Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Old Time Stories With Jamie McLennan | FN Barn Burner - January 30th, 2024

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

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Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Barnburner here on wherever you're taking it in, on the YouTube's in your ear holes, on your Spotify, your apples or whatever it is. We're very happy to have you. Are you a Spotify or an Apple guy there? You're Spotify, right, Pender? I love Spotify, big fan. Yeah. What about you, Retro? Are you a Spotify or Apple or? No, I don't have. I'm more Spotify. Yeah. How about you, Jack? You're young. You're a young punk. I'm an Apple guy. You're an apple guy? Yeah, it's just convenient.

Oh, he's gone. He was there. He was there. Well, he showed up. He can build for it. Oh, no, he's back. Oh, yeah, there. Oh, now he muted.

Now you meet it, minute, it, met it, met it. It seemed like the camera was there. Blurry. A little blurry. You're looking good, brother. Yeah, look.

It's a little scary today. I was worried we would never have. Then people would be very impressed to know the technical savvy coming through for old retro. There was some. Yeah. old hard

reboot. Yeah, we'll give it the power cycle. Yeah, power cycle. And then, and then there you were. There you were.

So here we, uh, here we go. I didn't realize there's still hockey being played. Two games tonight. And that's it. Then we're,

but then tomorrow there's games. No, I believe tomorrow's when all star break. Oh, I could be wrong. I thought it was it. I thought there's games tomorrow too. I looked in this,

the old movie there. It's like you got two games today. And then tomorrow, Wednesday, Jazz 31. Ottawa, Detroit, L.A., Nashville, San Jose, Anaheim. Am I drunk? There's three games tomorrow. Jesus.

There's three games tomorrow. Yeah, we're at one, two, three, one yesterday. What the age? Three tomorrow. Jerry? Why are the flame? What's, what's like? So all those teams playing this week will come back later after the All-Star.

You figure? Yeah. Figure? That's not, that's got to be getting a little close to the, to the, I mean, it's only a couple days, but it's a couple days closer to the trade. Deadline. There's no freezes on the roster anyway. So whether you're playing or not, it's like,

No, I know, I guess. But it's still, if you're not playing games and What are we going to do for trade deadline day? We're going to just simulcast Franks show and we can Go get hammered at the origin tap room and then get a limousine and drive around town and yell at people. Well, that's what I was thinking. If ever there was a chance or a reason to have another drinky show,

it would be the day would potentially all these flames and then you'd have some real, real drunken honesty coming out from all of this. If it's night, we should set up outside the dome just in the parking lot and just the tent and start drinking, have security ask us to leave. Invite everyone down.

It's a watch. And just screaming at Conway walks out of the dome. You shut on you. That's all you could get a third for ten of third round pick. Pack your shit. I was thinking we should do something where we get right liquored or do something on trade deadline day. Because you saw Franksport yesterday.

Three of the top five potential guys are flames. We've got to do something for it. Well, we got a lot more on the Pinda report. Elliot Friedman was going bananas yesterday on Calgary Flame stuff. He was on Donnie and Dolly in Vancouver. He was on NHL Network in New York City. And the flames are front and center. We're starting to hear we're into that window where now it's not just, yeah, they're hoping to get, you know, the market to hit.

Now we're actually hearing teams. We're talking about GMs that are calling. We're hearing of potential landing places for some of these guys, where the no moves might be used. We're getting there, guys. We're close. My heart's all a flutter. Oh, I know.

It's six weeks of this, though, Dean. I don't want you to talk about. Oh, man, I'm very excited. Looking good in the shirt there, retro. Somebody was saying in the chat there, sweet shirt. Those are sweet shirts. They're sweet. We're going to get some merch going.

That's our February resolution. It's been a year of saying the same stuff. No, but it's been a busy January to be fair. We had the trip. We had the Jasper. Now we got the Toronto. And we've just announced the end of Feb big event, the Bolerama. And so it's like, okay, we've got some stuff going on.

But merch is something we've got to line up here. I actually have maybe potentially a surprise for all of you in terms of merch. I've been working with Maddie behind the scenes. Oh, really? Because Rhett's been working behind the scenes with the shoveler too. A couple ideas for, you know. That's a merch. Yeah.

Good. ideas what we're all so good at an idea guy yeah i'm an idea guy we need an execution guy is it one of those a wish an executioner just someone to fall through on our ideas yeah sometimes you wonder if you could just we could missory it's nice to know a guy I don't want you use it live in canada um no we don't need a barn burner thong oh jesus you were floating some calendar shoot that's a horrible idea i don't want to see your barrel dino i don't need you in short shorts okay what if i uh no what if there was some waxing yeah and some spray tanning or something if landscaping yeah landscape all you want you're not waxing away the barrel i don't think

and look maybe that's somebody's flavor that's fine i said bud arnberg they're in that's what i keep telling myself. Why do you think he never leaves the house? He's got that only fans account. Dad bod. Yeah. Why do I see Dadbod? Now, here's the thing.

Little update for you for regular viewers and listeners. No show tomorrow as it stands. We are going to be on route traveling to the big. I could do it. Have that. You could do it. Yep. Good.

There'll be a show tomorrow. Rettosos. Could. Yeah. Pinder and I flying out tomorrow to Toronto. There is a big whoopty do in Toronto. Apparently it's the All Star game or something. Lots going on.

So we're going to be doing shows from Toronto Thursday Friday. And of course, Friday is Hawaiian shirt day. Can you, do you need me to bring it? What do we? Yeah, I don't know. I guess he's got his Robert Graham's out. He'll be rocks. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I guess shirts on. I'm not sure what to do. I'm already got the mullet. Do I lean into this thing or try to have like normal people clothes with the mullet. I'm really in no man's land here. It's like, right. So yes, what are we going to pretend for something? We're not? Yes, I think you just show up as we are. You've done nothing, but increase my anxiety.

You sent me a text about this functioned thing that's going on. A lot of people in suits and ties and I'm out of my comfort zone here. No, you know what it is? We're going to go in there like this. And that's what's going to be great. I think so. Oh, look at all these shirts and ties. And we'll get up there and just start farting and doing what we do. do. If you like to sponsor Barnburner, then if you like some of this in your life, attach your brand,

your branding to this, then by all means. But yeah, it's, there's lots going on, but I'm gosh. I can just imagine walking down a hallway of this fancy hotel. We're going to be broadcast. Now, now, Jimothy, what you're seeing in the sports marketing world these days is listeners are moving over to podcasts and the wonderful bond between listeners of podcasts. Now, here's, this is called Barnburner. They're in Calgary.

and you're like, So I couldn't flush my toilet the size of that turn. We nearly fly to the house. Like, oh, boy, this is not going to go. I don't need to sponsor my pants last night. The other thing is if they've done research, they've looked into what we're up to. And they've got us in the,

they've got us in the broom closet. Or near the kitchen. Yeah, that's the, you know, they're getting, it's quite a lot of downloads, page views, clip views. There's a lot of impressions. This show in Calgary,

this is actually doing very, very good. All right. How big is my bag right now? Let's make get the tape measure. Do the, the circumference of my scrotum, I feel. It's like it's getting bigger. Pull it out. Pull it out. It's wrinkled. I didn't shave it for nothing. Measure it. Let's go. Okay. That's why I can see why this show is so popular. Bit ahead of a time. Maybe. Yeah. There's all the number. It's getting all these numbers. So anyway, tomorrow no show, Thursday, Friday from Toronto. Now you're probably saying to yourself,

well, geez, tomorrow we get, that's Noodles Day. That's Jamie McLennon Wednesday. Can't lose noodles noodles. Noodles going to join us momentarily. Moving them up a day because you can't go a week without noodles. You can't go a week without noodles. I don't.

And I don't recommend that for anybody. You don't do it. We were, because here's the thing we can maybe bring him on, but there's a time change and stuff. And he's apparently got some afternoon show that he does. So rather than. On big deal show or something. He's so big.

He's so big that he's just. He's a big deal, Rhett. He is a big deal. Yeah, he's a big deal. And in fact, joins us one day early on the insider hotline, a presentation of Tell us.

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Tell us.com slash flames contest. Yes, on a Tuesday. Watch Amy McLennan. What a treat. What a treat. There he is. How are we doing, buddy? Good.

On my way up to the casino. So it's all good. I was going to say, double down, split the eights, all that sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. No, I just got a late start.

Had kid duty this morning, a little bit of doctor stuff, and then ready to rock and talk some hockey. Although it's weird. Like, I don't know how you guys feel. This week is like, to me, it's nonsense. because there's teams that are playing that you're like,

okay, I get it. No Canadian teams. I mean, Ottawa played last night. They played tomorrow. But outside of that, it's like there's too many teams on breaks that we're interested in. And I'd like to talk about them daily. And now you're got, oh, they got a week off.

They got nine days off. And we'll see if they come back and put on, you know, 11 pounds like we used to do in these breaks retro. Some of those, you know, there are bad teammates out there. They think it's funny. They volunteer. mandatory weigh-ins to the coach. And it's a real,

ha ha, ha, ha. Who would do such a thing? That's what it is. It's the ass kissers going. I worked out when I was off and take a look at me. Now, I did. In the Olympic break, I do remember, I went to Vegas and I worked out to the point where I ran into the Empton Oilers brass down there.

I think it was Ronnie Lowe and Mack T and all those guys. And I ended up, when I got back, I was with St. Louis. Fiersey got hurt. so I had to play and I ran into one of them when we were playing the Oilers. Like, lucky you got that bike ride in when you're in Vegas. I'm like, yeah, I guess I did. But you know what? It's, uh, these guys are in such great shape now.

I just wish we had hockey, like more of it. I heard a guy, a buddy of mine, tell me about a guy that asked his assistant coach if he'd skate him during the week off. Yeah, that's, that's heroic. It's actually... That's embarrassing. And I wonder, like, it's all about science now, right?

Yeah. Like, they're actually dialed in on this, and they're all blah, blah, blah, blah, bullshit. But there's got to be some part of the science that says, get your, just go put your beach towel down and show up. Get your ass on a beach. Exactly. You know what, though?

Like, that's the guy, and I don't want to, you know, I guess, stereotype, but that's the guy who's got an apple for the doctor or the teacher. That's the guy who's got, like, You know, he's an ass kiss. And you know what? I don't like that. Like eventually that guy will get weeded out when push comes to shove.

I don't know who it is. Unless it was McDavid, then it's ridiculous. Well, I was going to see, did you see on social media what he's doing? There's all these guys are down and Punta Kana and Turks and Kekos. He's in the north somewhere. Way up north, he was chipping, he had an axe, and he was chipping a hole in the ice and then doing ice baths. He had some part of on. Wow.

I don't know why I guess this is this is me because I'm an old man but it's like everyone like I see nowadays it's like this kid that the pitcher for the Blue Jays who was a mess last year they sent him and he was no where was it Manoa he was practicing in like a shack in Florida for like a month or something like they sent him down to a league that was like a the California panel league or something comes back up they they end up rinsing him now it's on his Instagram like, oh, look at me. I'm working out. Like, you got to, like, yes, you don't get an extra clap from us because you're doing

what you're supposed to do as an athlete. And that's being in shape and working out. Like, you don't, you shouldn't get it. And now you see guys like, oh, hitting the gym, like, oh, doing this and that. Yeah, that's your job. Every two weeks, you get a boatload of money. So do your job. Like, work out, stay in shape, and don't come back and skating around like you're dragging

a piano. That's the way I would say. Brett never subscribed to that theory. Just give me the big blood cash every two weeks. I didn't falter and fail when I was fat. I picked up the pace. He had one speed and it was very steady. That's the thing.

And he could do it whether it's 240 or 208 because I've seen met boat. Hungover or sober. Same same same. You know what? You can still can't open forwards whether you're 240 or your 208. The difference is you could get there. a little faster. I've had many a game or situation during a season

where I felt like perhaps my conditioning had faltered to a certain extent. And I said, I'm going to pick it up. And I went out and I had one F of a game. I dominated. And I said, no, I don't need to. I'm in great. I'm doing what I got to do. I'm wrong again. You know what? In our minds, it's all it is. As long as we feel good, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter what the scale says, whatever. It's all about how we play. And that's the one thing. I swear to God, it is the truth. It doesn't matter where you are especially, I'll just talk about hockey. But if you're playing well, nobody bothers you. It doesn't matter. You could eat yourself almost out of the league. The minute that you don't play well, oh, let's go step on the scale. Let's take a look at your diet. Let's take a look at how much you're drinking or whatever. Playing well cures everything. You just lift up the carpet and stuff it underneath and go, it doesn't matter. We'll make excuses for that guy because he's so damn good.

And believe me, there is, you know, enough evidence. I played with a guy, a goaltender who didn't, he can do whatever the hell he wanted because he played 70 games a year and when it was the best on the planet. Nobody bothered him about, hey, get on the bike. Let's see what you weigh. Let's see what you do. Like go up and stop, you know, pucks every night and he did it.

So, you know, he's the anti-science group, we'll call him. I didn't know Manny Fernandez ever started 70 games. Oh, it's interesting. A lot for many. I thought Rollisin was eating half this. But you know, and this is not to, to throw a guy into the bus,

but Dustin Bufflin was that guy. I was in Brandon when he was playing for the weekings. And this guy, if we could just get him in shape, if we could just get a hold of his fitness, he'd be so great. And he was dominant, obviously, in junior. And then he continues to play.

And there was that tipping point where I've got to get him in shape. Well, you can't be a forward. So he's got to have to be a D. And then he's just like, You know what, you're kind of, you're kind of elite. You're really good. Fuck it. Just go out and play.

And, you know, and he was. I don't know. We talked about it back. Would he be better or worse if you started to mess around with his cardio and his diet and everything? Just go play. I don't think he'd hurt. I think what happened is there were guys who, you know, the joke in Toronto, Phil

Castle and, you know, that, you know, the alleged hot dog thing and all that. You know what Phil did? He just played a thousand games in a row. Like, you know, like, and where there are other guys who are just chiseled and they pull a muscle trying to, you know, reach for a puck in the corner. Where Phil just goes, I'll play 82, 10 years in a row, 12 years in a row, 15 years in a row. Where, you know, other guys, I feel like you try to get them into, you try to make them something they're not. And then they end up becoming something or not, which is not productive. It's counterproductive.

Brett, you were going to say something there. Yeah, you go back to, I still remember, and I say it all the time, and it's a different era, but there's still truth to it. We would go to Pittsburgh when I was in Florida as a kid, and we had an old team, and we had lots of fun, and we went for lunches all the time, and it was old school hockey. But when we went to the rink, we'd had a morning skate, it was a morning skate.

Like you, all right, let's go. And you'd go to Pittsburgh, and Mario, and Yags and Francis and they'd be out there with one skate on if they went out there, maybe a smoke, you know, like it was, it was so laid back. It was like, wow, like look at these guys. Like, they don't care about anything. And they dominate. Now, it's Mario.

It's Jagger. It's some of the best players ever. But it was a trickle down through the whole team. There is a, there's an aspect of the game that people know about, but don't talk about because it's impossible to do, and it's the mental aspect. If you're fresh in your head and you're excited and you're at the rink and you feel good about yourself

and about your team and your ability, you're going to play better than the guy that worked out and had a loaf of broccoli for breakfast. Yes. Right? He's in his own head, yeah. You can overstress the nervous system mentally. And then you, oh, what did I eat?

I didn't get enough sleep. Uh-uh. Don't care. I'm going to go to the ring. Love senior boys. Let's go out there, kick some ass, have some fun, and you play better. You can't underestimate. And I don't know how, again, with science, you can go, well, if he's 8% body fat or this or that or this.

Like, they wear freaking. Art rate monitors. Yeah. I know. I talk to an NHL coach where I didn't know about this is, the coaches will get a data report from practice going this guy's heart rate was, you know, didn't never hit its peak. This guy.

And he would go, yeah, that makes sense. He was cheating on every drill. And then, you know, this guy, they tracked to speed. I didn't, I don't know if they have like it's in the monitor or if it's in their jersey or whatever. But yeah, this guy's our fastest skater consistently in practice, watch him. Like it was interesting to hear because you talk about certain players. So if I'm doing my pregame media or whatever, I get a, you know,

you get a little sit down with the opposing coach sometimes. So you're talking about a player. Geez, I like that guy. And be like, you know what? I like him. He's better than you think or, you know what? He needs a little bit of a cattle prod because he's lazy in practice. Like he'll give you a little bit of a nugget.

But nowadays, it's almost like anything. There's no hiding. There's camera phones. There's technology, everything. Like, I, you know, I can't imagine. And some of the practices that I was involved in, you know, there wasn't high speed. There was more like, hey, let's get through. Let's do what we need to.

There were times where if we had a big night on a Saturday and we didn't play again until Thursday. That Monday practice, it would have been tough, but it was not turn your brain off and work hard tough, but it was the coach was going to get some booze out of you. The coach was going to get, like you were going to get a hard skate at the end. And all of us knew it. Like, okay, we're going to go and we're going to work our ass off today. because you work hard, you play hard, you do all these things.

Nowadays, though, I wonder, you know, like McDavid, you're right, that's a nice ice bath. It's taking care of his body. His body is a fine-tuned machine. Now, he's not, you know, he doesn't, he's not super shredded, but he's very lean and he's very strong. And, you know, I look at now guys that are, that carry, we'll call it a little bit extra weight. They're known as like kind of bigger slug guys. You see now the NHL guys, they're all like tall, skinny, really lean. Like they don't carry.

Greyhounds. Yeah, they're greyhound. They don't, because the game is speed, right? But if, you know, like Drew Dowdy, I think Drew Dowdy just does what he needs to do to be an elite defenseman. And he's a bit of a throwback, which I respect the hell out of. I love the guy. He's the greatest, he might be the greatest quote in the NHL in the last like 10, 12 years because this guy just speaks his mind. And I respect that.

But I think there's a level where Drew knows what he needs to get at. And then outside of that, hey, I'm fine. So everyone's different. Noodles, I think it was a sports net game, not TSN, so you didn't do the Sends game last night. Is that right? Right. They were down 3-0. They stormback.

They win in overtime. They've been connected to Chris Tanna, which would make a lot of sense to me on July 1st. It makes no sense to me as we approach the March deadline. What can you sort of walk us through that situation? because there's more than one spot where they're saying Ottawa really likes Tanna. They want good pros, and he is a right shot guy, which they need. Which, okay, so I did a, I did the Jay Honoree show last night, and I did SportsCenter, and they both asked me this particular question.

There was two questions. First and foremost, if Jacques Martin moves on, who would be the fit for the coach? So I said, Craig Ruby went into my, you know, explanation for that. Then secondly, they said, if you had to tinker, what would you be doing with the, Ottawa roster. And I said two things. If you take a look, they've got too many left shot defensemen. And a lot of them are good. They're good players. You've got Shabbat. You've got Jake Sanderson. You got Jacob Chikrin. You got Eric Branchardman. They've got a kid in the minors named Tyler Cleven, who at worst is going to be a third pairing kind of long Christian Susie type of

mean hits, physical, advances the puck, you know, that type of player. So that's all on the left side. The right side, they've got Artem Zubb, who's really stable. They've got a kid named Jacob Bernard Docker, who's a Calgary kid, played college, but he's 23, 24. He's going to climb up. They need a right shot defenseman who can push into that, maybe push Bernard Docker down while he develops. And that's what makes sense.

A guy like Chris Tanna, who also is going to kill the second bird with the stone here, is because I said they need veteran guys on the, like on that roster that are a lot like Claude Drew, that are good players still, that contribute on the ice, but they're leaders and showing the young players how to be pros and how to grow because we forget Tim Stozzler just turned 22. Ridley, Greg is 21. Josh Norris is 24. Brady Kachuk is 24. You go, Drake Batherson just turned 25. So Jake Sanders. since 21. Bernard Dawker's 23. Like they need Brandstrom, 23. Same situation. They need veteran guys who can contribute, not just say, hey, this is what you need to do or when I play,

this is what you need to do. They have to be productive players. So Chris Tenev makes a hundred percent sense for the fit on the right side and the leadership situation. So that would kill two birds with one stone. And I would argue if he's available now, maybe that's why you do it, but you make sure there's an extension in place because it's a bigger picture move. Right. Yeah. Because to me, it would be like, why would you give up assets when you get him for free July 1? Like, why throw the picks or prospects to Calgary when, but you're saying get him in, let him see what's happening in the organization, ink an extension, and now you got your guy. Well, and I think that's, it's almost, if you're going to be acquiring him, you're

talking to his agent saying, hey, we're in on you. Would you be interested in an extension? What does that look like? Because you don't trade for him unless you have something in place. Yeah, Flanks would have to allow that, correct? They'd have to say it's okay to talk to the way. Or unless it's almost like the Matthew Kachuk, but a lot of different, a lot different numbers, but it'd be like you sign him and you trade them to us or vice versa. It's the trade and extension type of thing. But he would be, it's funny. You know, I feel like I'm on top of things. I miss that I haven't seen him connected to Ottawa, but now that you mention it, I think he would be an unbelievable fit just based on their needs, both leadership-wise and that right side.

See, we were going to talk about hockey. Now I feel like we're going to derail it, but I want to get to it here. I have questions. I have questions for you, Jamie. Okay. James. I saw this the other day. I don't know what kind of explanation there is, but if we could just just,

show this now. I'm wondering what it is we're looking at here. This is dramatic. I show this. First of all, I remember this exact moment that this picture was taken. My dad for those that are not

that aren't watching. This is a young Jamie McLennan who has a Pindera's kind of a Hawaiian party shirt. It is undone. It is undone. to it's got to be a boat just above the navel because we've got a lot of bare chest. Yeah. And then a chain hanging over the bare chest.

We've got some long flowing locks. And we've got the great noodles smile. So again, sorry to interrupt. But what is happening here? So when my, I remember this exact moment. This is my great 10 picture in Lethbridge, Alberta, the LCI. So Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, LCI was the name of the high school. So the weirdest part is I had come, my dad's company helped build the hospital in Lethbridge.

So we moved to Lethbridge as a family for one year when I played Bantam hockey. And that summer, I moved there with my family. My dad moved us July 1st. So I had no summer with friends or anything. I started working at McDonald's. I chipped away at that. And once I turned 16, I started delivering pizza. I have a crazy.

See, remind me at some point I can tell you this crazy delivering pizza story, which is unbelievable. Because I just moved to Lethbridge and I didn't know where I was going. And back then, there's no cell phones with GPS. It's just like, hey, figure it out where I'm going on a map. So anyways, I'm going to high school that year, grade 10. And when you register, they take your yearbook picture right then. So that was in like late August. It's a thousand degrees out.

I show up in my best shirt, but it's so hot. And for some reason, I don't know why I had it like, but I think I might have had it open and there's just kind of closed it a little bit for the picture. And I don't wear jewelry anymore. I haven't worn jewelry in years, but I remember my mom had given me like a, I think it was like St. Christopher. I think that's what that like that medallion is or whatever that thing is around my neck. So it's awkward.

there's no defending it. I'm very happy there. You're so happy. And I promise you, I never tried drugs or anything until I told me. So you meant rat probably. I was not stoned or anything in that picture. I was just very happy. I don't know why because I had no friends and that was my first day of school. So that was Lethbridge, Alberta in about 1986.

That's very much karate kid era. And I was like, did you get a beaut? Like, were you getting beat up? Did you have to go to the sense? There was a few moments because I'll tell you another story. That first year, I've always been a worker. So I got a job scraping plates at the cafeteria at lunch hour. So you imagine like you're, I'm new in the high school.

I don't know anybody. So I take the job at the cafeteria just between 11 and 1. I had a spare or something. So for two hours a day, all the kids would be in there. I would take their plates from the fries and the gravy and I would scrape them. Like I would clean up the tables. Like I was, and it's, you know, grade 10. Fast forward two years later, I'm playing for the Lethbridge Hurricanes and they're starting

goaltender. And I remember one person saying like, did you used to work at the cafeteria? And I'm like, yeah, I did. Like, because I, no shame. It doesn't matter to me. I just took a job. But I used to screesome. great plates. And can you imagine a grade 10 nerd like me where you'd walk up to the cool

table and they're like, hey, you missed a spot or hey, you're, you know, you drop some fries on the floor or Mr. or what was it, Ralph Machio. What was his name in the Danielson? I was Danielson. Danielson, yeah. Oh, anyways, so that was my grade 10 experience. So it might have stemmed from day one, me wearing that shirt. I didn't get my ass kick, but I'm sure there's a few times I I might have or might like was close to but then I became a good hockey player for that band of triple a team and nobody messed with me and a couple years later I was playing in the WBHL that's right yeah wax on wax off now huh who's got the punch lines now yeah I was doing it I didn't see I didn't even like a girl back then and and could wear like the shower like

wasn't the shower costume he had for the Halloween yeah you pulled her into the shower the fake shower it's pretty cool so see I thought there there had to be something. And in the end, there's nothing. The smile, the shirt, I thought this is, hey, I'm going to wear something for school pictures. I bet you wouldn't. I thought there had to be in there or something.

His mom set that out for him the night before. He was. Yeah, exactly. It's just noodles being noodles. That's good. I can't imagine what I was wearing. I just, the lack of chest here, the lack that I, I don't know why,

the lack of awareness to why is my tarp open. Hey, confidence. You had confidence. I don't know. I think that's oblivious. Like, I'm oblivious. Like, when you're ignorant to the situation where ignorance is bliss, that was me. Like, I just, hey, I'm cool.

Look at me. I got my shirt open. No denying it. Yeah. So I was very ignorant back then, I guess, not arrogant, ignorant. So what was the connection to food? Like, I feel like you should be 300 pounds. We're delivering pizzas.

We're working to McDonald's. We're scraping fries and gravy. You're probably saying, hey, they barely even touch that. I'm going to tell you. Do we have time? I'll tell this quick news of delivery story. So I get here's, you want to talk about Alberta back in the 80s. I've been driving since I was 12.

Like my dad, you know, you drive in the rural areas and stuff like that. Like dad would throw you the keys. You'd be like, we used to own a plane and are like a Sessna Hawker 182 XP. And it flipped one time in the weather. So my dad had to fly it from one airport to the airport. I was 12 years old. I drop him off. He goes, pick me up at the Villanue Bearport. I'm like driving the back road. It's like 12. Okay. So I've been driving for a long time. When I was 14, you could drive with an adult. Why have older brothers? So two o'clock in the morning, you know, my brothers would call from the bar. Dad would throw me the keys and go, go pick up your brothers. So I drive you're driving, you know, and I have to drive them through McDonald's everywhere. You name it. Two 30 in the morning. They're 19, 20 years old. I'm 15 and I'm driving them around. So whatever.

I've been driving for a long time. To the point where like even when I got my license, my mom just threw me the keys and goes, go get your driver's license. I said, okay, I went down, got it. So I get a job the next day delivering pizzas because I got my license like legally. And I think it was at a place called Bakel Pizza, B-A-A-A-C-O,

bake-P-O-Pisa in Lathbridge. and my first day in the job, they're like, okay, take these 12 pizzas to this house. So they give me the address. And I said to the guy like, okay, I don't know where I'm going. Here's a map. I can't find this house. I'm driving around the neighborhood, driving around the neighborhood.

Again, no cell phones, no GPS. I pull around the corner and I pull this house and it's all these Harleys out front, like all parked. And I'm like pulling up to like. a hell's angel or like a gang members how and it's like 90 minutes and back then it's supposed to be you know like guaranteed within 30 or you get them free so i'm running up i'm almost trying because i'm like i'm so rattled i go up to the door the door flies open there's this monster standing there and apparently i didn't know this he had called and had a fight with my manager and my

manager told him the eff off oh so i get there the sacrificial lamb and I'm standing there with like 12 pizzas, 90 minutes later, war flies open, and I'm like, hey, sorry, I'm running late here. I go, what do you want me to do with these pizzas? And he goes, I'll tell you what I'm going to do with you. He goes, I'm going to bend you over and I'm going to stuff them up your ass. And I was like, yeah, I go, here you can have them. You can have them.

I just give it to him. And I run away and drive back, drive back to the pizza place. And I get there and the manager's like, you didn't deliver those pizzas to those idiots. Did you? And I go, yeah, the guy physically threatened me. And my manager's like, yeah, well, I told him to F off. Like, you know, you didn't have to give him to him. I'm like, you didn't see his face.

I did have to give it to him. I quit right there. I was like, I can't do this. I'm sorry. I'm not going to, like, I'm not fighting my way out of a hell's angels den or whatever just for 12 pizzas. Like, you can have them. So that, my pizza delivering days lasted one day because I was like, I'm out. And I didn't know where the hell I was going on it.

Yeah, I tell you what I'm going to do with these pizzas. Oh, here's your pizzas, sir. Sorry, sir. Let's see that picture again. Let's bring that picture up one more time. This guy shows up at the hell's age. I see. Hi, here's your pizzas.

There's your pizzas, like all happy. I don't really want them up my ass, sir. Yeah. Gee golly, mister, I couldn't find this place. That's a top. location. I'm telling you, I was so rattled. I remember because I was supposed to work till like 1 a.m.

and I got home at like 10 or whatever. My mom's like, what happened? I'm like, you don't want to know. You got older brothers. That's amazing. You immediately saw the value and having some heavies around. Right there, you learned. You needed why you need an Oliwa.

Why you want a Chris Simon. Like, great there. You learned it. That's beautiful. Exactly. But I feel like those guys would have been behind the door on the other. side, the guys that I worked with. So you never know.

But it was that, that's kind of like, that picture goes hand in hand with some of the weirdest things that happened to me when I was, you know, living in Lethbridge for a year, which it was great. I still have a lot of friends there and family and stuff. But that picture brings back a lot of memories. Who is the best muscle, the best tough guy you played with? Ooh, Tony Twist. Oh, yeah.

So, I mean, our buddy, Christoph, all. loved it. Like I've never seen a guy enjoy it. Because Twister, I think, just knew how scary he was and how tough he was. And Twister to this day, I would be afraid of him if he'd walked in my house. Like, you know, Twister's this intimidating, you know, mountain of a man. He's only six feet tall. But back then he was six feet 250.

And just a monster. And he hit to hurt, right? Like, it wasn't just a, you know, hey, let's square off. like he was, he was injuring people. I think, did he not, I think he broke Rob Ray's Orbitable. Yeah, he smashed Ray. And it was funny because before the game, everyone was asking, hey, I wasn't there yet, but I've heard the story enough where it's like, Razor, like, you're going to fight this guy?

He's the, and Razor's like, well, what am I supposed to be afraid of him? Yeah. And then, bam, ooh. Razor said he got in a box and his face just started to melt and grow and just. Yeah, it's so. upsetting like you know what i i would say he was hands down the toughest that i played now we had a tough team in st louis the joke was it was called the race for chase because kelly chase was the third toughest guy on our team and if we played against another team those tough guys would be

racing to fight chaser because they didn't want to fight twister or rudy post check rudy pot pot the baker yeah rudy made pot So he would make pie. So we call them Rudy pot pie. But Rudy, I'll never forget to sitting on the bench one time in St. Louis. And Rudy fought Jeff Odgers.

And those two had leather faces. It was literally a punch in the face contest. And neither one of them spit an ounce of blood out. Like it was just like punching a leather couch, both of them. And it was an, like, all you could hear is that sound. Like you could hear that sound. And I was like, is ridiculous. And Rudy, Rudy was sat a couple seats down for me. Twister was sat beside me and Rudy

Rudy was down. And I, like, after the game, it's like face was kind of like his, he was kind of swollen around his eyes. And I'm like, how are you doing, Rudy? He goes, it doesn't hurt. I'm like, damn, it looks like it hurts. Like, you are so tough. I loved Rudy, but like we, I would say that Twister, like, I played with a lot of tough guys, but like I would say Twister was the, you know, number one guy. And I think for a while there he was known as like the he was scary because he would hurt you. I remember Twister

he had that goatee on and he was so light skinned outside of the dark goatee and you watch his fights and it looks like his facial expression never changed. It was just just stoic and just paw. He would come in and you know the line up on the board and he would like lean over

to me noodles and he's like, who am I beating up today? Like he would like you know, but you could see. But you could see Now, I would say this, there were certain guys. When we were playing certain teams, he wasn't like he was dialed in. If we were playing Detroit and Joey Kosher's on the east side, you know, Bobby Probert, Sandy McCarthy was sneaky, scary, scary tough. Like those guys got other guys attention.

So I would remember seeing, like I was a big observation guy. I would always like to see guys how they reacted before the game. And if I knew Twister was like, you know, dialed in that night and we were fighting, he would have to fight somebody on the other side that was a monster. Like he wouldn't be as Lucy Goosey. You could tell that he was getting it around his head. Like, hey, I'm going to have to go at it here. And he would always have great fights.

Like he was, and back then, you know, Jersey, he would wear this giant goalie cut jersey. And they would just swing away. like I it feels like another lifetime because we see fights now um where you're like it's kind they're an outlier and I think maybe 10 years from now 20 years from now like they might just be out of the game like you know like I don't know but back then there was two or three like pretty serious fights at night where you're well you had rudy a chaser twister mark janssen's was tough wasn't he there for a while no janer wasn't there for a while no janer wasn't there but But I know.

In Hartford, that's right. Yeah, we had, we had, like, guys who could fight. Mark Bergervin was a monster. Like, Burgessie was big and could fight. Pronger was an animal. Like, he'd chop your arm off and he'd fight you. Like, he was, you know, so we had guys that, we had this, like, team toughness where, you know, we had, like, middleweight type of guys, too, where there was, like, the heavyweights,

and then we had guys who could handle themselves. And it felt like, like, I remember my first game, pro outside the NHL, we were playing, I was playing for the Capital District Islanders. So it was the Islanders farm team. And we played the Binghamton Rangers. They had 10 tough guys and 10 skilled guys. And same with us. Like we had Graham Towns and Dean Ewing.

We had a guy named Rick Hayward. This Rick Hayward, a guy went wide on him instead of him just trying to catch him, just broke a stick over the guy's back. It was like a. It's like slap shot. It was something like slap shot. And I loved Rick. Rick was so funny. But it was just like these guys were another level of toughness. So you had like, I remember thinking looking at that Binghamton team and it was like Ty Domi, this guy Peter Fierrentino, like all of these lunatics that ended up like that ended up either playing in the NHL. You were tough guys or they were. career minor leaguers that were even bigger monsters. And then they had these tiny little players

like Donnie Biggs flying around. And like, so they had Corey Mill in a guy who was just unbelievable players. But then they had these monsters. So it was like, you know, 10 tough guys, 10 skilled guys. And if the game got 3-1 either way, it was like, okay, like this could get ugly tonight. So, you know, the game has certainly changed. Like that's St. Louis team. Was Kach there as well? at that time? Walt was a year after me. Because there were guys like him and Shanahan. There were some guys that were 40 goal guys

and would beat the lights out on you. Yeah. I mean, you know what's like we watched him up close and personal for many years. Like Iggy was the, Iggy was that guy. Like Iggy, you know, if Iggy wasn't going, he almost welcomed

to fight to get him going or get something going. Like, you know, and he, it was funny like, do you remember the, I think it was near the end of his career, where he broke his finger. Was that on Kessler's visor? He was chasing Ryan Kessler around, and they squared off, and Iggy's finger got caught in the visor,

and it snapped it. And the fight didn't look aesthetically as good for Iggy, because Iggy started to get the upper hand, and the refs broke it up. So he skates out, and he's got this broken finger. I think he was either with Boston or Colorado. I can't remember. And I remember talking to him after the game.

I messaged him. and I was Iggy he said it took them like 10 minutes or something to get his finger back in he would not leave the game because he wanted to go back and chase Kessler around because he didn't you know he was that mad at him and I talked to you know how he talks I was like you know how's your finger he's like oh took a bit to get sort of but he's like oh I was mad jamie I was very mad yes we could tell Iggy it's not right like you know him just mild manners like oh I was very mad Matt, Jamie. Like, really upset. Kessler would drive you nuts. He was such a past guy. But he hated that guy. He was actually like a pretty tough kid for a guy who's pretty, you know, wiry.

So, you know, stuff like that. Like, I think the toughest guy, like, Red, who would be your guy? Probably Paul Laos. Oh, he was scary. And he was all alone. Like, he was all alone in Florida. And he had to take on everyone. My rookie year, I think he had 39 fights all again.

Against heavies, heavy, heavies. And he wasn't, was he like 6-2? He wasn't. Oh, 6-1, 6-6-1? Like, he wasn't, but he was a love to fight guy. He enjoyed it. Well, he kind of had, he had a big head. Did he not? Big, big.

Like, I remember he was a right shot defenseman. And he just had a big squash on him. That's all I remember is this giant squash. I'm like, that guy has got hockey head for sure. You know, it's funny. you look back to that time. There were guys, you look back now, how skilled you have to be. Back then, there were guys that had no business being in the league, but they were tough. Guys like Peter Worell, there was so many. Early Worell could hardly skate backwards. Yeah. Didn't.

Pete Worel came to Florida. He could hardly skate forward. Yes. He could barely play. Nolan Yonkman was a guy. He played a bunch and he was a big giant. Who was the guy? I remember the three first round picks the Colorado had when Regier got drafted, the sheriff. What was? Dingman? No, Smith. No, Parker. Scott Parker. Scott Parker. That's right. There were those guys, they were just animals. And you watch, I don't know if you can play a lick, but you're, you're there. Good, good on you. I thought about this because there's a big debate around here. Like, there was Austin Matthews, the greatest goal score of all time. And I'm like, my argument would be against it would be Ovi played in a time. where there were literally guys trying to take his head off and chopping his legs and slashing his hands and like the physicality, some of the things that he had to go through to score goals where, and now the counter argument would be goaltenders are better now than they were back then, which I don't disagree, but it's, it's a different, when you think about it.

When Ovi started, there were still legendary, like Hasick, you're playing against some of the best of all time. but I would argue like OVy had to get to the middle of the ice he had to get there where you're fighting for your life some nights whereas you give a guy a tap on the laces now it's penalty get like it's never been easier to get to dangerous areas on the ice totally well even the mental like we talked

of what I said earlier the mental approach to the game you're not going to bed the night before game now worried that someone might get it. There's no Scott Stevens flu, right? Right? It might end you. You might, yeah.

Like you, there's no fear of that, which I don't care. I'm not, it is what it is. But that is something. There are nights where you're going into St. Louis,

playing for Florida. And you're sleeping about four hours because it's like, holy. How's your afternoon? How's your free game now? Yeah. Like you're just,

you're just, holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. Okay, okay, going to have to do this. Okay, holy shit. You're not thinking about making a pass or the breakout. Right? Now, those guys are in a different category and this or that.

But there's none of that mental stress. You're right. Like, I, nowadays, I would argue probably the stress is like, if I'm a defenseman and I got to face McDavid, if I get caught McDavid out there, I'm a meme now. Like, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a gift, you know, like, because he just does this and he's around you. So there are, you know, like Morgan Riley has a joke.

I remember talking about it. McDavid has that move where he went inside, outside, and Raleigh and shelved it on. Like, that's going to live forever. Like, that's on every one of his highlights tape. But I could argue I'm on Pavel Bure's highlight tape. I'm on Matt Sundin's highlight tape. Like, I'm on, you know, getting rinsed the other way.

You're always going to be on some highlight tape. Or to your point, Paul Correa is on. Scott Stevens highlight tape there you know he gets knocked out in the breath into the you know like Eric Lindross is one where you it is it's a different type of anxiety

but you're right it's not and it's not being ended physically it's like I'm going to be I'm going to get ended you know on Twitter I'm going to end it in the news I'm going to end it by the analyst like because I don't want to give up eight because Drysidle and McDavid decide to go

off tonight I don't want to give you know, that's the difference. But back then, I was still in the same box because it was, it was Gretzky, it was Lemieux, it was Sackick, it was, like, I still think Joe Sackettick's one of the most underrated players of all time, like ridiculous. I used to be terrified of him, terrified. Because as a goalie, I couldn't read what was, how was coming off his stick and he was too quick.

I could never catch up to his puck, to his shot. Like, so that's who I would lose sleepover where, to your, to your, to your, point, Rhett, you're worried about a monster coming in and running it through the boards or you're getting caught out in a line brawl and some mutant comes out of the pile. You know, like, I'm more having the anxiety. It was like, I don't want to give up an eight spot because, you know, I'm capable of doing that. That sack of wrist or was as good as they say. Is that right? You know what?

He was just so deceptive. So he would, he would, he would, he would pop into holes and he would, his release, it was never a slap shot. It was that little snapshots. You couldn't read it off. And he was really good at like almost selling. Hey, I'm going to go glove and then roll my wrist and go block. Or like he, he was really deceptive. I'm going to drag this out.

And if you got to go, I guess you've got to tell us. But that's using an old sure wood. Yeah. Right? Like don't underestimate the difference there as well. I bought two of my kids a wood stick because they see them at the hockey store. They got it for Christmas. And they're like, oh, this is going to be awesome.

This is going to be awesome. They take it out on the ice and they're like, oh, my God. Like, how do you operate? How did you ever operate with this? Like, Sackett was doing that with gear. Well, all the old guys were, but it's a different level. Like, that makes a difference too. Sackick was one of the first, I do believe, was the one-piece graphite.

Synergies? Synergies? Because I think what happened is that company, the mold costs like a hundred grand to make and they made like three of them. It was like sackic, maybe Forsberg or I can't remember who the three were. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sackick was one of them. And then everybody in the league would get a sackick and then they would adjust the,

they would heat up and adjust it, right? So I remember when he got it, his scary shot took another level because he was able to get it, like the velocity was coming off even harder. You're right about wood sticks. I play with Al McKinnis. Al used like a Sherwood PMP, like an old Sherwood stick, and he could shoot 100 miles an hour with a little stick. Just insane.

All right, same deal. How the hell did they do it? That is insane. I don't know. I, you know, full circle of old school. I got called up, was on the Black Aces with the Islanders in 93. It was the year that Dale Hunter mistook the puck in the net and accidentally ran into a turd.

and got the 26 game suspension. So we're playing Washington, and I'm staying at that hotel right at the edge of the parking lot in Long Island, Long Island Marriott. So I'm walking over and Washington's staying there. So Ally Afraidy is there. He's got the skullet, a leather coat. He's got a tart and an ice cream.

And he's like... I'm just a steam. Like smoking, and I'm like walking behind. him and he looks back and he's like how's it going kid i'm like not too bad good how you do i'm might be wearing that shirt just with a tie on it but i'm like walking behind him he's just he's hacking a dart eating an ice cream there's fans that are walking and hey al hey all he's like hey how you doing as before he walks in the door just one last tug on it gives it the flick goes in he's eating his ice cream walking down the dresser this is that five o'clock for a seven o'clock playoff game like that you you know

how things have changed, I would say. I remember he had, they were doing the hardest shot at the All-Star game and he was out there and he did. That was the skull. The long, kind of wavy, dark hair and then zero on the top. Yeah, the toilet pole. He had the toilet pole up here and then the hair on the side. And it just is, he was awesome.

Like I actually, I remember thinking like you are the coolest guy ever. Like, he was watching him that night. He probably played 30 minutes that night too. too. Like he was ridiculous. But I remember, like, he was so out of my league. I'm like, this guy is the coolest guy and he's a rock star player too. Like, it was so intimidating as like a 21-year-old, like, you know, third goal tender type of thing. So it was pretty neat, pretty neat to see how things used to work.

Do you have to go? I have to go sooner than later. All right. Well, we can let you go. We can let you go. Well, let's one more. No, it is just very random. I just saw it when I, because I looked through what happened

in this day in history to see if there's anything. And Retz talked about his Mario Lemieux, how he gets inside outside. Lemieux had, on this day, he had three assists, which put his like consecutive point streak at 40 games, I think 40 straight with at least a point. You probably had like 120 points in the 40 games. You have any Mario nightmares?

So there was one, I thought, now I've been proven wrong, but I thought I was a part of, that five goal night where he scored five different ways. Right. That's right. Empty net, power play short-handed, even straight. It wasn't against us, but there was a night where he got five points, and I was painting myself invisible on the bench going,

please don't put me in there. Please do not put me in the net. If I don't move, they can't see me. It's like, Jurassic Park. Every goal that would go in, you're just like, and you kind of turn away from the coach, like if you're scared to hear him go, right in there, like, you're, whatever. Nudels. Get in there. Like sometimes like the coach would be looking for you and you're like tying your lace.

Like you're like, I don't want nothing to do with this. So he had a night in the island. Tommy Sauterstrom was the goalie. And Tommy had the bird cage and he was a little guy. Tommy was awesome. Meanwhile, he's a side note. He's a professional roulette player. I don't even know how you do that, but he is.

What? That's not a thing. He randomly sent me a note on Twitter a couple months ago. Like I hadn't talked to him in here. So long story short, we're playing Pitt, and Mario is just like putting on a clinic. And I think they won 7-5 that night. And the only reason why I didn't go in is because it was like 6-2. And then we scored a couple quick ones to kind of get involved, like stay in the game.

But Mario made a play. we had a four minute we were shorthanded for four minutes he was on the ice and I was backing up I'm sitting right there on the blue line they went to regroup he was leaning on the boards by me and he looked at me

like during the play and I was I kind of like nodded my head he like nodded like kind of winked like hey how you doing kid like and he was out he stayed out for the full four minutes of the trouble like and it was just like

we dump it down and he'd just be leaning on the boards like and then to come back in take three strides and puck over saucer plays like ridiculous plays he was so talented like so if you look at his stats did he not get 160 points in like 60 games the one year like 167 it's something ridiculous where you know it goes back to the argument there were people that felt that him and like him and gretzky were like that neck and neck the first time he retired he had more points per game than gretzky you know That was obviously quite young compared to Gretzky's retirement. He had a couple battles with, what, cancer?

Yes. But he was 2.18 points per game. And that was like well beyond what Gretzky did in his career, with the end of Gretzky's career, obviously in there. But yeah, there was a case to be made at a time that he was the best player ever. Hockey was too easy for him. Like it was ridiculous what he did out there because it was two strides and you're in the zone. Long reach.

You could shoot the puck. He could saucer it. You could just, just did anything. And you couldn't push him out of the game because he wasn't a guy that you could physically and Tim, like he was six four, like he was four. Oh, he was a big guy. So you're in 60 and 60, 92, 93. And then in 95, 96 had 161 in 70.

86 career high. Is that not it? Goals. It's scary, scary stuff. He was a very, you talk about not sleeping when there was him and Yager. Like that Yager was no, you know. like he was not a slouch either i remember that that same year i started in pittsburg and i was doing a pre-scout and i asked a few of the players i asked troy loney i don't remember troy loney and

troy had played in pittsburgh with them in one cup so he goes noodles i got a tip for you if yager gets a breakway on you he always goes backhand i'm like perfect so he gets uh he gets a breakway on me I go to poke check him, take away the back end. He just goes forehand right around me and roofs it. I go to the bench and Troy's like, I've never seen that move before. I might have projected the poke check, but I mean, it was still ridiculous. Like those guys, like, I do remember when I backed up Hexie, too, we played in Pittsburgh and Yogg scored on him and did the salute.

And Hexie went into the pile. I hired a puck at him and went after. I was backing him up. I'm like, all right, I'm going to have to go in here because next to you're going to get tossed. Oh, wow. All right, buddy. Yeah, well, we'll let you get on with your day. Appreciate it.

That was just about an hour of quality noodles there. Good time. All right, guys. Have a good one. We'll chat the next couple days. Sounds good, man. See you. There he is.

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It's just, just hang out. Although, in fairness, no one makes it easier than Jamie. He's the best at it. That's why. Yeah, he's the best at it. Like it's just every time you mention a name, he's got three stories in the barrel. Like, and it's like, yeah, he hasn't forgot a single detail. It's one of the greatest storytellers.

And you know what? He ends, he ends just on a throwaway story about, oh, yeah, and then Hextall got scored on and then went into the piles. Chase Jog. Okay, well, there's, yeah, Ron Hextall. There's some stories there because he was a madman on the ice. Ah, good stuff. Good stuff.

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coach mullet he saw at the rink the other weekend. And he's like, dude, you've got to see this epic mullet. He shows me the picture and I'm like, yep, that's pender. Small world, man. I'm that guy now. People have pictures of people. I used to take pitches of people's mullets. That was the thing I did. That was fun. Now, uh, no, full circle. Because what was it when it was tight on the sides and high in? It was the, it was the, the high and terrible. Is that what? Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, in fairness, yours isn't the high and terrible. Not at all. This is a mullet front. Terrible. This is in the front, party in the back. That's what it is. Now, it's getting a little, can we get a side,

can we get the full shot and a side? Got a hoodie on. That's not helping here. I got the earphone cable in here as well. Because I'm just wondering, do we need to tighten up the sides there? We're tightening up the beard today. If it gets too dark from a different,

from a distance, you may not know what you're looking at. And it just gets bigger and bigger as the day goes on. You've seen it. You've seen it, Dina, when it's like 3 a.m. at the party, it's just like... At its best and it's worst. So, here is that. They're going to love it in Toronto.

I just got this feeling. It's going to be a hit. Yeah, I do too. I do too. How couldn't they? That's... Yeah, Vinova.com. Makes me long for the old and time days, right? When I hear those stories and those names start coming up, Rudy Poshek and Tony Twist.

It makes me nervous. Yeah, I can honestly, it gives me, you have, I can feel butterflies. The anxiety that I would, you would have after your, well, you'd have it for 24 hours because you'd be like, oh, but most specifically waking up from the nap, if or the day of the nap or game and you're getting up after. your nap and you're going to the rink and you're just there's that oh this is suck it up you're going to have to battle through this this is not a good feeling but get out so is it a good thing that players say don't have that sorry i i wasn't that guy i was like fourth of the list yeah yeah the race of chase you were coming in under that yeah yeah because no players would have that you would think a lot maybe junior i'm trying to think

When would the last time be when maybe somebody would have that gut? No one has to fight in the afternoon skate. In the NHL these days, that doesn't want to fight. Unless you've done something stupid, like Nick Cousins has done a few times this year. I was looking at the fight leaderboard. You've got like Andreas Engelens fought seven times,

Nick DeLoree six times. Actually, Brennan, Dillon, Paul, the show has scrapped a bunch this year. But those are all willing, okay. I'm going to swing momentum or I dislike this guy or, hey, that was dirty. There's no anxiety of having to fight if you don't. don't want to in this league. And, you know, as sad as it is that we miss some of those stories, it's probably the way you want your league to be run.

You don't want people that don't want to be fighting forced to fight, right? Yeah. If you're like a lawyer and your company's worth $5 billion a year in revenue. Yeah. The only downside for kids is that, like, I think back to my first training camp when I was my second training camp, the year I made the team, first game, because that's, you just had inter squad games. there was no practices or skates.

So you get on the ice, you have inner squad game. Don't have a good game. And there's five minutes left and I'm like, holy shit, I better get in a fight so that I can at least have something to hang my hat on. Got in a fight. End of the game. Doug McLean comes up and goes,

good game today, kid. Oh my God. I was terrible, but I fought. So it was okay. There's a lot of kids that would get to the NHL having not fought before. That's wild. That would have been impossible in your era. Like,

pretty rare. Insane. Pretty rare. You'd have to be the most skilled guy of all time, uh, to be protected the whole way. There's just too many line brawls and things you couldn't avoid. And you know what it is now? I think of it from a different perspective, right? When I was covering junior, you love the scraps and you loved it.

And now you think as a parent. If you're, they're on a road trip, they got an eight hour bus ride after they get into a fight. They get clunked. You're just, oh, you'd be just sick to your stomach. You're from a small town, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, wherever. The kid gets drafted to major junior hockey. Wow, this is great. Off to Seattle, he goes.

He's playing for the Seattle Thunderbirds. What a thing. And all of a sudden, he's fighting. And now that's, that's what he gets to do. So they just drove to Brandon and there's a big galute in Brandon. Right. right like yeah parents met a more anxiety of the player yeah right and it wasn't like you were catching the game on tv like live barn or something like that like it was maybe a radio station if you could get it but doubtful

and not like the coach is going to let the bus pull over so you can phone home and talk to mom and dad well and not like the trainer after you got clunked in the head had a goddamn clue like no he was doing there's one gosh yeah yes he sharpens the skate and uh washes the undies and takes care of your concussion yeah it's probably better off we're probably better off now fighting's up this year but it's definitely like players that don't like each other it's natural organic fighting yeah and we saw i think like roman yosi and alice de brinket went out of the other day it was kind of funny not like alice semen playing the bongos exactly but that's the type of fights that i think will always still be in the game so before we move on we'll do

the Pinder report here in a moment, but for those who are maybe you're not aware of who ally afraid he was going back in the day and we talked about the skullet. I don't know if there's some Pinder, maybe you can pull this off as you, as you move forward, but there is the ally of Frady. And look at the, look at the digits on the right side, 105 miles an hour. Yeah, it was hard to shot all-star game. 105 mile per hour. And yeah, the toilet, what did he say?

The toilet seat, the toilet bowl. So we got a little on the top. Jack, that should have been our bet. Oh, yeah, you got to shave that one in? That's a big bet. People would rather throw a thousand bucks on the table and do that. And you look at that and you think, I wouldn't be at all stunned that that guy's having a dart and an ice cream outside the rink before the game.

With a leather jacket. Of course that guy is. For sure he is. He's a low-level superhero. So just saying, Pender, I don't know. The option's there. Yeah, we start using that. Halloween's right around the corner.

You could get an I.F. Rady jersey and. If I got a sundial coming in, I'm going that way. That's my look, okay? I'm not, if I get the sundial, that's what happens. Let's take a look and do the Pinder Report. A presentation of Village Honda, of course, located in the Northwest Auto Mall online at village honda.com. The Honda Civic continues to lead the way in value, reliability, and performance.

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so let's start with that. A lot of people, we're talking about that horrible start to the season, miserable 10 games. Here's Pike with some context. Even if you toss out October, the flames, 2016 and 4 in their last 40. They've won half and a 550 clip with loser points. That's 11th in the West over that time frame from November through to today.

That's nowhere near the 8th that would require you getting into the playoffs. So even for the hey, even if we just conveniently forget and erase a miserable start to the season, I feel like the writing's kind of on the wall. There's not a lot of people left on team make the playoffs. Team chase the wild card. It's the race for chase. The race for chase. Yeah.

So what was it? Slackin for Macklin? That's the motto is this year. I don't know what it is. But yeah, it's, I can, I can tell you that the general manager is not on vacation. He is working at the saddle dome or somewhere, but he is attending to a team business. to matters. There are matters to attend to.

You have three prominent UFAs. You have a goalie in excellent form. You've got two or three UFAs with some trade protection. And you have theoretically extension conversation with Noah Hannafin, with more on the flames. Elliot Friedman joined the NHL network yesterday, had this to say a bunch here. I don't think that what's happened this year has really changed a lot in terms of what their philosophies were.

I think it comes down to what do the players involved want. like a lot of these players because their contracts are up or because they have no trade clauses, they have control over where they're going. I think with Noah Hanofen, there was a time this year where I thought Noah Hanofin was going to resign. And then they lost a few games and he kind of changed his mind. They've started talking again.

I really think over the All-Star break, Noah Hanofen is going to have to make a decision. Does he see his future in terms? Calgary or does he see his future elsewhere? And I think the flames have kind of asked him, you know, you've got to tell us what you're thinking about here. Chris Tanna, I've heard there's a big market for him, not surprisingly, reported on the weekend that Otto was a team that has interest in him too. They're looking for true pros. He fits. Biggest question is, does he want to go to a team right now that's not going to make the playoffs? Maybe in the summer, he might

consider the senators for next year, but I'm not sure now. I think there's a lot of interest in him. Again, I think there's a ton of interest, him, Vancouver, among the other teams there. I think Colorado's looked at Linholm. I do think he'll get traded. And with Markstrom, the story I've heard with him, and Kevin, you've been lighting up the Devils fans. Like every time you tweet,

the devil's fans, you give the Devils fans coronaries. Like, what I've heard about Markstrom is he does not like, he does not like this stuff. He does not like the speculation. It bothers him. And I think because of that, there's kind of like an unwritten agreement that they won't go to Marksroom about waving unless they've got a trade offer that's so good. Or he tells them that he wants to go somewhere, which I don't believe has happened to this point. I think he just wants to play.

Lots there. And so just to tighten the screws a little bit, Noah Hanofen has a 10-team no trade list. So he can say two-thirds of the teams I'll go to. One-third I won't, essentially. Chris Tanna has an eight team, no trade list, and Markstrom has a full no move. You can't, not that you put them in the miners. You can't even send them to the Wranglers

without him saying, I want to, which no one would do. So he controls it most. And interestingly, Lindholm, who's having the roughest year of the bunch, has no control at all over the situation with no trade protection. And what's interesting there, you wonder if that's, obviously, they have it. But if those players are going to be. dealt, it's probably to a team that is strong and his playoff bound.

And you're going for a couple of months, potentially at most. I don't know. It shouldn't be an issue. That you'd be invoking a no trade, but it's hard to say, I guess. Yeah, and then there's the when do the list get submitted and maybe someone had Winnipeg on a list this summer because they didn't think they'd be good, but shit, look at them now. Yeah, Winnipeg would be great. I don't see

it being a huge sticking point, but you did hear in there. All-Star break, Elliot's thought is Conray will have an answer from Noah Hannafin. Is your future in Calgary or not. And if the answer is no, get the fax machine fired up and let the other 31 general managers know this guy's available. Not to speculate on anything, but just as a thought, if I'm thinking about the Marksham thing, now's the time for that too. Yep.

Because you've got to make this move. You've got a guy like Markstrom who's got kids, whatever family. Totally. It's a window to get something done here. Even with having term remaining, because the other guy's UFAs, even with Markstrom having a couple years left. you still kind of I'm saying if it's going to happen for Markstrom right now as a being classy about it if you want to trade them this year, do it now. Yeah, and I think if you're Craig,

you could say look, it's a high probability we're moving Lentholm. Lennelho's a big part of Markstrom coming here. Those guys are tight. If you're Connie, you probably got to, you say, look, we're probably going to move Tenev. The guy literally had TANF's missing teeth on his mask. Like those guys played in Vancouver together.

They came that same offseason together. Those guys are buddies. And if you look at the team without those two, it's going to be tough to be competitive. I think Craig Conroy's conversation with Markstrom over the All-Star break if he has one is, here are the things we're doing. And they also, his job is to say,

who needs goalies, what are the offers like? Because if they're just ma' offers like Frank suggested they might be yesterday, it's an off-season move. If there's something tangible, then we're chatting. Yeah, do it now. And I can tell you this. Being in Buffalo, the one year, Rob Ray, Stu Barnes, Chris Gratt, and I forget who else,

all the guys that I was quite tight with, we had a really tight team, but my age guys that we bounced ideas, obviously would be considered leadership on the squad. They all got moved. Total awkwardness and different field going to the rink for the rest of the year after that. Yeah. Obviously, right, it'd be hard to rob your head around. And I like, you wonder with Marks, like,

guys know what's going on, right? Like these guys, they don't have to go to the media and listen to us. Tell them, here's what's happening. They know what's going on. The Marks. What do you want to do? Are you, you don't want to go anywhere?

Then that we don't need to just, we're done talking. But if you're, if you're thinking you want to go, then you go, you go past it because Markstrom knows. Yeah. I don't think.

And it's Hanifan and it's a maybe. And I don't know, I don't know. I was more kind of 60, 40. He stays. It's maybe slid back to a. 50-50 and I think it's it's starting to go down for me a little bit that he stays. Frank made a really good point yesterday. If you've already given him everything and put it on the table and he's declined,

we talked about it all summer. Is that the type of guy that, okay, I'm going to get more money here. I will stay and maybe like I can, if we're not good, I'll just ask for trade. Like, is that really what as a GM you're trying to collect here? It's guys that are just here for the money. No, you want guys that want to be in Calgary. And if you want to be in Calgary, this thing's done. They've had big money on the table a bunch

between the end of last season and now. $60 million. 60 is a lot of money. We will overpay you. That's an overpay. We will give you more money than anyone else in the league will and we have an eighth year. And that's what he got. He said no.

Yeah. You've had all kinds of time to evaluate. You've been here long enough. You know what the city is. Here's the money. Like there's no more surprises out there that Noah Hannafin has to. There's no more information. He's going to get to make that.

decision. Yeah, maybe if they went six and O in the home stands, but it doesn't change. He's been here for years. He knows what the city and this team is. And yes, it's going to be a younger team. It's not immediately, he knows. It's, yeah, I'm, it's sliding for me. I would say I'm well below 50% now.

Yeah, I'd agree. And I think that's probably good. I think they'll do well in a trade for Hanifun. Minute Munching D. Okay. off to Vancouver. Interesting things are happening in Vancouver. It's a very good team. I looked at the standings yesterday. Vancouver and Boston were at the top. Is this 2011 again? Good Lord.

More from Friedman. He was a busy guy yesterday. He was on Donnie and Dolly and Vancouver. Looking for top six forward. He could play multiple positions. Lindholm, high on the radar, but it may cost Vancouver a little more because it's Calgary. Now, it didn't stop him from getting a Zedora of deal done, though, earlier this fall. Though, did it, fellas. Whether they played a pre-eer or not. Yeah, I'll let you finish. I have thoughts on that. Yeah, and then moving forward, speaking of Zedorov, Elliot wondering about them clearing cap space,

Zadorov's name in the mix. And now Don Taylor as well, of the other host of Donny and Dolly, saying, you're starting to hear the odd thing. I'm wondering how happy they are with him, and I don't just mean on the ice. I'm wondering how he's meshing in that room. I'm not so sure there's a mesh there right now.

That on Zadorov, who was acquired, what, in November? And I remember five games in, he had all those heroic things to say in the media, about coaches change, pull up your socks, you're going to work hard, there's BS. And then two weeks I said, yeah, I'm out of here. And his agent saying he's the best player on the team. Maybe it's the sixth team guys.

Team number six for Nickyta's wrong. They will finally understand how good he is. Did you say usually, Red? Is that usually? It's the sixth one. It's the sixth team. That's what it is. It's not Nikita's false.

All these teams don't get it. The sixth team might be the one. Wild to think he may be falling out of favor. And that's pretty heavy speculation. but it's only been two months. There's no way Vancouver's coming after Lintelm and Tanev. Well, you couldn't do both, but if you want, you could do one. Are you saying the fit doesn't work at the cap?

I'm just curious. Why couldn't you do both? Well, it's 10 million bucks. That's one reason, but flames will eat. They'll eat salary on both those guys. Yeah, and you have to get a long shot. But yeah, you look back and the whole thing, With Vancouver, I just thought it was interesting that out of that whole group that Zodorov would be the first one out.

I thought it would be Teneb and specifically because it was Vancouver and the relationship and the familiarity that they have there. And just, I guess just a thought on and not to call anyone say that they're wrong. I just, I don't, I have a harder time with the could cost more because it's Calgary and Vancouver. It's for a playoff run. There's no guarantee. July 1 can hit. And if Lindholm wants to be in Vancouver, he can be in Vancouver. I just don't know why you would have to ratchet things up.

Best deal. Take your best. You take the best deal. Yes, you do. Yep. And I agree entirely, especially in rentals. This whole like, oh, it's in division. I mean, I think Calgary, Edmonton, there's something there.

They're not going to give them Markstrom without severely hurting Edmonton with what you want back. But other than something that intense, it's a rental here. This, this, you take what's on the table. And I don't think anyone would have the impact that Markstrom would have. Markstrom, I think Lindholm can go to Vancouver and play very, well. Second line center. Sure.

And yeah, Markstrom's got term left. I don't see it that way. And I reserve the right to be wrong on that. But I just don't say. And if it is the case, I don't know why it would be the case. If the deal is good,

then you do it because it's a UFA. Yeah. The bottom line is if you're selling Kristanov and he's got his, let's see, eight teams he's not going to. You're looking at all the offers. And you say, what's best for the flames?

You're not worried about what division eight teams in. That's where I see it. I agree. Let's move along. A lot of Vancouver there. Last night, this is a great Twitter account. It's called the hockey images that precede unfortunate events. Starting things off right.

That was the Preds up 3-0. That was after 20 minutes. They'd allow three in the second. They lost 4-3 in overtime sends rally for the victory. Who's that big bastard? Is it Mad Sogard? He got hooked. In came Corpusallo.

That was the only game in the NHL last night. So a relief shutout of sorts for Corpusalo who came in and saved the day. Tonight, we got some games. We got all-star festivities as well. What do we got on the All-Star? What's happening on the All-Star? We have some All-Star.

Oh, look at this. It's free lap dances for all NHLers at the All-Star game. At one of the grossest, most run-down strip clubs in Toronto. Great stuff, guys. How do you know? I had to stay in a hotel near at once. I was afraid to set foot. That's what I see it was.

I'm not afraid of many things. ID required. Hey, you got have your NHL ID. You can. Hey, I'm Al-Iafrady. I'm here for my free left hands. Tonight, two games. Tomorrow day and three.

Thank you for that. Yeah. And wow, look at these barn burners. We got some serious high-octane action tonight. I think it's St. Louis, Columbus, San Jose. San Jose. Yeah. San Jose.

Yeah. Did a little light on other sports. We're waiting two weeks now for the Super Bowl. Raptor's not in action, so we're not interested in that, Rhett. Sorry. NHL light night. I need an impromptu Monday night raw recap from Boomer. What the hell happened last night?

The first raw after a pay-per-view. No, I profess, I did not see it's in entirety yesterday, but some terrible news coming for CM Punk as it was revealed at the Royal Rumble, he tore his tricep muscle. Wow. So he was in a sledge. to the extent, I don't know if it's surgery,

but CM Punk, who had really run a foul of the WWE, he left for 10 years and had nothing but awful things to say about the WWE. Well, he's back. They have mended fences, and his dream is to headline WrestleMania.

And he was emotional last night, tears in his eyes that that's going to have to wait. And who knows, it may never happen. And we had said yesterday that Cody Rhodes had won the Royal Rumble. So now he is going to WrestleMania to face the champion. Will it be Roman Raines or will it be Seth Freakin'Rollins? And he pointed up to the skybox and said, I'm coming for you, Roman Rains. Well, Seth came out yesterday and he is injured as well.

He's got an ACL, MCL, something like this. But he said, hey, if you've got what I think you've got in those trunks of yours, you're going to come for me at WrestleMania. So he's lobbying for the American nightmare to be done with Roman Rain. and come after the real belt. So the American nightmare. It's heating up. Because his dad was the American dream.

Death day. It's just beautiful. Death day. Death day roads. I keep thinking Mondays are the heavy days for the dumb shit, but I got another 10 clips here, and it might be better than this. 10, only 10?

Damn it. Quiet day. We're going to start with the redneck merry-go-round, fellas. Just takes a little ingenuity. You don't need anything. fancy nothing expensive here want to have some fun the hell's the redneck merry go round it's on tomorrow's show slash thursday so let's move along uh ret's they got three kids

uh we saw the the junior sabers the other day with the five on five brawl but some of his younger kids are playing as well i this has to be junior sabers red phyllis soon for a young james just tossing rights he's typically a lefty but he injured his hand earlier in the game Well, there's lots of them here. This is, uh, the one ref that feels unfair. Yeah, this is not. I feel like at this age, probably the coaches could go out there and start to help the ref.

I, the coaches are probably fighting the other side of the camera. I think that's probably how this all started. It's bad coaching, right, that leads to these types of situations. This is really something for this. Yeah. And if you, if you look at the end boards, this must have been a road trip for your youngest, because there's Russian text on the boards. We've all played this game when the kids are young.

the shark fishing game where you got to get all the kids into the net cops and robbers the net he's just got to start throwing kids into the net yeah cops and robbers for sure put them into net you can't leave cops and robbers stay in the net you got to stay in jail you because freeze tag's probably not going to listen to you but they're in the buddies it's going to be toilet tag and the buddy's going to come around and flush them they're going to get back up get back into it dean i've never thought of you as much as i have when i saw this great but the Costco hot dog meal for the past week to see if paying $1.50 for a glissian drink was worth it for seven days. And here are the results. I ate 29 hot dog meals for a grand total of $43.50. One fourth of what the average millennial spends on food a week. I also might have started a new diet trend on accident because I lost 4.2 pounds in seven days. Or I have a giant tapeworm. And to my surprise, I never got sick of eating hot dogs once despite my bowel movements resembling Willy Wonka's chocolate river.

So was it worth it? Are you kidding me? I bawled on a budget, lost weight, and had the culinary experience of a lifetime. Abs of fucking Looley. I was watching this guy. He was doing the updates throughout the week. I mean, it's a $1.50, folks. That's an inspiration right there.

Yeah, and he lost weight. If you want to go too bang, or you're probably just going to be sea level. You're not going to move at all. You don't need to, you don't eat too bad. Yeah, I got that dog in me. That's right. Can we get you that shirt some? Oh, yeah, I mean, they're out there.

Yeah. They are okay. We need some to show budget. That's like 30 American dollars we need to spend. Someone's gotta have that for boom. It's so,

you get the drink too, guys. Don't sleep on the drink. You're getting the drink and the dog for a buck. Fitty. I was saving one the other day. I almost drove to Costco just to have lunch.

New York is a wonderful city. It's also got some issues, as you've often alluded to. Let's go to the subway here where just keep your eyes peeled. There's some little. creatures around. I'll get some rats there, I think.

This is a fellow down on his luck. He's having a snooze here. Probably doesn't want to be here, but he is. What the hell? No. You. Keep it more. Next.

Let's go to Australia. Dumb shit happens in Australia, too. Dean. We know this. Mm-hmm. This is a heavy collision. No more. No. Oh, Dean.

Jack. Yeah, that's right along the Bow River there. Terrible. Now, you're a big cyclist. When you're not at the velodrome, you're out on the roads. You're always cycling. And when you're indoors, you're on the Peloton, you just always strapped in.

I couldn't believe what you caught here on your bike camera. This is nuts. Oh. Holy shit. Yeah, that's... Holy shit. With a deer. Are you sure at the deer?

That was a deer. Where's this deer come from? You see nothing, nothing. Oh, you idiot. A little buck there, red? Yeah. Oh, dear. Venison.

If you caught those antlers, that would have been, ugh, stupid deer. The deer hit the side of the car. Ran into the car. Just stay where you were, you idiot. Broad daylight, not in a night where the lights may be blinding them. Broad daylight.

Settle down, deer. Settle down, deer. Humans are done. come to though we go to the rainforest where a man in the chainsaw and a ladder went to work we got motherfucking tars then yeah that's just gonna oh that's you had to see it coming don't you got motherfucking tarz and watch your mouth it's a kid's yeah i'm worried about that ladder the ladder's not an issue oh god ladder's very sturdy Just tossed.

With a chainsaw on his hand. Fall in like two stories. Oh. The chainsaw ladder combo. I didn't know what was going to be. Very few people win. Yeah. Well, it's just you don't know which way it could go either way.

Turned out kind of to be both. It kind of goes the same way. This is a video that's going viral. It's just a matter of how. The ladder was still intact at the end. That's the real stutter. Well done. Yeah.

It's two where we've had a little ladder misdirection. Yesterday, the guy landed it, and today, the ladder was fine. Very sturdy placement. Right, you're ahead of your time. You've been calling this for ages. The Germans, they get it, just like you. The four-day work week, starting Feb first, a six-month project in Germany. How about that?

You in, Rhett? I'm off to, yeah, Cologne here next week. You're off to, yeah, Lisbon. No, Cologne for sure. Now, you were there for the World Cup, is that right? I was. What year was that, do you remember? Oh, six.

Oh, yeah. And did you visit a bunch of cities or did you sort of centralize around one stadium and area or what? Dusseldorf and we went to a couple other cities. Yes, it was great except for the smoking in the stadium. Oh. And no booze in the stadium either, I'm guessing. No.

In the beautiful country like Germany with all that wonderful beer. Yeah. It was a very big name brand beer from America. Oh, people wouldn't like that. Yeah, I remember that. There's the big sponsorship thing. Oh, dear. Yeah, it was brutal.

So a question for you, right? If you are going to implement the four-day work week, how are you taking the off days? Are you doing four straight days and then a longer weekend? Are you doing a couple? Slide a day, do a couple? How are you? Do you rest in the middle? Wednesday, rest day?

Monday to Thursday, Friday, Sunday, Sunday, on. Okay. Thursday's a drinking day. That's a good one. Yeah. Good call. No brainer kind of. Because I don't mind thought of doing the two days and then who.

No. No, no, no, no. You don't ever recover then. No. Well, Jack's got to figure it out. He's got a three-day work week this week. Two-day. Two-day work week.

Jack, how many days you workings? Now you're in Saturday. You had a lot, two shows Saturday. Yeah, it worked Saturday, Sunday. Sunday, Monday. Well, they had to edit. Oh, geez. I was going to say, probably going at Jack about having a slack work schedule.

Oh, no. I'm excited for him. This is good. He's got a little time because we're off to Toronto. No, Jackson, Toronto, they said. Something about, uh, yeah, they saw him in Jasper and said, please don't. Through security. It's going to be an issue.

Got big plans for your time, Jack? I'm going to Montana. Montana. I'll be at the Bulldog. Yeah. Wow. When do they start? Canadian at one time?

They don't take. They don't, no more Canadian at par. I know. We were talking about that the other day. He's distraught. Brut. You just take Canadian money? a part, do you know? Do they take Canadian

at par in Buffalo? No, it's the shits. Only at the grocery store. Still, hey? They still are in that whole. What about it the sundowner? They don't use the metric system or take Canadian money at par. No, hey. This whole Fahrenheit thing, they're sticking with that. That's dumb.

Damn, Yankees. Do you think, Dean, you'd ever jump on a vehicle to save either Jack or I? 100% You would? I'm a hero. Because I know if it was your dogs life that was in jeopardy. You'd, well,

given, yeah, yeah. I just wonder about anyone that's not one of your dogs. Would you literally put your life on the line in front of a vehicle to save us? Today, yes. I feel like spirits are high today. So maybe today. I don't believe. Let's roll the tape.

Second. He's full of shit. What? That's a lady on the hood of a car. Apple look, fellas. As he started to go faster and faster, I started to say, I'm about to die. This is my death. Right now. I'm about to die. That's a good luck at pooch, apparently.

Having lunch? Lunch. I didn't think that somebody was stealing my dog. I thought it was a misunderstanding. So I was like, that's my dog. Excuse me. And she wasn't listening. And she turned, and she got right into a car. And I tried to follow her into the car. But I got in there, and there were four people in the car. I was folding. So what do you do? She sped off and unfortunately took this woman with her. It's devastating that someone would take someone's animal.

You're right, Harrison. How could you? jumped on the hood of the car. This car, drive it down the street full speed. Don't care if they're on there, lady. Tosser, still got the dog. This is brilliant. Like, dogs are expensive nowadays. Come on, go pick up a whole bunch in one afternoon.

Well, you'd have to have a specialized vehicle. You wouldn't want them fighting when you're in your getaway car. You'd need them to be... No, dogs are friendly. You don't go pick up one of those mean bastards. You little things like that. Well, they're just going to be confused about their owner. Dean, is anyone ever tried to steal your dog?

I would see red for sure. Yeah, I would lose it. You stole my dog. What do you are? Why? Don't even go there. Steal it back. I'm not sure.

Stealed. Saved, rescued your dog. It is a rescue. Yeah. Yeah. It's not how my kids see it. It's not how your kids. Yeah.

What are you telling your children about that transaction? It's not how it's been sold in this house. Mm. He won't get. Give it back. That damn Moorberg, he just won't. We went over a bunch of times. Well, can we take a, no, no.

That's not all. It's a good thing you guys live in Buffalo. I'd be driving down the street when your kids be jumping down in the hood of my car. I don't know, Dad. Give him back my dog. Mr. Dean said we could have him back in. No, no, he's not letting us. That's a stolen dog.

Don't fall into that trap, son. He's not letting us have that dog back. And you know, what? It's probably not that far from the truth. Yeah, we dropped them off and they just, they said they wanted to keep them so I don't know to tell you, kid. Sucks to be a child of

your horridous dad. Yeah, it's tough growing up in that household, for sure. You wouldn't jump on the hood of a car for Rhett today. Not with that dog behavior. No. Can't be teet dogs like that, right? That's pinned a report for whatever day today is, the 30th of January of Tuesday.

Can't wait for that redneck merry go round. it's going to be good. It's going to be so good. It's a lot. And it was the first story out of the shoot, too. Well, you know what? What's the redneck merry garg? We don't have redneck merry-go-round.

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Also, speaking of Thursday, get your questions in for Ask Rett. Presentation of Bontan meets a Calgary tradition since 1921. Now, did you hear because it was your birthday on the weekend

that Bontan, there was some thought, maybe, you know, Red loves Bontan, can't get Bontan, what do we got to do to get Reds and Bonton? And it's just, it's apparently, it's just a little too hard to get you quality meat. Or I'm not worth it.

Are we in your feels here? You got some hurt feels, Redd? What I'm sensing? Your birthday was driving back. I think, well, I think it was not having anything. It was kind of, whatever.

The cost is going to be. Finals and I lost them all. Why would I expect anything nice for my birthday? Oh, God. Hmm. Do you have that music handy, Dean? This is rough. They stole my dog?

No. Yeah, dogs, dogs, dogs. It's a rescue. Three cups. Is it three? Three. Was it when we were in Phoenix and somebody said, Rhett's been to two cup finals and didn't win?

Then Red had to, uh, actually it's three. Now, Florida, too. Don't sell me short. I was three. Me and Dave Poulin. We're Brian. I can't remember which one. Is there anything else that's really not going your way?

Yeah, shoulders. You couldn't even come play pawn dog. His shoulders are too much. Can't play hockey. I got a nice close this week. Yeah. The event that I don't know anything about. Across the border, find his passport, all that nonsense.

Who's paying for all this shit? Yeah, that's good. It's working well today. Yesterday it was kind of warbly coming in and out. I don't know what the settings were yesterday. That sounds great today. Ask Ret is going to be on Thursday. Email your questions in for Rhett.

Like last week, if your buddy's getting married for the third time. He's an idiot. He's an idiot. Upgrader. I love him. Yeah, if he's upgrading. Askrette at flamesnation.ca is the email. Askrette at flamesnation.com. And we'll get those questions through.

No, no. Look at this. Look at this. You've got a support group growing here. Rhett is the last person. and anybody should be feeling sorry for it. I mean, oh,

he's got to be, can't even sleep properly his shoulders, sir. He's going to sleep in a chair some nights, Dean. Poor guy. A little sympathy. Might not be my shoulder, but I do sleep on the coach sometimes.

Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Bontan meat market, of course, you know them, you love them, 28 crowfoot circle in the northwest. It was going to be really good, too, Red.

I mean, it was, you know, Greg Keller, he's going to pull out all the stops. Who, boy. Yeah. Never does. of points. Blame.

On Canada. I know. Somebody. And maybe you have travel questions because Rett's going to have to cross a border. He's got paperwork. There's hotel protocols,

visiting other cities. Maybe you have questions about travel. Rett's a very, very, very seasoned traveler of the globe and especially big cities in North America. Are they sending a car for me? To where? To take me up there. Do I have to drive my own?

Well, you've got a flight. Yeah, we did. We're flying. We're not driving from Calgary. That's right. Why? Because it's about 30 hours. He loves road trip. No, he does it with me. He'd rather choke himself with a belt and his life. This could be a question for tomorrow, but here it is today. Can we revisit the loaf of broccoli?

You would talk about, you know, these players. Just let them, let them be. Listen, for you, non-health nutty people, that's what the people do now with the broccoli. Mash it all up and then they bake it into a loaf. Oh, so that's what you mean. It's zucchini bread, yeah. Because at the time, it sounded like you were purchasing broccoli to eat by the loaf. Two loaves of broccoli, please.

Which is an odd way for it to come. It's the metrics. It's the Yeah, it's a Yeah. The other system. Yeah. And I've not been in a grocery store in the U.S. for a while.

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I've been sleeping like a baby. Oh, baby. I might go hit that sucker this afternoon. Yeah, you might need some. We're up early tomorrow, brother. Yeah, we are headed to Toronto. We are going to be doing shows on Thursday, Friday. Now, the showtime Thursday, Friday, going to be a little bit different.

and it'll be a little bit later. Is it? Let's walk me through this here. 12.30 until 2 p.m. is kind of the window. It's not going to work. It's 12.30 mountain time. That's what I believe to be true.

Okay. Didn't know a time zone of this. Okay. Now, subject to change, because we, it's the nation network, Flames Nation, Oilers Nation. Our buddy Jay Rose Hill,

Leaves Nation. He's heading in as well to do some shows. with Nick Alberga, Oiler Boys, the Ottawa guys are going in. It's the nation network, and I don't expect anybody to really, no, it's getting bigger pretty much by the week, every couple weeks. It's like this new show is in. And this, this show has come on board. So we are going to, uh, it's a, uh, it's a big whoopty do. It's what you need to know. That's what Dean says when he doesn't have a damn clue what it is. Yeah. Yeah, that's a whoopty do for sure. I sent you the link. You saw it. Would, uh, I can't figure it out

It looks like a whoopty do to me. You know, it looks like a whoop to do. If you're from a small town, this is a whoop to do. Oh, man. I mean, you can go to, what is it, ag, farm ag, and. Farm days, egg days. Oh, yeah. Ag days.

That's a whoopty do. This similarly. Yeah. This will be a big, big old deal. I remember when my old man used to travel a bit for work and I was like, oh, so this is a work trip. He's like, no, no something. This is a boondoggle. I'm like, what the hell is a boondoggle?

And he's like, well, it's supposed to look like work. But there's, there's no work happening. this is all tomfoolery and nonsense. I'm hoping it's a bit of a boondoggle. Is that what a boondogle is? I don't know if I knew. Oh, yeah, we're going to do a lot of work. Like, mm-hmm.

You're going to meet. It always sounded like water skiing. I'm like, the hell is this work thing? You're water skiing in Switzerland? Leave that. It's not one of those things. Boondogles, isn't that like, sounds like politics, politicians speak?

And my brain just shuts off. It's like, I don't mean. That's the one where they talk forever and ever and ever and ever just to kill time. Yeah, we're out of time. Parliament's over. Yeah, yeah. That's a move too. Goosh.

That's a goosh. Yeah, so that's what's coming up. So I believe no show tomorrow. I hope everyone will make it. Oh, that's going to do the show. Oh, you're doing the show? Oh, you got to get. I got to get ready for the boondoggle.

You got to get the boondoggle prep, yeah. Get your dogglet's for the boondog. Bring your swimsuit. Bring something with sequins on it. Tight and bright. Let's go. Funky hat. So for DoorDash, let's do DoorDash,

and we'll spin it right into. to our Betway bets because you already, I think you kind of laid out in the Pinsla. She's a little slim. But we are professionals. And these leagues with their schedules,

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Got a couple fellas, I got a 6 o'clock and I got an 830 for you. 6 o'clock. It is Johnny Hockies against the St. Louis Bluze. As two teams of flames just saw on this recent homestand, We'll clash against each other. More on the betway bets in a moment. The nightcap, we're off to San Jose. We're the sharks who have some players playing in the NHL that I think we can call NHLers.

We'll be hosting a Cracken Club that's actually been pretty okay of late. That at 830. No wrestling tonight, Dean, am I correct? I know yesterday there was a lot there to unpack on a Monday. No, they've been in Florida for a long time. They had Smackdown. And of course, the event on the weekend. And last night, they were at the Amelie Arena, wherever the Lightning play.

So yeah, moving on until Friday, Friday night Smackdown, the next. Do you know what about this week? Where is it? Do you know? I don't know. Anyway, that's for next week's show anyway. That's right alone. That is what's on the menu for DoorDash.

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I door dash all the time. Well, and the thing is, it's your first order, Dean. He's already ripped through that too. That's true. Yeah. Dash that for the win with our buddies from DoorDash. Update did not have a bacon mushroom melt yesterday. Didn't.

No. So you had two. No, no. I was out. And you were going to have one. I resisted the temptation. It's like, you know what? Just try and come on.

Now today. No problem. are going to be made took a lot of stamina and where we're all i found the word filibuster a filibuster now that's it man there'll be some filibustering at dinner tomorrow night i think i really want to get into politics you should yeah it really seems like it's good people yeah bullshit a lot of smart people get involved. Yes, a lot of hard workers. People that have great paths usually

just sweep that to the side. Yeah, yeah. I need to give back. Because we were in Jasper and, you know, we sat down good people. We had a lot of drinks, like a lot of drinks. But we never really sat down and talked politics. Did it feel like someone was missing? Yeah. This is our country and we love our country. except for Red, who's not in it anymore.

Maybe it's time that we all, maybe just have a, take a little, grab a hold of the stick. This country that we know and love. Yeah. Let's have, let's have more investment. Well, a little ask for you, and I'll fly in the ointment potentially. Oh, a lot of these politicians,

the way they build momentum and then get voted into office, you've got to be outside meeting people, strangers, shaking hands, posing for photos. Is there a name for that? of campaigning. Ah, yeah, yeah. It seems old. That seems like an old way of doing.

Do we get Jack and RJ on it? We'll do a social media thing where you don't have to leave your house. It'd be like a virtual dean. Yeah, just holding a tablet. Okay, is it there? Hi, who we got? That's Jack and Susan. Hey, Jack and Susan.

It's Boomer. I'm at home. Say hi to Jack and RJ. Vote Boomer. Really looking forward to getting your vote here. I've been talking. We should get involved in politics for years. I just missed the deadline for the mayoral candidate to see a few times.

You need 100 signatures and you miss the cutoff by a few days. It's a great idea. Again, we just needed an execution guy. Are people fond of our mayor here in Calgary? I heard there was a big uproar about bags right now. There is a thing in a... Is that civic or is that political?

I don't even know where those rules are coming from. Well, it's certainly Calgary for sure. Oh, I know it's Calgary. So, for example, if you go to a fast food outlet and you go through the drive-thru, they won't give you your food in a bag anymore unless you pay for the bag on top of that. And they won't give you straws for your drinks unless you ask for them. And I don't think you get napkins, but for sure it's the bag. They'll just start handing you the individual a la carte items through the drive-thru window into your vehicle without a bag. my grandfather said something along the lines of changing government is probably like changing

underwear that's probably best to do it more often than less often. And like my grandpa or dad or a lot of my relatives, this seems to be going over like a fart in church. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I could see that. Not going well.

Sorry to get so political. Let's do our bet way best. Seriously. I'm sorry. I mean, I feel like we've impacted the election. We're going to be in trouble. Yeah. Remember on the radio, you couldn't even talk.

talk about stuff like that. You'd get thrown off the air. You'd get suspended. Hope it's not the same here. Hope it's not the same here. Two-man show. Look out. Betway, get the Betway app on your phone.

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Two games tonight, you mentioned. I'm all. Both of them. Nice. Site loss, home to the blue jackets. Pavl Butchnevich, four goals in his last six games. He's on a little bit of a roll here. Give me an anytime goal for Boch at plus 140. And similarly, Jared McCann, he's scoring out a decent clip. They're in San Jose. Six in his last eight is what the ticker has for McCann as far as goal scoring. Anytime goal, plus 162. So I'm on the plus side for both. just looking for goals from Bouchnavich and McCann.

The McCandie Man can. I think they'd call them that? I wouldn't say that, but you did. So maybe they wouldn't. I'm all over this blue jackets, blues. A lot of blue, blue, blue, blue jackets or just blues, blue notes, blue notes, blue jackets. This is both bets there.

Let's start with Yigor Chinikov. Remember the shocking first-round selection from Yarmal Keckelan, plus money for a single point. He's had at least a point in five of his last six. So I'm going to ride the hot hand there. And I didn't mind Johnny's game against Calgary. Yes, it was classic Johnny where it was like, where are you in the D zone?

But he was making some play, setting up guys in good spots, a two point night. Think about this two years ago in Calgary. This would have been almost even money. Two points for Johnny in a game plus 320. Yes, sir? It's Betway Bet. Thank you, Betway.

Preach. See you soon. They're coming back out. For the filibuster? for the Boondoggle? Boondogle. Are they Boondoglin in the big smoke?

Yeah, they'll be in Hogtown Boondoglin with the rest of us. I had no idea. I had no idea. Chicanery and tomfoolery as well, I suppose. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do like chicanery. A little out on the side.

Well, that'll do it. I feel bad about tomorrow, but we'll make it up to you on Thursday and Friday. For sure. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe. Do I have a bit?

to bring gear. No. No. He's so nervous. I love it. No, bring yourself. How do I get there? Am I supposed to drive? Are they sending a car? You should just get a helicopter like a van or can did when he went, it was late in practice coming back from the Blue Jays game. And be like, just expensive.

Yeah. And then this is $18,000 year. That's just my ride to, what? Do you know what the traffic's like driving into traffic? Oh, it was five minutes. I know. It's the efficient way to travel. Better leave now.

get there for Thursday gosh I think you've probably got some budget you can expense a way to get to there so there's a $22. Breakfast this is parking at the airport

for $19. I love this. 32,500 for a helicopter. Whoa! Who had the helicopter? Who got the chopper? Last time I tried to submit an invoice they turned me down

the bastards. What? What? The bastards. Who turned you down? Not these bastards, some other bastards. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, these bastards aren't. These bastards are probably put it through. Yeah, these bastards are probably going to point. What was that show where everyone was a bastard? Well, there was fat bastard.

That was in one of the, uh, these bastards. Oh, Seinfeld. Well, George was with the Texas group. The baseball.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. These bastards. Yeah, because all the Texans have the, oh, you bastard! It's good show.

When does curb start right away, right? Is it this weekend? What season? It's the final season. And there's been about three of them for poor Larry. Poor Larry. You talk about anxiety. I just can't believe we have to do another season of this so that he does another season.

That is it. I am done. It's just, it stresses me out. I just, the anxiety, I'm just, I can't do it anymore. the last season of curb your enthusiasm. I can't. This is it. I can't do it anymore. Then they just keep backing up trucks of money to his house.

It's like, oh, God, all right. I'll write another 14 or however many there are of these things. So I believe it's this weekend. God, I love Larry. The 2023 season of the show, Larry makes $20 million for that appearance. So that anxiety, it does come with a bit of a payoff team. He's also estimated to make about 40 to 50 million a year in Seinfeld royalty syndication, merchandise, and video sales.

Oh, God. Isn't that? You're talking 60, 70 sheets a year. Boy, I hope we can get over that anxiety. What do we make for our royalties catalog and library from over at the other place? Because we put in a good solid 10, 15 years there.

I'm sure the hits are still getting played. People really want to go back and revisit that René Bork episode. Oh, wow. Yeah. Or that guy that came in about the big book. Big book. It's a big, it's a five-pound book. It's a big book. It's a big book. It's a big book. It's a real big book. It's a real big book. It was so heavy. Oh, it's a big book. Yeah. Massive book. Frigant George Johnson comes in. Oh, I can't talk. I got laryngitis. You got to talk to this deadbeat. Oh, great. Thanks, thanks, George. Nice, Georgie. Me and my mom. Me and my mom, we wrote cookbooks. Oh, did you? Oh, really? Hey, it was companies coming. Yeah, it was companies coming. Oh, I've heard of that. Yeah, that was me and my mom. Yeah, that was me and my mom. Yeah, And we wrote these cookbooks and it's like, just shoot me.

Please, somebody. Does anybody have a hammer? I got up at three. It's like, Jay, do you have a hammer in there? Could you beat me on the head with it? There was some, there were some odd guests that got thrown to this now. And then there was also some where you're like, oh,

you think you're pretty awesome, don't you? Well, you're a pretty big deal. Yeah. Well, it's, you know, in your hometown, you're a really big deal. Is that right? You hear a lot about intermittent fasting. But, I mean, I've been doing it for so long. I mean, that's just, I've been doing this for years.

Oh, okay. I was asked by the party to run for federally, but I don't know if I'm ready yet. I don't know if I'm going to, yeah, it's just, I don't know if they're ready for me. I'm certainly ready. Oh, okay. Yeah. Then there was the guy. I don't know if you to, it might have, it was before your time, Ryan, but there was like, shut up Dean.

No, do it. Come on. Do it. Well, no show tomorrow. Oh, you can't tease us like that. Shit. Thursday Friday from Toronto. You're dead to me.

This guy is sitting, it's in the old studio. So I think it was Walker. So there's Walker, guest, me. And we're all in a line. It's the worst studio ever. Touching your knees. Yeah, you're basically beside each other like this. It's tighter than a pub.

And I, so, yeah, ask this guy about whatever it is he's in for it. Whatever the topic is that he is coming to talk about. There's no real reason for him to be there, but, you know, we're going to have them on. So he starts talking. about oh, there's this and that. And then all of a sudden, as he stops talking, like I ask another question, he does one of these. So I kind of do one of these and I'm looking over at walkers.

You're seeing this, right? Is this happening right now? Okay. So about the other thing, uh, that had to have been very exciting for you. Oh, it was very exciting and I look forward to doing it again. Can you describe what's happening, right? For those just listening, he's, he's hugging himself, but it's more of a slap. It's a rock or hug, like a, wow.

Okay, so thanks for coming in. Again, if you want to check that out, go to I'm a crazyperson.com and learn more there. Thanks for coming in. We'll go to break, come back. Oh, yeah, thanks for having us in. Yeah, you know, that, I don't know if you saw I was doing a thing. Oh, was that right?

Were you doing a thing? I didn't realize. Yeah, it's so that I can fill my chest with air if I get a little bit of, I get nervous or kind of anxious. I just give it one of these and it rushes air into my lungs so then I can so that I can speak. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, thanks for coming in. And you know what it's like, right? When something like that happens and then everybody's when the guy leaves or whatever. Okay, that's some. Yeah, that's a crazy person. That should not be driving. I'm not sure. Hopefully there's a ride for for that person,

whoever it is. I had never seen anything like that in my life. Crazyperson.com. It's a great website. I'm a crazyperson.com. Jack enjoyed that, by the way. He's sitting back there, smile. You always appreciate to get off my glass. He's got some giggles back.

Yeah, I know. Yeah, you talk about, I saw people talking about how Jamie McClennon should write a book. And he has, actually. Best seat in the house. Is that what it was called? Something like that. If you Google Jamie McClennan,

now it might be hard to find because I think, as he had said, it was for, he was raising funds for a buddy of his who had gotten sick or whatever. But if you can find it, it's great. I think his buddy passed away running a race or road race out in the mountains. Yeah. But he did write a book.

And yeah, 30 years of being around interesting characters. Because it's not the meek and quiet people that get into broadcasting or do this sort of things. It's the pinders of the world. It's the people that shave their head into a mullet and do high kicks in a Fairmont Hotel at 3 a.m. Those are the people that are drawn to this. And even weirder people, as we just have received. And even weird. And that's a little horrifying.

Yeah. Have you ever done that, Ryan, whenever we're, had to do the power hug? For the Pinder report, I always get Jack, take me down. Right, yeah, yeah. That's why we go to those single shots. That's right. I'm reading the sponsor.

So Ryan can start giving one of these. Yeah. All right, buddies, that'll do it. Thanks for being a part of the show. Look forward to seeing you retro in Toronto. Tomorrow. 24 hours. Yeah,

rides on the airport. I guess I'm driving. I can pick you up. We got to get a ride. We're good. What the? I don't. I'm teasing here.

All right. See you, buddies. Thanks for telling that story. He's gone. Appreciate you. Terrible.