Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Calgary Flames Game Day + Noodles Joins The Show | FN Barn Burner - December 27th, 2023

Episode Date: December 27, 2023

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How we doing, everybody. Welcome to Barnburner. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas. Was there some Kwanza in there? Did you get a little quons? Mix in a little Kwanza over the last week or so. I'm not sure how that works. There was a Hanukkah or as Smokey Robinson would say,

Chinooka. Happy Chinooka, babe. I don't even know what Chinook is. If you've never seen that clip, it's really great. It was one of those, what do they call it? Cameo. A cameo where you, hey, I would like this famous, to give a personalized message to somebody so you pay some money and they'll do it for you.

And Smokey, he was wishing a happy Chinooka. That's right. He'd never seen Hanukkah spelled out, I guess. And I think it's the more traditional of the spellings. I think there's a few ways to spell it. He was thrown for a loop for sure. He really was. Yeah.

Brilliant musician, songwriter, one of the greatest ever do at Motown. Not an expert. Jewish holidays. No. How are we doing? I have to admit, I'm always a little melancholy after the big day passes.

There's so much type in anticipation. You were loaded up. I've never seen so much chocolate and Christmas and sugar and one pile. Yeah, it was food and food, booze, sweets, everything. The, the,

in excess. Yeah. You call that the Christmas crack? Is that what you called it? It's the Christmas crack, Ryan. There was a lot of reaction to that one more than anything else. I'll have to do a video for it next year. I just saw a stack and I'm like, what is going on here?

Are we dealing in 50 people or is that one man's portion? I'm a little worried. And that wasn't even all of it actually because you have to do the base layer first and then that goes on the barrier on the top of it. Okay. The best get ahead gravy. Oh, really? That I've ever made.

Nice. Um, because if you're not careful, Ryan, the, uh, the sweetness that you get out of the, out of the carrots. Yep. And the yellow onions, the onion, because they're both sweet and it could sometimes just be a little too sweet. I don't like it too sweet. And, uh, man, that added to the turkey drippings. It was, my daughter had one of her friends over yesterday. They had leftovers.

The friend was like, this gravy is so good. It was just out of left feel. I'm like, yeah, you're right, baby. you're right kid you're coming in time cynthia you come back anytime you're welcome did turkey yeah ham

and prime rib for Christmas dinner because you had some photos something Greg had sent you I'm like not just turkey that's very impressive dude I've got a video and I don't have it for it today I'll wait till Warner's on the show I went to bontan to grab this slab of meat on the 23rd

I had a bunch of running around to do and to say it was lined up out the door doesn't do it justice. I know you were there and kind of saw the air working. When he first, I think. It was full chaos. You would know. If you know Bontan, then you'll know what to out the door down the sidewalk, down the side of the parking lot, lined up to the street of people standing in line.

Wow. Absolute. Well, I mean, not chaos inside because I think he said he had 21. or 24 people staff working on the 23rd and it was they had everything here here's the the window of time that you can come and pick up your order

here's what it is and he had the younger guys were just into the like the refrigeration trailer like the semi trailer back in turkey bit and back into the store then back up and back down I can't imagine how many steps and flights of stairs those kids would have put in but damn I uh

I'm not one to toot my own horn in the kitchen. But, uh, because, do you, you toot your own horn? I have high, high standards. You do. I hold myself to a very high, uh, level of, uh, performance in the kitchen. Nowhere else in life, clearly, but in the kitchen. Hmm.

I was pretty proud with, uh, what came across the table. The prime rib, I thought I had lost it because I had turkey in the oven. Yep. Ham's already pre-cooked. So it just went into the slow cooker deal. and I had to do the prime rib roast on the grill outside. So you got to cut you got to be watching that thing. Don't let that temperature because you want to do it low and slow.

You don't let that thing to be. Oh shit. It's 500. Oh, so I was keeping a close eye on it. And then I forgot about it for about half an hour. I was like, son of a gun.

And it was near the end. And you're like, I ruined it. I bought it. I put my, I put my thermometer in there. I was like, oh,

I've 1.30 to 135. 130's rare, 135, you're in that medium rare. I was reading like 145. I'm like, get it off. I overcooked this thing. So I turned it off. I threw the lid open, let it sit there. I brought it inside, wrapped it in foil,

and I let it sit for probably an hour, hour and a half. I was, God damn it. I can't believe it. Ryan, I carved into that son of a bitch. It is, it was the best perfectly done prime rib I've ever made in my life. Wow. delivering on the big day, just like Santa.

If it's too rare, you've got the pink juices, but the pink juice is almost kind of bloody, right? It's like it a little bit more. Or if you cut into it and there's no juice and it's like there's too much brown and there's a little pink. And then you've. It looks like you're smuggle on a hot dog. You've overcooked that bad boy.

Oh my God. This thing was, uh, well done. Damn. I think the key is because we had a bunch of people over. So I was trying to get ahead of everything. So you blanch your vegetables and then into the ice bath so they don't overcook and then you set them to the side. So they're basically cooked. Then you just got to put them in back into the oven or do however you're going to finish them.

And I put the turkey in early. Okay. And it sat for out for, I don't know, two, three hours at least. Really? It was perfect. It was still hot inside. You tent it with the tin foil. Yeah.

And it just sat there staying happy. It was just happy sitting over in the corner getting all happy. Happy, happy. I cut that bastard open and it was juicy. My daughter's favorite part of the meal, she said, were the green beans. I made like a soy glazed green bean. Damn it, Dean, you killed this thing. Gravy through the roof.

Best primer ever. They even like the green beans. Did a cauliflower bake, soy glazed green beans, roasted asparagus. Damn it, Dean. That's a serious feast. Yeah, man. Mashed potatoes, pierogi, sour cream. There's a lot of food left over.

I definitely overdid it. So now it's leftover land. As long as there's lots of gravy, the other stuff will get eaten. Makes me happy. I'm happy with it. How was your, uh, your pig? So we all moved into Gigi and Grandpa's house, which is a lot of chaos. That's, uh, five grandkids, few extra couples, Gigi and Grandpa.

And then my brother has a brand new one. So they didn't do the overnight, but they popped in. So it was full chaos. So there's a lot of eight-year-olds. And so we tried to sleep them in the same room. And of course, that didn't work. So one of them got sent to another place. And then there was a clock in that room that one of the two hyenas was sure.

It said it was 8.30 in the morning. So he thought to go wake everyone up. Yeah. It was a reasonable time. You've slept until 8.30. Probably it was five. So the army was a walk. It's close right.

Five. Yeah, yeah. buzzing and like I'm sleeping I'm like no no no no no no no no no this is too early no no no no no no this is no no no no no so I got hair out to here I come down the stairs in my under I'm like you guys got to get back to bed this is crazy it's 530 in the morning what do you know it's 8 30 dad it's not get your ass back to bed no chance and so had santa showed up by then Santa had been there luckily um but the problem was that you just don't thrive on, you know, three to four hours less sleep than they usually get

because they were already up late. And so we just watched the kids cascade through tantrums, one to the next to the next to the next meltdowns, you know, timeouts, full on the floor supermarket wailing. Like it just, it was a really, really tough go.

We got outside for a shenny game for about two hours, which is good. But other than that, it was just rotating tantrums. Nice. Yeah. We were ready for bedtime right after dinner that night on Christmas Day. All of our bedrooms are on the second floor.

So I take, I went to Home Depot a number of years ago. It's kind of a tradition that I have to do it now, even though they're all older. The caution tape, you know, the yellow caution tape. Oh, yeah. So I caution tape the banister and the stairs and the whole thing. So no one can get through it without anybody hearing that they're trying to get through this tape. So it's not at our house. I negotiated 7 a.m.

At that age, people like sleeping at that age. We negotiated 7 a.m. And I could hear thumping at 6.59. Come on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's early.

But they held out. They did all right. They made it until 7 o'clock. All right. Well, I hope it's good to hear that everybody had a Christmas. It's too many kids, though, for sure. Way too many.

It's to the point where it's like we needed a three, four hour, like everyone hauling ass clean. just to get out of there yesterday. I was like, I don't know if that's a lot of work for a lot of meltdowns and tantrums. It is. Yeah. For the happiest day of the year, it's sure an unhappy time. Yeah, there, there was a lot of, uh, yeah, we got to the point where it was like,

I don't love you. I want a new family. Like three of the four hit that one. We almost hit for the cycle with, with the five, seven, the eight, the eight. Like it was. Look what you did, you little jerk. Yeah, it was a lot of those vibes. Yeah.

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Is that the baby Jesus and all of that? The nativity Zeus. Yeah, Jesus is in there. Some swaddling clothes, that sort of thing. I'm somewhat familiar, yeah. Yeah, yeah. This is mom's place, noodles? Is that right?

Visiting my mom for the day. I flew in late last night and took her for dinner. And then that's her landline. I didn't even know. Landline? Have you got a fax coming in? Jeez. You had a museum?

Yes, I am at a museum. I'm not lying. The Smithsonian. My mom, she just went out for a walk because I'm like, I got to do this. So I'm like, take a laugh. And she loves clocks. Like, it's actually creepy. Like, there are so many clocks in this house.

They're late. Track of time. One, two, three, four, five on the mantle over here. A sixth on the, like, it's. There's clocks everywhere. And if you sit here in silence, all you can hear is the second, like the tick. Yeah, yeah. It drives you nuts.

Oh, well, but Merry Christmas. I hope everyone's good. I'm actually in and out. I'm flying out today. I'm calling a game in Ottawa on Friday, so I have to head back to Toronto and get sorted with the family. So I had Christmas at home and then flew in late last night. Kids along for the trip or just still yourself?

Just me. I literally flown in for 18 hours to see my mom quick hello. And, you know, the kids stayed home. My son's in a little hockey camp. And my daughter wanted to come, but, you know, just it's too quick of a trip. So we're going to do, we did Christmas together, although I heard you guys talking about, you know, meltdowns and all of that type of stuff. We were all right, but everyone had not our family, but everyone in my wife's family had COVID. So we couldn't, we just had to stay home. We usually go to my wife's moms and everyone's there. But they all tested COVID positive.

So we just dropped off presents and stayed outside type of thing and grabbed our presents and went home. So it was a quiet Christmas because the COVID is still hanging around. I guess it is. Yeah. I've heard that. And quite honestly, though, if you wanted to really get away from all the nonsense of family, Christmas. No one's going to question your COVID. No. Gosh, we would love to come over with the dogs and the cats and the kids and

we do have COVID in the house. Oh, no. Yeah, I mean, if you wanted to drop off your gifts for us, that would be fine, but we would really just want to distance ourselves, but make sure that everybody's first day. Yeah, safety first. What you're saying is there's probably people out there that have faked COVID to get out of things, correct? You know, maybe. You know, you know, you know, Maybe. Maybe so. So now your kids are at that age. How old are they?

Because you're right in that awesome wheelhouse. Are you not? Yeah. So my daughter's 11. She just turned 11. So it's everything was Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift. Oh my God.

Pajamas. Taylor Swift, you know, puzzles, everything, books. And then there's this, I can't remember her. Rodrigo. I can't remember her first name. Olivia. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Olivia Rodriguez. Olivia Rodriguez. I got her tickets to that. concert in March. So she was fired up about that. And my son is six and all he does is play what's it called again, Roblox. So he got a bunch of Roblox money and he loves this thing online called LankyBots or Lanky Box or something like that. So he got Lanky Box. Like it's basically two bloggers on YouTube that are idiots and they've got probably 20 million, you know, followers or whatever and my son is one of them.

So he got a bunch of lanky box up. And you like, your favorite is stanky box, which is a different website that you're on all the time. It used to be. Yes. Before a company computers blocked you out of stanky. That's right.

Yeah. That's right. I've got a 12 year old daughter, so it was much the same. It was all very Taylor Swiftish. And we were very fortunate, whenever it was June, July, we got tickets in Toronto.

to one of the shows in November of 2020. Oh, really? Yeah. So this was okay. Now, and one of the neighbors, they all went in to get, they got whatever it is, four tickets, I think was the max you could get. So they got four and two for us, two for them. And they were so excited. The people are neighbors, they are just, I don't know, songbooks, bracelets, sunglasses, books, clothing. It's this whole thing, as everybody knows, to keep, there was no, this was like June. How are we ever going to keep this? a secret until Christmas Day.

There's just no chance. But we pulled it off. And as you can imagine, yes, I understand what you're saying. It was a big day. Yeah, dad of the year right there for sure. But you know what? Like, the more I read about it,

and I think they actually, I mean, I don't know, originally, I don't know if they were like a manufactured couple or whatever, but like they seemed to be happy, but she, he has been red rotten since she floated into his. life. Like I saw a stat yesterday. I think they're three and five since she showed up and he's had one touchdown catch, which is insane. So, and it was like on Twitter, of course, so I don't know what to believe, but it was like Travis Kelsey's list of priorities. And it's like Taylor Swift, his podcast, Pfizer, you know, vaccine and Bud Light. And then catching touchdowns was like five

six. Yeah. He's getting destroyed. That's no fair. He's got a lot going on for sure. The podcast is huge. And all of a sudden, yeah, he's doing designer clothing advertisements and doing a whole bunch of stuff. And yeah, the touchdowns have gone down a little bit, which I think a lot of people are starting to notice. What was it like for you when you were dating a celebrity and you were kind of, you know, a fashion plate and all that during your career? Yeah. never been a fashion plate i'm wearing a grisha that's grech i was going to ask you how the hell did you have where did you get the grech t-shirt uh my buddy chad kruger well there you go stole it from his house at some point i don't know but it's a very comfortable shirt and i travel in it so uh traveling in it today um the my ex-girlfriend was pretty famous eliza slessinger and so she's got what six netflets like specials or whatever um i don't know i mean back then she had one last comic standing and was a headline comedian and she used to come up to calgary and drop in at whatever it was the comedy store or comedy cave or something like

that on the cloud and and uh yeah i mean i don't know i my wife is more famous than me now because she's one of the you know i think she's in upper management of tsn so she's right, my boss. Oh, no wonder you've got such a great gig. That's awesome, noodles. Exactly, exactly. So, but, yeah, I don't know. I've always been second fiddle, put it that way, and always will be.

Did you, did you ever run into that where maybe there was a teammate who was all enamored or got some girl and he was just in love and it was. Like, Dion would have been later, right? Not when you played with him, but Dion, like, that was, that would have been a thing. Yeah, D and Alicia, but that, yeah, that was. way later in life. I will say this, not the famous part, but I've played with guys who have been so obsessed with their girlfriends, it's affected their play. Yeah. Where literally they, they, their new love consumes them, to the point where they're not hanging out with the guys. I can't even imagine in today's world with the money because they would be flying those girls

around as opposed to, because, you know, back in my day at home, You know, everyone had their visitors come. And once in a while on the road, it's like, oh, we're going to New York area for three or four days, fly in, have somebody meet you there or whatever. But back then, you would circle those and go, that's going to be a great time for the boys to go out. That's going to be a great time. Like hockey will get in the way of us enjoying our life in New York, in L.A. Well, Vegas wasn't in the league. But, you know, Florida, Miami Beach.

You know, you planned rookie dinners around that stuff. nowadays with the amount of money, you know, parents travel, girlfriends travel, all of that type of stuff. And I've heard, you know, certain teams have had these that kind of had to sit down with the guys and have these talks. Like, hey, going on the road is about bonding. It's not about bringing your extended family and going shopping. And, you know, I've heard, I had one teammate where he wouldn't take an afternoon nap. He'd go shopping with his girlfriend and stuff. And you're like, dude, just relax.

Like get, you know, the reason you're making all that money is you've got to play in the NHL that night and not be carrying shopping bags. And so everyone goes through the new love phase and all of that. But I have 100% witnessed guys obsessed with their girls to the point where it has affected their play. Yeah. Well, it's funny because it's like to pin all this stuff like we started with Kelsey. It's a little ridiculous. Like that offense is just brutal. Mahomes doesn't look the same. There's no long passes there. I mean, the personnel's garbage. And it's like, of course, the the Swifties are like, oh, so a girl wears a Kansas City Chief's hat in the stands and the 60 dudes on the sideline have

nothing to do with this. And I get that. Like I think there's some truth there. Like they're just not as good, right but but there's also times where it does affect your play i just you know what i would i said this day one and i'm not not being a hero or anything but i felt like he was going to be a distracted athlete it's not like he's not trying it's not like he's not being a pro but if you see it sometimes where guys are younger and single their whole life is their sport and you know and then outside of that it's okay i'm going to be single I'm going to go pick my spots and have some fun and all of that. But then what happens is you meet somebody, you get married, you have kids,

like your priorities change. It's not like there are any less of being a pro. It's just their priorities. It's like, okay, I still play hockey or I play football or baseball, but now I've got a life. And now I've got things that, and sometimes that can be a great distraction. I've talked to my teammate. I remember talking to Craig Conroy and Jerome about that.

when I played with them because they were all married and they all had young children. And what it did was it gave them perspective and which I didn't have that, right? Like where I would have an off game, it lived in my mind for a week. These guys would have an off game. They go home and they see a kid laying in the crib going like, hey, life ain't so bad, where they were able to park it. So it gave them a different perspective. I never had that.

I never had kids still. I was 42 years old. So, you know, I was past my career. I was, you know, kind of set in my ways, but it's different. So I would say some of these distractions can help you be an athlete as well because you're not consumed and it doesn't just eat you alive in the good or the bad situations. We'll talk some hockey. And I like to, because you are in the east.

And I have to, I called it up here. I didn't think Philadelphia was a very good team. and they're third in the metro. And I thought for sure Washington wasn't a very good team. And they're in a wild card. And I thought for sure the Carolina and New Jersey were really good. And they're on the outside looking in. Now there's lots of hockey left.

Yeah. But for New Jersey and Carolina to get back in, a couple are going to have to fall out. How close are we to seeing some sort of a bounce back or one of these, whether it's Washington or Philly or whoever it is, a couple teams tumbling out? Well, I would say Philly. if John Tortorell isn't coach of the year right now, I mean, you know, I'm sure there's others that we just like he's, he's been unbelievable.

Like say what you will about torts. He gets blood from a stone like he does. And, you know, he's changed his attitude. I, or his approach. Attitude, maybe not approach. He's a guy who's an old school, you know, Daryl Sutter, you know, hardened, you know, Mike Babcock's gone. too far. But like, where those guys approach, there's a, there's a shelf life for them.

There's a way that people look at them now. Where Torch has found a way to go, you don't want to play the way I want to coach, you're not going to be on my team. And, you know, it sounds like Kevin Hayes was a guy. Remember Kevin Hayes was his leading score last year? Yeah. Healthy scratch. Like, not liking what you're doing. They trade them to St. Louis. Like it just, he finds guys that want to play for him and play a certain way.

I still think Philly will drop out, but it might be by design. It might be goal. We're going to trade a few players and continue to build the program here and get torts to get blood out of that stone. I think Carolina and Carolina is coming on. They had that dreadful road trip. And then the Ottawa senators are a cure for everybody to get. out of their, their,

uh, their, uh, their slump and they help get them out. I would, I would be shocked if Carolina and New Jersey didn't trade for a goalie and, and, and,

and, and, and, and, and, I, I, I don't know if they're calling Calgary or if they're calling Anaheim for Gibson.

I'm, you know, we've gone through this. Like, what's the list of goalies that are available or potentially available? You call Montreal for Jake Allen. you know, Jake Allen's kind of a step down below the guys that we just talked about, if it's Calgary and Markstrom or Bladar would kind of be in the Allen conversation.

Again, what has John Gibson got left? He's got lots left of contract. I don't know what he has left. But those two teams, boomer, those are the ones. I think they come in, but you're right. Like does Washington drop out? Does Philly drop out? You know, Washington's getting good goaltending like that.

Kemper's come on. He's played really well. I don't know if they got the new coach bump and Spencer Carberry, but they seem to. I watch him at the start of the year. They looked old and slow. And then Baxterm looked old and slow. And then he stepped out of the picture. And they've got some young guys that have pushed through. And, you know, they might be there. Like the crazy part about the East is that everyone's involved. Like it's, you know, even, I mean, Ottawa just got their first win in six the other day or in seven. They're at 20. four points, but I think they've got five and six games in hand still on teams. So we'll see if they can get their act together and make themselves competitive. Detroit has dropped off a little bit. They lost, I think the Patrick Kane effect, weren't they like winless in seven or something? Yeah, it has not worked for them so far. He was on the board the other day. He's had points.

He's got a point streak, but they're out winning. But they're not getting saves either. It's James Reimer. That's it. you know and and Huso's been injured and man like it's there's like I said there's five or six teams that are really unhappy with their goal tend including Toronto for Samsonoff's been a mess yeah I I wonder about Carolina because they feels like they're so close right they're just they're a bounce or remember last year we didn't get swept well yeah you did maybe you kind of did

get swept but out of I feel like New Jersey they've got time it feels like for The pressure has to be somewhat on Carolina here because they've been so close for a while. Not that their stars are aging out or anything, but Brent Burns is still playing some pretty good hockey. There's got to be some pressure there to get something on. I would be proactive with two guys. They're deep from one to six or seven, I think are as deep as anybody. So if you could move DeAngelo and or Peschi, like Pesci's a guy I would really circle. Like, I like him.

I think he's RFA, I think, or. expiring contract needs a new contract. I'm not sure if it's you or R. I think it's you, but I'll check. Yeah. But they're deep enough there that if you move Pesci, you'll get a King's Ransom for him, and then DiAngelo could go up,

even though I don't know if they like his attitude or whatever, but he's a good player, regardless of the... Is he an RFA or a UFA? Pesci's a you, and the reason why we're talking about it because they're used. If it's R, you have team control. You've got to make decisions when guys are used. So that's why she's been right back to the offseason in conversations. Yeah.

Well, I just, I would. Pretty Shea as well. Geez. I would be shocked if Carolina didn't move one of those players and try and get a goalie. Because they need a goal. They can't get a stop. Like that Kachetkoff, you know, Rant, I saw they called Ranta up. So it would be interesting to see if they gave them, maybe the miners gave them a little bit of like perspective.

We were just talking about earlier and go. okay this is my last kick at the NHL here like I'm going to come up and and be a difference maker so we'll see if that move worked but you know Carolina I think has a chance to get back I think just New Jersey's got to be proactive they got a lot of good young players there you can probably part with one or two of them to get a really good goaltender if one's available. They just called up Nico Dawes as well so they got Vanichick Schmeet and Dawes which is like both Carolina and Jersey have just not got saved. at all. They're rotating through huge casts of guys. They've each played three, four goalies this year. I don't know if you saw that Edmonton, New Jersey game. That was nonsense. Like, it was absolute nonsense. Like watching that, New Jersey was up three, two, and Edmonton scored three goals in two minutes. And McDavid's goal, if you look, Vanichick was facing the wrong way in the net. He was facing the net. He had turned around. I don't know, he spun himself in a corkscrew.

and he was facing the wrong way in the net, trying to make a save with the back of his head. And McDavid just like stick handle it, fired into the net. Ray Ferraro was calling the game, and I text him, and I said, what the hell is that goalie doing there? And then not even 30 seconds later, Adam Ernie comes down and on two on one and cuts to the middle of the net,

and Banichick ends up in the corner. He just handed them the net, like go and shoot it in the wide open net. It was insane what was going on there. And to me, if I'm Tommy Fitzgerald, I'm like, I've got to be hunting for a goaltender. We joked in the Kariramo days that we'd see his name bar almost every time the flames are on TV. And that's not a good angle for it. I always said, I don't ever want to see your name bar on TV.

There's no reason. We know who you are. Believe me. I make light of it. But like, I've been in these situations where you're like, this is facing the wrong way. And you're like, this is not. good when my face is in the netting and the puck is out there. And it is traumatic.

And I can only imagine what the guys in the bench are thinking like, what the hell is that guy doing in there? Again, I always talk about goaltending, how it affects the confidence of the group or the guys just sitting on the bench because I sat there for many years listening to the comments of guys going, what the hell is he doing back there? Or what is going on? Or, you know, forwards yelling back to D. D yelling to forwards and then all of them yelling at me going,

tell your goldender partner to wake up or tell this guy to stop passing it. I was like a bartender on the bench just listening to everybody complain. So I know full well the thought process of guys on the bench. We're coming out of the Christmas break, but we went into it with the Vancouver Canucks, the number one team in the national hockey. That's high on the list of things I didn't see coming. That's your coach of the year, by the way.

You'd said that Torque, but this is better. I knew that I misspoke, but let's just say east and west then, because Torz has done a hell of a job because I thought Philly was going to be a bottom feeder. I thought at least, I will say this in my defense with Vancouver. At the start of the year, I said if those star players ever got it together, like all on the same page, Demko Healthy, Hughes actually playing more of like a well-rounded game instead of just a North game. And then Patterson is a star. Like, and then you throw in Miller and, you know, supporting cast. The guy I've always said, and I'll say this 100% respectfully, that garland, he's a mutt of a player, which I totally respect where he's gritty, he's small, he's got hands and he's kind of a pain in the ass to play against. I'll never forget watching a

game. He was playing in Arizona. It was Arizona. It was Arizona. to Edmonton. He scored two goals against Evanton. Both of them went off of his face. I remember that. Yeah, that's right. Standing in the crease and the puck went by Talbot

and hit him in the face and went in the net. And I was like, what is going on? Like that guy was just, and I remember thinking, okay, $5 million was too rich for him to, you know, to be that type of player. But when you've got guys, you know, Kusmenko was a healthy scratch. And then he's come back and scored two in his last game. they've got some players there the kid they macaille they got out of Toronto you know he's he can

fly and um hold j t miller right t miller they you know j t miller i wouldn't sure if they're going to trade him and keep him he he's got this arrogance to him that i love like he he you know there's nights where they're on him because he doesn't try on the back check or things but man he comes to play like he's a competitive guy you know mckeyev that hoaglander he's a smaller gris video guy, he hits like a freight train. Like they've got some players that Dakota Joshua, that third line is solid. So you look at it,

am I surprised that they're first in the NHL? 100%. But I thought they would be sniffing around a playoff playoff spot. Put it that way. But I totally misjudged them. And they started game one against Evanton and they haven't let up. And it's again, show me teams get good goaltending. I'll show you the surprises.

show me teams that didn't and we'll be surprised the other way. We just talked about Jersey. We just talked about Carolina. Now we're talking about Vancouver. A healthy that you, Demco is an elite goalie. It does. And I know you kind of mentioned it there, Ryan,

in there as well as Brock Bester, who's had an unbelievable loss in terms of goal scoring. So it's a lot of Demco, but it's kind of, it's, there's a trickle down effect for sure where there's some guys that are really having fine here. You start to look at their roster and you're like, okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty good.

like you're waiting for the drop-off and it's like, that's not really a drop-off. And some sneaky moves under the radar is, you know, the defenseman. They got bigger and kind of, they have that like that Vegas mold. You know, some monsters on the back end now. And where they brought in the coal,

I think, and is it Sosie? Christian Sussi. Yeah, Carson. Carson. Carson Sosie. Like those guys are big dudes, you know, and they play kind of a meaner style. I remember Ray Ferraro's saying.

and one of the GMs told him he'd rather have, you know, trees back there instead of shrubs. I thought that was a great, great line where you've got some big monsters on the back end that clear the front of the net. So, you know, Vancouver's got it going right now and they deserve to be there. It's funny. I think someone had noted, like Alvin had at one point not that long ago, made five of the last eight trades in the NHL. Like it's really tough to do business. They've found a way there. They've moved some pieces around. They go get the cap space to go get Zedorov.

you know, the Chicago loses Taylor Hall immediately like, oh, here's a guy, take this guy, go, go, Beauvillia, you're off here. Take his money and away you go type of thing. And he had been pushed down in the lineup anyways. It was a perfect fit, you know, and the Perry situation. So they lose Hall and Perry. And here, here's a player that you can, we can free up some money and then bring Zadorov in. And Zadorov's been another, you know, a pretty good addition.

But, you know, it's easy for us to say, because when you're dealing with, like from a position of strength, you're not going to overpay. You're going to you're going to pay what you believe. And I know there's a lot of people in Toronto that were pissed about the Zadorov deal going a third and a fifth and Calgary didn't need any money. Why didn't Toronto do that? You know, and I don't know.

I don't know what tree was offering Connie. But at the end of the day, it didn't get done. So, you know, I know, and like they do have money to spend in Toronto. and they have to be proactive because, you know, that team has some holes on the back end and the net. I don't want to take too much of your time. We're going to let you get back to visiting there. Two things. You are a movie Buffet, aficionado.

Two questions. One is Die Hard a Christmas movie and two, Best Christmas Movie. Yes, it's a Christmas movie for me, Die Hard. I just, I don't know why. I've seen the arguments online. That's why. And I've tried to like, I don't, maybe it's. it's the first time I saw it was at Christmas.

I don't know. I don't. And it's because isn't it, isn't it around Christmas shooting? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like it's a Christmas movie. But what would be the counterargument against it being a Christmas?

Nothing about the movie has any to do with Christmas, I believe is the counter argument. Like it's set around Christmas, but it's not like, hey, come down the stairs and gather by the tree, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. not a guy in a Santa suit.

Yeah. It's not home alone. One of the best Christmas movies, although it's bad Santa for me. Yeah. Which is so politically non-correct. Yeah, that's not great. I remember seeing that in the movie, like almost falling out in the theater and almost falling out of my chair, because it was so jarring where you're like, did he just say

that? Did he just do that? Like, and then the other one sneak under the radar, it's at Christmas time. And I guess, remember trading places? Dan Aykroyd is. Eddie Murphy. And a suit and he's stealing the salmon and like he's like that one, Eddie Murphy. And that one is a classic. But you got to go back a while. But I would say bad Santa. I've always got time for that. Although nowadays, if I'm watching it, I have to make sure I have my headphones on and stuff because it is so, John Ritter, the late Jack Tripper from Three's Company is in it, which is he's so uncomfortable when Billy Bob Thornton is talking to him. It is such a great, like, I don't know, there's so many things in that movie that are just so wrong, but right, I love it.

Jarring, yeah, it's that juxtaposition between the sweetness of Christmas and then this guy who is just a deplorable human in every sense. Yeah, and it just, you know, there's the old lady who's passed out in the chair and then she wakes up, I'll make you guys some sandwiches. Like, everything about that movie is just so offside. But I enjoy it. So that's my, that's my. And diehard, I don't know. Diehard's around Christmas, but I've always felt it was a Christmas movie based on the timing of when it was released.

There you go. You're a sweet boy for going to see your mom out of boy, Jane. Oh, isn't he? Yeah. That's very nice of you. What time is it, by the way? Yeah, what time do you have there? 1045.

If there's any way for you to know. First, the baby manger. There it is. There it is. There you go. And the clock. And the clocks. Clocks, yeah, show us the clocks.

We're out of here. Jeez. That's a lot. Oh, you're the best noodles. Merry Christmas, buddy. Everyone will chat soon. Appreciate you. There you go.

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Making the future friendly, it's Tell us. Learn more at tellus.com slash gives back. Do your parents have anything kind of weird, kitschy stuff in their house? My mother-in-law is the worst. And we only go to Australia like once every few years. But knick-knacks everywhere. There's not a surface that anything can be placed on of something like the counter and the table.

Everything else has junk on it. Just cheap, shitty knick-knacks. Yeah. It's horrible. My mother-in-law in the kitchen used to have kind of decorative. I don't even know what you call it. It's very kitchen. Like chickens.

like the carving of a chicken, which you wouldn't think is a thing until you start looking for it. So then I would buy her a chicken for the chicken wall every Christmas. And she felt the guilt that she had to put it up. Yeah. But she would kind of mean,

oh, I think we're probably good on the chicken wall. Enough chickens, Dean. There's less. There's never enough chickens because you're going to have to put these chickens up. And eventually the chickens just all came down. It was not a very subtle stop buying chickens.

but it all came to an end one year. So that was kind of, I'm trying to think. I don't know that there's much else. Ha, chickens, the old chicken wall. Sad, sad, but true. Missed that, eh? Really do, yeah. Yeah, really miss.

How was the, uh, how was the in-law quotient this, uh, last week? We had none. It was, uh, no, they were bracing for a while. They were, uh, mother-in-law, grandma is back in Manitoba, her brother went, uh, he lives in Vancouver. he went out there to visit with her and sister-in-law and her husband are in Manitza there in Winnipeg so they made the trip to hang out there for for Christmas so yeah it was uh just us and family friends here over the 23rd 24 25th that's a big wind saw my auntie some family on the 23rd but yeah it was a lot of people we do a big uh Christmas Eve we've we've really kind of horned in

on somebody else's tradition they they would do big seafood feast on Christmas Eve. Oh. And we got invited one year and we've just kept going. So it's crab legs and bacon racks scallops and lobster. Yeah, it's just a steady parade of food. That's excellent because there's no concern about overlapping with the Christmas night meal the next day. That's right.

Totally different spread. Love that idea. Well, now you can take it too. You can horn in too. There's lots. We've got to everybody. The 23rd, we do a Tibbs Eve, which I believe is like a Newfoundland screech themed evening with some family friends.

And we do a cousins get together. So there's the double header there before, after burner. And then the 24th, it's always tortier, or tortier. Tortier, yeah. Yeah, which is always amazing. And then obviously the turkey and the gravy was sensational this year. Excellent work, Gigi.

Incredible gravy. Hey, you mess up the gravy. You could lose Christmas. And to be fair, like, sometimes the turkey's not perfect. Or you're like, what's up with this turkey? This guy's, he's been a little tough or whatever. whatever, good gravy solves all those problems. If the potatoes aren't quite right, if the stuffing's too dry, if the birds, you can cure a lot with a good gravy, but then all of a sudden, if the gravy is no good,

you're handing it under the table to the dog to snotts underneath the, uh, the tauts, that's the name. That's a good. Are you all by yourself there in, in studio? Yeah, Jack goes at home. I'm here. I'll be alone again tonight as we have afterburner. and I think Cammy's going to join me from somewhere in Interior BC.

And then, yeah, I guess we'll have a recorded show run tomorrow. And then we've got some guest hosts on Friday. Nice. We're trying to take care of it. We're trying to do our best. Second time in here post show, by the way. And it's now getting tidier. It's finally a good hour plus.

I did feel starting empty. Yeah. You did it last year. Don't feel guilty. There was two things. I left without taking any of the barn burner blonde. It was later in the day. I didn't take any of the.

Yeah. I got people coming or I didn't take any of the beer home. But I also didn't do any of the cleanup. I just kind of wrapped up my stuff and walked out. And yeah, it was a bit of a, there was a bit of cleanup for sure, I think, to be done. We've got a lot of, next time we get noodles too, we got to sneak attack them with that special beverage we got there. That's right.

Yeah, yeah. We had noodles on the drinky show. Oh. We did too. Yeah, if, uh, if you haven't, I didn't even know. Forgot noodles was on the show. I don't, well, I kind of, yeah, because he was in so quick. I knew on him because he was in the middle of, we did the,

Freddy, is it a commercial break, wasn't he? We did the holiday spirits show last week on Friday. And I texted, because then Regier came on. Yeah. And I said, I texted noodles. I'm like, Regier, we're having drinks. We'd love to get you on. I can come on for like 90 seconds.

I'm doing my own radio show. And it's video, right? So he's on camera on his own show. So I don't know if he stopped that stream and then got a boom, he came on, told a great story and got out. That's the mark of a very funny person who could just kick the door in. Hey, how you doing? Here's a quick little hitter.

And I'm out. Boom. And people keep talking about you after the fact, after you're gone. It was perfect. Now I was going to say, do we even direct people to that show? Or do we just kind of leave it there? Well, I know some people were, you see it, you see it? Some people were miffed that it didn't show up in their Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Google,

streams. It is available on YouTube only. It is a YouTube exclusive. It is. What would be, if you were going to give some things, if you were making a sizzle reel or making a trailer for it, what would be on that trailer? Jay Rosehill wanted to talk about people's wives. Oxy Brad checked in from down under

where it was very early but it was also getting drinking. Yeah. I couldn't order pizza for my life. It's not your wheel hose. Yeah. And Tim the Boos guy is kind of like Ozzy Brad in the sense that they're just undefeated. Anytime you got him in the room, things are going really well. Yeah.

I would just say mayonnaise. Oh. That would be just mayonnaise would be one. Okay. Jay Rose Hill was shot out of a can. I'm trying to think if Ace Ventura was the breakout performance for Jim Carrey. It was. It was.

It was. The 2023 holiday spirits show has to be the breakout performance for Jim Rosal. Oh, without question. And he was all pissy at me. He kept saying it. Pinder got me here at like 9.30, 10. I'm like, well, yeah, you're the fucking MVP. We got you some warm-up reps, and he came in a little warmer than everyone else,

and that worked for the shows. Yeah, it's given me heat. Yeah. And much like with Jim Carrey, he was on in Living Color, he had done stuff prior to Ace Venture. Also, Jay Rose Hill is on Weeks Morning Take and all of that sort of thing. Yeah. This really is the breakout.

Put him on the map. The other thing is, and we'll get to it in the Pender report, uh, you had to go there with the shit my pants stories, didn't you? Come on. We gave you the uncensored gift of the George Brett shit my pants story. Yes. Jade never seen that, by the way. He was like,

I could tell by his reaction. I could tell he was, yeah, it's a beautiful thing, isn't it when you find people that haven't seen it? Fucking All the Famer. Biked up for spring training. Yeah.

Close. Oh, I got these fresh new crab tails. I'll bring them right out. You can check. that out on YouTube. A YouTube exclusive, as you said. That's right. Let's, I don't even know what to do.

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and online at VillageHonda.com. Here is the Pinder Report. Did you notice, Anthony swung by for the drinky show, but was gone before the carnage had happened? I did notice that, yeah. In a move. Yeah, a quick hitter. Yeah, I'll come and say hello and wish everyone to Merry Christmas.

He dropped off a bottle of some fancy Dutch passion for liqueur. Yes, he did. Which is quite lovely. And then he just said, yeah, looking around, like, I'm getting out of here before there's blood and fingerprints and, you know, a cop squad here. Before the cameras go on, I will make my leave. Anyway, savvy move. We'll start with Calgary Flames. Do you know they are in action tonight against the Seattle Cracken, a team.

team that, well, maybe not that dissimilar from the flames. Let's take a look at the standings in the Pacific Division, and it does indeed show the Cracken and Flames not separated by much. There they are. Four and five in the Pacific, same number of points. Games played rather similar. There's a bit of a shelf after the L.A. Kings there, though, I noticed. It's a bit of a...

Yeah, and again, you look by points percentage that tells a bit of a different story. Edmonton's at 500, which certainly isn't great, given the two of the best five players on earth play there. But it's, yeah, I would put Calgary and Seattle in the same box. If everything goes right, maybe you could squeak in. And if things don't go right, you might pick in the top 10. And that feels like both these teams right now. It does. There's the wild card. Again, the points percentage a little bit misleading. Ebenton would be above Calgary. Minnesota, I looked at it. Remember when they brought John Hines in? Yeah. Absolute heater since. I think they're like six, two and one or something like that since then. Like it's,

But it's, to your point, it's the same, it's kind of that same thing. You start getting a good goalie and you become smarter as a coach. Their goaltending turned around. Matt Boldy started to score. Superel has been good all year. Caprizov, Kipersoff. Caprizov has come on. So yeah, Hines is, whatever it is he's done there.

He's kind of got them invested. And I feel like that's a playoff team. Yeah, 113 points. Two years ago, 103 last year. Then we're going to miss this year. At least I don't think they would. And there they are in position already to get into a, wild card in the short term. So that's a look at the two sets of standings.

We did talk about the gauntlet run. It's now done. So the strength of schedule thing is just there's no more toughest part of the schedule. That's done for the flames. They somehow squeak out with a 7-6 and 2 mark, which is bleep and ridiculous. Sort of thought they got considerably outclassed by L.A. in that last game. But look, that's 15 games. One of them's bad. That's a really, really impressive stretch. And we'll see what happens to the likes of Carolina and Jersey, but you probably saw them at the right time of year rather than them not being good. The rest, it's tough to say, isn't a collection of cup contenders. And over 500. Stupid. And here we are. Listen, I was the guy with the big

mouth and said, talk to me on the, after the 23rd. Talk to me. By the time we get there, we'll know what they are. It'll be all very clear to everybody. And it's the same. We're no Yeah. Well, and we do know what they are, I guess. It's, it's the rate in that bubble area, which is where you didn't want them to be, which is what we spent all offseason talking about. The one thing you don't want Craig Conrad have to deal with is being on the bubble going into the deadline. Now, you got till March 8th. There's lots of runway left. It's two months in a couple weeks, but you really, it does muddy the waters if this team's within striking distance of a playoff spot. And it really makes you hope that there's still some good. perspective on a plan that, you know, you're going to have a new rink in three, four years. Do you want to be really competitive there or do you want to just sort of be a bubble team all the way through there? I mean, it's, if you look long term, you can absolutely make a great case for selling your UFAs. If you look just at the standings this year, you could also say, we got to keep TANF. You know, we can't work without Lindholm. Haniffin's too important.

We got to extend them at a huge number. It's a really interesting spot they're in and they don't have to make those decisions now. You certainly field calls. You understand what the markets are. I just hope they're not in this spot on March 5, March 2, March 1. I just, I'm going to show you a little something here. Before we move on, I know it's the Pinder report, but Pinder is in

because you had kind of said, if they go 500 on the gauntlet run, they can make the plan. I'm believing that this team. I think Minnesota and Edmonton are better teams. So the question is what, who can they reel in? Because I, I know it's not look good for Edmonton. There's just too much there to, to not get in in my mind. I feel the same way about Minnesota to a lesser degree. Could you catch in Arizona? Of course you could. Could you

catch St. Louis? Of course you could. I mean, I just, I, I, I, I wished it was going differently. I liked when we said, oh, they're going to pick fifth overall if the draft was tomorrow. I mean, to your point, if those, if those two teams you're talking about, if they're performing in the fashion you would expect that they would be. You might still have the same record, but you would be further, 500 would be fine. 500 should not be having you in any kind of playoff conversation. So I'm not trying to take away. You know what?

They've been competitive. They've worked hard. They've won games. We didn't think they would. You can't help but give them credit. But if you are clamoring for some sweeping change and getting younger, it's not exactly what you were hoping for, I guess. No, and there's still time.

And I still think they will get younger. and I still think they will have the long-term vision. But it's just, this is not a spot you want to be in in two months, safe to say. Safe to say. Okay. We'll move. We got some news on the old crackens. They're a little dinged up as they come into Calgary tonight.

No Schwartz, no Berkovsky. No Grubauer. That might be good. No Pierre Edward Belmar. Here's what they do have. They just added Tomash Tatar from Colorado. Remember that swap right before the break, Dino? Tatar snapped a long.

goalist drought against the flames when they passed through there. And suddenly, boom, he was off to Seattle where he's had a pretty good start. He's playing top line with Baneers and Eberley. Tanna of Wenberg, McCann, McCann had 40 last year on the second line. Tolvenin last year's waiver claim, Yanni Gord, and Oliver Bjork Strand wrapping up the top nine there. And again, that's without Schwartz, without Burakowski. That's a, it's a deep, if not star-studded group. you know what they're workers yes there's a couple of flames like you said mccan can mccan is goal

scorer everly's a fine player baneers is a i think he's a star in the making but outside they got some there's some skill but some hardworking fellas there back end looks like this uh viny dunn adam larsson those uh yeah dunn's had a monster offensive season last year alexiac and larsson played a lot earlier the Twin Towers, they've separated him. Old Billy Borgon, the old expansion draft, fake name, still on this team and contributing. Dublin and Riker Evans, who was on the Pats, a draft pick of a few years ago.

He's up with the big squad after that long run with Coachella Valley last year as they went all the way to the final. It's an okay team. It's not great. It's not bad. It's probably a bubble team. Should be a dandy at the dome. Yeah, and look, it's a festive time of year.

these are always fun games to go to. You get to a game between, like I want to say, the 20th and the 1st of January, there's a little extra pep in everyone's step. Not a lot of people worried about work the next day. Yeah, there's a lot of people walking around like this. Yes, yeah, yeah. Those aren't binoculars.

It's a different kind of... I don't have to work tomorrow. There's a lot of that going on. Yeah, lots of that. Yeah. It's the holiday spirits indeed. Flames news, they have a player at the World Juniors, a single player, which would be a little bit want-while,

except that this player is very recently selected quite high in the first round. It's Samuel Hansek of the Vancouver Giants, the Slovakian. Another goal this morning, Dino. Let's have a look. Create the turnover. They close, but they're in position, tracking back, and then Repcheck with a nice little move. He loses the puck a little bit.

Oh, yeah, just all skill there. No. Tena, you're not nowhere to go. Tucks it in. and Slovakia, good-looking squad at this year's tournament. It's been a lot of years where Slovakia's not been very competitive. They're back. They're looking like one of the big hockey nations again, which is nice to see.

Here's the pike bomb. Hansik through two games, two goals, a helper, three points, six shots, plus four, two game winners. What you wanted to do is go and stand out and look like he's too good for the competition. So far, so good for Hansik. That's a boy. sonzik Hanning Janzik

Hanzzy Hanana Januka Deano Dino congratulations you my friend have a one way ticket to the media hacks fantasy football

finals look at this you against McBride it's the stick and barn painters against the rap Jays Blow terrible name always has been and you know what it's a shot at you right? That's what that is.

It's a shot at every. McBride clearly does not believe in that there's only one team in Canada. People should cheer for them. No. I guess. No. And love McBride. We've sent out a sonar. I don't know what corner of the world he's vacationing in, but we're going to see if we can't get a little smack talk for you at some point here.

We've just kept a very even keel. We've kept things very quiet. There's been no trash talk. We're just out to we lost T.J. Hawkinson. so we're scrambling a little bit. Yeah. But, uh, I enjoyed a tight end slot now.

Had a nice victory, uh, last week against my buddy red. Simply the breast. Um, who do you have in the tight end slot right now? You worried? He's, you scoured? I, uh,

I, I went and picked up, uh, Gerald Everett. Yeah. Who you will know, uh, very well. Don't mind that with these can stick. That's the security blanket. Yeah, that's right.

And, uh, I can never remember how to say his name from, uh, Titans. Oh, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kig. A, you know, that guy. That's the one. A con quo.

I drafted him. He's been utterly useless for the first two-thirds of the season. Yeah. Okay. Good luck to you. Thanks. Thanks, preish. Have you, how many titles do you have on the mantle from this league?

One. Do you? Yeah. Okay. One championship. I don't know. Listen, here's the thing. I know what the points thing there, and actually it was 98, 95.

that was with my zero at Hawkinson. So I think I'm up over 100 projected points. But listen, McBride was the number one team in the regular season. One two all year. This is good. Right? He was the top team. He beat me.

We just hope to keep it close. We just want to be respectable. Coming in as a huge underdog, we can just hope to not embarrass, not embarrass our fans. And so as soon as Rett pays his league dues, everyone else paid in September. We'll be ready to send over $1,000 plus dollars to the winner of this.

I thought he faxed you a check. Yes, that's right. The man with 30 million career earnings is the only one that hasn't paid league dues. Yeah, super, super reliable. All right. We'll move. You know what I love about the NBA? What's that?

Not this. It's happened last night. The final minute of the Grizzlies and Pelicans took 18 real minutes to complete. It's hard to get around unless you're a huge fan. It really is. Oh, my God. It just kills me. I even remember when the Raptors won the championship.

It was like, like, when do you celebrate? It's over, but it's not over. Like, oh, we're done. Another timeout. Great. What are we doing here? How many timeouts do you get? Are we doing?

It's too many. It's too many timeouts. It's too many. Yeah. And again, our boys at the surge and the CBL, they figure this out. They go to the target score. Screw it. Let's go.

Let's go. Yeah. Into the dumb shit. Let's do it. Nice. Now we got some video. I believe this is your squad in the backyard, a little Christmas football, a boomer family tradition. Yeah, we love it.

Yeah, here it is. 42, move, 42, 7, 784, 84, 84. Hey, hey, hey, here we go, here we go. There's it. Huh, hi! Oh, hey. Oh, my God. Geez.

A heavy hit, Dean? Hope everyone's up here. See, we were trying to, we were trying to draw them, right? Yeah. That was fourth down. Jeez. They were not fooled by the play call.

Yeah, I've read the Jagger jersey on there. Really unloaded. That's a heavy hit. Now, you're fooling around at home at Christmas, and I think this is your second kid. They always love making the slide down the stairs, but it's a little dangerous, especially as they get older.

I think the cushions at the bottom are supposed to, but then the feet kick him out and. Oh. That's right in your feet jam on the wall too. That's no good. Cotsets caught that. Cockcanyemi? Oh.

Yeah. The cushions really didn't do much. No. What are they? Like, do people just have shoots like that hanging around the house? I don't know what's going on. there. Yeah. Now, the more traditional slide, you'll see at Playgrounds. I don't know what was happening here, but someone was trying to, you know, keep everyone within the boundaries of the rules.

So there's security police. I don't know. Let's have a look. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I have seen that one. And there's actually been debate. Is it AI? How did he come it? It looks like a dummy at first, but the way he rolls, that's a real human. Yeah, that's a real human. And obviously he went down fees first and then got corkscrewed somewhere he's coming down. Oh, a little taser popped off in there, a little flashlight. What is this? Our tax dollars hard at work. Yeah. Keeping everyone safe. I guess in the aftermath of our wonderful storytelling segment we had on the holiday spirit show, I thought of you when I heard this new rendition of a Christmas carol. Please be a fart. Please be a fart.

Please be a fart Should be fine if I don't push too hard Please be a fart Please be a fart Should be fine if I don't push too hard I need a bathroom Because I just shitted I just shied it

Oh my god Yeah She did S-H-D-D-D So there you are. That'll be in your head for the day. You're welcome. Yeah, well, yeah, the day.

It's going to be at least maybe a week. A week of shitted. At least be apart. The Warner's sent this video in. It looks like Rhett and Rob Ray were at it again. And you know, Rhett's a big, big fan of the cold plunges. What is it, Wim Hof? That's right, yeah.

Wim Hof. So Rhett was trying to do a cold plunge here with Rob. Let's have a look. From Chile. People are just so... First off, there are larger sizes of undergarments. You don't need to sausage yourself into those things. Yeah.

Are you saying those don't fit? I mean, for what? I, like, you're losing. That's probably the right size. You're jumping on ice. What do you think is going to happen? You're going to look like, I think he's fooled because there's little patches where there's no ice.

He's like, oh, yeah, this will be, we'll go right through wrong dude is concussed yeah that's no bleno because it's like hard hit land right on the the ball the lower back like and then the head clap and then into the cold water that's a full nightmare sequence yeah that's there's a lot of real enjoyable moments going on there anyway good to see he's enjoying his christmas with silly rat rob yeah that's right that's your Pender report today, Dean. There you go, Village Honda. Wishing all of you and yours.

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they're just kind of tired of it? Yes, I'm ready. I think it was yesterday. We finally unpacked from Gigi and Grandpa's got home and I immediately put on some non-Christmas music and I got the, oh, so we're done with Christmas music, are we? Yep, I know. Yes, we are.

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was it Thursday or was it Friday I'm sure it doesn't matter anyway we made our football picks our point spread picks for Betway last week yes the week has come and gone and in fact we're almost ready for week 17 so let's uh let's see how we did I kind of forgot I can never remember

but uh betway bet the responsible way with Betway Look at your bears hey Never a doubt Never doubt Yeah yeah Uh the giants we're getting 14 points essentially.

It's just too many. That's so many points. Just take the points. And even though Tommy Cutlets didn't make it to the end of that game, I reckon. Tyrod's allows now. Giants cover. The bears do cover the minus four.

And the Buffalo Bills had their hands full. I thought they were going to crush the chargers. They did not. They won. Allen, no Herbert. What are we doing here? here bills. Yeah. So anyway, there are two, I'll go two for three for the week, moving to 25 and 20. It's a tiny record, you know, that by good goodness, if we can just get to the end of the regular season,

got to be 500 or better. You're, uh, you're in good shape. You need basically one more win to guarantee that. You're in great shape. Uh, okay, well, I'm looking at this. Miami's been very good to us on the, uh, the spreads. I mean, one hiccup in the last two months, it feels like. They, they, they were good. Cincinnati was not stupid Mason Rudolph Rudolph at Christmas how do you bet against that you idiot and yeah I also thought I would take 22 and a half for the Chargers who just lost by a billion to the Raiders instead it was the last minute field gold for the bills that got them by one and two

not great I got some work to do if I'm going to $500 you may need to pivot from your strategy I think I have to it was a nice hot run but it's done oh oh Dean? If only Redd were here, if you're watching on screen, Red goes 0 for three.

He had Dallas, San Francisco, and Buffalo, as we mentioned, the bills did not cover. San Fran lost outright. They were a five and a half point favor. Four picks for Purdy.

Didn't finish the game. And Dallas at Miami, he took the point with the Cowboys and not to be done. So now we, Rhett and I, I guess, sit with a,

25 and 20 record with two weeks to go. I love it. And by the way, Miami's first win against a 500 team all year. That is nuts. Soft schedule and stubbing their toes. They finally beat somebody that's good. Congrats to the to them. Have you seen the middle midseason hard knocks?

No. Is it good? It is. It's the dolphins. So you've heard it was the dolphins. When did they start doing the midseason ones? Has that been forever? Is this a new add-on to the original?

No, it's just a new add-on to the original because it just just can't. Not forever. I would think it's three years. I know they did the Cardinals one year. This year obviously it's the dolphins. But yeah, it's good. It's good. I don't know.

There's so much excitement around the first one when it's first starts because it's the start of the year. Yeah. One of us Rogers and New York. That was a great. That's the first one I've gone wire to wire on. I've been a late adapter. I'll check that out though.

I need something that's not rom-coms with Mama Bear. And then there's Jack. Oh, Jack, look at this. Pulls ahead of me. son of a had the had the lions can't quit the stealers can he can't quit the stealers jack's quitting smoking every week on the show if you get the reference boy the bills did us dirty this week really did yeah they screwed us as soon as it got on every ticket i knew we were screwed whenever that happens it's just death really did us dirty yeah don't like it well either way

there you go it's you can use our picks you can laugh at our pick whatever it is. But get that Betway app. Get on your phone. You're in the office. You're on your laptop. Whatever it is. Get the app and play along.

But bet the responsible way with our buddies, our gaming partner. Betway. Bet the responsible way. Do you have plans for New Year's Eve? I do. I'll be out of town. Hopefully skating on ice.

And hopefully with less Chernobyl-esque meltdowns for my children as Christmas. Yeah. Does it feel like that's the way you're going? Fewer meltdowns or are they trending upwards? Well, we'll be in good shape for New Year's. We're going to have a little peace and quiet. We're going to follow the sun a little more, less screens, get into bed early. And there's going to be lots of exercise. So these herkeys are gassed by dessert time. Yeah. They're like dogs. If they don't get their exercise, then they get into stuff. they're kind of like hyenas. They're yappy.

They're disrespectful. They're a dog family member. And they don't sleep well unless they're being jerks and running around all day. Yeah. And then if they are being jerks, you just have to put them in their cage for a few hours. Yeah, or tranquilize them. Yeah. Something like that.

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I don't want to scare you, but we're like 15 days from our first barn burner vacation. That's true, yeah. Are you, uh, you know how I roll. It's just get me to Christmas, then it's get to New Year's and then things like, holy cow, that's here. Yeah, it's the barn burner vacation.

It's coming. The inaugural, barn burner vacation, we're going to Phoenix and there are, now I don't, spots. I think we can say spots. Yeah. It's not a lot, but we've been talking about it for a long time. It is near a sellout. If you want to get in, and now is the time to do.

do it. We are going to Phoenix, January 11th to 13th, watching the Flames and the Coyotes at the Mullet Arena. We've got your flights, your hotels, and your game tickets, transportation to and from the airport as well. And we're just going to have a, we're going to have a heck of a time. We didn't know what these two teams were going to look like. And I think fair to say, probably both teams, a little bit surpassing expectation. I'm not sure if that's fair. I think it is. And the bar and vertification, nationgear.ca, speaking of the same website, nationgear. To book yourself in and get your spots nailed down, 1299 based on double occupancy. And it's presented by Alberta Blue Cross.

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It's been quite reasonable here. It's been a war getting this outdoor ring up to standard where I think we're over the hump now. I'm still ready to go last week. Whether it be damned, I'll be happy to get on that plane. That's probably fair. Yeah. It'll be all right. The other thing I do like about it, typically it's a morning flight when we do these things.

Just like let's get our day on. Let's go. And without any hesitation, everyone will step into the bar and immediately order like two, three doubles a shot and a beer. It's just like, the same on the international side as soon as you get through. There's the pub. Yeah.

I'll definitely have a Caesar and a beer. You don't mind put a little bit? Isn't that coffee for me? Wonderful. Yeah, that'd be great. I mean, we only got 25 minutes until we board. So, um, let's make it a double. Let's make it.

Yeah. And on the double. Let's go. Uh, hey, thanks. Everybody having a very merry Christmas, having a great holiday.

We, uh, we'll be popping in here and there. the shows will continue. We'll have some different hosts. There will be some pre-recorded stuff. But either way, we are, we're rolling through here, Christmas and New Year's,

and we'll be back with the regular schedule on the seconds that we're doing. Yeah, well, Monday's a holiday. I'll be doing that. Don't want to offend all the people, the New Year's. It's a holiday for the New Year's. We believe it of New Year's. Yeah, I believe in it. Tonight.

It's real to me, Dean. Flames and Cracken. And then make sure you check out Afterburner. Cammy myself tonight for Afterburner and then it sounds like you're working Christmas Eve, Dean. New Year's Eve. That's the one. Yeah. It does sound that way.

It does appear to be that way. So there you go. Have a. So we'll both talk to people before that. But either way, Merry Christmas. Have a great happy new year. And take care of yourself. See you, buddies.