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This Tall To Ride - Tougie's Take Podcast (2/26/24)
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- On this edition of the show, Endo and Tougie are back to talk about Matt Rempe, Patrick Kane and more!
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Absurd Super Bowl Commercials
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Speaker
the bottom the bottom like a good neighbor your good neighbor that was like the commercial of the Super Bowl wasn't it I think so because I can't remember a single other commercial except for the fucking Arnold one there was like I know Doritos had their commercial which was like
00:00:21
Speaker
commercial within a commercial because they had a teaser trailer for the actual commercial like I feel like we're getting to a new part of Super Bowl commercials where it's just unnecessary Yeah, I would argue we reached that point At two different points one and I'm so sorry to do this to everybody I
00:00:49
Speaker
the puppy monkey baby commercial dude dude oh my god a friend of mine um she sent me a video for parents laughing at the puppy puppy monkey whatever the fuck it is yeah laughing at that she she was like confused like why is this funny i'm like i don't know
00:01:10
Speaker
So, it was that.
What is the Tookie Steak Podcast?
00:01:12
Speaker
Welcome everybody to the Tookie Steak Podcast, by the way. It was that. This is what we talk about before we actually start the show. It was that, and it was when they killed Mr. Peanut. Oh my god, Baby Nut? Baby Nut. Hell yeah, Baby Nut. I feel like if there was a jumping the shark moment for Super Bowl commercials, if one didn't do it for you, the other was just like, all right, we're pretty much done here, aren't we? Yeah.
00:01:40
Speaker
man i mean you you think you think um like puppy monkey baby was like an absurd thing but then again like you have kids who watch like skippity toilet now are you are you aware of what skippity toilet is no because you told me not to look it up i've seen the reference but and i probably know what it is but i don't know what it is
00:02:01
Speaker
Okay. Um, so, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a lot of things combined into one. I will say that. And I think we will talk about this because it's good thing that, you know, talk a lot on the podcast because we don't like talking about hockey, even with the hockey podcast fraud cast, if you will. Um, so for those who are unaware, um,
Skibbity Toilet Meme Explained
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The reason why Skippity Toilet was brought up entirely was I volunteer with an after-sports school program at those kids' birthday parties and everything, and I went to a birthday party this weekend, and for a bunch of 9, 10-year-olds who were playing soccer, and they're pretty good soccer players, not going to lie, for 9 and 10 years old.
00:02:45
Speaker
The birthday cake had elements of Skibbity Toilet on it. Now, Skibbity Toilet is a conglomeration of several things. You know that meme of the dude, the big guy, the fat guy, who's like, Skibbity Dop, Dop, Dop, Dop. Yes, yes, yes. So basically, it's a playoff of that.
00:03:10
Speaker
It's a playoff of, um, the worst parts of internet culture is what I'm. Yeah. So many different parts. There's like, it's using source, um, source element, like valve source engine elements in there. I believe the whole face of the guy is like the G man or like someone of, as you use it under the G man or Gordon free Gordon free read himself. And there was a toilet involved for some reason. And.
00:03:34
Speaker
like it's evolved from like that song then it went to like um that's that one song that was in um fuck what's that uh adams family movie that came out that adams family series wednesday yeah but the dance dance with my hands thing like they went from that and then it went from um nelly furtado's like song with timbaland um
00:04:00
Speaker
I was like, when you see us in the club, you're all nice. That song? Yeah. And then it went from that, and now it's just evolved into this weird conglomerate. Excuse me, the toilet has lore. So that song. Move on from the toilet. That song, the Nelly Furtado song.
00:04:22
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I've shown you and stream the video before, but there was a basketball YouTuber in the early days of YouTube. God, I can't remember his fucking name at this point, but he was a Sonics fan.
00:04:36
Speaker
And he did a remake of that song about Steve Nash.
Worst Super Bowl Ads Ever
00:04:43
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And it was, when Stevie's on the floor, he passes real nice. And even though he's short, his ass is real nice. He's got an average person's body.
00:04:58
Speaker
I will find that video in the meantime, Jesus Christ. But also, I went to an article from Yardbarker.com that has some of the worst commercials of all time for the Super Bowl. Puppy Monkey Baby is, of course, very much up there. But some of the headlines
00:05:23
Speaker
are tremendous. Such as Squarespace wants you to work yourself to death based off of a Squarespace commercial in the past. Mr. Peanut's funeral. Dodge uses MLK to sell a truck. A Fiat takes Viagra.
00:05:43
Speaker
And my favorite, Kendall Jenner ends racism with Pepsi. Oh, yeah, the Pepsi one. Super Bowl commercials jumped the shark. No, I think I think they peaked when they tried the pure, tried the pure, tried to cure everything with just Pepsi. That was the best. The most out of touch celebrity family in the world.
00:06:07
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doing an advertisement with Pepsi trying to solve. Peace. So let us know what your favorite or least favorite Super Bowl commercials of all time happen to be.
00:06:25
Speaker
In the meantime, hi Endo, how are you? I'm good. How was your weekend, Mr. Birthday Man? Birthday Boy! Birthday Man.
Reflections on Aging and Birthdays
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Birthday Man, officially. Birthday Grandfather.
00:06:39
Speaker
Jesus Christ birthday one foot in the grave Yeah, we actually got a viewer question about that in honor of Tugi turning 30. Well, it's a perspective that's changed as you've gotten older So yeah, I turned I turned 30 this past Saturday, which is Kind of weird. It didn't hit until I got this card
00:07:04
Speaker
Just a gigantic ass 30 on this card. This is for my wife, by the way, because she's laughing at me, even though it's her turn later on this year. Yeah, I mean, we didn't we didn't do too much, right? Like birthdays for me, even like the pickle, oh, the 30 and whatever. Birthdays for me haven't really been a huge thing for a long time.
00:07:30
Speaker
Um, primary reason for that, I'll be honest, like it's just, it's a, it's a real reason, right? It's, there's no humor behind it. Um, but when I was a kid, uh, my dad ended up getting very, very sick.
00:07:43
Speaker
Um, so he's fine now. He's still with us, but he ended up suffering from Crohn's disease, which, um, attacks the intestines. Um, so he ended up having surgery in 2003 that removed like the vast majority, if not all of his large intestines, uh, because it, it was going to kill him basically.
00:08:06
Speaker
So he went from being the bread maker of the household to being on disability and really not being able to work. So at a very young age, we went from really good birthdays and Christmases and stuff like that to, hey, son, here's the realities of the world with financial situations and such. So even as a teenager, it wasn't a huge thing for me to be like, yeah, my birthday, because very early on, it was very much not about
00:08:36
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gifts or anything like that, it was very much more of like the sentimental stuff behind it. So my wife and I, we were in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
00:08:48
Speaker
Um, then we went out to dinner with friends of ours and just kept it pretty low key. Simple. Got some, got some good, uh, poutine. You gotta get the poutine on your birthday, you know? Um, but yeah, it was just a low key kind of day, which is kind of how I like it. Like I, despite the fact that I at the moment make a living with a camera in my face,
00:09:13
Speaker
I am not the type of person where I'm like, ah, yes, I must be the center of attention. Everybody in this establishment must know that it is my birthday. Like, no, I don't.
00:09:24
Speaker
I don't care. So it's not like I feel drastically different from Friday, you know, at age 29 to Saturday at age 30. And we've had that conversation on the show before, too. I think Sim was on for that one, too. Obviously, our boy is still in Finland. He should be back, is actually coming back, I believe, March 1st, unless he's extended his trip. So next week, he will be here on the show. It'll probably be a midweek show as well, because
00:09:53
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going to North Kakalaki Crash Andrews this weekend for AW Revolution. So you don't want to record it in the airport like he wanted to return buckle God I was.
00:10:07
Speaker
The crash, you were insane. So yeah, I mean, Monday and maybe even some of Tuesday could end up being a travel day for me. So we won't be able to record until next Wednesday or Thursday, which will end up being a trade deadline preview for the NHL because that is March 8th.
Changing Perspectives with Age
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More on that shortly.
00:10:24
Speaker
Yeah, just overall, the birthday things haven't been too crazy. It was a good, quiet day. I'm good with that. Don't need anything more than that. But it is goddamn weird to be like, ah, yes, I'm 30. Even though, you know, physically, I don't feel all that different than I did when I was like 23, you know?
00:10:48
Speaker
We haven't crossed that threshold yet of, oh god, I physically or mentally feel old. Especially when we do a podcast like this and you and I joke about toilets and internet memes for the first 10 minutes of the show. Yeah. I mean, people can't make fun of kids liking skippity toilet. Keep bringing it up again. Because people love the fuck out of rabbits. Rayman, rabbits? Little fucking...
00:11:17
Speaker
White little, small little thing with the plungers. People love the crap out of that. To the point that Ubisoft has abandoned all proper IPs and just went for Rabbids for like a decade. We haven't got a good Rayman game, but we'll get a game about the fucking Rabbids. Jesus Christ. Bring back Rayman.
00:11:37
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So for the record, to wrap up our internet meme talk, I found the video I was referring to, the basketball video, uploaded May 8th, 2007. Jesus. Paul Brogan, NBA Rap, in brackets, original. I linked it to you there. Make sure to watch it later. It is the whitest of white guys in 2007.
00:12:02
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But God damn it, I hope wherever Paul Brogan is now, he's doing well because he- Oh boy, my favorite white guys. He's never been forgotten. To answer that question though, Endo, I mean, you're still in your 20s. You're a child, you literal child. What's a perspective that has changed?
00:12:30
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As you have gotten older. Nobody don't mean shit. Oh, my browser just crashed. Yeah, I was gonna say your webcam pros too. We can still hear. Yeah. So it's gonna be frozen. It says Microsoft Edge. Oh, there we go. It says not responding. I'm like, oh boy. Thanks, dad.
00:12:51
Speaker
Thanks, Obama. One perspective I've definitely changed is that people don't fucking mean shit. I don't know, man. Growing up, I was really conscious. I was aware of my surroundings in the sense of being aware that other people know that I'm there in a way. So I was very cautious about things that I did in public.
00:13:14
Speaker
like very like, you know, just want to not like wallflower kind of like see me to the background, but like knowing that like, you know, I could be if I'm going to be a dickhead, people are going to know people are going to like, you know, fucking not put up with that shit kind of thing.
00:13:28
Speaker
And just that perspective of not being a... God, I feel like a hockey interviewer saying you know so much. That perspective of being aware of who I am and where I'm at and not to piss people off is something that's grown on me. But now I just don't give a fuck. Before it used to be like,
00:13:49
Speaker
I don't know, before you used to think I had a chip on my shoulder, but then after a while, I'm just like, I ain't shit. I'm just a dude on the internet. That's it. I think that's certainly not a threshold everyone crosses, where they're just like, yeah, I don't really care anymore. There are always people who I think will live for the drama and always care about what other people think of them. But that was a thing.
00:14:17
Speaker
It's not even a recent thing. Like that was a thing for me, like YouTube and Twitch wise, like five years ago or something longer than that, actually. Where like my first couple of years of doing anything was, okay, be as... Uncontroversial, non-controversial as you possibly can be. Neutral, yeah. Don't try to piss it. Yeah, neutral is a good word for it. There you go. Smart man.
00:14:49
Speaker
And eventually it just took the change of like, you know, and I respect people that can do that, that are just always like, well, I don't really, you know, cause it's an effort. It is an effort to exist on the internet.
00:15:05
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in a way to try and not piss anybody off. And number one, that's impossible, right? You can look at somebody... Oh, I know. You can look at somebody like Nashor, who is genuinely a really nice guy. And even if you're someone like him, who's,
Understanding Autism and ADHD
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as far as I know, never done anything to anybody, has always just tried to be a nice guy, there are still people on the internet that are like, nope, fuck that guy. Fuck him. And it's like, why? Just because.
00:15:35
Speaker
So, you know, you learn like there are certain aspects of the Internet that don't really translate to real life. But there are like that aspect does translate over where no matter what the hell you do, someone's just not going to like you, whether it is who you are, what you sound like, what you look like. Like you could never have an interaction. Yeah. Hi, Enda. Hi. Your reaction to that was interesting.
00:16:02
Speaker
There's always going to be that where it's like this motherfucker could have never had a conversation with me. And they're just like, I don't like that person. Oh, yeah. So it is what it is. And, you know, I feel like the sooner. You know, people come to terms with that and again, some people never do. But the sooner someone comes to terms with that, the better where it's just like, all right, I can't win every single battle here like you no matter what the hell you do, you cannot make every person you're ever going to come across like you.
00:16:32
Speaker
It's pretty free to hit that point and just be like, yeah, fuck it. Whatever. No problem. Yeah. Like, uh, I think the first time you, the first.
00:16:40
Speaker
Time you get to that threshold, you're like, oh, fuck. So this is what it's like to have a normal, not normal, but like a blank compass in your head, just not really thinking or doing anything. It's kind of like people who, well, myself, when they tell people, my brain's firing at 1,000 miles a minute. Whenever I'm just sitting down, I'm always thinking of something. And then someone's like, oh, my head just empty 24-7. I'm like, how do you do that? As someone who
00:17:09
Speaker
You know, uh, has feelings that they're definitely on the spectrum. Uh, thanks mom for telling me that I'm totally on the spectrum. Um, it's definitely worked the past 25 years of my life. Uh, knowing that over the past year, it's answered every single one of my problems. It's essentially being like, Oh, it's cause you're literally autistic. I'm like, thanks. It's great. Autism is quite the catch all, isn't it? Autism speaks brother.
00:17:40
Speaker
autism speaks dude they retconned ADHD into autism so like I definitely have it like a hundred percent I made a joke about that but that's not it that's not even a joke nowhere to go with that I'm sorry it's just a fact
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Like, I don't know when, but during the past, like, four years, they- they- doctors or the, you know, experts, essentially, were like, hey, yeah, so ADHD is a subsection of autism. And I'm like, oh, okay, cool. And then people started putting, like, on- this is- obviously Twitter's not a great source for anything, but they started putting AU-DHD in their fucking Twitter bios, and I'm like, yo, is this, like,
00:18:28
Speaker
What is going on here? Like am I collecting the seven dragon balls? Like what is going on? I think I agree. I'm of autism and uh, I don't know, but I'm right in the middle. There's like 15 circles and I'm like right in the middle brother.
00:18:49
Speaker
There you go. Fair enough.
Favorite Birthday Memories
00:18:51
Speaker
But with that, what's your favorite birthday memory? My favorite birthday memory was the maple leaves getting their ass kicked in the maple leaf meltdown on my birthday.
00:19:06
Speaker
Actually, I think I do have a better memory. My cousin, who is now a lawyer, congratulations, and he's my lawyer. He got me box seats for a Blue Jays game on my birthday, and he actually got my name on the Happy Birthday board, which I've never had that before in my life, and it was pretty sweet.
00:19:36
Speaker
Cause like him and I, um, I'm going to get personal again on the podcast. Him and I have been close because I'm an old, I'm an only child. I don't have any like real brothers or sisters. Sorry, Tookie. Um, and I don't, I like growing up single mother, you know, uh, Kim was basically doing stuff whenever she had me in all these sports, keep me off to myself occupied. So I wasn't really bored or anything. Uh, but
00:20:02
Speaker
You know, my uncle was like, hey, I'm going to take you on there. I'm going to raise you as my son in a way. And he has like five kids of his own, right? So they basically became cousins, but a lot closer than cousins. We're basically brothers and sisters.
00:20:22
Speaker
And like him and I growing up together, he's only a year older than me. So out of the rest of the group, we just kind of bonded really, really, really, really well. And we still talk almost every day. It was his birthday, actually, last weekend. His birthday was on the... I think it was on the Friday. And his mom was on the Saturday. So I think you and his mom shared the same birthday. So that birthday for both of you.
00:20:50
Speaker
There you go. Happy birthday, stranger. I don't know. Yeah, her name's Lily, Auntie Lily. Auntie, Auntie Lily. But yeah, we bonded from there. And they've been basically my brothers and sisters for, what, now 25 years. So it was really touching that he spent the money. They get a box. It was just him and I, just chilling.
00:21:20
Speaker
Get all the food I want and that's when I turned 19. So that was it. I was able to finally get a legal drink And then we then after that we had a birthday party at my My stepdad's family home and it was good. I've people from people there from from school and
00:21:44
Speaker
That's funny, because at the time I was single, and my dad was like, hey, how about that girl? How is she like, do you like her? I'm like, dad, no, it's not going to work. And the only reason why he pointed that out, because she was Italian, he's Italian, so he's like, you know?
00:22:09
Speaker
Like, no, I'm going to go as far from there as possible. And then like two years later, I met Paulina. So there's a. You didn't go as far as possible, but you did go almost as north as possible. I went 24 hours of actual travel. Still pretty far.
00:22:27
Speaker
Yeah, it takes 12 hours to get to wherever to get a transfer flight. Yeah, so it's like three whole days of travel to visit her family, which is great. Here you go. For me, God, I don't know. Like I said, a lot of the
00:22:43
Speaker
A lot of the ones in regards to like, oh, gifts, experiences, whatever were from when I was younger. I went to a lot of Portland Pirates and main Mariners games just over the years. That was often just like, hey, let's let's go type of thing. Just go hang out, watch some hockey. So there's a lot, a lot of those.
00:23:04
Speaker
I don't know if one specific instance stands out because I went to so many games that I can't pinpoint exact dates of things. Like, oh yeah, and that's when it was this game and stuff like that. Like, eh, memory's a bit spotty. I'm getting old, after all.
00:23:22
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know. There's just, like I said, most of the birthdays have been less about like, oh yeah, and I got this, I got the iPhone 7 on that day. It's just more like, no, I spend my birthdays either hanging out with friends, family, both, and, you know. Simple. Simple stuff. I'm a simple man. Very simple. A simple man. I've been doing a lot too with like Marley's games as to how cheap it is.
00:23:47
Speaker
birthday special event that I have going on, just go to Marley's game. I think last year, my birthday, I went to go to the Marley's game with my parents. And it was pretty cool because Malcolm Suvan was a net for the Americans. And my mom knows the Suvan family pretty well. So she waved over and he second glanced halfway through the intermission. He was like, oh, shoot, hey, whatever. And they actually knew each other kind of thing.
00:24:17
Speaker
Malcom's doing on the podcast one. Ruin's lucky. I mean, PK Sue just did a podcast with some random kid from Montrรฉal. So, hey, anything's possible. You never know, right? I could literally say, hey, PK, we have the same birthday. You want to come on and talk hockey? He's like, yeah, sure. He'll come with like a Don Cherry suit and just do it all up. Our final question, shockingly, is hockey related?
Obscure Hockey Documentary Ideas
00:24:43
Speaker
Congratulations. A prominent documentarian has come to you and offered you the chance to make a hockey documentary, but they give you one caveat. It must be about a specific obscure thing regarding the culture or the history of the sport. What is your documentary about? I have an answer for this. And you know, because it mentions an obscure thing about the history of the sport, I would like to see
00:25:15
Speaker
Ken Reed's book about people who only scored one goal in the NHL. I'd like to see that expanded out into an actual documentary with interviews with people that were focused upon in the book.
00:25:30
Speaker
Um, just to kind of get more of a spotlight on that, you know, on the facet of the sport, right? Because, you know, for example, one of the things we could have talked about today and we could touch up on it now is, Hey, Austin Matthews hit 50 goddamn goals already. Um, and there's a very good chance that he could be just the third player in NHL history to reach 500 goals before the age of 30. Everybody kind of knows how good Austin Matthews is.
00:25:58
Speaker
But what about the guys who only scored that one goal or only played in that one game? Either that or just give me a documentary about like Nathan Gerby or someone who was just very undersized that still succeeded. Short Kings. Oh, the short Kings documentary. Hosted by Pete Blackburn. Hosted by Pete Blackburn. Yes. Or like.
00:26:26
Speaker
the greatest nhl players from insert state or province here the greatest nhl players from new hampshire you must be one part to write the nhl short story we found it everybody we found it
00:26:51
Speaker
Oh, it's great. Oh, it's a collaborative effort from Endo and myself. We're both executive producers presented by Pete Blackburn. We want the the short Kings documentary. Let's hear from the the shortest of short Kings in NHL history. Let's see if I do shortest NHL players ever.
00:27:16
Speaker
I think there's an article from the ModestMan.com from February of 2020. That lists. Oh, my God. Number one, five foot three. Roy Shrimp Waters. Holy. Who was a goddamn goalie?
00:27:44
Speaker
Yeah. At 5'3", was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1969, won the Vesna winner, was the Vesna winner in 1931, the Hart winner in 1929, having played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Montreal Canadiens, and the New York Americans. Give me a documentary on that guy. And then you have at 5'5", Nathan Gerby, only 5'6", Theo Flurry. Was he really that short?
00:28:14
Speaker
Yeah. Christ. No wonder why he has issues. 100%. Short man and a tall man's game. Yeah, they say that people are just closer to the closer to the hell and damn pretty close to that. So
00:28:34
Speaker
Yeah, feel free to ignore his Twitter. Darren Kang at five. Five. Another goalie Robbie Moore at five. Five. Five. Five. Seven. Gump Warsley. Dude, most of these fucking people on the list are goalies. I swear to God. Because, you know, skating forward was a tall man's game. So they just shove the short guy in net rice. Roy shrimp.
00:29:01
Speaker
Gump Shrimp Wars Lane or whatever the hell it was. That's tremendous. Ah, goodness. There you go. Give us the Short Kings documentary. That's what we're here for. I think my, like if I were to do one just for myself, I think it would be on players not willing to get new equipment.
00:29:25
Speaker
They're like the ways that the reason the reason why I say this is there are goalies in the NHL who have used their spec stuff From when they play junior like Jonathan quick uses gear That is specked out from when he was playing in junior, which is like 20 years ago There are guys who literally will not wear or use like new sticks or new gear or new skates
00:29:53
Speaker
Like, what was it? Patrick Marlow famously used a two-piece stick up until he was what the Toronto Maple leaves. That is 20 years of using a two-piece stick. Unheard of in the modern game. Unheard of. 20 years of superstition. Mm-hmm. Just a little, just a little tissue, just a little stitious. Just a little, not superstition, just a little tissue.
00:30:24
Speaker
Ah, goodness. I'm intrigued. I don't know. I think there's a lot of, like, obscure documentaries. I mean, fuck, Alexander Dagle, which apparently it's Dagle, by the way. I remember growing up, it was always Alexander Dague, but now apparently, apparently the French Canadians are just like, nope, it's Dague, but actual French people say Dagle. So.
00:30:48
Speaker
There you go. There's a further further divide. He can get a goddamn documentary. And damn it, anybody. Or give the green man a documentary. They're back now. Yeah. Yeah. I was actually hearing his moment.
00:31:08
Speaker
throwing the waffles up god that was my favorite post and I put that out like 2 a.m. and it got like no love like this guy this these people fucking suck like we we haven't even talked about so many things because of how long it took for us to get an actual podcast together we didn't talk about fucking the the Ridley Greek how it should be the Greeks the the blitzkrieg
00:31:32
Speaker
Come on. Come on. That's amazing. We had that happen, and we had it happen in the woman's hockey game. People were like, oh, this shit happened. Like, oh, he didn't. She didn't throw a hit on him after what happened. She didn't cross-check the woman in the head that did the slap shot in an empty net. Imagine. I thought that's what you had to do for the sake of the code. Crazy. And now, like, any time someone has a slap shot on a goalie, they're like, oh, are you going to do the Ridley Greig shot? Oh, boy. It's a Krieg. It's a Blitzkrieg.
00:32:01
Speaker
You are an original fox. God. How fucking cool is that for Ridley, Greg? Yes. But now already like that could be. Like what he's famous for, by the end of his career, it could be he'll always be remembered for that, even if his career doesn't really pan out. That guy has his spot in history.
Ridly Greig's Iconic Slapshot
00:32:25
Speaker
It just is what it is.
00:32:27
Speaker
You know, I think what was it either today or at some point in the past couple of days, uh, we don't like to mention him because of reasons you've pointed out, but the whole David Ayers game. Like that guy will never be forgotten. Scott Foster will never be forgotten. Now, obviously really Greg is a hell of a lot more accomplished than those guys. He wasn't an ebook, but if Ridley Greg's career fizzles out, he will always be remembered as, yeah, the guy that took a slap shot.
00:32:52
Speaker
on the empty net, similar to even have someone like, there's a couple of people that have done it, but like David Legio, who was an AHL level goalie, has played in Europe a lot, but I say that name and some people be like, yep, the guy that on a breakaway tipped the net over so they couldn't score and he took the penalty instead of the breakaway.
00:33:15
Speaker
Ridley Greg has that now for the slapshot on the empty net. A woman did it, what was it, a college game, I think? It wasn't PWHL. But a woman did it in the game. Oh, she pulled a Ridley Greg. He's already synonymous with an action in hockey, and it's not necessarily a negative action. It's not like, oh, you Todd Bertuzzi'd that guy in reference to the Steve Moore incident. It's like, no, slapshot on an empty net. Ridley Greg did it.
00:33:43
Speaker
I agree that the Blitzkrieg would be a hell of a lot better of a name, but people are pretty unoriginal. People suck, man.
00:33:57
Speaker
God, I don't want to bash Sten's Twitter because Leaf Station is just as bad considering that we've stolen another team's goal song and we don't even like share with the song at all. We just kind of sit back corporately and just clap. Have you ever seen an example of that? Have you ever seen South Korea performing for North Koreans?
00:34:18
Speaker
So like when they started like this is like a couple years ago they started like you know showcase like what they have for culture and it was just much north koreans in the crowd just like.
00:34:31
Speaker
Suit and tie because they're very, you know, sort of Terry dictatorship over there. So they're very like straight nose, whatever you don't cheer unless you're told to cheer kind of thing. And the South Koreans are performing. They're like, they're like, they're like music or whatever performance. And they're just all like stone face just like in the crowd. Like what am I supposed to enjoy kind of thing? That's what it feels like to be at a Leaf game. The entire lower bowl is just just that.
00:34:58
Speaker
And the upper bowl was people, you know, who can kind of afford it. You know, they had to sell their kidney and, you know, their child's college fund is now being spent on hockey tickets. But yeah, just trying to kind of enjoy a little bit. Well, it's funny because I do think, well, Islanders fans called him this for a different reason. That means you can call John Tavares Kim Jong Un.
00:35:25
Speaker
Yeah. I hate it. I hate it. You're welcome. I'm like, what player name on the Leafs goes well with this North Korean dictator pun? That was the best that we had. I think we can recap this by saying save us green men with waffles. Even though the Bruins blew that game, it's fine.
00:35:52
Speaker
Is that the first time North Korea's been brought up on this podcast? God, well done, Nendo. Well done. Speaking of goalies then, really quickly. Earlier this week, or last week now, the New York Islanders were trailing in the third period.
00:36:14
Speaker
And with like 11 minutes to go, Patrick Wah pulled the goalie. Yeah. Your thoughts as a goal. Yeah. So there was an actual study about this done a couple of years ago where people found out, hockey nerds found out that the statistical best time to pull your goalie stat wise is with like 10 minutes to go in the third.
00:36:43
Speaker
I can't find the article about this, but I know this was written because I was laughing my ass off when this, when this came out, because just imagine just, you know, just bench going to the bench and going and just being just chilling there. It's amazing. So I love the idea of this. I love random, obscure shit happening.
00:37:08
Speaker
in the hockey, no matter what it is. Cause it is always interesting to see people freak out on Twitter and to see people's discourse, just kind of be like, yo, what the fuck are you doing? Like it reminds me of, um, the, the Tony X tweet, the goalie just said fucking and left. That isn't that, I think that one is in the, um, cause there are certain tweets that the, I think the NHL hockey hall of fame did that were like, Hey, we're going to put these tweets on hockey hall of fame.
00:37:37
Speaker
And I'm like, all of fame level tweets. Yes. It was like social media moments that like were like Hall of Fame level. Hold on. Hall of Fame. I recall this too. Yeah. I don't. I couldn't tell you what else was there because I mean, what else does compare to the Tony X tweet.
00:37:55
Speaker
Oh, here it is. 129 years every season, 52 players and staff from the Stanley Cup winning team earn the ultimate honor. Their names forever engraved as champions on me is in the Stanley Cup. Earning that honor takes a lifetime of work and commitment, not just from your team, but from your fans. That's why for the first time ever, the NHL is like the 52 tweets from loyal fans to accompany me as the official championship artifacts. Your tweet is one of them.
00:38:20
Speaker
And the tweet was, um, uh, the Stanley cup, uh, saying, I'll be in the building on Monday. And then Tony X, a AKA solo solo city. Um, on Twitter saying you're in a longterm relationship with Pat Maroon. Cause it's like what Pat Maroon was still, uh, you know, part of the technically lightening. Yeah. That was Stanley cup champion between 20 and 52. And I said, um,
00:38:48
Speaker
That uh someone said that the goalie just said fuck it and left and white people have been hiding hockey from us This shit lit should have been hall of fame level tweets I like the one where you use the n-word. That was the best I gotta find it. I will say the word verbatim because we'll lose any swatches if we don't have so um, uh, tony x god, where was it? It was really fucking funny
00:39:16
Speaker
Yeah, because I found it there too. It was great. Oh, man. Beautiful. It is. While you look that up, Islanders-wise, by the way, when we get to our show next week talking about, hey, who should buy? Who should sell? Yeah, they have three wins in their last 10 games. They're nine points out of the playoffs right now. If you're Patrick Waugh, why the hell not? Just throw whatever the hell you can at the wall to try and turn things around.
00:39:46
Speaker
It's not looking too good for the Islanders and their playoff hopes this year amongst other teams. Then again, we'll talk to or talk about next week. Did you find what you were looking for? And no, I found something else entirely different when I'm just going to look away and not even talk about it. That's fucking weird, dude. Yeah, never mind. OK. We're going to talk about something else because I just found something that was cursed. Speaking of cursed. Oh, man.
00:40:16
Speaker
Talking about teams that aren't in a playoff spot I Saw the stat about Jeff Skinner on reddit the other day Jeff Skinner is 20 games or so away from playing in 1000 NHL games He has not played in a single playoff career or a single playoff game in his career The previous record
00:40:44
Speaker
for most games played before making the playoffs was Ron Hainsey, Leafs legend, who had played in 907 games, made the playoffs and won the Stanley Cup on his first attempt. The record for never making the playoffs, 734 games for Guy Charon. So Jeff Skinner, I mean,
00:41:10
Speaker
Potentially has both of those records in terms of most games before finally making the playoffs and potentially I Mean he could end up with the other one for most games played in a career without ever making the playoffs This poor man and I'm sorry to twist the knife on on Sabers fans based off of the season That they have had
00:41:37
Speaker
But this, this is what you get for getting your hopes up. You're Buffalo sports fans. You should have known never to get your hopes up. It never works out. Never ever. In terms of something though, that we actually could talk about, that has a little bit more depth to it. Adam Rosicica. Oh yeah. So.
00:42:05
Speaker
You mentally prepare for this one, right? Not even that. I was going to make a sinus joke or make some of these are clogs. Maybe I need to. You know, yeah, it's a bad joke. It's one of my worst apologies. So Adam Rosicca.
00:42:22
Speaker
is a 24-year-old former draft pick of the Calgary Flames who earlier this season was claimed on waivers by the Arizona Coyotes. Oh yeah, I know, by the way, what you posted. I had seen that. Yeah, people are weird. So what happened was Mr. Rosicica,
00:42:50
Speaker
Clearly. Accidentally. Posted a public video on Instagram. You can kind of tell was supposed to be private. Of him partaking. In a little bit, a little bit of the powder. Yeah, a little bit of the little bit of the you call it what you want, right? You want skiing in in Phoenix. There you go. Yeah. Yeah. So.
00:43:20
Speaker
This video circulated in large part due to Andy and Rono. Terrible people, terrible, ruined his career. Sports nerds going to defend sports nerds. I love that. So that, by the way, referencing Andy and Rono is an account on Twitter. They do a lot of analytics stuff. They at AR hockey stats, they are based in the Czech Republic where
00:43:50
Speaker
You know, I'm in Roszichka, Slovakian. Who knows? Maybe there's rivalry there and they wanted to ruin it. Race war. Basically, what they did was like, oh, shit. And then they snitch tagged a bunch of reporters as if people weren't going to hear about this anyway. It was already out there. I think people directing their anger at these two.
00:44:16
Speaker
probably misguided, even if you think, oh, they're cringe or whatever. It's just like, whatever. I think that's focusing the energy on the wrong place. Rusiichka ended up getting put on waivers with the intention to terminate his contract, which went through and indeed he has been released by the coyotes. Now,
00:44:47
Speaker
As far as what this means for him, that's a very good question right now. Hockey Slovakia put out a statement regarding him being that he is Slovakian, essentially stating that his actions don't align with that of a national team player, and we don't intend to call him up for any pre-tournament games or the world championships now, which he certainly would have been a part of.
00:45:15
Speaker
So he is facing consequences both from an NHL perspective from an international perspective and at home perspective. And in that way, it's tough to feel a ton of sympathy for the guy. It's like you're 24 years old, man, you know better.
00:45:36
Speaker
You know, you fucked up, you live in with the consequences of that fuck up, right? I mean, it's not gonna stop him from playing professional hockey in his career. He'll land somewhere, perhaps even the KHL. People are saying the KHL. He'll still be fine in regards to being a professional hockey player. There's a chance this was gonna be his last season in the NHL anyway. We don't know. So for him, he's not canceled or anything. It's just the consequences of his actions.
00:46:05
Speaker
But there is the aspect of, if he was a bigger player, if he was an, if Genny Kuznetsov, would he have gotten away with this? And... I mean... Didn't... Wait a second. Wait a second. Kuznetsov, wasn't there an issue, wasn't there a similar story with the Capitals? Exactly. I was like, Kooch or Koots? Yeah, it's Kuznetsov.
00:46:34
Speaker
Yeah, he was photographed once upon a time in a hotel room with a very similar looking substance in front of him on a table. It's it's protein. It's the fastest way to the used protein is up the nose. You hear about that? No, no. So.
00:46:55
Speaker
From his standpoint, it's not surprising to see that a lower level player, a team just went, fuck this, we can't be having this, you're gone. There are the questions of if he was a superstar player, would this have had the same outcome?
00:47:15
Speaker
The answer is probably no. Let's be honest, he probably would have been fine. You also have the situation of the Player Assistance Program, and that's a fight that's likely to continue on in regards to, well, why wasn't he put into the Player Assistance Program just outright released? The Players Association has the ability to fight that as well. So this story probably isn't done.
00:47:43
Speaker
But a lot of people's response to this was, come on, everybody does it, which, yeah. Who's everyone? Who's everyone, right. But is there high recreational drug use amongst professional athletes?
00:48:05
Speaker
There is high, there is drug use amongst semi-pro athletes. There is drug use amongst guys who play in beer league. I can probably count to you, count to you on my hands, how many people in my Thursday league have either done or are currently using?
00:48:28
Speaker
Specifically of the powder variety. It is a thing. Half of the guys work for CPAs anyway, so it's commonplace. But how many of them have been dumb enough to accidentally post themselves using?
00:48:47
Speaker
And that's the difference, you know? That's the difference. It just is. Like, no one's gonna deny the fucking partying culture in hockey, obviously. But, yeah, at the end of the day, it's just, I don't think anyone's necessarily surprised in a variety of ways. I don't think anyone's surprised, like, oh my god, an NHL player
00:49:10
Speaker
With drugs, I don't believe it. Oh, like, like obviously, like no one's no one's that foolish, right? I mean, I don't know. Maybe some people are that naive, but. You just I don't think anybody can necessarily be surprised at, oh, NHL team just wants to immediately. I don't know what people are expecting.
00:49:34
Speaker
Right? Like just because it's like, Oh, it's a part of hockey culture. Doesn't mean that someone's not going to face consequences from it. And Oh, well, would, would superstar have gotten cut? Probably not. But we know that's how these things work. Not even just sports consequences are different based on the circumstances of who you are and what you provide. That is just a fact.
00:50:03
Speaker
So for Adam Rosicica, it's, hey, sorry buddy. You should have been Clayton Keller because Clayton Keller probably doesn't get cut. And I'm sure Clayton Keller is a good Christian boy who would never. Um, but you know, if, if you're going to fuck around like that, you know that there are double standards and I don't think anybody can be surprised by this. I'm not saying it's right, but
00:50:34
Speaker
You did a stupid and now you're paying for the stupid. What's the old saying? I believe it was in the New Testament. Fuck around and find out. Here we are. There you go. Aside from that, couple other things really quickly. Endo, true or false, the Las Vegas Golden Knights, AKA the Vegas Golden Knights.
00:51:05
Speaker
are trying to cheese the cap again.
00:51:09
Speaker
Probably who gives a fuck man you y'all could y'all could have voted against it when Tampa Bay originally did it y'all didn't you're like Oh, yeah, if you're injured, you don't count against the cap because you know, you're not really playing if you're an ulti I are You could have stopped it at the CDA agreement. Good stopped it. You did it So this is the this is the life you show. This is the this is the die you've cast Yeah
00:51:35
Speaker
This is your consequences of your actions. Exactly. That's the theme of the last few minutes. That is the theme. Mark Stone is out with what is reported to be a lacerated spleen, which sounds horrific. I believe it was from Frank Cerveli. Timeline is tough to pin down. We'll see in the playoffs. Mark is pretty much what everyone's suspecting. And yeah, like you said, the NHL had the ability to change this ruling.
00:52:06
Speaker
And don't get me wrong, I think it would be very interesting if, you know, a player like Mark Stone being injured, unless you do like what they do in the, well, I mean to do it in the NHL too, but the NFL especially, unless you were to outright say, this player is shut down for the season. He cannot play again in the regular season or playoffs. Unless that's a thing,
00:52:35
Speaker
then they still count against the cap. Because I think that would make it pretty interesting in regards to how teams would structure themselves. Like a team like Toronto, what the fuck would you do in terms of trying to manage depth? They're already having that problem as it is. Imagine William Nylander goes down and you don't get that cap relief, right? Yeah.
00:52:59
Speaker
Also don't think that NHL or the NHL PA would like that because then it would probably result in players getting less money So it all kind of makes sense by the end of it that they just they didn't fix it and again, it's not a Situation that only Vegas or Tampa can take advantage of that's it's everybody It's just you got to be if it is nefarious. You just have to be smart about how you're trying to pull that off and
00:53:30
Speaker
You know, maybe Mark Stone would be good to play in the middle of March. But who's to say? Maybe Gabriel Andeskog could actually physically play hockey right now for the Colorado Avalanche. But is it beneficial for them to get through this trade line? Trade deadline, maybe pick somebody else up and then you also get your captain back? It's pretty beneficial.
00:53:57
Speaker
That's what professional sports are. It's gamesmanship and trying to bend but not break the rules to your favor. That happens in every goddamn professional sport. That is just a fact. So the NHL is no different, and yeah, I don't view that as a big issue whatsoever.
00:54:19
Speaker
Would I do wonder, in regards to what is viewed as an issue or not, from your perspective here, and it was another kind of bigger topic similar to the Resigka thing, Matt Rempe of the New York Rangers might be the most talked about player in the league right now, despite the fact that he has played in less than 10 NHL games at this point.
00:54:49
Speaker
He has, like, a combined, like, 10 NHL minutes, dude, of, like, actual ice time in, like, five games. It's nuts. In those five games, he has averaged four minutes of time on ice a game, including one game against New Jersey, where he had one shift and played 13 seconds. So, the conversations surrounding Matt Rempe right now
00:55:18
Speaker
is in regards to his consistency in fighting. He debuted in the stadium series game that the Rangers played over the last couple of weeks and immediately fought in his first shift against Matt Martin. Then,
00:55:44
Speaker
On Saturday, after a six day break, on Saturday, he fought Nick Deloria when they played the Philadelphia Flyers. And the next day he fought against Matthew Olivier when they played the Columbus Blue Jackets. He is now at 10 fights.
00:56:04
Speaker
on the season between the NHL and the AHL with a total of, again, five NHL games. And in the AHL for the Hartford Wolf pack, he's played 43 games. So 10 fights over 48 games. Mark Spector put out a tweet
00:56:30
Speaker
Quote, Rempe shouldn't be doing this every day. Someone in the Rangers org needs to take better care of this young man. He doesn't always have to say yes to fighting. It'll be a short career if he does. He is kind of bringing back up the conversation surrounding enforcers and an aspect of the game that we haven't seen on display like this in a while, because this used to be commonplace.
00:56:58
Speaker
You get a younger guy, and keep in mind, this dude's only 21 years old. You get a guy, former sixth round pick, gets a shot at the NHL level, and is literally fighting for his spot, scrapping as much as he possibly can for his spot. This used to be just the way things were.
00:57:25
Speaker
Over the last couple of years, it hasn't quite been that. And now we're getting a glimpse of it again. And it's raising the questions over, is that what people want hockey to be again? Because on one hand, there's no denying
00:57:44
Speaker
It's exciting to see a young kid just kind of show up. Arbor Jack. I is a great example. It's exciting to see a young kid make the league and just be like, I'm going to go fucking crazy and do everything I can to prove that my team should keep me here. But that that's a dangerous line to walk because I don't really have another way to phrase it. If we're calling that a tightrope, you can look over each side.
00:58:14
Speaker
and see a trail of bodies in terms of people who walked the path that Matt Rempe is on right now and paid the price for it. Whether or not it's been the ultimate price or whether or not it's someone like Zenin Kanopka who had a documentary piece about him.
00:58:38
Speaker
in the last couple of years. I believe it was he was interviewed for Ice Guardians, if I'm not mistaken, which was 2016 already. But within that film, you know, it was showcasing just how beaten down and broken his body was by his mid 30s. But again, that's a guy who was undrafted.
00:59:08
Speaker
and who probably wasn't going to make the NHL otherwise unless you rack up, as he did in the 2010-2011 season, 307 penalty minutes. And I don't know the answer. Every time we've talked about fighting, I've always said, like, look, I'd be cool if they just said no more fighting. I would be.
00:59:34
Speaker
But also if there's a really good scrap, like there was between he and Deloria, my monkey brain goes, yay, punch each other. Because I grew up a hockey fan with fighting, I've always said it, like I grew up as a fucking Bruins fan. Yeah, I'm very shy from fighting. Grew up a Bruins fan, always say, I was indoctrinated on Mike Millberry going into the stands and beating a man with a man's own shoe.
01:00:02
Speaker
Like, I'm not that soft, or I'm like, oh, fighting, no, like, yeah, I'll watch the fucking scraps and enjoy them. But there is also that people side of things. And I don't think you can make the argument that, oh, Adam Rosicica, we need to do the best we can to protect him from his own personal choices off the ice.
01:00:26
Speaker
But then say, well, on the ice, hey, fuck it. It's Rempe's choice. If he wants to destroy his brain cells, let him destroy his brain cells. Like, where is that line between protecting the players versus, well, it's their own choice. So let them do what they want to do. And I don't know the answer to that, but I just find it interesting. Those two topics in particular,
01:00:50
Speaker
over how some people feel about the Riziska thing versus others. And then you get the both sides of the coin here for the Renbei thing, where what is the right answer?
01:01:05
Speaker
I'm not sure in general what the right answer is here because there again is that entire history of players being like the only way I'm going to make it to the NHL is if I fucking destroy my body more than being a professional athlete already does. Right like Sidney Crosby is not a fighter but you know that in a lot of ways his body is beat to shit.
01:01:30
Speaker
because that's just the nature of being one of the top 0.1% of athletes in the world. That's just a part of it. Then you have someone who might be a fucking career enforcer and it's like, well, Jesus Christ, like, yes, that was your way of making money and the only way you were gonna make it in professional hockey. But at the same time, is that what you want the sport to be? Where it's,
01:01:57
Speaker
Yep, this is an avenue for you. Like it would suck for some of these guys to not get to live their dream and to make their living in this way, but then what is that line of protecting people from themselves? To say, yes, if we allow this, you could make a living this way, but we're trying to save you from yourself, type of thing.
01:02:21
Speaker
And I don't know. I don't know. It's it's been a topic that's been there for a long time. I mean, the guy in that rent based case, two points, you know, scored his first goal. In the most gritty way possible, he was screening the goalie using his six foot seven frame and it just. But he's got to get it right. He's listed as six, seven on NHL dot com, but maybe six, eight in skates. Yeah, I don't know.
01:02:48
Speaker
I don't know, like on one hand, it's like, yeah, I want to root for Matt Rempe to do well, to succeed in living his dream. But, you know, it's that conversation of can a 21 year old rightfully, even can a 30 year old rightfully look at the consequences of their actions in that regard?
01:03:18
Speaker
and just be like, all right, well, they made the choice. It's fine. And maybe that is the right answer. Maybe it is. It's just, look, there's enough information out there about CTE and the effects of this. So if you're gonna choose to go after this and proceed with this, well, you know the risks, so deal with it. I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. The other aspect of that,
01:03:48
Speaker
is someone else who was in the news over the past week is a former enforcer. Matter of fact, he is still an enforcer to this day. And that is 52 year old Donald Brashear, who was in the news cycle for a fight. And this is one of those things where it's just like, okay, how do we,
01:04:19
Speaker
How do we feel about this type of thing? Now, in Bashir's case, there's been a lot of conversation about money mismanagement from his playing career. He was in the NHL from 1993 until 2010. But there was a lot of conversations about money mismanagement and what it is.
01:04:48
Speaker
The fact is you have one of these guys that walked that line of would he have been an NHLer unless he could fight. And now you see him again at 52 years old getting into fights in the LNAH.
01:05:08
Speaker
So, about that league, and I will say this, that is the like semi-pro league in Quebec. Excuse me. Semi-pro league in Quebec. That is like a fighter's paradise. That league has fights all the time. There is a very famous video
01:05:30
Speaker
um where there was a legitimate line brawl like the entire bench all just going at each other and one dude like fought like four guys on the other team or whatever and it was insane like that league is like if you're a fighter and an enforcer no matter how old you are you're that's that's your that's your haven your your your place to be kind of thing just flat out
01:06:03
Speaker
Like I said, I don't know what the great answer is, but all I know is that it is sad to see Donald Bashir at 52 being like, what's my best way to make a couple hundred bucks a night? 52 years old, get dropped in a fight. I mean, I feel like if you're in that league itself, you know that it's a fighter's league or whatever. That's fair.
01:06:29
Speaker
I think he's definitely aware that it's what he's for. At the same time, you can tell a guy not to do something. He can go do it. You can't really control him in that kind of sense. So if a guy wants to go out there and be in a forest, run a league like that at 52,
01:06:51
Speaker
go for it. He's personally signing up for it. It's not as if teams are throwing him out there on purpose. It's like he wants to go and fight out there, you can go fight out there kind of thing. Yeah. Again, that's the conversation, right? In terms of personal responsibility, the personal choice of what you are going to do.
01:07:12
Speaker
versus what is the responsibility of the sport to say and the NHL especially to be like, okay, we want this to be a thing versus we don't want it to be a thing. What was learned in the aftermath of guys like Derek Bogard, Wade B. Locke and company passing away very young and is that a direction that you're okay with going towards or is that something where it's like,
01:07:41
Speaker
You know, Rempe, we love you, bud, but let's not have this like be the primary way that you're competing in the NHL because it's not going to last. I don't know. Like I said, I don't know what the answer is, but it's interesting that this conversation is still kind of going on in regards to what is the NHL going to be and what is the role of enforcers and what's the standard for fighting going to be and all of that moving forward.
01:08:08
Speaker
To end on a somewhat high note, I also wanted to just validate Red Wings fans really quickly. Detroit currently in a playoff spot and a big part of the reason as to why they are is Patrick Kane, who scored the overtime winner for the Red Wings over Chicago in Chicago over the weekend. Kane is now at 28 points in 27 games played.
01:08:37
Speaker
There were a lot of questions about, is this guy cooked? And the end of last season, yeah, it wasn't looking very pretty. Has off-season surgery, signs, middle of the season with Detroit, and it was gonna go one of two ways. It was either gonna be like, yeah, nope, you're pretty much done, or...
01:08:57
Speaker
It was going to be, oh shit, he's back. And the surgery worked and helps him kind of turn back the clock and get things back under control. And yeah, it's the latter. And Patrick Kane is looking as good as he's looked in a very, very long time. Even from an analytical standpoint, not just from a point production standpoint, because someone like him, even if
01:09:27
Speaker
You know, it looked like like you're a mediocre, you know, when he was playing like the Florida Panthers and stuff like that. It's like he didn't quite have the speed, but he still had the hands and the positioning know how to still succeed somewhat. So Patrick Kane was never going to turn into fourth line scrub. But there was that question of like, OK, can he still be Patrick Kane? The answer after that surgery is yes.
01:09:51
Speaker
So Red Wings fans enjoy, enjoy the run, enjoy the ride. And even Hawks fans get to be happy because it means they didn't get an extra point. They only got the one point and they are currently bottom of the league right now. And we'll end up with Macklin celebrating at the end of this year, probably as well. So that game was weird because like there are several reasons why they should, they were cheering. One, they're close to the celebrating to Patrick Hayes scored.
01:10:21
Speaker
And three, he scored the overtime winner. Like that was, if there was a script writer out there, that is the perfect script because everyone loves seeing everything scripted nowadays for sports. That started like after the pandemic where everyone's like, oh, script writing, Mickey Mouse championships or whatever. Taylor Swift ruining football.
01:10:45
Speaker
Yeah, you know, they're gonna propose and all that. Like they've been dating for like six months. I know celebrities move quick, but like Jesus Christ. Oh God, that was fun. That was a fun time. Remember when Taylor Swift ruined football?
01:11:03
Speaker
By having a combined out, not even an hour, by having a combined less than one minute of screen time throughout the entire game. And she had maybe like 45 seconds during like the celebrations. Ruined football, terrible person.
01:11:30
Speaker
With that, everybody, we're going to wind things down for this week. I want to give Endo a ton of props and a ton of credit as a man who on half an hour's notice said, yeah, we can record. I just woke up, but I'll make it work. Yeah. Yeah, we made it. We did it. We made it. Yeah, my food's supposed to be here in like.
01:11:52
Speaker
Oh no. Oh no, they're on a bike, but they're definitely walking. That's fucking annoying. Okay. Yeah, it's great. Sorry, I'm supposed to get two salads, two salad, and they said they're on a bike, but they're definitely walking because it doesn't take that long to walk from essentially my parents' place to my place. Lying bastards.
01:12:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's even worse when they say, oh, I'm in a car and then they're walking and you're like, my food is now cold. Like if this was a soup, this would not be a soup. This would be a fucking like smoothie. I know what do you have going on in terms of the content creation sphere? Streaming via pro. I'm going to go find my bro, my bro pro, my GoPro for
01:12:47
Speaker
this week because we start playoffs for our hockey team and I kind of want to win a championship and I kind of want to record it because I haven't won a winter season championship and if you win the winter season you get to play you play facilities and then if you win facilities you play Nationals.
01:13:11
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So then all the ASHL teams, they get an invite to go play at the national tournament where you play teams all across Canada. And then you win the championship, you get some money, and you are the top team in Canada. And we played the top
01:13:35
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We play in the highest division that they offer. Um, at least at our arena. So it's kind of like a, it's, it's like, it's C hockey, but it's like nowhere near C hockey. Cause we have a whole bunch of former like BCHL players, junior college, like D1, D3 kind of thing. So it's, it's, it's a deceptive C level hockey. Neat. Yeah.
01:14:05
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So hopefully get the gopro out to record that use one of my headphones as a microphone so I can have me miked up It'll be probably shitty quality. But hey, it's better than nothing Better than crash Andrews in an airport Yeah The bathroom just kind of like record the podcast these she's pissing next to a dude and he's like why are you talking about Rick flair and
01:14:34
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You boys talkin' raslin'? I'll be on the NCAA football streets for a couple of days before headin' to the streets of Greensboro, North Cackalackie. And then I'll be back for a few days to talk hockey on a podcast and stream, and then I'm goin' to Boston. And then finally I'll settle down in the middle of end of March, hopefully. What's happenin' to Boston?
01:15:03
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Big business. Oh, yeah, the business. AEW big business. What pisses me off is they announced another show in like early April in Worcester, Massachusetts. It's like that's too close. It's like less than a month apart. I can't I can't do it. My friends like that's too much. And I'm like, I agree. It's too much.
01:15:27
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I'm not going to that. That'll be the first show somewhat close to me where I'm like, I can't make it. I can't do it. Unless you get a big don't know from a chat member and you're like, oh, I'm going. I'm going. Yeah. No, it's not. It's not a money thing. I could go financially. No problem. It's it's just a logistics thing of like, oh, God, middle of the week and.
01:15:50
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It's like a double dynamite and collision taping. Oh, those. Toronto is supposed to have one of those too. The next one they're having at Coca-Cola Coliseum is like a rampage dynamite collision. It's literally like seven hours of wrestling. 12 hours? No. It's like, oh, those have been at seven. It's like eight, nine, 10, 11, 1130 you're getting out of that building.
01:16:20
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So I'm like, I just, I can't do it. I can't do it, but it's okay. I will live. There was bound to eventually be an AW show in the state of Massachusetts that I couldn't make either living or dead. It was just statistically going to happen. Happy birthday, America. We'll see you next time, everybody. And make sure to join the petition for the Short Kings NHL documentary.
01:16:51
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We'll see you next time.