, three months later, he's like, you're fighting dude. So I ended up fighting. I actually had an undefeated record. I had an undefeated record pretty much the whole time I did fight. closest I came was a draw and that was for a title fight which was my last, one of my last bouts actually. So you just showed up to the gym and you told everyone to settle the fuck down. I said, settle down boys, I'm here to fucking stay. That's fucking wild. So yeah, we talked to John Marasdy about that because he had done that one MMA fight and how... hockey fighting and MMA, you know, although similar are completely different. Yeah. mean, hockey fighting, it's like, hockey fight, gotta be tough. Don't get me wrong. You have to be tough too, when you do MMA, but there's a lot more like that goes into, you know, ground game distance type of fighters you're fighting against and all that where as in a hockey fight, it's you hang on and If bigger than you, then there's a certain way to fight those guys. They're smaller than you. There's a certain way to fight those guys. Letting that just hang on and tuck your chin more or less where in an MMA fight, you got to worry about somebody taking you down or kicking you in the leg or faking a kicking leg and kicking you in the fucking face or something, you know, so. yeah, but the mentality is definitely the same, you know, like you definitely still get the jitters. But, uh, yeah, all those guys are tough regardless. I I haven't. No, I'm sure it'd be like trying to pick up a fucking bowling ball, big ass Boulder, but he's like a hydrant. It's a big fire hydrant. Yeah. No, I heard he was pretty good with an MMA and stuff back then too. Um, but I never, uh, no, never got to train with them. Doesn't mean I wouldn't. Doesn't mean I will. In between takes? Yeah. I think I'd take my chances with, well, I wouldn't take my chances with either of Now that I know you're a black belt. Originally I would have said I'll take goodie, Marasti will kill me. now I think I'll- Take Jory. Jory, yeah. Yeah. He'd be actually a good match for you, Josh. Yeah. You know, he probably can bench more than you. So you got to be careful. Take Michael's. You could smack Michael's around. ⁓ Nolan was a tough tough player too. Jordan. Yeah, you could go. Looch. wouldn't I wouldn't go. Well, Michael's at first ⁓ when you guys skated without the shirts on. Yeah. I told him he looked like a 12 year old girl. That's pretty accurate, man. That's pretty accurate. So that was that was funny. He got shared pretty hard. I mean. I'm sure he'll be pretty pissed about it. I bring up, but fuck it. Oh, well, but like a couple of times he came out on the pregame skate with his fucking skate guards on. And you're like, angry. was kind of, he was, people were chirping a little bit about it. He's like, Oh, it won't happen. It's one of those things that happens once you fucking learn from it. Then we're coming out. don't know if it, what's the game it was exactly, but the guy was on the ice. And everybody was coming out. Great video. Everybody's ready to come out for warmups. Look great. And then there's McD again. Spills again. Got his skate guards on. Almost runs into the camera guy. It's going to be his thing now. Yeah. And then, uh, and then it ended up getting uploaded. I remember the guy saying, he's like, I'll edit it out. I'll edit it out type thing. He never edited it out. Ended up going on social media. Ended up on these fan pages and stuff. He just started getting torn apart by different people and I was fucking dying. I remember sending it in the group chat. was like, McD, you're getting fucking ripped apart. It happened pretty bad. And then his response was like, when am I not? I was like, is, I think I'd rather go viral for chicken than fall. It was pretty funny. He's coming on. So when he comes on, we'll, we'll definitely, uh, we won't bring it up. Yeah. Just be like, did you ever make it on the ice with your skate guards on? And if so, how many times? Well, Gino, if you haven't done it, because it happened to me one time. I was in Richmond when I was doing the Coast League and I remember there had to be like 9,000 people in the Richmond Coliseum and they weren't fans of me to begin with. And I always fist pumped this guy standing right next to the door and I hit the ice running. ⁓ I fish pumped the guy, I hit the ice and I just, it's a fucking yard sale. And everyone went, shit house. And I had the skate guards on and so I turned to my lineys, I go, the fuck were you thinking? They were like, ⁓ we couldn't wait for you to hit the ice. I never did it with the skate guards, but we used to be dickheads and put like clear tape on the bottom of people's skates. So like, if you were out stretching and then you had like, you know, People, you always check your blades before you put them on. like it happens once and then you always check your blades. Like some people like you get in there, like they would like be very, very like then and like ironing the thing out. Like you can barely see it and you you get one or two people, but yeah, never speak arts. yeah, you got to make a big kangaroo court. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I bought beers that night for sure. It was pretty funny. ⁓ I want to bring up where you grew up and for two reasons. One, it's kind of fascinating, but two, I wanted to show off that I practiced how to say it. Lack broché. ⁓ And it's a small town, right? It's only 800 people or so? Yeah, roughly 800 people. It's a fly-in community, you don't have access there in the summertime. Like in the wintertime, the... The winter road or ice road, as some people call it, is only available for about two, three months of the year. It takes a long time trying to break the road all the way as it is. So they spend a lot more time fixing the road than when it's actually open. Um, but yeah, it's a flying community. Probably one of the most northerner communities in Manitoba. It's about as far north as Churchill. Now we're flight north of Thompson. Um, but yeah, I grew up there. hunting and fishing, know, doing all that stuff, trapping. It's a Dene community. So ⁓ pretty much grew up speaking my language, which I still do to this day. But yeah, now I go back and I got a program going on there as far as bringing like hockey back, back to life there for a little bit of a time there. was, there was, it kind of got lost for about five, 10 years. So last Two or three years or so, I worked with a charity called First Assist. We've been going up there, doing some programming and kind of teaching or helping the guys out there to kind of run their own program eventually. But yeah, it's just a small Northern community where 80 % of the people pretty much live off the land. You know, they're hunting, trapping, fishing, setting nets and all that stuff just to survive more or less. So it's a tough town. And yeah, I'm proud to be from there. says population 1700. Is that accurate? Probably on the ban list, but not all of them live on community, on reserves. So about 800 probably live there. Yeah, because it's part of the First Nation, right? Like it's... Yeah. It's a Dene-Sumkhina First Nation. Like I said, like if you're a band member, that's probably the 1700 number that you're seeing. Some of live off, off reserve and you know, doing schooling or just kind of started a family elsewhere. And the 800 are people that actually live on reserve. And there's three notable people from there listed. You're not one of them. We got to tighten up that Wikipedia page. How is Goody not one of them? What the hell? I don't know. Who are the people? I'm actually curious. Uh, Melanie Roquan, who's a painter, Daniel Turba, I don't know, a hockey player and Albert Venafueler, who's a politician. I don't think that's the same community we were talking about. Yeah. No, did I spell it wrong? What did you look up? Maybe. It's L A C B R O C H E T. Oh, it's a different place, Manitoba. Hold on. I was going to say. Like, don't know. thing, right? It's up there. 800 people there and Goody hadn't heard of one of them. That's I call bullshit. Either way it's cold. When you say ice road, like is that across a fricking lake? Yeah, over Muskeg and whatnot. And so like it has to be frozen to be able to drive up there. And really it's from Thompson, Manitoba, which is an hour flight. Um, it's only 300 kilometers, 200, a little plus a little over 300 kilometers, which in miles would be, I'd say probably like 150 miles maybe. If that's accurate. anyways, takes any, anywhere else. Normally if you're driving on a highway, would take you three hours. takes 14 hours to get there. Cause it's so windy and bumpy and you can't really drive fast and whatnot. There's this TV show called ice road truckers. They do it. Do you think that's where they go is up to my community and that area more or less to deliver supplies and whatnot. That's why you're right. 728 population. Yeah. themselves in some shit. Oh yeah. Like when it starts getting like warm and stuff, like some people have to ditch their trucks and whatnot because it's, you know, it's, it's, it's too rough and they got a heavy load. And once it starts. Getting warm, gets warm pretty quick. So things start to break up. That's wild. Yeah. Like I, you know, we grew up right near Boston or in Boston and it's like those kinds of places just tough to, cause Boston's like, I call it the biggest little city in America, right? It's more like a town, 800 or less, that's gotta be such a unique. situation and for someone like yourself, mean hockey got you out, right? Not that you were getting out like you wanted, you know, I don't mean it like, you know, the hood, you, you know, you got yourself, got out. And now with all this success, you have to be the most famous person from there. I don't know. Well, I don't know. There's a lot of good people that came out of that town as well. But yeah, I mean, yeah, used hockey kind of well. There was no, there's no opportunity up there. So if you want to do something, you kind of have to leave. And it kind of worked out for me a little bit in a different sense. So, you know, my only way to give back is to kind of come back and share my experiences with the people up there as best as I can. Like, did you guys skate when you were kids up there? obviously there's a lot of fun. Yeah. So I learned how to skate down at the lake when someone would freeze over, you'd be down there skating. people be skating on the road be so cold like they plowed the roads and stuff but transportation out there yeah later of ice you see people skating to the fucking store up there you know what I mean stuff so ⁓ but yeah they when I first started growing up there there was no arena we had like a small outdoor ring kind of thing and then eventually they end up building an arena but yeah as far as quality coaching and whatnot guys that actually ever made it anywhere there was was unheard of like Nobody even knew what my community was probably until as of not too long ago, just cause you know, it's not a very popular town and it's like just a town in the middle of nowhere in the North. ⁓ they only got electricity in like, like the fifties, you know, or even like hauling water, like a plumbing eighties kind of thing. So like, ⁓ my dad actually grew up living like, on fishing camps and hunting camps. So you'd have to travel depending on during the summer or it was during the winter time, but came from a family of 14 and they lived in cabins and stuff like that. Like he never had his, for instance, he never had his first birthday cake until he was like 25 years old when he was dating my mother, which was a teacher that she, she went up there to start a school or start, you know, she was one of the teachers in the school. So, um, yeah, it's very old school. You know, people really lived off to learn up until, like I said, up until the 50s up there. What's like the vibe up there? Cause I feel like people that I've talked to that grow up in communities like that, they seem to, I mean, there's also like huge drug problems in like small places like that. But a lot of people say that like the communities, the people are generally like happier than like when you're in a big city, like hunting for food, like you have like a purpose. Yeah, like everywhere, the drugs and alcohol is always kind of an issue in small communities up there, just because, especially my community being dry, like when you get it, you get it and you, it's like, want, you finish it and say if you have five bottles, you're going to crush five bottles of alcohol, you just because you probably will never get the opportunity again, quote unquote, if that... You know, but yeah, so like when people go, they go pretty hard and, and, know, a lot of the times they're not used to having that amount of alcohol. So people get whisked up and it's hard alcohol. don't bring beer up there because it's a dry community, you know, like, like you're going to bring the hard stuff that that'll get the job done more or less. and then, you know, drugs also is, you know, starting to become a thing nowadays before it wasn't, it wasn't like that. It was just like. like, you know, weed or whatever, marijuana. But now like some harder stuff for getting up there. But that's why it's huge that programs, you know, are important up there for the kids. And a lot of times these people fall into that because there is not much to do, you know. When kids don't have things to do, you get bored and you start getting into trouble. Drugs are kicking around and you start getting into that and whatnot. So it can be pretty hard in that sense, but For the most part, people are very welcoming, know, very nice. know, anybody that's new, they're happy to see a new face. They'll invite you over to their place for dinner. You know, they'll take you out on the land, fishing, all that, you know, they're really, really nice people and very welcoming to any type of outsider, you know. But yeah, so like, like the only thing that would be a problem, like I said, in any other place up north that's small. the drugs and alcohol is that when it does come into town and stuff, it gets pretty wild. It's like the wild, wild west out there, you know? But when it wears off, people are super nice and very outgoing. And like I said, it will give you the shirt off their back. So it's a unique place for sure. if you've never been up there, you'd be like, holy fuck, you know, like it's a different type of place. But it's also... Landscape is beautiful, the hunting, fishing, anything outdoors is awesome. know, it's, it's, you know, the Northern lights are wild up there and fishing is crazy. Like you throw your hook in any body of water, you're going to catch something in the first few bites or first few casts. Hunting's great. And, you know, everything's clean up there. You don't have to worry about water being dirty or anything like that. So I think, you know, people that, you know, that are that live in any type of nature environment are very humble and welcoming in that sense as well. What was it like for you leaving there, the first time you left there and went somewhere else to a city or something? I mean, it's kind of like, that's got to be a shock, right? Yeah, definitely. It was a huge culture shock. ⁓ I went to Notre Dame, and don't get me wrong, I made a lot of great friends at Notre Dame and whatnot, but... You know, you know, your kids, you're to get made fun of, you know what I mean? And, you know, you get made fun of the way you dress. Like I went to Notre Dame. Notre Dame is kind of like a, a kind of not a prep school in a way. Like it's a boarding school in Canada. So a lot of people that go to that school have money. And I come from, you know, humble town up North and, and I was a little bit rough around the edges more or less. somebody like. I didn't take chirp into it. I people who are cheering where I come from, if somebody starts making fun of you, want to fight. There it's normal. know what I mean? You start chirping and it's like, you're just supposed to chirp back. So I got into a few scraps here and there. But yeah, just the different types of, you know, how to dress, how people talk with each other and interact with each other. Obviously it's a little bit more civil than people up North, know, but yeah. It was a huge culture shock just because I come from a place, you know, way up north and, know, I would bring my dry meat with me and be what the fuck is that? You know, I was like, it's kind of like jerky, but like there's just no seasoning. It's just dried meat, you know? And, you know, I eat my traditional food and obviously you kind of get made fun of here and there, but, you know, it's all within good fun and games more or less, I guess. Well, I wonder where those people are now. They would make a fun of you. I'm always bringing them chicken on the bench. Yeah. No, a lot of them were end up my roommates and guys that I played with and I'm actually pretty, pretty good friends with a lot of them. They still make fun of me about it till this day. I'm like, yeah, go fuck yourself, big fella. Check my MMA record. We've had a few hunters on, you know, big time hunters. know, Matt Light was one of them. from the Patriots, ⁓ Kevin Miller, huge hunter. What, like for you, what was the biggest or your best hunt, so to speak? Like we hunt here, but not for animals, you know? Especially in salty, right? know? You hunt for people who live on a different street. ⁓ But like, what was your big kill or have you had one? Yeah, no, we've... We have big moose up there, but caribou is a big one. A lot of people live off of caribou, and when you go hunting for caribou, they're a herd animal. So you'll shoot, you know, eight to 10 caribou is normal, you know, and then you cut it all up and butcher it all up, stuff in your toboggan, bring it home, and you share it with your family and other people's family and the community as well. So, and big thing is like none of it goes to waste. Everything from... the hides to the bones to, you know, people use it as tools and whatnot and clothing and stuff. But yeah, all meat is being used. People have dog teams. So, you know, whatever scrap meat you would say ⁓ would go to the dogs, you know, if, you know, just to keep your dog team fed. Same thing with setting nets. People go fishing, set nets, you know, for their dogs and whatnot, but not just their dogs. Obviously you take the good ones, but the ones that you don't want. give to your dogs as well. So, ⁓ I guess as far as biggest animal, like size wise would be moose. But as far as, as how much meat you would get, you definitely get a lot more from, from caribou when you're hunting caribou and whatnot. Well, have you ever sack tap a moose? Have you ever sack tap a moose? I haven't gotten that close to one. I've seen guys. I, well, I haven't seen, but I've seen a couple of videos of guys jumping on a moose while they were in the water. Yeah. Well, Riley went up to Alaska and tried, he tried it. Tried sack tapping a moose. So, ⁓ was something. He made t-shirts about it too and brought them up. I I knew Gino always asks us, we, we had Travis Jackson who was from Alaska, another ref on, and, we were talking Alaska and I said, ⁓ I'd love to go up to Alaska and do all the Alaskan kind of things, you know? And one of them came to my mind was to sack tap a moose. And so I went up there last summer and I was fucking determined, I couldn't, didn't, I didn't have one, saw like three in a mosh and there was a bunch of caribou out there too. If I had tried that, I wasn't coming back alive. So, but I hit a couple of stuffed ones, but I am going to, I am going to get a live one before, before my time on earth ends. I'm sack tapping a moose. I got pretty close. was, Moose hunting, what was it, two years ago up in Northern Ontario and I'd called one in and it was coming straight for me. And if I, if I would've, if I would've, if I didn't take the shot, it probably would've ran me right over. That's, I decided to take the shot cause it was close to the road and it would've been an easy like drag to, you know, to our vehicle or packing, packing our side by side and what nots. But if I didn't, I probably would have had a good chance of sack tapping a I don't know how well that would worked out for me. Now I'm fascinated. How do you call a moosen? Depends what kind of moose you're trying to call in and what time of the rut. you say, Hey moose. Yeah. If you, if you're trying to get like a bull moose, you'll sound like a female. Like a horny female moves. The more the girl, and they're a little bit longer and louder or not louder, but a little bit longer, you know, where, but depends, but also depends like what, like what area and, know, you kind of got to read, read this scenario. Cause sometimes you'll have to act like a grunt, like a moose, you know, to try to call a bull out and fight like a smaller moose or whatnot. So, ⁓ which one do you want to hear? I want to hear a horny female and then a... I'll try to give you my best one here, but I might get some backlash from some of the real hunters that are listening. Huh. ⁓ want to one come crashing through that window. ⁓ you hear that? already fucking coming. You got to be careful. That's like a cross between like Chewbacca and the sound my prom date made when she was running away from me. ⁓ So that was the female. That was a female. The male is a little bit shorter. It's just like a... Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. And then it depends if you do the scrapes and all this different stuff, but yeah, it all depends where you are and what situation you're in, guess. So now I know when I go to Alaska again, I, well, I'll have to do the male one. Cause if you bring a female in, that's not a sack tap. That's a clamslam. Well, now we have the recording of Andrew doing it. So we could just bring the recording. Yeah, just bring a Bluetooth speaker out and, and then, then sit out on the hill somewhere. My luck, like 10 or 11 will come over and it'll end up being a prison scene. We ask everyone on here, well, I do. I guess it's my thing. But especially now that you're an actor, what's your favorite hockey movie? My favorite hockey movie? I'd say Youngblood. Fuck, that's three in a row. Youngblood is fucking Yeah, he's got... but the old one though, not the new No, not the new one. It's original. I didn't even watch the... I like the scene where the billet mom comes and brings him tea. He would miss McGill. Like, no shit, ⁓ like... Did that happen when you played Juniors? You know what? One time... I'm not going to get into the story too much in here, but yeah. That's awesome. won't say who, because if they're listed, they're going to know exactly who's. Who it was and absolutely, but it definitely went down in your day. Right. That did happen. I just read about a guy. He just married his billet mom. I saw that. Oh shit. It can happen. I guess so. You know, love is blind as they say. My favorite scene was Cynthia Gibb in Youngblood. Yeah. And not when she was driving the Zamboni. ⁓ Yeah. Actually, that's where I got like, you know how the buddy takes out his dentures and throws it in their beer can or whatever. So I did that a few times in junior. That's where I got the idea from and it worked every time. Throw it, throw it in somebody's beer. Like, Hey boys toast, whatever. Let's hammer our beer. Boom. Somebody gets to the bottom of the tank and you're getting the taste of your dentures. Well, Josh had an eye thrown in his beer, like John Carter. I an eyeball in my beer. ⁓ yeah. Yeah. So there's this place up in Dawson city, Yukon. It's actually where they do like the gold, like, you know, the Yukon gold rush and all that stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. That all started. kind of in that city and there's this old man that hangs around and it's called Toe Kiss. I think he spent a hundred bucks, but it's people that have died and they donate their toe and they put it in this whiskey bottle or whatever and they take a shot and they kiss the toe. So this toe touches your lips and it's a black fucking toe. So people, when they die, they put it on the thing that they want their toe to be. donated to this thing. It's been going on for years, if not, yeah, for years. And, and it's a thing and, and there's, it's a $5,000 charge if you steal a tour, if you swallow it, cause it has happened a couple of times. ⁓ they had to put a fucking, ⁓ you know, a price tag on it if it does go missing. So, imagine that drinking somebody dead person's 10 grand in toes right here. Yeah. You show one log, you got 10 grand sitting in two toes. Having to pay five grand and you have a toe inside you? Yeah. That's wild. Just gave me an idea. Just give it a week and you'll get it back. Yeah. You can charge him double for it. When I die, I want to do that, but I want to do it with my cock. Yeah. have that in someone's Yeah. Right. To your testicles in there and they can fuck. Kiss the tip. Yeah. most action you've gotten. Fuckin'. Yeah, you know. Hey, long live after your death, you'll be still getting action. Fuck. Yeah, you take what you can get. Yeah. I got issues. That's funny. Maybe that's a good place to wrap this up. That's not a fucking code. ⁓ We'll wrap it up. ⁓ Andrew, this has been fucking awesome, man. We really appreciate you coming on. obviously we're a huge fan of the show and a huge fan of you. And if you make it down here, whether it's for the St. Patrick's Day Parade or whatever, we'll definitely take you out for some chicken. Definitely buddy. yeah, thanks for having me on and it's been a pleasure chatting with you guys. Love it. Thank you. We'll go skiing and hunt some moose soon. Here we go. Do some nut tapping. Just incredible. We really hope you enjoyed that one because we sure did. That had a lot. That had announcements, that had mating calls, that had... Yeah, that's our first mating call. Yeah. I think we've never had a mating call, at least one for animals, on the podcast. And I think there sure is, you guys are gonna tattoo me. We've an unusual amount of hunters on. Not really unusual, but I feel like there's been a lot of hunters. Like Matt Light, had a lot of Miller, everybody hunts, everybody goes hunting. That's a good way to put it. What I was gonna say is we've had a lot of guests with wood paneling behind them. And that usually tells how far north they are. And he had ceiling and wall. was like, he's definitely killed the moose. That's true. Don't forget Jedi. He's another one. Miller. ⁓ Kevin, there's been quite a few. And we eventually have to go for a hunt. I mean, you guys might have to shoot the moose that I sacked to help me survive. Maybe that'll be the hunt. We'll combine them. This guy this guy that rest for us, you know Scott Mondo right? I'm on dude. Yeah. Yeah the old guy Yeah, you know, you know Scott. Yeah, he he goes on a hunting trip every year in October. Really? Yeah, I go middle of hockey season. What are you Yeah, we're gonna do one in the tell him to send me pictures and stuff like he hunts like yeah legit ducks Yeah, the dogs go out and fetch him. Yeah, it's hilarious. He me videos and pictures of that when he goes That's crazy. And you know, it's funny as we put out the video of Matt light talking about hunting and a bunch of people jumped on it. Like, you know, it's some barbaric Viking thing to do. But every guy and girl, but every guy we've had on like you heard Andrew, they use and eat, you know, they use every part of the animal and they use it. They're on slaughtering fucking. No, it's not like they're using a machine gun. Also, they're not they're not contributing to the factory. Like the that that was the comeback of, know, few people were like, where do you think the meat comes from in the store? Yeah, how does these animals have the woods and stuff like they're probably going to die a horrific death anyway. It's probably better to get a bullet to the back of the head and have it. I tried to get my daughter to try lobster the other day and she goes, I'm not going to eat a fish. And I'm like, well, you're eating chicken. It's a crustacean. It's not even a fish. It's a water insect. Water bug. and she ate fries. Oh, that was that. Fries are good too. Jimmy Dunn, not buddy Jimmy Dunn, former guest comedian. He calls them water bugs. The lobster. It's a scorpion. The baked stuffed lobster. That was good. I this bread, we off of the old man's birthday. Nice. Stalked. Baked stuffed. That's the way to eat it. Oh, lazy mans. I like lazy mans. I don't want to actually work for my food. I don't want to be like a... I can see on it. You know what I mean? Like I want to actually someone else prepare it but So anyway, okay Well that ⁓ again, we're on a heater boys. We are It's a great rum run. It's gonna continue and you heard it here first You gotta go to the st. Patrick's Day parade. You're gonna see us on a float and some other special guests so So it's gonna be It's going to be wild. It's going to be a great day, March 15th. And then we'll have the taping that night at Laugh Boston. so you're here to hear first and, and you know, tickets will be out there and it'll be, it'll be a blast. So we're looking forward to it. It's going to be a fun spring. Yeah, it is. Well, before we bid adieu. Remind you to like and subscribe on YouTube and follow us on the social medias, the Instagram, the Facebook, and of course, the TikTok. Love it. Also want to thank our sponsors, the Referees Crease and Damon Financial LLC. Also give a shout out to AOA Studios. And also remind you, go on trippingzebras.com and get all your merch and all the information that you need, including the lace hockey hoodies. that Gino's wearing tonight. And also find us on the social medias. The referee's crease is out there. Also, Mark Riley Comedy and not Josh Dolan. 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