Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Talkin' Hockey With Jeff Marek | FN Barn Burner - November 14th, 2024
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I don't know we had the idea for the pre-show on the old shows.
We should do the pre-show.
We'll sell the pre-show.
And are they still canceling, though?
I don't know.
Do you get canceled on the internet?
That's the thing.
On the radio, we did, there could be some canceling for sure.
Because we were talking about...
X doesn't cancel.
You can do it all on that.
That's true.
We're talking about MIT.
Abstaining.
Well, yeah.
Abstance.
involuntary abstinence, having, getting the, the heisman in the bedroom because of who wins an election.
Christmas lights.
Beautiful.
Self care.
Self care.
And Jack cams.
Wow.
That was all on the pre-show.
I'm telling you.
We could charge a serious subscription rate for the pre-show.
If you would like to sponsor the pre-show.
Exclusive access.
Yeah.
I don't know that you want.
your logo next to pre-show.
I'm not sure you want to sponsor the pre-show.
Don't sponsor.
Just pay to watch.
Yeah, yeah, just subscribe to the pre-show.
Like, we may not get canceled, but.
Yeah.
I heard them talking about Mitt on the pre-show.
I can't go.
Maybe you have a company that's like pizza porta-potties or something,
and you're like, we're dealing with shit all day.
Yeah, come listen to these guys talk shit and the free shit.
I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it was the 530s.
Remember we?
530 was up.
You didn't do the 5-30.
I used to get it to.
He would hear it probably.
driving in.
Yeah.
No, no, I was, I was, I'm never late.
Oh, that's true.
You were, you were on at six.
530 would start at 5.30.
Yeah, 535.
Yeah.
It's kind of like this show.
What?
No.
530's early.
530's really early.
Really early.
And it was to the point where you would sort of be like,
I'm not quite ready yet.
And deforest, like, well, I got like two commercial breaks.
I got to ram in before six.
And we got to be on time for six.
So, like, he just played the music.
and you're like, ah, five different.
And then you just BS and railroading for five minutes about starting too soon.
And that would eat five minutes.
And you throw a break and be right on time.
What are we doing here?
What's 530?
Why are we starting?
We can't be on here yet.
And then finally, I think I got through to the boss.
That 530 to 6, that's a half hour of time that we can really get ready for the 6 o'clock show.
So that we can.
As opposed to just coming on and talking to nine people.
There were three iterations of the 530 to 6.
The first was when I was brought on.
mornings after Walker left and yeah you're going to do the morning highlight zone right and that did not
last long no and then uh after the morning highlight zone it became you and de forest and then i believe you
were there yeah resetted stuff from the night before it was kind of a best of the rental six at one
point yeah i don't know anyway it was early and it never went to the internet it was tough to get
canceled on the five 30 that was kind of that's right you had some risque things to say that was the
Once we even got around to posting things for podcast, we never would podcast.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
So it was.
So if you wanted to teebon someone for something stupid, you'd do it at the 530,
and there'd be no evidence.
Can I bring something up?
Oh, yeah.
Because I've been thinking about it.
I don't want to forget about it.
Who are the worst parents in the city?
The worst parents?
Which association?
We had a rag tag group from Trails West the other day, a bunch of skids and losers.
Oh, wow.
Screaming and yelling.
You're not making friends again.
Skids and losers.
Pick it up.
Losers skits or like separate.
Class.
See, I always thought Trails West was, I thought they were on the better side.
No, they think they're hoity tooty.
That's the problem.
They want to be Glen Lake.
Yeah.
They have to see them everywhere.
They can't quite do Glen Lake, but we're close, damn.
Yeah, it's Glen Lake light.
I think you, if you really want the absolute scourge of society, you have to go private hockey
because that has done a sensational job
of collecting psycho parents.
Really?
Oh, not even close.
Yeah, but they don't unite.
They're there because they...
No, they're all independent contractors.
They have their own silos of cheering.
Yeah.
What about, what's the association up by country hills there?
Simon's Valley.
Simon's Valley.
Yeah, there's some...
Had some good run-ins over the years with Simon's Valley.
See, we're still so young, we haven't gone to the north yet.
Yeah.
It'll come.
And then if you get into the quadrant stuff,
then it's the...
Now look up.
Yeah, Simon's Valley.
We've had some coaching inter-exchanges, not me.
No, not you, no, no.
I keep my cool.
That's right.
That tournament with the junior sabres.
And I don't know how to coach,
so I shouldn't be on the bench.
You don't know how to coach?
What?
Didn't you hear this?
No.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, geez, I must have been devastated.
I had a linesman who kicked our centerman out of a draw
and then made our, and made the defenseman take the draw.
Oh, he must.
Interesting.
He had the money line on the other side.
So I asked him in all curiosity as to,
what are we doing here?
I can do what I want.
I can nominate.
I can pick whoever I want to take a draw.
Incorrect.
I'm not sure that's how it runs.
Well, if you don't know how to coach, it's not my fault.
This conversation was over.
You know, I do like the confidence.
I do.
I like the confidence.
Some people are throwing it in there.
What about McKnight?
I didn't have a lot of run-ins with McKnight.
No, but there.
You see McKnight at some tournaments.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I didn't like Simon's Valley.
Didn't like him at all.
SV.
Yeah.
They could go pounds.
There's got to be more comments on.
I would think that every association's had some bad looks.
Hockey parents are not rational humans.
No,
they're not.
Even,
yeah,
even the,
the NHG.
Can I speak about the class?
Yeah,
just the premise.
We're a pre-show.
Was along the glass with one of the dads on our,
the ringette team.
What are I doing?
Yeah.
There's only like 10 parents.
things are going well in the game.
That's good.
And I guess let me just,
let's put this out to the class.
Is there a point in a game?
We all love our kids.
We all want them to do well.
We're cheering for them and it's all in good,
it's all in good fun.
But is there a point in a lopsided game
where you take the bell and you just kind of put it down beside?
Did he try to start the wave when you're up 10?
Did he try to start the fucking wave?
I'll find this guy.
Yes, there is, Dean.
Yes, there is.
You have a five goal league.
The bell goes away.
You know what it is in baseball?
There's just a mercy rule.
As soon as you get a certain number runs ahead, hockey, it applies.
Yeah.
And even at five, it felt like, ooh, because it was five nothing.
Oh, that's a quick five.
But like five nothing and a lopsided.
Could have been.
Yeah.
The other goal has been good.
Yeah.
The goalie's been very good.
Jeez.
It's like, scores, five nothing.
Halangalangalangalangalang Lange Lange Lange Lange Lago.
Six nothing.
Now, is this in the championship game?
No, no.
No, this is a regular season.
It was tournament, but Brown Robin.
Yeah, yeah.
That passion, you can't teach that.
You just do this, Dean.
Yeah, just.
Can I see what to make that, Rick?
Yeah, and the other dad is like,
that's why I can't sit with the parents.
I can't sit up there.
I can't do it.
I'm glad you got that out tonight.
I was working.
The other thing I love,
I'm working the penalty box,
and as you do, as a parent,
you've got to do your thing.
And one of our moms is doing the timekeeping or whatever.
And she catches her.
Skate!
What is skate?
Oh, shoot, sorry.
Sorry.
I'm unbiased here.
So it's two things.
One, you can't hear you.
For sure.
Can't hear you to yell skate.
Number two, you're in the penalty box with the other team's parents and stuff.
We just got to cut it.
But that's what it is.
Kids sports.
God love it.
It's your outlet to be an insane human.
Well, I don't know.
For some, it is.
Yeah.
But it's, for some, it's, that's what they're,
I kind of like hockey.
You know, like, boy, don't really.
have a favorite sports team, but boy, when the Simon's Valley, when the Simon's Valley
blasters are playing, that's my time to shine.
So you weren't here on Friday last week.
Our next guest was literally traveling into the States for a hockey tournament.
So I believe it's.
It'll, yes.
Just eerie.
And you said that rinks an absolute dump right.
We need the scouting.
Well, the one that I'd been to, but I think he was going to the other one.
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Hello.
Jeff Merrick joins us.
You know what?
A perfect guy to have.
I didn't I saw you were in there but I was wondering is there a point in a game
where your kids are playing where you just you want to cheer on your kids but is there
four nothing five nothing when does the bell have to just what's the mercy run we have to
retire the bell or the yeah the big horn like that has to go away five yes see that's a
five five yeah let me ask you this one so I was on with the morning cup of hockey guys
a couple of days ago coming off the tournament in Erie.
Erie Insurance Arena, by the way,
Red, that's the, that's the rink where we went to.
There are a couple of questionable rings in Erie,
but by and large it was a wonderful experience.
Now, so let me give you this scenario.
So my kids team won the tournament.
It wasn't the most competitive tournament they've ever had,
but nonetheless.
So they're playing a team from just outside of Cleveland.
It's the third period.
Our team is up seven Cobb.
We've stopped with the cowbells and the cheering and all that, right?
No celebrations, all that.
Good for them.
Let me ask you this.
It's 7-0.
My kid coming around the net tries the Michigan.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yes.
As a parent, the old-school part of me is like, oh, man, back in my day,
we'd still be playing that game.
Torch would have disowned him.
Like he's literally an orphan.
And then I catch myself and I'm like,
everybody does the Michigan.
It's actually just a high wraparound.
What's the big deal?
Who cares?
Kids are having fun.
So like honestly,
I like this because half the parents look at me like,
oh my God,
I can't,
are you mad at your son?
And the other half are like,
wow,
that was pretty cool.
I wish you would have nailed it.
Because a puck fell off the stick
right at the very end before the rap part.
Where are you guys on a seven bagel game
and someone who may or may not have been my son
tries the Michigan, he's 14 years old.
I say you do it because I would rather see that
in a seven bagel.
If it's one nothing in a tight game
and he tries it, what in the, no?
That was going to be my response.
It makes the parent a little awkward,
but if it's a close game and you try it,
then you're coming unglued for sure.
Yeah.
I just think guys, the kids these days,
they don't think it's anything,
fan. It's just another way to score.
I don't think they're, yeah.
So for me,
in a 1-0-0-0 game,
if that's your best way to get a scoring chance
of fool the goalie, go get it.
Okay, the other thing,
coming off your conversation a second ago,
about the parents freaking out and all that,
I couldn't help.
I'm going to go old school with you guys here for a little quickly.
There was an official who actually predated Bill Chad
with the big whistle,
who was the referee in the NHL who came up with all the hand signals,
right, slashing, hooking, high-sticking, all that.
So Mickey Ian, who's in the Hockey Hall of Fame,
one of the first officials to go on
he was the third. He used to have this saying. And, you know, to the point you guys were talking
about, everyone in the rink is going crazy. Everyone's insane. You see this at minor hockey all the time.
Mickey Ion would gather the officials at Center Ice before every game, specifically if he
was working with younger officials. And he would say the same thing. I always remember this. I always
remember. He would gather the officials at Center Ice, and he would hold up a puck. This is actually
my makeup. This is Mac 30. Let's pretend it's a puck.
Hold up the puck and he would say, gentlemen, here's what we need to remember today.
When I drop this round black thing, the three of us become the only sane people in this building.
And all I have to do is drop this and everybody will lose their minds.
It's like one of the great referee sayings of all time.
gentlemen all I need to do is drop this thing and the three of us become the only same people at the building
you see that at minor hockey all the time and I always remember I read it a dick urban book a million million years ago on officiating it it always stuck with me Mickey eye in cheers
boy yeah I like it the odd time and it doesn't happen a lot fortunately it doesn't happen a lot but sometimes a parent just needs to be escorted out yes
they cross the line they know it they're going to get all it's worth they're getting tossed so okay
their own parents are kind of leaning into them a little bit.
The other team's definitely leaning into them.
It's that walk of shame out through the main doors and into the parking lot.
Bill,
how do we get you a coffee?
It's quite a shock.
Well,
that's right,
why you switch to some decad?
So how many times go down this,
you know,
rabbit hole on minor hockey,
how many times have you walk through the parking lot with your son or daughter
on route to a game?
And you see the other team's parents all around,
one of the parents pick up truck.
and the back is open and there's a case of beer open and there's a couple that are really enjoying themselves and you're saying these guys you're not going to make these guys are not going to make it to the whole game there's about zero chance they're not getting shocked but to your point by their own parents on that team and and and escorted out we had a couple uh that happened last year they were ranking buffalo we were at you knew it was coming yeah and the parents were they it was back-to-back game so you
played in the morning and then later in the day and the parents spent the afternoon.
It was nice out in the parking lot.
And by the end,
after the two game two,
they were rolling on the ground wrestling with,
like,
if you could have bet on it,
you'd have made a lot of dough.
That's where you need to have,
we hear about the players only meeting.
That's a parents only meeting.
It's like,
all right, listen,
we just need to come together here.
Get here a little bit earlier.
We're going to stay a little bit later.
We're going to clean up our act.
You're going to sit that bell down after a five-rollee.
That's like what's, you guys know what Dave Semenko used to always see at a guy
when he wanted to fight?
You ever hear this story?
No.
So the late, great, Dave Semenko.
He always hated that, you know, that, you know, you line up at a guy at the draw.
Okay, when I puck's drunk going to kick your ass, you and me are going for, like, all.
He hated that.
So what Dave liked is what he would call witty goontock.
Now, imagine this for one second.
So Dave Semenkel, like, one of the toughest, like,
ever saddles up next to you really quietly in that low deep voice instead of doing the you know the puck drops
we're going for it we're snapping it's none of that stuff Dave Samango right beside you says
when that puck drops why don't you and I go on a little canoe ride that was Dave's way and
they think about the parent why does someone take that drunk parent over there for a little canoe ride
Yeah, that's right.
Dave Semenko used to talk about.
My Dave Semenko story is a little different.
I forget which draft it was, but we got off the flight.
He had to see, you guys got to go to the bathroom.
And so he goes into the bathroom.
He goes into one of the stalls.
Dave needed a quick dart.
I don't know if he went to the bathroom or not, but just needed a quick.
You had just been eating ash?
Who knows where that old is coming from?
Are we going to do the famous people I've pissed next to?
Well, that's next next.
For me, it's Sean Connery at Bistro 990 during the film festival in Toronto.
And I was like, and he's doing that head against the wall where you know your roll buckles like in the morning.
And I'm like, welcome to the rock.
I think that's James Bond.
I think that's sure enough Scotland forever on the wrist.
I'm like, I'm actually taking a piss next to Sean Connery.
Like this is the height of I have peaked.
Like that's it.
It's all down here.
I've had a squirt next to double O.
seven. That's it. My life is my life
is made. And I'm sure he said the same
thing. I took a leak next to Jeff
Merrick. No, he passed out. Like honestly, it was
the head on the wall.
He was there a long time after you?
Oh, it's a long shift, man.
You've got me watching Dave Semenko fights. Way to go.
Oh, Dave.
Hey, listen, enjoy. My gift to you. So check out some
the old WHA once. And back in those
days, they also had like Dave
Brown and Brownie was
I mean, he was crazy tough.
What a...
So the great Dave Brown, Edmonton, Calgary story, it was a home-and-home.
And the first game was a Friday night was in Calgary.
And Stu Grimson was a young gunslinger.
And he caught Brownie in one.
It was a good punch.
Probably won the fight.
Tough to beat Dave Brown in that time.
Well, those tight jersey around the shoulder.
But caught him, like legit.
And they did the big grandstand, kind of like, you know, the way that Domey did with
proper with the belt and all of that and uh as i'm told like brown was like incensed and the next day
at morning skate day brown made a point to go to all the guys in the media and and said something
along the lines of don't get up to go get a cup of coffee don't get and and the fight um so like
when brownie was inspired like look out no one was touching it with all due respect to the
late Bob Prober.
He hit Stu a ton.
And as Stu was going down,
Dave Brown held him up.
Like, didn't let him go down.
Like, held him up to hit him some more because he was so incensed
that how he had treated his victory the night before.
You're right.
Dave Brown was.
And that was a scary thing from that Montreal, Philadelphia Flyers,
brawl.
When Dave Brown came out with other jersey and Chris Nilems, like,
oh, oh, look out.
Here comes Brownie.
He doesn't have shoulder pads and there's no jersey.
Yeah.
Jeez.
I think it was earlier this week, maybe, just again, scrolling through Twitter or whatever.
And it was the anniversary.
I forget what year it was.
But when Hextall went the length of the ice to fight Felix Potvin.
Can I tell a story about that one?
Yeah.
There were two people in the rink that knew that Felix Potvin was going to win that fight.
Only two.
Really?
One was Felix Potfan, who if you know the Pot Fan fan, like the Pot-Fam boys were like street-tuffman.
kids. Everyone's like, oh, it's Philips Pot van, he's a gold titter. Oh, it's a cat. That's so cute.
Fields Podfan and his brothers were like legit street tough.
And the other person who knew that was his head coach Pat Burns, who in a previous life,
was a cop in Montreal. And he knew the reputation of the pot fan boys. And as the story goes,
in the spectrum that night, two people knew that Potfan was going to win, the goalie and the coach.
Everyone else thought, this is, like, when you guys saw it, did you not think, like, oh,
oh, cat, you're getting killed.
And, like, Hexel, you guys know, like, Hextel would fight players when he was in Brandon.
Sure.
Like, he was like Ray Emery, like, fighting Josh Grattan.
Like, he would fight players.
He didn't care.
And at that moment, like, there's a great moment right at the end of that fight where the
goaltender was sort of locked horns.
And I can't remember who the referee was, comes over to sort of tap the shoulder and say,
okay, that's it.
Watch Pot Fan because he doesn't trust Hextall.
He just sort of peeks up a little bit because he doesn't want to put up his head like a telescope
because he knows he might get a fresh one.
but he just kind of does this little peak
every time I watch that fight guys
I howl.
Just to watch that little Felix Potvin peak.
Anyway,
he was he was one of the legit ones, absolutely.
It was one of those things,
because there would have been that age of hockey fan,
as Ron Hextall is kind of a quiet, soft-spoken GM
of the Flyers and the Penguins.
It's like, do you guys know that this guy was a complete wing nut?
Like you say, back, I had to tell my kids,
he would be like smashing his goal,
hosts.
This guy is unhinged, clang, clang, clang, this guy is unhinged at just at any moment.
It's amazing how, and it's so unique to hockey.
And I think there's a lot of psychological reasons for it.
The way that guys on the ice can be completely, like, 180 degrees different than they are on the ice.
Like, how many times have players looked back and said, I can't believe I did that?
Especially enforcers, like nicest, soft-spoken, friendly.
And then it's like, oh, by the way, I'm going to try to crack your orbital bone.
Well, the wretches said, yeah, your helmet's a bit too tight.
Yeah. But I think the tough guys, to me, the tough guys are the most fascinating ones because, you know, they live with something that other players don't like.
Good luck going to sleep when, you know, like the next day, you're fighting Derek Bougar.
Very few guys would sleep.
I was talking about the guy the other day.
I've said it before.
To me, it's also different.
Like, you're in the NHL and you're making money and you're in the NHL,
which is highly stressful.
You're in front of 20,000 people.
I always think back to the years where I play junior hockey.
So you've got a family from rural Western Canada,
middle of nowhere, they've got a young strapping lad.
He likes to play the game.
He gets invited to camp.
somebody wants to fight
he wins the fight
all of a sudden he's a fighter
your kids living in a city
away from home and he's
now anointed
a tough guy and this
is what he's dealing with on a
day to day night to night
game to game basis and you're
sitting at home going
how did this happen what
he
he was just playing
volleyball
now he's going to be yeah it was just over the playing badminton in the barbicure at the
and nicely playing with my kids and so not only is it hard in that yeah for the kid but now that
that i got kid my own i'm going i can't imagine what the parents were going through yeah okay
hang on hang on hang on you just took us to a really interesting place that is a really
I'm so glad you got us here.
The point that I want to make about what you just said
is I think one of the reasons why we see the NHL
changing the most in the last 20 years.
And that is because now more so than ever,
there are so many second generation players
and a lot of people in the league itself have kids that play.
I know that my perspective on hockey and fighting changed
when I had kids.
And it's a natural parental instinct
to protect your children.
And I think it's, I'm so glad you got us here.
I think it's ridiculous for us to suggest
that that's not even true at the NHL level.
That all these managers,
they all have kids as well and they probably play.
And their thought is,
I want to try to make the safest possible environment
for my child that I can.
That never really existed
up until what the last 30, 40, 40 years.
years. I mean, the rise of the second generation player, I think one of the sidebars to all
of it is their dads who are in positions of power have tried to make the game safer and say,
oh, it's for the good of the game. It's for the good of their kids. Agree, disagree.
100% agree. And you get to be a bit hypocritical because I think we all.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. The other day, it's like, wow, what a fight. But if you're,
if you're around it, you're going, is that worth it? I don't know.
I always not to get all the lawyers in the league office too.
That's played a huge role here.
Like the league's run by lawyers.
They understand liability and future checks they're going to have to write.
They've seen the NFL cut checks for half a billion dollars.
Yeah, I think that's part of it.
I do.
I think it's, I think it's, I'm oversimplifying it.
I fully admit.
And I admit to that I'm a hypocrite about all of it.
Like, you know, downstairs in the basement.
I've got like, you know, DVD after DVD of, you know, hockey fights going back, God, you know,
50, 60 years.
I got the Memorial Cup braw, by the way,
Edmonton and Agra Falls Flyers anytime you boys want to see it.
The old Edmonton Gardens, yeah, cops hitting the ice.
Oh, yeah, that's quite a tree.
That's Falkenberg and Sanderson incident.
But I'm a complete hypocrite about it, too.
But I do agree with it.
There are a lot of different layers to why the game has become safer.
I do think liability is a major one.
But I also really do think that part of it is, you know,
go look at every single level.
Managers, executives.
they'll have kids that play as a parent of two kids to play hockey.
I can understand trying to make the game safer,
trying to make the game safer for your kids.
We got to let you go.
Appreciate you.
We're talking about the Winnipeg Jets.
I know.
If you got time, Jeff, we'll give you everybody.
If you got to run, you got to run, my man.
You're busy guy.
I got some time.
Okay.
So then here's two things.
Jets are dogs again.
They're the hottest start in NHL history.
They're dogs on where they win.
The dogs again tonight in Tampa.
They've got to go to Florida.
next.
This is, no one wants to give these guys any credibility.
And maybe that's just sports books balancing money.
Who knows.
But from the Jets and then into Nashville at the other end, because we'll see them in the
network in the region tonight against Edmonton and then tomorrow at the dome.
So from the top of the league to the bottom, just a thought on those two bookends.
Okay.
So the Winnipeg Jets, like they're heading, kind of like we're looking at Carolina.
I have at least a lot of other people, looks at the Carolina hurricanes in the last seven days
and said, okay, you know what?
they're sort of due for a crash here a little bit.
First of all, congratulations, Winnipeg Jets.
You play 500 hockey or in the playoffs.
Like, way to go.
Like, everyone, everybody in Jets management is goal, like, whew, okay,
so we've pretty much got a playoff spot,
and we're not even out of November.
All we've got to do is play 50-50, and we're good to go.
Our Hologna Bucks number is going to soften, yes, but not by much.
You know, is a shooting percentage going to soften?
Well, yes, and probably significantly.
but the thing about the thing about Winnipeg is the way they get pucks out of their zone so quickly
and I get it it helps a lot when you have you know Connor Hallibuck there who stop and everything
but I don't know if there's a team in the NHL right now today that shuttles pucks and gets pucks out of
their zone as quickly as the Winnipeg Jets do and we're starting to see some like I love Gabriel
Valardi and I'm glad that he's having a good season and I'm glad that he's healthy I think you know
dots down he's one of those guys you know dots in like it's going in
net. You know, you can't lift up his stick. He's so great and tight. He has that kind of skill.
And I'm glad to see, you know, Cole Perfetti put in a position where he can excel.
And I can't help with thinking, though, that part of this is still, I don't want to say fumes,
because I don't think it's going to exhaust, but part of this is still the legacy of the old coach.
Don't you look at part of, like the way that this team plays structure and the way this team
plays defensive? Like a lot of this is still Rick Bonus.
Like I always look at the beginning of the season, guys.
I'm not sure how you are.
And I say, you know, first 15 or maybe even 20 games or so,
teams are learning how to play with one another.
It's scrambling, it's sloppy.
I always say whichever team can come out of the gate sticking to their structure.
Get to the structure and stick to the structure early.
They're the ones that are going to have early success.
This year, number one, the Winnipeg Jets.
On the other end, the Nashville Predators, things have not exactly gone swimmingly.
We gave them the Stanley Cup in the offseason.
for Marcia So, for Brady Shea, for Stephen Stamcoast.
And at the end of it, like, I think Yusso Parkin and Parsons
that's going to be a really good center in the NHL one day.
Colton Sizzins is a really good player.
Don't know that I like them as high in the lineup as he is,
and I don't think that Ryan O'Reilly at this one in his career
should be playing first-line center.
This is a team that is dying for centers.
Like I know, you know, the age is sort of an issue in Calibu,
some of the centers, but you look at the national part of it,
and listen, the goal attending hasn't been the best.
Saros had a soft season by his standards.
Last year hasn't exactly had an exemplary standard set this year so far.
It's been a lot of change and still at the end of it,
this is still a team.
It's the donut team, right?
There's no centers here.
And the centers they do have are playing too high up in the lineup.
And Rhett kind of talked about it at the start of the season.
You have that the U-2 concert canceled.
they go on a big one.
You come together, and then there's all the changes in the offseason.
I don't know.
If you have the opportunity to sign those guys that you mentioned,
Shea and Marcia So and Stampos, I guess you do it.
But it changes the room entirely.
Can I throw one more name in here?
Sure.
How different do you think that team would be?
And I just, we all understand salary caps.
How different is that team if Ryan McDonough is still there?
I'm a huge Ryan McDonough guy.
Now, I don't know if Ryan McDonough was part of the, you know,
the luring process of getting Stamcoes to go from Tampa to Nashville and, you know,
was in Jettison.
I don't know.
All I know is, man, like where Ryan McDon't like players love him.
He plays that playoff style game.
I don't know how many pucks the guys absorb.
It's incredible.
I don't know that he's got to be top 10.
I mean, this is a skill like, right, you can talk to us about this better.
than anybody you hear, certainly me.
Like there's a skill to being able to, when you're a defenseman,
to getting back to position quickly.
Like he's got to be top 10, maybe top five still in the NHL at getting,
like when he's when he's out of position,
like he gets back there faster than anybody.
And it's, it's perfect.
And whoop, that lane just got shut down because all of a sudden,
Ryan McDonough got back there quick.
Like that's a skill, right?
Oh, for sure it's a skill.
And he's been doing it forever.
And he's, I don't know him well enough because,
I don't know what, I'm guessing that he's well liked and then it has leadership qualities.
The guys run as go.
Yes.
It feels like something's missing in Nashville.
And maybe that is.
It can be as simple as that.
It was chemistry last year that got them going.
Yeah.
Even two years ago,
it was a group that wasn't supposed to be ready.
That's a group that they like playing together.
It's a totally different room now.
Yeah.
And you never know from the outside.
Sorry, I was just kidding.
You never know which guys are the guys that keep room.
together. Who are those, you hear it all, the glue guys.
Yeah. Okay, okay.
So, and here, so let's tie all this together.
National, Nassau predators off season.
Holy smokes, Brady Shea, Steven Stamco's, Jonathan Marshall.
So this is incredible.
What did the Winnipeg Jets do?
Almost nothing. They brought everyone back.
Yeah.
Continuity.
Again, like, I don't think there's that there's one formula or one way to do it right.
I think a lot of this luck.
There's sometimes guys are just going to come together, guys like styles, next.
and different types of player.
It's just sometimes is that a necessity?
Could Kevin Shevold have done the things that he wanted to do?
But it wasn't he not able to for whatever reasons.
But the two teams were comparing here,
one of them went out the door and around the corner
to try to improve the team.
The other team did two thirds of the square root of SFA
and did the top team have sent records in the NHL.
I don't think there's one right way to do it.
Oh, here's another question I have.
Would you guys be surprised if Adam Lowry made Team Canada?
Little, but we love them.
I'd be surprised, but I'd be pumped for him.
I love him.
Wilson's name is coming up.
I even think Tom's.
I'd love to see Bedard there, but man, like, Lowry,
you can't have enough guys like that.
In a short little tournament like this for a team,
something with like a Tom Wilson and an Adam Lowry,
align with that on it?
I don't know. I'm just
lobbying it out there as a conversation
starter. I don't know.
Could you see
it, guys? Who doesn't love
Adam Lowry? Yeah, it's beloved.
He does glue guy.
He can play on any, he can
play on any team I'm ever part of or
ever watch. Like, that's what I
think of Adam Lowry. Plus, I've
body slammed Adam Lowry.
You want to share that one?
well we were rookies jovenoski and i in florida with
with dave laura was my first home-cooked meal in two months
we went over to lowrie's house so yeah he was just a we lad
well and you talked about apple far from the tree
dave lowry one of the most respected guys going
oh yeah that adam that adam has the same trade is an inch not a not a shock at all
so the sheet it's common give us eventually
yeah what can tell us about it uh
trying to put together the format now that we sort of announced everything now we sort of
look at each other and start, okay, so what are we going to do here for you?
I guess we're doing it now.
That's how things work, isn't it?
I guess this is real.
I just have to follow through on the idea.
We're going to make these cute little videos and throw them up on social media.
Oh, shit, we got a show now?
Oh, yeah.
So we're just putting the format, guest list, co-host, all those types of.
I think that given the time of day that it's on, it's going to be three o'clock
Eastern Monday to Friday, I think given that it's not in a position where, like, you know,
the morning coffee boys are like doing, okay, this is.
what happened last night.
Frank and Tyler is that,
you know,
a couple hours later and it's like,
okay,
you're starting to exhaust last night
and you're getting into today.
I think that maybe the best thing
that we can do on this show
is try to figure out,
you know,
what the big power topic of the day is
and stay topic themed
as opposed to, you know,
breaking down, you know,
what are the Winnipeg Jets going to do
about this penalty kill?
What are the Calvary Flames going to do
with Conner's area?
Like, is he going to be a center?
Is you going to be a wingar?
What's a long?
I think that maybe if we stick to big issues of the day
and figure out what the biggest power topic is that day,
I think maybe that's sort of the route we end up going here.
And then like goofy, dumb stories about Mickey Ion from 100 years ago.
Oh, that's right, yeah.
Huck's dropping and people going.
Yeah, yeah, the important stuff of the day.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's talk about my kid.
Parents getting buckled in the parking lot
than making asses of themselves in the rang gang.
Sounds like our show.
Yeah.
We got a lot of faith in you.
We know it'll be great.
We look forward to it.
Appreciate your time, Jeff.
Nice, Jeff.
Come on.
Anytime, boys.
Take care, man.
There you go.
Jeff Merrick, part of the nation network.
The sheet is show coming in December.
And, I mean,
could talk for hours with that guy.
Yes, correct.
That was supposed to be about a, what, eight,
eight, nine minutes conversation.
Turned into a quick, uh,
29.
Quick, half an hour.
It's the, uh, Crystal Waters,
insider hotline crystal waters plumbing and heating your crystal clear choice for home comfort
403-219 4100 or check them out at crystal clear calgary dot com that is great the kid doing
trying seven rip because you're i mean you're not wrong you're probably your sheepish regardless
seven nothing's how it's a blowout and he's doing it i think it's going to become so regular that it's just
of thing. I'm kind of there with it now. Like
when you're seeing five years ago
it's not even 15 year olds. I've been dealing, I've seen
kids in timbits trying this stuff.
So it's just, to them it's no different
than a backhand. It's probably easier than a backhand
for some kids. Or it's like it'd be like a toe drag.
Yeah, exactly. And you
actually have a chance at scoring where it's just a
wrap around is such a rare
occurrence. But if you can get up in that
corner,
so we're okay with it.
Not a 7-0.
When I was five years ago,
I'd have flipped out. Now it's like, well, it's part of the game.
Torz is the big detractor.
Like he just, you could just see his, the blood vessels and his eyes
ready to pop when it gets brought up.
Benchon is, you think he's softening a little bit?
I hope so, because he's not, Mishkov, it's not the right coach for Mishkov.
If Tertz is going to play this hard line, old school bullshit.
Well, that's good. I don't want, I don't want the right coach for Michikov,
because I want Wolf to win the point.
Right, we need him to win the calling.
Yeah.
And look, Torch's got a little right.
but they're bad.
They're not,
they haven't turned the page yet.
He's a guy that expects them to be a playoff team.
They got a serious hill to climb there.
Vinova, our buddy,
Justin, over at the Market Mall.
I wonder how it's going over there.
We should check in with those.
We should check it.
I would guess, hey.
Can we have any beat reporter?
Well, I was just going to say,
let's go live to Jack.
I have not been at Market Mall in a while.
How's the food court there?
Any idea?
I heard a, I think it's probably good.
Because you know what?
Good food court.
World.
But okay, here, I'm getting this.
Well, you're talking to Venetal.
Let's do the Venet.
Should I just go with it?
I think you just go.
So most mall food courts, very similar.
Right?
Yeah.
I heard about a new food court in Calgary that is not chains of stuff.
They're unique sandwich joints.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And maybe ethnic food joints.
like real small restaurants more.
Not your A and dub.
Yeah.
Which we all love.
But this is this is more.
I forget what it's called though.
Jack.
It's like a little market they've got.
Find out anyway.
I think I know which one you're talking about.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
I've heard it's awesome as well.
Let's go.
All right.
So yeah.
Well, we can't right now.
I've got to talk about Vinanova.
They moved from their original location now to market mall,
which again, if you're in the chat,
you can let us know about the market mall food course.
It's really about Vina Nova.
Calgary's lab grown diamond specialist.
Christmas coming.
Birthdays always.
Anniversaries, yeah.
You need to take care of that specific person in your life.
You do it with lab grown diamonds.
Remember there was a day where it was about diamonds
that they dug out of the ground and they had to polish and stuff?
But you told me they were dirty, dirty, dirty.
They get these dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty.
Diamonds out of the ground. Gross. Gross. I might need a clean diamond on Monday. Somebody's in trouble.
Chevlerina. Justin's got to keep people. Is everything all right? It's going to say. Justin of the rescue.
Where do you go? Vina Nova. Yeah, you do. Lab grown diamond. Same chemical composition and crystal structure as a dirty, dirty, dirty diamond. Lab grown, same hardness, light refraction, natural diamond.
You get those gemologists, they look at it.
I can't tell this one.
Well, this one here is clearly not as good as this one.
So that's got to be the dirty, dirty, dirty diamond.
The only store in Calgary that specializes in lab grown.
And the thing about it is, a lot of times they're better.
And every time, they're more affordable, sometimes 80% less than what you would pay for a mind diamond.
Vena Nova.com, the website, or better yet, go and check out the brand new location at Market Mall, which opened a couple weeks ago.
they'll have just a bunch of fresh
nothing like the smell of fresh
down,
roan diamonds in the morning.
Delicious.
Someone cooked in here.
My buddy Cam Moon,
and now he's traveling on the road and stuff.
For him,
it'd be,
what fancy restaurants are there?
He'd be,
who's got the best food court?
Yeah.
Because I might want something from here.
Yeah,
and then something from there.
And then just alicart this thing,
you know?
Yeah.
So turn the greatest.
as I've ever had was it a food court in
Montreal. No, no. Well, it's funny because Jack
was just troll in the comments here. I mean,
is it time? Can we do it?
I'm up for anything. Rett's top five food
courts. Here it is in the comments. Let's go. Red's top five.
Here we are. Race from Doug.
Top five.
Top five.
Four. I'm going to go.
This is tough. Jeez. This is.
Well, Red's good at these.
This is tough.
This is a group.
I'm going to,
who, top five. I've got three in my head
already.
Okay.
Do you want to talk it through?
What about when you're growing up?
When I was a young man, the Lawson Heights Mall.
Lawson Heights.
Lawson Heights Mall.
They had a Gramalese sandwich place, excellent sandwiches.
And then right beside that, my love of nachos grew early and it grew strong.
Oh, that's beautiful.
There was the old and the real like nacho cheese tortilla chips with the sauce.
And they poured the sauce on there.
They didn't put it in a little container.
He can dip him.
Yeah.
Not at Lawson Heights.
No.
No.
Number five.
There was a Zellers in there too.
Oh,
Club Zed points.
Zeddy.
Did they have a sizzler in the,
in the Zellers?
They did have a restaurant.
Was it called Sizzlers?
Well,
there was definitely a restaurant.
Oh, yeah.
Uncle Vic and Auntie Ellen
used to take me to Zellers for lunch all the time.
That's lemon meringue.
Off topic.
So there's one.
I'm going to go with the,
because I spent so much time there,
Chinook,
Chinook Mall.
Yeah, that's a big one.
It's right there.
We used to live there.
You just drag there every day.
Yeah.
You want to Buffalo?
Correct the list.
No, Buffalo was terrible.
Oh, Vaklovra.
Always after practice.
Let's go for bourbon chicken.
Urban chicken.
At the food court.
He wanted to go for bourbon chicken.
We just going with a damn bourbon chicken at the food court.
there's one in Vancouver it's downstairs and I forget what it's called okay kind of by the uh we used to
stay at the pan pacific yeah yeah used to go downstairs because there's always freaking raining i know which
one you mean yeah i've been there yeah because it was again raining yes down the stairs and into the
food court yeah so that one kind of by the flags where the the Olympic flame was somewhere right around
yeah yeah yeah right around there Montreal where i had the greatest sandwich of my life right downtown not
far from the Shea.
Open face.
Okay, top one.
Bangkok Thailand.
Oh, wow.
It's not really a food court, but all the street vendors, it's basically food court
outdoor.
Unbelievable.
It was hard to leave, Dean.
I almost overdid the pad tie.
Really?
Almost.
Not quite.
Dangerous.
Spicey.
Just got by.
Top five.
That was a good one.
Yeah, for months.
He looked back, man.
I don't know what would have happened there if I'd have gone too far.
Lawson Heights 5, Chinook 4, Vancouver Underground thingy out of the rain,
3, Montreal downtown by the Shea, 2, Bangkok Thailand by the ping pong.
There you go.
Speaking of which, did we, probably you wouldn't have,
but did you see the videos or the stuff online of Kessler just buckled?
I heard you.
At the game the other night and then karaokeing at, uh,
I didn't see the karaoke.
Yeah, he was out.
Really?
Kessler?
Yes.
There was an event.
Sporting thing.
He was chugging.
beers at the game and then somebody had a video of them doing like bonnie tyler carry a i really
want to get it's night need you more than that i don't want to like this guy i don't know either we already
already kind of turned it a little bit don't like it didn't he have a podcast wasn't it a show kess's house
yeah stupid it sucked but again he made a lot of money post malone colby armstrong a jeepuchard
and so how often do i have to do this what are we doing here i not doing it's better than doing it yeah
This feels like something I have to do.
Get this camera crew out of here.
I kind of just want to lay around.
So much money.
Don't need to do this.
Do we like karaoke?
Love karaoke, but sober, absolutely not.
You need it.
There's a certain quota.
Not unlike putting the bell down.
That's when you pick the microphone.
Is it a three shot event?
You've got to be six deep before karaoke is going to say.
You've got to be really deep.
No, no, no, no, no.
I don't do shots unless I've already been drinking.
So I'm drinking.
my regular amount and I need the three shots to take me into karaoke.
Yeah.
I think that's fair.
Yeah.
Does anybody sober karaoke?
Oh,
I hope no.
I mean,
losers,
but not normal people.
People do,
but you don't want to associate with,
no,
no,
no,
no, no.
Yeah.
The worst is when,
oh,
let's just,
you want to go,
we'll grab a drink and you go into a place.
It's karaoke.
Oh, yeah.
It's like,
holy,
gosh.
We can come back here and 10 drinks.
But the karaokeers,
they travel around.
They do,
yeah.
Nights Monday here,
Tuesday there.
Wednesday there.
They know.
Jack,
what's your favorite?
Where's karaoke tonight, Thursday?
I'm not much of a karaoke.
Oh,
shy.
I am,
yeah,
I'm not doing it sober at all.
No,
no,
God.
Do you have a go-to song at least?
No free plugs,
but what's that?
What's the karaoke bar downtown?
In Mission?
Yeah.
Pinder,
like he doesn't know.
It's a blank and all of a sudden.
I've been there many a time.
Ducks.
Stuckies.
duckies.
Yeah, ducies.
Oh, yeah.
You can get stabbed there, too.
It's good.
Really?
I'd say very low probability, but not the plug.
It's not the free plug they're looking for.
Look at Big Brain.
This is BB and J shots and duckeys will get you ready.
I think BBJ's all over it.
I feel like that's experience.
Well, don't they have the bars on the windows?
I thought that was duckeys.
Maybe it was a different case.
That's that Bangkok food court.
That's right.
Yeah.
Oh, well.
Sing away.
I feel like you would be a big karaokeer.
I think he is, but you got to get in the pocket.
I have a hard, you know what it is for me?
I just have a hard time listening to people saying that can't,
it's just like, oh my God, what are we doing?
Yeah.
So it's,
can we listen to a band or can the DJ just play some music?
And so this is part of what makes a good karaoke night is a really good group of people
that are there so that the dusters can't get in.
Yeah, if it's your group and they're terrible, you can get by.
Right.
But if you're going to listen to strangers,
or it's like only eight people there.
like, oh, no, this guy's up again.
I'm just a jiggleau
everywhere I go.
She's toast on Primrose Drive.
Cheese toast.
That was the name of the restaurant.
You could get the dry ribs and the Caesar salad and have karaoke.
It's all in one night.
Nice.
And underage.
It was awesome.
It's Calgary.
I was thinking yesterday, because you brought up, you were talking about food
for your big gray cup party coming up on the weekend.
That we should do, this is an offer of conversation,
we should do a list of almost like,
forgotten appetizers
that we need to bring
back. And I wonder about cheese toast.
You go to some restaurants that we know,
you got to have the cheese toast.
You got to have that cheese toast.
Are there some
forgotten? Because it's all mac and cheese
lobster mac, we've gotten really kind of fancy
with some of it.
What are some of the appies that we really
have just left behind that deserve
to be part of the wheelhouse?
We don't need to think about it now. I mean,
we can revisit. It games on Sunday.
You got to be ready.
Yeah.
We can revisit that.
Cheese toast, right?
Pizza dip.
Pizza dip.
I haven't been to that place in a long time.
Who just went there?
Didn't somebody just go?
Yeah.
Yeah,
you did, right?
How was it?
So good.
Yeah, so good.
Classic.
Is this still in 1985 in there?
Oh, it's awesome.
Love it.
Been there twice in the last week.
Wow.
Thanks are good for you, right?
With old Devin Hanson, the big goal.
What?
Yeah.
My boy.
Really?
Love you, Devo.
What a name.
Yes.
Wow.
I got Google.
Animal.
I got a Google.
Animal animal.
Like should not have been a goaltender.
It would have been the toughest guy in the league if he wasn't a goalie.
Save himself some CT.
Would intimidate his own teammates.
It's so good.
Yeah.
6.3.2.30.
Oh, that's a large human.
And that's back in the goalie when they were big.
Yes.
No, 6.3 is nothing unique.
But 2.30 is a large human.
goalie we're getting we're not breasty territory but that's impressive look at that beast yeah
could he get any pimms uh doesn't really say for goalies oddly enough he got a couple there
but that's uh anyway i felt he went oh no my ctee might be why are we talking next no i enjoy
cheese toast appetizers great cup no in devon hanson i was going to follow up with no one knows
he was a goalie in Saskatoon with the blades
and played for the Warriors, blah, blah,
he actually went to the Leafs camp
on a tryout,
played well enough that they offered him a contract,
and I think his agent said we can do better.
I could be wrong, but I do believe that.
Because Agent Lionel Huts.
Jeez.
I judge.
These shoes, I'm going to need another week.
It's a smoking monkey.
Good time.
Jack has no one has any idea what the hell we're talking about.
Blades.
Look at this hat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did you see talking about things that people will not remember?
They, uh, in Chicago, they took Boudard to the art museum and recreated the Ferris Bueller.
Yeah.
Uh, shot.
And I just thought, no one knows Ferris Bueller.
They won't know.
I'm afraid, but we have to do it.
Do you know the, uh, Ferris Bueller movie?
Ferris Bueller's day off.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, it's a great movie.
Wow.
Okay, that's good.
So, because there's a lot of classics that people under 30 have not seen.
So that's excellent.
Yeah.
Good work.
What a great.
And we've kind of thought, I thought this was a good kind of a thing to do as a radio contest or just a promotion.
It's our day off.
Because what they do, they went and had a great lunch.
They went to a ball game.
They went to the art music.
Let's just, we're, we're skipping work today.
And they take the miles off.
And what are we going to do?
Yeah, it doesn't work.
Spoiler alert.
But if we had like a little.
us or something. We're going to go
a, uh,
Dean, this sounds like a pub crawl and I
have to say yes. We're going to do some, uh,
just going to do some guy stuff today.
Yeah. Can we do that a few years ago?
Kind of, but that was a big, big deal.
Then you had to go and do stuff. This could be, that was more
of a, yeah, more doing,
less hanging. There it is.
So on the left, that's, of course, uh, Cameron Frye.
Was that his name in the movie? Sounds about right.
In Chicago, which, uh, of course, John Hughes,
all the great John Hughes movies were shot.
in Chicago, home alone coming up in the next month or so.
And they took Bard to go and recreate it.
He's probably, what am I doing here?
I would be so annoyed to having to do this.
It's like, what?
Okay.
Well, they did other stuff with them.
He's had some fun this year.
I think we're, what jersey's fry wearing in?
Detroit, though.
Yeah.
Come on now.
Yeah.
I was in Chicago one time with.
Did you stick your hand to that painting?
No.
in protest.
What it was is we were like right there.
Throw some tomatoes.
I think that the museum is like right beside the silver bean.
Okay.
And the little park area.
I was so hung over.
Oh dear.
Like, well,
let's go into that.
There's no way I can go and walk around a museum right now.
I laid on the grass.
Good for you.
And just,
it's better than the museum.
When you're going again?
But there is a Ferris Bueller thing in there.
Isn't there like it's more than just that one photo?
I think there's kind of a thing.
Anyway,
whatever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm going again sometimes.
Was it February something?
Yeah, February.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Right when you want to get to Chicago.
We're going to build you an itinerary.
He's not going to get to Chicago.
It's February.
It'd be snowstorms.
It'll be stuck somewhere.
He'll get to Chicago.
He won't be able to leave Chicago.
Welcome to the airport.
Enjoy your time.
It's the thing, though.
You're not connecting.
You're direct.
I just going straight there.
Chicago.
It doesn't matter.
I'm getting bad vibes, man.
It's Chicago in February.
You can't be dragging these vibes into the tournament, right?
Come on.
Do what you need to do.
How about our weather here, though, guys?
Oh, isn't it stunning?
It was like 10, 11 degrees yesterday.
Speed on the lake.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Are you still doing the lake?
I haven't for the couple of days, but I'm going to get back to it.
It's cold.
Can you put a thermometer in there for me?
I'm very curious about this.
I've got a thermometer and it's.
Yeah.
It goes down.
Hard.
Yeah.
Somebody's saying, way to jinx it.
Well, I didn't jinx it.
Thanks what?
like this trip to
no red's trying to
they're not inviting you can't comment
on a jinks that if you're staying positive
this is brett sabotaging it's not a jinks
this is ret reality
who the books a trip to the bears aren't playing
he's a big bears fan let's go to Chicago
at this point you don't want to see the bears
wait till next year this is not a year
coming time of the bears
do what you need to go to the blues
is the blue
is the blue
Kingston Mines
go to Kingston Mines
well that's not
Croix joined.
No, but there's a big strip of them.
That's, I think, not far from Wrigleyville, walking distance.
I don't go out to Wrigleyville.
Not in February.
February.
Not a lot going on at Wrigley then.
No, no.
I mean, like, that part of town, that's where there's a lot of, you're not,
maybe that's wrong part of time.
I appreciate, I appreciate the effort.
You can get the cab, you'll to walk there.
Take the train.
It's stabbed.
That's where we has.
Two stabbing references.
You're sleeping all right?
Well, not if you're in Chicago.
You don't.
sleep all right because you might get stabbed now
Chicago's a great city
you can get stabbed in any city just wear a flat jacket
you'll be fine, cold anywhere windy
so much construction around here you just about
stab trying to find a parking spot that's not stabby
that's flying shrapnel from the 18th time
they've tore up the road yes it's true
yeah
tar and a pavement tear
a pavement pad up oh my what a racket
it looks like the most recent thing
is they forgot about manholes and stuff
So they had to start chipping away the concrete that they laid.
They,
uh,
there was a leak water main that they didn't know where it was coming from.
So they had to just go dig a bunch of holes around the neighborhood and they found it.
And then that was another three, four days.
It is just more.
It is just more.
It's,
I think we are getting punked.
You kind of floated that a while ago.
I'm now inside with that.
It's not getting punked.
The people behind it are,
they have a real good racket going.
It's an unreal.
It's called perpetual construction.
They just hired us.
Yes.
We'll do it.
for this, right. Oh, but we've... Oh, we've found something else.
Oh, shoot. Oh, we forgot. Well, we already started with you guys. We can't get it.
So what is it you guys do? Well, what we do, uh, and just to kind of dumb it down, we dig holes and then we fill them back up again.
Dig up, stupid. That's us. And we do, we can just do it for days, weeks, months. We could
great success. We'll dig a hole and then we'll fill it back up again and then we'll dig another hole.
You won't even know what was there. It's unbelievable. I don't know that we dug that hole right two months ago.
We got to go back to do that again. We'll go redo this.
the dig.
We'll fill it up.
And then we'll fill it back up.
Make sure we do it's done right.
Yeah.
Yeah. We're going to bill you for that.
Time for the Pinder report.
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Well, fellas, might not be karaoke,
but do you feel like singing happy birthday?
It's one of the young enough,
Ah, happy birthday to you.
Birthday, it's birthday.
Happy birthday, Maddie.
Shish.
Matt Coronado, who's put together a very impressive run
over the last week since being recalled
for the American League.
He's an old man now.
Well, not really. He's still quite young.
Is he legal?
In the States, he's got to be legal now, I'm guessing.
What, 23?
I was he that old?
He's not 23.
Is he?
Is he 21?
Late birthday.
I'm so busy about the lyrics.
We're odds that he made us.
Your odds are against you with those late.
Jack, how don't you know?
He's not the only late birthday they've done either.
22.
Deuses.
Deuses are all coming into his own here.
One year college, second year pro.
Happy birthday from Green Lawn, New York.
Sorry.
Weird line in that song.
Duses are wild.
I love it when you doces are wild.
I love it when your deuce is wild.
Been loving you since you was a child.
Easy, Stephen.
Maybe they were sweethearts in elementary.
Maybe.
A lot of those lyrics don't really pass the sniff test from the 60s and 70s.
It was weird.
I was listening to something the other day.
They were talking about old songs that you can't even play anymore.
Right.
Yeah.
They won't even sing them at concerts.
And they're somewhere like, oh yeah, when you actually listen to the words,
that's really offside.
Yeah.
Well, the one that's, and we're getting into the season.
Yeah.
is baby it's cold outside.
That one is saying, I need to go.
And he's like, hey.
He's like,
doors lock, baby.
How about you have another drink?
No, no, I really can't stay.
Oh, but it's so cold outside.
Get over here.
How about you just ate more drinks and then make up your mind.
There was a stone song they were talking about that was like,
woof.
So happy birthday, Maddie C.
That way, Maddie.
Back on practice,
I was half an hour ago.
They will play tomorrow.
Here are the standings in the west.
Gatum Husk.
Bag him.
As you can see, the flames holding a wildcar,
but really only kind of points of percentage.
Behind Edmonton, Utah games played already even.
But hey, look that.
Two games over 500.
So there's this.
Four game, homestand, come on.
So now your take is that they're terrible.
Definitely only pointed out their points per cent.
But if a pandemic were to hit today and they had to stop the season and then pick it up
and but be like, hey, sorry, it sucks.
Games played is off.
But points percentage, if you're in, you're in.
I really hope we don't have one of those.
I don't want you to do something.
Then the flames would be in the playoff.
I don't know if that's the case, Dean.
It's like when you go to a championship game and it ends up tied, you just pick.
You just pick one of the teams to do it.
Is that how we do?
Yeah.
Just whatever.
Yeah.
Here's your, here's your schedule.
Skid for the Calgary Flames.
Are we even allowed to do this?
No, don't get us.
No, we can't.
Not to the schedule.
All right.
Very good.
Who cares about the schedule?
So Flames, what, you know, the good start.
Two games over 500 feels like way better.
that in a weird way with the 5-0 start, but two games over.
Okay, where are they projected to finish?
Domest Hitchens' model at the athletic has them right.
There's the bottom half of the league.
They are in peak pain aiming for 83 points, Dean,
which would be 11th from the bottom, have a first rounder, Montreal.
But interestingly, it's a big clump of teams from the flames,
essentially down to the Blackhawks, only separated by a few points,
and really not that far from a top five pick.
It's a big clump.
There's a lot of Mickey Otter hockey.
team's in there. Don Klomp.
Don. And his family.
Don. He likes the Predators to have a bit of a rebound.
Well, I mean, we know that their talent levels better than what they've shown. But yeah,
they still don't make the playoffs. So he's only 19% to make the playoffs by his model at this
point. Utah 35.
It's hard to debate a lot of that. I mean, I know the blues are in a bit of a bit of a spot.
Well, they're missing superstar Broberg, what he's supposed to do? Yeah.
It would be so much.
Yeah. Well, Bill. Penguins aren't.
going to make it, Jack. Yeah, he knows that.
He's trying to gun the coach. Do they have a first rounder
this year, please? Yeah, they do.
Good. They better.
Oh, they'll be way better next year. Yeah.
Let's move. We go to
NHL happenings of last night.
The Finns can score.
The Swedes, not really. It's weird.
150 goal score ever in the history of Sweden,
Hawken Loeb. Numerous,
50 goal scores from just the next door neighbors, Finland.
Are there more playmakers?
That's what Merrick suggested last week. That's what he suggests.
I don't know.
I mean, one of the latest and greatest,
Miko Rantan, another hat trick.
Ninth of his career,
I think he's second of the year too.
Only Yari Curry,
Timos-Sanian.
Sorry, I walked on that.
Sorry.
Nine.
Thank you.
Curry, Salani, Liny.
Liny's already got 10.
That's, you forget about that.
He's, uh,
hmm.
They can shoot at the fence,
eh?
But I tell you what,
don't be coming down
to head down against my guy, Scott Stevens.
Can you imagine the suspensions that guy would have faced?
Oh, he's James.
Yeah, he'd never play.
To have to start a new league.
Maybe we should.
A thousand games last night for,
sorry.
And imagine with how just unaware players are.
Oh,
they're so used to not getting hit.
And then if Steven steps onto the ice,
yeah, he'd be decapitating guys.
And he'd be salivating.
We're going to just go to the room.
I didn't give you consent to hit me.
You had the puck and it's a contact sport.
There's just under three minutes left in the period.
We're just going to send the guys to the room because we need to clean up the skull and brain matter after Stevens.
They didn't install curtains at all the leagues.
They just come around and they clean up the crime scene.
Okay, pull the curtains back.
We're ready to resume play.
Ryan, back to you.
Thanks, Dean.
Thousand games last night for a Swede, Oliver, Ekman, Larson.
Oh, congrats, buddy.
It's a lot of hockey.
being paid to hang around with the Leafs.
I don't know if you saw their game last night, fellas.
I did.
Is he on Robido Island or whatever it's called?
No, no, he's rocking.
He's playing.
He's not Roboto Island.
Matt Murray's on Robita Island.
Klimberg was there last year.
It's a busy place these days.
Down 3-1 with less than five minutes to play.
Leaves 4-3 in overtime, no sweat.
No sweat.
No sweat.
And the OEL hats and the post-game interviews
are a little cheeryer than they could have been last night.
If they didn't pull the rabbit out of their hat,
they tied the game in the last half minute.
with an empty tip behind them, I believe.
Impressive stuff.
Epic.
Epic stuff.
Utah.
Don't know what this mascot is yet,
but I do like some of his moves.
This is good stuff here.
He's got the huge industrial-sized toilet paper roll
and then the leaf flower.
This is great.
God, Harvey, you got a, this is a keeper here.
We'll try and stuff.
The Grella's doing dunks in the net.
That's a good as the confetti thing.
Done?
Have we talked about this?
We're not sure.
It's different.
It's easy to get industrial
side toilet paper and a leaf ball.
But good moves.
So whatever that freak's name is,
congrats.
Oh boy.
Jared Baddard.
Was he the one that got away,
Rhett?
An assistant for the abyssalty heat
back in the day.
Most games coached in franchise history
of the avalanche.
Wow.
And of course,
Michel Bergeron was with the Nordiques.
It's a franchise history.
Yeah, yeah.
In Denver history.
Humboldt.
And they've sort of turned the corner bit.
Arturi Lekanin's back.
Saskatoon blade.
Tomorrow night, you will see the return of Valachushkins,
what we're hearing.
They still don't really have goaltending,
but again, they erased a deficit last night and one.
Anyway, ran in with three.
McKinnon on pace for 125 assists.
Let me say that again.
On pace for 125.
that just means he's got good shooters around him, Dean.
That's right.
Finisher's.
Because that means 125 times there was an assist.
There was a goal.
So at least 125 goals.
Finally,
somebody's listened to my reason.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Footprints in the sand of time.
Horpitz.
Outs.
It's a bunch pails.
Tonight's slight.
Let's take a pick.
Big one.
Thursday's busy, right?
Can we do this one?
We better be able to do this one we're talking about.
Just a lot of schedule.
I mean, what's the difference between this one and the other one?
We're not on list.
We have no idea what we're doing.
You know what?
You and your shitty attitude.
Jets are dogs in Tampa.
Devils and Panteros.
That's a good one.
What else do we like in the slate?
Boston Dallas.
Okay.
You got my attention.
Sharks, Rangers.
Rangers lost to the Jets the other night.
Oh, boy.
Pretz should be in a horrible mood.
And the Oilers are going full superstar mode.
McDavid, four points on four goals needed overtime to win the other night.
Blue two goal leading the third.
It's peak on Dynasty.
Preds will be here tomorrow night.
This is a new thing that he's doing.
He's really trying hard.
The Und Dynasty.
Do you want to walk us through it?
If you had the best player in the history of the game for a decade,
you'd think you'd have two or three banners.
I'm all with you.
I'm with you. I love this.
Pile on those.
No, but you probably need it to pull you RV.
Not a Kachuk.
That's fine.
That's how you und Dynasty, guys.
Come on.
Yes.
Yeah.
Don't need Eberley.
We could turn them into a paper clip.
Let's go.
Beat it.
Love it.
The other pretice.
Colonel nurse shooting 20%.
that's sustainable. Let's give them nine to court. Let's go.
Why would you need young players? We could have the oldest team in the league. Let's go.
Woo!
On Dynasty. Love it. Hope that sticks.
H.L. Wranglers. Skinner's been great. Player of the week.
At least get picker behind him. No issues there.
Wow. Yeah, no surprise. We pumped them up earlier this week.
This is a couple days old this news, but did want to make sure we got this in there.
That's a good week. 976. Two shutouts and a 0.64.
a loss.
Who.
Yeah.
How do you?
I think he came in.
He came in.
They got yarded by Bakersfield in the in an Ignatius, an Ignatiov start.
And he came in in relief and got pinned with the L probably only a long one or something.
You know what those numbers are though.
Tidy.
They are tiny.
Yeah.
Yep.
Some tidy numbers there.
Can't beat that with a baseball bat.
As for birthdays yesterday.
How do we miss this?
Come on, Jack.
20th birthday?
Can't be missing this stuff.
Sam Hansick yesterday, HPD.
Oh, congrats.
We can miss it because he's not on the big squad.
So if he wants to get mentioned, he should be Kevin Cooley.
He should put on some work boots and get back up here.
A 20 year old year, not back in junior, broke camp with the main, the big club.
Good.
Because it slides, right?
Have a year, son.
It's a late birthday.
That's a slide.
We shall move to Thursday night football.
What do we got?
What do we got?
Oh, it's a good one on a Thursday night.
divisional rivals, one of the bright young superstar
quarterbacks in the NFL against, well, the guy that's
pretty damn good. Jalen Hertz, defensively, both these teams
quite good. How long has Hertz been in the league, six, seven years?
That long? Yeah, it's a Super Bowl, doesn't he? I'd say five.
No, was he hurt for Philly Special? He was, yeah, it was.
Yeah. Or was that Wence? That was the West year. So it was the year after,
a couple years out? Maybe he isn't that? Jack, how old is
much? Jack? We have so glad he'll do.
They're on a forks.
It's amazing.
I really just showed the quarterbacks here.
It should be fun.
The, of course, commanders losing on the final, well,
it's going offside on purpose to let Jack Steelers get to a tidy mark.
Here's your lines of the night.
Three and a half is the spread.
Right.
Sprat, 365.
And 48.5 year over under, an implied score of what would we say,
26 to 20,000.
three-ish, something like that.
Math.
Try.
It's a dangerous game.
So, yeah, we'll see how this one goes.
Not ideal.
We're going to talk about on the afternoon show today,
but these defenses are very good against the pass.
Not a lot of, hey, we suck against this.
Washington's past defense is brutal.
They've really tightened up.
They've added at the deadline.
Well, you know what?
The Eagles got a bit going.
They got a bit of that Kansas City chief thing going.
It's true.
Not pretty, but they're going to done.
Find ways to win.
Yeah.
It was pretty last week.
Washington's pasty wasn't great against the Steelers.
no no i'm just saying uh their past defense rates out very nicely now but was a disaster at the
start of the year so they figured something out there in the last what arguing jack jesus oh we shared
the data earlier come on sender report say quan he's of course in action here pretty nice signing you
know uh gruden liked him right want to let him go out of there yes hey he's doing the backwards
hurdle over the field yeah what else get he hurdle backwards oh thursday night's cast okay is that
Andrew Wentworth on the left.
Yeah.
They go tackle.
Sure.
Oh, is that,
that's fatherly love.
Yeah.
And you think of, I don't know what that is,
but it's got to be a Philly institution.
It's a convenience store.
Yeah, okay.
Goose on it.
Dove, what do we got there?
Anyway, they're excited.
Should be a fun one tonight.
Brian Robinson is a go for the commanders.
He's missed the last couple with injury.
What do you got tonight, Jack?
Three and a half or straight up?
Give us anything.
Eagles cover.
Eagles cover?
I'm laying at two.
Three and a half, the hook.
I'll bet a pizza.
You want Manders?
Sure.
For a pizza.
Where is the pizza from?
Godfather.
Godfather.
Pizza from Richmond.
All right.
When do they start frying up the pizzas over there?
That's the only thing.
Yeah.
Could do that now?
You do that an hour ago?
Yeah.
I guess you have to wait to see who wins tonight.
Okay.
Good stuff there.
And some big news.
Huge.
Oh, they saw what we saw, boys.
And that's what's got me feeling really nice.
That's right, Gruden.
Multi-year deal with Barstool Sports.
I think we're going to get a lot of nicy.
Like this is,
this is great for content.
We talked about it.
So why are these coming out a week late?
This is gold.
I need more of this.
We're in a good spot.
Because they're not going to swing and miss on this guy.
Give him a mic.
Get him fired up.
Let's go.
And he'll have that out, of course, for a job.
Much like all the.
Yeah.
You know, the blackballed coach,
if he's allowed to coach again in the league, we'll let you go.
Sure.
I was thinking I was reading either yesterday the day before that,
uh,
the feel is that it's just a matter of time here,
sooner than potentially later.
Just like Kaepernick.
It's only amount of time.
I'll take the ender, but they may be right.
Could be back.
Okay. Ryan's right. I'm wrong.
No, no.
That's,
you're doing some deep dives. I don't know.
I don't know why I bother to, uh, yeah.
Sorry, Ryan.
How old is Gruden?
1970. He's a pop.
fit it for for the full full let's get some dumb shit teenage boys very dumb yes they are teenage boys
skateboarding even in the watch position of the if that slow motion sound sounds like in the universe
it's actually just his sex those fellas from jackass they're lucky they did it when they did
are they still alive oh they don't look good those guys are aging quickly but like
It's everywhere now.
I just like, again, what are we doing?
How is that going to end where you're not going,
ah, to some degree about something?
Yeah, the bet would be on the ankle or something,
but you're right.
It's not going to end well.
That's the top of a parking garage you're taking a skateboard off of.
The best case scenario is a what?
Landing.
And then what?
High five and I jumped off this building and.
You've got to find a higher one.
It's a, it's really a,
game of, uh, stupid.
It is a game of stupid.
Uh, more of it.
In fact, what a game.
I, I didn't realize this was this common.
We got another skateboarding clip.
Oh, Skateboard.
You're going to have the skateboarding algorithm.
That's right in the, uh, what do they call that in between the
place?
Or Chota.
I was going to say it.
That looks like it's right between the thing and the thing.
Yeah, that's, you know what that is.
Oh.
That's that.
saddle the undercarriage.
You're going to want that true coat.
It's not good.
That's what it is.
There's a jump rope world championship.
Didn't know this.
How many spins can you get in 30 seconds?
That was not 30 seconds.
How are they even counting that?
Like how did?
Exactly.
How is he?
No, it's like those old school.
Jack wouldn't have seen them.
You had the counter in the wrist.
Yeah.
A lot either way.
The camera can't keep up.
That's not even 15 seconds.
You got had.
Hey, it's good content.
Stupid.
You know what we haven't done a while?
Stupid?
Is ladder stupid.
Ah.
Because before winter, you want to make sure.
I was on a ladder this weekend.
There you are.
See?
So we got some visuals from the shoveler here.
This is red on the weekend working on his house.
It's been a while.
right why aren't you holding the ladder well so the banister was it supposed to what's the banister
doing here it's not the banister oh no shit bad place i'm sure i'm just gonna hey hey hey
the end of this ladder on the very tippy tip of the eaves drop we're gonna need to fix that fence
that railing there it's a good land so these doorbell cams are good they catch all kinds of stuff right
that's clearly a doorbell cam oh
that's why I think it's real.
You wouldn't just be filming someone coming on a ladder.
No, that's,
it looks legit.
That's not a young, dumb kid.
That's,
in fair,
it almost looks like
someone that shouldn't be on a ladder.
Yeah.
To the durable cameras,
they'll catch all kinds of stuff.
Yeah.
That's,
oh,
Jack.
That's not a ladder friendly physique.
No,
no,
that's.
What do you think?
Even still,
stupid,
the other one should be there to hold the last.
matter. Wouldn't have helped. I understand, but still, you should be.
Yeah, standing there watching ain't doing F-F-R.
You're not really not doing much there.
Because what if the bottom kicks out?
You're not watching a football game. Go help. Are you okay?
No. Dereball Cam in Australia caught this. Sick peak.
What could it be?
That would be. It's in the left. Can't see much there. What's going to be?
Oh. It's a huge.
I know it's a nightmare at the morning.
That's your phone, dude.
There you go.
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So football tonight.
Yeah.
Some hockey if you need it.
Yeah, Ernie Star 6 o'clock.
Bernie Star?
Really?
Wow.
How's the, the eldest?
Recovering?
Recovery?
It's almost ever.
So recovered.
Is he still at home?
No.
He's back.
You're back.
Get the hell of him.
Get out.
Yeah.
Fridge, good.
empty pretty quick with three of them.
Yeah.
If you have a phone and your mother's trying to get a hold of you, teenagers,
answer.
Otherwise, you're going to lose that phone.
That's why that phone's there.
That's right.
I don't spoil it for you kids,
but the only reason you have that phone is so mom can get a hold of you.
If that's not happening.
And what your old man doesn't want to hear is mama bear pissed off that you're not
answering the phone and then he's got to get involved.
It's the thing that I've found and I'm not sure if you guys are the same.
And Ryan, you'll probably get into it.
that my kids get me into a lot of trouble.
Yes. The heat comes down.
I get into, I catch a lot of shit like this for stuff that I,
that I didn't do that the kid either did or didn't do.
So I tell them that now.
I'm like, listen, because if you don't do this, I'm going to catch hell.
So do it.
Then they do it for us.
And then they kind of do, yeah.
Save us all a little agony here and just do what the F.
Yeah, just bare minimum.
Please.
Yeah.
Just a text.
Hi.
Whatever.
So the thumbs up emoji, anything.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Yeah.
48 hours I've been dealing with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is anyone abiding by the 24-hour cooling period?
Or just...
There's no cool.
They don't believe in it.
Right.
Today's what, Thursday?
I found out this morning that my daughter doesn't have school this week.
Pardon me?
Fall break.
Yeah, she's off all week.
It's Thursday.
Today's Thursday.
You just caught wind?
Yeah.
Because the woman that I live with, she's like, are you going into the, I'm like, yeah, I'm going in today.
Okay, because I know it's going to be kind of backtracking, but when you get home,
can you take her to so-and-so's place for a sleepover?
Like, don't I have to pick her up at school?
Well, no, she's, there's no school.
Oh.
How's her, no school?
She's like, yeah, she's been off all week.
because it's going through it.
So I'm going to pick her up from school and drop her off for a sleepover.
Are they going, are they getting the bus tomorrow to school or what?
Well, no, there's no school this week.
They're vetting new vacations.
How fun is that?
Man.
Great time to be a kid.
And I've been in the house a fair bit.
Spent some time.
Yeah, I've been there almost exclusively up until yesterday.
Yeah.
All day, Tuesday.
Yeah.
Is this one of those teacher convention ones where a rat would say you go down town?
I have no idea what it.
I think it's just off.
Yeah.
I have no idea what of it.
It's not a one day.
It's just an off.
Not every school.
Quite a few.
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Can't be favorites apparently on the road.
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What happened to?
weren't they really good out of the gates?
Yeah, so they barely.
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Hungry bolts.
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Are they going with the backup
for the jets tonight?
I think I may be.
Well, it was two nights ago that they rolled
to hell of bucks, so I don't know that it's Comrie.
Camry was not good against Calgary.
Where's Blaswa?
Larry?
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A groinjury you would hypothesizing on this summer.
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It was hell about two days ago and they were even.
Well, the Rangers are a little different story, I think.
Than the struggling Tampa Bay lightning.
I've enjoyed the penguin show lately.
Oh, sad.
Did you see that last night?
Jack, did you see it?
Over time.
Malkin.
alone, save, back the other way, goal.
Talking about the penguins, the penguin.
Marvel?
Oh, the show.
Yeah, the show.
It's good.
It is, guys.
Always you to watch it.
Well, Jack walked us through this the other day.
There's a movie and then there's a series.
There's all kinds of a penguin going on.
Somebody with money needs to make a movie.
I love gangster movies.
They need to make a movie based on the book.
Oh, man, I'm going to get the name wrong.
I'm going to look at them.
I don't want to get it wrong.
It's a gangster.
It was, it was the Chicago.
Yeah.
The head gangster in Chicago for decades.
Double cross.
Mickey Rooney.
No.
Double cross.
Al Capone.
Just after Al Capone left, there was a void.
And Sam Giancano or something like that.
Double cross.
Nice.
And it needs to be one of those longer ones.
Okay.
Not the.
Just a small thing.
Do you want like a trilogy?
Yeah, I was going to say, so we'll put on streaming.
It spans for decades.
Right.
Okay.
Rise to power.
Part of the J.F.K. thing.
Marilyn Monroe.
Like, like, hmm.
Can I throw one in while you've got your idea,
your person with money and the production company?
I've always thought that if you do a, it doesn't need to be buddy cop,
because that's always, but a movie, Will Farrell.
Peyton Manning.
Oh.
You've said this before.
Their brothers.
Brilliant.
Because I mean,
Peyton's just naturally funny.
And you're going to get Eli in there for a cameo.
Yeah.
I honestly,
and I,
because you can kind of buy,
okay,
they're brothers or whatever.
I think it'd be funny as hell.
Goodell's on it in the phone,
Jack.
I'm in.
I'll write the script.
Okay.
No,
I have an idea guy.
AI.
AI.
What AI write the script?
We're on to something.
production.
We don't have to do this for Ryan.
What about,
what about you?
Back to you.
What do we need?
Because I watched that horizon.
The old,
the Western that say his name for him,
would you?
I don't know what name it is.
Oh, the guy from Yellowstone.
Yeah.
Oh, Kevin Costner.
Costner did.
And he had to dump a bunch of his own money.
Well, he effed it up because he shortened it.
They do a bunch of scenes.
And then they do like a fast forward version of just blips.
It's like,
Just make a third movie.
Is he montageing?
Yes.
You can't, I want to get into it.
I want to know the characters.
We're going to montage this part.
I was really interested in that.
Yes.
They're traveling.
They're traipsing the Santa Fe Trail.
You're just,
there's a lot of,
it's not an area you can just be traips.
Well, you can traips,
but you can't speed through it.
It takes a long time.
Sto.
You want a slow burn, not a montage.
Thank you, Ryan.
I don't have any requests.
Everyone's in such a hurry, right?
that's all we're told this.
We don't have time.
Alabama had it right, Dean.
Alabama had it right.
We just take her time.
Did you make Stu?
No, no.
Because that's going to be an all day kind of thing.
I want to enjoy the process.
When do you start that?
I'm away this weekend.
It might be next weekend.
How busy are you?
What do you should?
Back to back weekend's gone?
Your kid.
She runs your shit.
I would say.
Where are you this weekend?
Youngest and only daughter.
Who?
Who's winning in that house?
She's got all the puppet strings, doesn't she?
Yeah.
They are.
Spruce Grove last week?
Sherwood Park.
Sherwood Park.
Sorry.
It's just, it's not important where we are this weekend.
Is it local?
And then the weekend after.
Minnesota.
I'm home, but the other two,
Taylor Swift, Toronto.
They're very excited.
You'll be excited about that weekend, too,
because you've already spent the money,
and now you just get to hang out and watch football.
They've got their costumes or whatever.
you call it, you got to wear clothes and wristbands and I don't really know what it is.
But it's a lot.
They'll have fun.
And you know what?
I'm not even poo-poo.
I appreciate and I respect the level of it because no one, I've not seen anyone that has gone to see the Taylor Swift show and comes out and says, me.
It's okay.
Everybody is blown away by the spectacle.
You're going to love that weekend, too.
after running around out of town two weekends in a row maybe you are going to settle right in
that's going to do you interact with them no you try to just no they've both got girlfriends
so they want nothing to do with me perfect so yeah it's shaping up to be one hell of a weekend
red zone stew what else you want man the buns buns to make stew and no one's home it's kind
to it's all point it's got to get eaten it's the thing stew's fine
that man right there.
I'm not sure.
I guarantee you.
Swing some stew by the mustard.
That guy would for sure.
He'll take any freebies.
Are you a stew guy?
Do you like some stew?
And you can kick him out whenever you want him to leave because Pinder just ditched him.
That's true.
I'll just get out.
All right, Jack,
I'm going to the basement.
Nice seeing you.
I got to take him somewhere and then abandon him.
Because he just be at my house.
Get out.
Yeah.
I hope you enjoyed your world.
Just do what I do.
Go to bed.
Who cares?
Just, yeah.
House full of people.
Rhett is the only guy that can ghost at a party that he's hosting.
Where's,
where's Red?
He was here a minute ago and he's gone.
We're at his house.
He went to bed.
Yeah.
You get tired, Jack.
All that hosting and stuff.
You know, the other thing I was thinking about yesterday after we, because we start
talking about food with the stew.
Just put some frozen peas in there.
Really?
I do like peas in my stew.
I do.
I'll try it.
I said I'd try things.
I'm willing to try it.
It wouldn't have jumped out at me.
You know what else it does?
It's off the board pick, but it could work.
Just think of your bowl you've got because it's going to be somewhat brown and in.
It's a beef base.
Your potatoes.
That's a nice little.
Your carrots.
Horge.
Visual.
Your barrel is in there.
A little green to go with the orange and the what.
Beautiful.
My mouth's watering right now.
I'm telling you.
It's a stew weekend for you that weekend.
it might get cold too perfect that feels more like i'm ordering in food it really doesn't have to be a
that it can be all the above you don't have to make stew for yourself that's fine i do like being able
to go back to the pop though like if you if you dedicate a day to the couch college football is about
to get good you got red zone playoff receding up in the NFL college football's a mess this year isn't
it like good i don't fall at all but yeah i would Alabama got rolled up like a month
go that was in national they carried the freaking
field goals down to the river
yeah i don't really know what a party you were at
i can't believe you were a part of that yeah
it was before that oh yeah
he was there when uh he left at the half
the titans was so bad it was so bad 11s against who
flacko oh yeah there are
where are you getting
the gross and jack
you're just shit face the guy's my gross oh there
I need a break right yeah he does see this
how old do you
26 no you don't know
need a break he's a little softer than we were but that's this generation you know it's true
very very soft as puppy poo i ask you a question no you because you you make the hamburger soup
and you're a soup guy where are you on dumplings i like dumplings my kids don't really yeah
i made dumpling soup one day all excited yeah because it's not like don't like not like an asian
dumpling like a no no no like the fluffy it's so flowering essentially it's dough yeah of dough what's the it's
it's the it's the matzabal soup yeah it's it's almost in a similarity to that like that because if you
have a nice hearty chicken soup or whatever and you put you just make dumplings in there I do enjoy it
yeah my I don't make it a lot my kids poop put it the first time I'm like F you I'm not going
the effort it's just bad parenting you can have salted water you know water soup yeah
I can see wreck getting heated when they're like,
oh, this starts, back in my day, we used to hell.
You ever boil a weaner?
Hey, you ever boiled a weir?
Hey, Jack, you ever boiled a weiner?
Um, I don't think so.
When you're having the hot dog, have you ever sliced the hot dog down the middle?
Yeah, I've done that.
No, what's because you get more hot dog that way.
I don't show that's how that works.
No, double.
Is it a double?
Well, because it's a wider weaner.
It doesn't get longer.
So you get more hot dog on your bun.
It's a wider weaner.
Okay, I'll try it.
I'm yelling at me.
Why?
Did we do the jack ommeter this week?
Yes, we did.
And it's no good, by the way.
I hate to criticize a man's own thing, but.
Well, is it at nine again?
It was stuck at nine after a victory like that.
He's at nine-nine-nine.
is what it's nine nine consecutive weeks especially after that win i was a statement win that was the
first good team you could argue they played all year well that's just it and they bruising the
rule and they beat a good team on a crazy zone like beautiful stuff about race to deficit that you
know what it is it's getting cocky complacence you're getting used to these wins yeah you know what we
we were afraid nine was too high too soon i think he was at a seven or eight now
he's up to a 90-ish, you know.
I just ran out of ceiling.
I just want you to think just about,
we can't, it's your own meter.
We're going to have to break the 10 soon,
especially if they beat the ratings.
Dude, it's Baltimore this weekend.
This is their first divisional game of the season out of six.
Like you're telling me, you're at nine right now,
and if they win the Super Bowl,
you're only going up one notch.
Yeah, it doesn't make much sense, but.
So if they beat Baltimore, you've got to be a 10, right?
Yeah.
And if they lose to Baltimore, you could drop to what?
If they be Paul, I mean, it's beyond 10.
Yeah.
It's beyond.
No, that's what we're talking about now.
They're saying there's no limit.
We're not, it's like stew.
Is it?
I'm not going to, I'm not going to.
It's just.
It's just.
I want to buy it.
It is exactly like stew.
You put whatever you want in there.
There's no rules.
Okay.
It's just like chili.
There's no rules.
You do whatever you want.
The jackometer is just like, it's like stew.
You do what you want, Jack.
You want to go to 11.
You go to.
You go to.
to 11.
Spinal tap this bitch.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
I don't know if he knows that reference, but it's the Steelers are three point
favorites at home or sorry,
three point dogs at home.
Past defense is no good for Baltimore.
Lamar sucks against the Steelers.
Has.
Oh, Tomlin is just going to go to school, hey?
Yeah.
A defense.
He always does.
What do you mean has Ryan?
I was he three games or.
I picked up on that two, Joe.
Good for.
You let him
Lamar's probably your favorite for the MVP at this point.
I understand.
I'm talking about Alan anymore.
It's perfect.
That's what you want.
That's what you want.
Don't talk about Alan.
I saw Kyle Brandt yesterday saying that if you hadn't,
if you don't have the tush push in Philly and Saquan is getting all those.
The,
the Hertz T-Ds, you'd hear a lot more about Seekwana's MVP.
You do have a pretty good running back in Baltimore, too.
Yeah.
And what's the?
them we're on pace for like it's wild he's having a monster year yeah he is but to jack's point it's
he's vexed against the steelers or he breaks through like this is a fascinating game this
hey i want to talk about dumplings but no sorry ever what are you showing us i see in the uh cue you got
we got some new flames lines we want to take a look i should i got one conner zeri playing center
there are a lot of people who have been uh clamoring yeah there's been some clamoring i like it a lot
fellas. We've talked about
posthal. What's he been this
year? Dog shirt.
Well, that's probably a little strong, but much
maligned. And I
think it's been tough for him to
play his pesky self when he's trying to
learn a new position.
Benched all the time. Three times. He's been sat down for a period.
Jet husk. Sheesh.
And we talked about it a month ago or so.
If you are going to extend
Conner's area and try to give him a monster
deal and get some savings down the road, you better
know if he can play center or not.
I don't know that it matters.
You're going to sign him long term anyway.
Well, you can absolutely go two years of three million.
You have to know what he is.
Is he a centerman or a wing?
I have to know.
I don't want both.
You don't give wingers money like you give centers.
I'm paying this kid.
I would too, but if he wants six or seven a year,
they might say, yeah, we'll give you three for a couple and see what you are.
We don't know if you can play center yet.
Yeah, you're going to play center or are you playing.
Why don't you pay him as a winger and then put him at center?
Well, he's not going to accept the winner money because it's lower than center money.
Now, we've got to get some of these agents on.
they'd love talking us, wouldn't they?
Why not?
Let's try it.
Agents do love talking to us.
They get to sexy up their clients.
Yeah, 10 years, who we had on.
I'm trying to think.
The fact that we put that back up, Jack, sorry, please.
Put yelling.
The fact that we haven't had somebody on doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
No, no, no, I'm just, I'm, I'm, I don't, have we?
I don't think we have.
I'm going to missed.
I had Rich Winter on the old show.
He, uh, I talked to Dave Gagne.
Yes.
Yeah.
He's with a agent.
Robert or
Bob
Get him on
See I
And this is one of those things
You're kind of
I would think this would be
Right up your alley
I'd love to talk to me
Yes
My thought is
Who have we ever talked
No my thought is
That agents
They are very good
At back channeling
And getting messages out
The way they want to
I've ever been
You've ever been reached out
To by an agent
A couple times
Yeah but we would
We used to have people
Reach out
To our old bosses
And about
Getting
Insight
into the flames and they didn't ask for any of those.
My point being that maybe people underestimate are.
I'd love to get agents on.
I am 100% on side of it.
All right.
Yeah.
Jack, make a list.
There's a Jake Bean sighting there as well.
Yeah.
I mean, Barry's not.
B.
B.
Barry's very Barry.
He can run a second power play in it.
You hate to see him and even strength against another team's good line.
What about Joe Hanley?
Hanley.
Well, he's here.
Number eight.
Still here?
He's here.
Yeah.
In case you're wondering.
Okay.
Because it's better in practice.
Yeah.
And they can do it.
It was a 32 games last year in the NHL?
Is there no,
like you're telling me you couldn't get Marty Jelina
to come down and just fill in?
For,
of defense.
If you only had 7D.
They like Hanley.
So did the stars.
Stars weren't going to put on waivers until they added TANF.
Then they had to.
Well,
Husk was a D man,
right?
Yes.
Is he done?
Yeah.
Was he?
I thought it was the center.
I don't know.
So Zeri centering Huberdo and Sharon Gowicz, for those that are just listening, not watching.
Cadry between Pospasol and Cusmanco, Backland, Coleman, Coronado, Rooney, Lomburg, and Kirkland on the fourth line.
So the fourth line stays the same. The third line with Backland and Coronado Coleman stays the same.
And then center.
You tweak Pospisle to the wings, area to the middle. Don't mind it.
Shitty center.
Oh, jeez.
who's the center?
It's a joke.
Oscar, yeah.
It's the center.
Yeah, Pospisal, eh?
Sharon Govich,
trying them at center, moving back to the wing.
Pospesal, moving to center,
but I put them back to the wing.
Back to center, back to the wing.
Because they even had the cadre and the kids line
going a week ago.
Yeah.
Coming out of that shitty road trip.
It was very...
Go back to something that, you know,
has worked at least a little later.
The only thing working right now are the bottom two lines there.
Coronado has been awesome.
I think that's an excellent slot for a young player to be in.
And the fourth line is,
been, was the best line the other night.
They've been very dependable.
You'd love to see a little more puck luck for Longberg,
but God,
they know what their identity is.
One of them has made a big mistake hiring Ryan Huska.
January 2nd.
Who wrote that?
Jeez.
That guy.
Eric Francis.
Come on,
Francis.
Come on,
Eric.
It's not very nice.
You're reading the old articles?
Well,
hey, I hope it works.
I was looking up Huska's name and right underneath it.
There was an article about,
Huska being a terrible coach, apparently.
Incorrect.
I disagree.
I have to agree to disagree on that one.
I'd have them over for stew.
Really?
Yep.
Right now, right whenever.
Even if there's only two bowls of soup left?
I'm sharing with that.
Wow.
So I have my eyes closed.
All I'm seeing is,
how do we know?
Because you get your shade fresh buttered bun, like smutte butter.
And I've seen amount of butter on a fresh bun.
Just.
Oh, right into the stew.
You get away two weekends for that, hey?
It sucks.
Yeah, the American Thanksgiving thing is going to be big too.
That's right.
That's come up two weeks today.
Two weeks today.
Jack, what games have we got?
Jack, get us the schedule, Jack.
Come on, man.
I should have shut my mouth 15 minutes ago.
As I recall, the games aren't because the cowboys always play, right?
It is Bears at Lions, 1030 a L's played it.
Giants Cowboys 230.
And then Dolphins Packers.
Giants.
Cowboys.
Oh, someone's going to win.
Drew Locke and Cooper Rush.
Who's the third stringer?
Does DeVito still there?
Yeah.
I think he is still there.
And Trey Lance may be in too.
I'd like that batch up a little more.
DeVito and Lance?
Oh, boy.
Where your bears are?
Are they cooked?
It sounds like they're a disaster.
They are a complete disaster.
Like dysfunction.
Good roster, bad management.
Yeah.
Their O line, what it is, is, is,
everyone's saying, well, the old line can't protect the kid.
And then other people are like, well, you know, if you look closely, the kid's got some time.
Kids not making reads.
He's not making reads.
He's not getting rid of the ball.
He's taking way too many sacks when he really just could have dumped it off.
He's a kid.
It's a fun name of receivers they collected, though.
Alan, Adunze, Moore.
If only he can't say's out.
I thought he was back.
And then last was two weeks ago when Moore just kind of walked off the field.
Yeah, I'm done here.
leader during a play just I'm along the sidelines I'm good okay I'm just going to go
and it is well did he step out of bounds already you can come back in come back in you're right
or you at least could maybe be some sort of a terrible safety valve for your quarterback you know
what it's not supposed to be that easy where you finish dead last you pick a quarterback and you're
good the next year I never really got the hype about it very good player but like even Peyton
manning one of the grace of all time was straight shirt his first year in the NFL many of the
rates, it takes years before they
corrected, or even at least second or third year, you start
to see it. What hurts, though, is when
you pick a quarterback high, and we
saw it last year. Yeah. And then someone
who was picked below them
comes out and has a great rookie season.
C.J. Stroud.
To
Stroud to Richardson and Bryce Young, yeah.
At the, uh, Tepper in Carolina
throwing drinks on fans.
Yeah.
And now this year's, well, what about this, uh,
Daniel's kid? He seems to be able to dump
the ball off.
Yeah, Rob Johnson was a big deal.
There were some people that really like Rob Johnson.
I've not said anything.
I mean, some people,
huge fans of Rob Johnson back in the day.
Maybe even still if they were given the opportunity.
Seems awfully specific, weird.
It's up for the rest of this day.
Jack and I go for lunch on Thursdays.
Right.
It's our weekly tradition.
Fish chips.
Fish and chips.
Lock to you, Jack.
Make him buy for ditching and being a dick.
I always buy, don't worry.
Yeah, I think I'll do the fish and chips.
Maybe a, maybe a couple beers.
Couple.
Round the tab up a little more.
Ata boy.
Beers.
You got to produce a show at two.
I'm just kidding.
My kid must be listening to the show.
Sorry I didn't answer my phone.
It's too late, buddy.
Yeah.
That story would have been great 48 hours ago.
Yeah.
Get me a shit.
Maybe you should have a, a beer and a, like a, what,
Jack and Coke, we were talking with that on the pre-show.
Jack and Jack.
Sure. No brown liquor for you. Three-course meal.
Well, I guess beer is beer brown liquor?
I don't think so. No. It's not a lick.
You're talking liquor. You're talking hard booze.
You know what, though? We're getting into brown liquor season.
It is. This is bourbon whiskey.
I was craving a massive
Scotch last night. Wow.
Like four fingers? No ice.
I like ice. I like it cold.
I don't know. With a lot of the whiskeys and that, a little bit of
I don't care what people say.
I drink things the way I like them.
It's like people getting drunk and they're drinking lots in the summer.
I'm going to have,
we're going to try and make the drink healthy.
You're poisoning yourself.
Like the whole objective that you're undertaking right now.
Alcohol is poison.
You're poisoning yourself, but you're going to make it healthy.
Yeah.
You're worried about the calories.
Just drink what you want.
I had a keel soda, which is the drink of choice these days,
with an orange yesterday instead of,
a lime.
It is actually very good.
It is.
And, you know, you had a fridgeville, a barme brunt of bono.
You can't go around there.
I guess so.
Sometimes I like, I just need a, there's beer.
Love beer, though.
You do love beer.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's, it kind of gets into that spiced rum around Christmas.
Oh, yeah.
Have you bought your egg nog yet?
Not yet.
So here's the problem I'm having.
You're not at Hoover's or whatever it's called.
Thank you, Ryan.
Oh, no.
First time in three Christmases.
the shits compared to hoover's hovers
what are we talking about
remember i was going to the fancy milk store
in buffalo the dairy farm
hovers dairy farm fresh milk
and the eggnog oh my god now is it possible
and i'm not maybe you have
but you have not sussed out your dairy options here because of the eggnog
last week that billy bob brought home i had a taste this this is not up to snuff
this is just this is fake
You're faking your eggnog.
This is faux nog.
And I've started to look around and I'm, but the place I found had better milk, but not egg dog.
Yeah.
It's near nog.
You know what?
There's a business idea.
That's what we're doing today.
Barn burner, real nog, not faux nog.
But you milk them.
Yeah.
I'll get through.
I'm good at that.
I'm adept at that.
It's a milker.
It's like, Jack's like, Korean.
What are we?
You got Jack.
The show.
You got Jack with a milking cow joke.
If anyone knows of any good eggnog out there.
Yeah, let's get it on here, fellas.
Well, there has to be some.
There really some good dog out there.
Because what was it, our buddy, Bill.
That's just with the dairy or with the ice cream place, right?
Oh, yeah.
Bill McKenzie.
Yeah.
They could have access to some good nog, I bet.
You know what?
If they're not doing it, Billy, you can take the idea as long as I get a little bit of
gnaw.
Hey, Bill, get your nod.
on.
Bill,
we'd love to start a Christmas
partnership surrounding
your nod.
Let's go.
Heard a lot about
your nog.
It's a lot going
through my head.
A lot of it
very funny.
Oh, come on.
A lot of it very stupid.
Get you out of my head.
What do you got today,
Dean?
Well, I guess I need to go home
and get my kid
who's not in school
and take her somewhere.
That's only a bit four days of that.
Yeah.
And then I don't know.
There'll be something else.
Honey,
when are you old enough to drive?
How were you in the home?
Like,
you did a show from home
yesterday didn't realize it.
Tuesday.
The hell's happening to you.
Yeah, I know.
I was home.
What the hell?
Yeah, she was home the whole time.
A lot of things do start to make sense once I did find that out.
Yeah.
Why are you where?
What was this happening?
This is happening here.
Okay.
Good to talk to Jeff Merrick, eh?
Mm-hmm.
We're set for his new show.
Yeah.
I like that he'll join in on all the conversation.
He is, do you see how many times he tried to, they had to
restrain himself from not telling another story yeah that's hockey stories that's the
sheet and and you know what that's what this platform is good for it's a best for you
don't have oh we got to get to a break we got a whole hey Elliott needs to talk about
something fuck Elliot that's what Merrick said not me oh boy that's what Merrick said didn't
he said didn't he say Jack we have that clip right forgot to cut the mics yeah remember that
oh Elliot he hated us no he didn't yes he did
It was, you know what?
It was part of his, part of the schick.
Part of his schick.
He would sort of play exhausted with some of the stuff.
The one thing, though, we'll carry to our graves right.
We were right about Giordano.
No kidding.
Duh.
Yeah.
Generally, he made a lot of sense.
That was his one take.
There's like, nope, you cannot let Giordano go for nothing.
In a year, you're going to miss the playoffs.
This guy's worth a lot of assets.
You do not walk him to an expansion draft.
I don't care.
I still do wonder if there was what was going on behind the scenes.
That is just straightforward.
Yeah, whether that's owner, GM,
him, did he not want to go?
There's a lot there, but it's just horrible asset management.
Whoever the responsibility lays on.
Insane.
Send him to a contender, let him go have a chance to win a cup.
What are we talking about here?
You're missing the playoffs.
You play in Vancouver while round one of the playoffs on.
And then it was almost compounded because we were freaking out.
Are they going to spend assets?
They gave two first to Seattle, not.
to take them?
What?
You can be getting those assets.
Which they didn't.
No, they didn't.
But they did take them.
First round.
You know, who got the assets was Seattle when they traded him to Toronto, a contender.
Yeah.
So I do wonder about that.
I think we'll ever find out.
Yeah.
Who?
I'll usually 10 years later, all these things sort of starts to talk to you in 10 years.
Me, nobody.
We'll talk to somebody else and somebody else.
than somebody else has talked to me.
Britches, come on, what you're talking about?
No, honestly, if 10 years down the road,
you're having a pop with Connie, you wouldn't get the scoop on that?
Well, that was tree, right?
Well, that's it.
But he was right there.
He would have known the whole inside out.
And, I mean, I would think of geo.
I don't remember what the trade protection was, but it would have been nothing.
Why don't we call Gio?
See what the hell he's doing.
Well, you just told us yesterday.
He's miserable.
I expect he would be miserable because he won't.
Yeah, he won't want to talk to us.
No.
So agents don't want to talk to us.
I think agents would love to talk to us.
Let's get some agents on.
I think it'll be great.
Fascinated.
You know what?
We haven't talked about it all.
It's going to be mind-numbing to some.
And I'm not saying we need to talk about it.
But this entangled knot of college eligibility, Western League, major junior.
Oh, that's tough.
We have no idea how this is going to go.
Like, is Landon and DuPont even allowed to go to college in two years if he wants to
in his draft year?
Well, he's got to be graduating.
You got to be old.
You got two years finish high school.
That's no sweat.
You know, when he's busy playing hockey and dominating.
He's not his focused on.
But we don't even know.
So here's a question for it.
If you're landed in DuPont, what the do you need to go to college for?
Same reason, Austin Matthews,
you don't to Switzerland instead of playing in the Western League,
his draft year, because you're playing against older players.
And you could add mass in season, work out.
Lighter schedule, travel on planes.
Yes.
Don't ride buses to Brandon in January.
He was worried about that.
Why did you go to the WHL this year?
Oh, because he knows it's a great option for this year and probably next year.
You've got all the answers.
He's always, it's right there.
No, I.
Frankly,
you're stupid for asking.
No,
but it is interesting.
I'm fascinated by it because I don't know the answers to these things.
Like,
I don't even know if he's eligible to.
You know why he's fascinated by it?
Don't listen.
He's things.
He's got two boys going pro.
No.
My kids are not going to pass.
It's crazy.
Why I'm fascinated about it?
Because there's a lot of people.
What are you,
eavesdropping?
that's true i should earmuffs sorry go ahead i was this
Ryan back to you
Ryan back to
oh sorry guys what we're talking about I just wonder about that
now again that topic is a very good one
I'm not sure that the burner the Barneys
I think it's a tape recorded conversation
so the people that want to hear about it
that might be a YouTube only hey go go to our YouTube channel
or visit where you get your podcast and download
I'll tell you what
if you like the 13 minute
conditional explanation on the
Calgary Montreal trade that Pike did yesterday
with the face palm experience. If you
like that, you're going to love this.
You're going to love this. Now
listen, we don't know how it's going to. I'm not saying I got all the
answers. There would be some who would probably argue.
I don't need to hear about fucking dumplings
and stew. There are many. On this show
when I'd rather hear about Conner's Erie playing center.
John Bender says we're not talking enough about
the bombers whoever they're playing. If I was you, I would
shut up about Bender because Bender is going to come through that wall.
Yeah, it's going to be Waka Pinder in here one day.
It's a better and I get along great.
She's going to compress your vertebrae.
Yeah.
And why would you hate that?
You've been dreaming about that for a decade, you bastard.
You'd actualize your dreams.
You'd love that.
He's going to make you look like the ladder climber.
Yeah.
You should not be climbing the ladder.
So long as they don't look like one of the skateboards.
That seemed like the worst one today.
And I do need to get up on my ladder.
I see, I've been waiting for my kid to be around the house.
He's never home.
that's what you do.
A good leader delegates.
Yeah,
because I know there's some,
some leaf.
Oh,
yeah,
that's what I did.
Some leaves.
That's what I did.
Leaves.
Gotta get up there.
And you know what I probably also need to do
is it's there's some dripping.
Oh,
no.
So I've either got a,
either it's like,
you had an ice.
It's coming over the top?
Either there's.
It's a nice dam and it popped it off.
It's either coming over the top or there's a leak.
So I need to get some cocking or something in there to seal it up.
well we better get to it
yeah busy day
fish and chips
he wants to go to fresh chips
let's go
should I get the one piece or two piece
do live life once
one piece or two piece
that's a trick question
did you have that one when we had the
our big day
yeah
yeah
boy what a day that was
we were so much tech talk in here
so many changes
I believe I got a headache
oh so you got the
cameras you're talking about cable brands and I'm like yeah I'm just going to gloss over
and look at my food for a bit here we should uh you want just hang on I'm just going to raise this
camera a little bit I think that's probably better eh all right so see you in a month boys big gulps
hey check you later all right yeah yeah I don't care I'm bored I mean unless you got any other
slander you want to run on Elliot I feel like you when you're at home I'llie I love boomer
when he's doing it from home.
There's nowhere to go, so he'd just keep...
I think it's going to be sitting in a chair anyway.
So what is this show you're doing?
No.
No, you're doing a thing.
Same Thursday.
2 p.m. live.
But you roll it out like people as well.
All right.
Just save it.
No, you're just drawing on the shit,
drawing, drawing, drawing.
I don't need to stay here.
I'm dragging up the show.
Check our socials.
Live at two.
We'll be talking Thursday night football.
Myself, Tyson Cole in Vancouver and producer Jack.
Good matchup tonight.
And what's it about?
It is about Thursday night football tonight and some wagering.
We're finding some props we like.
Okay.
Anytime touchdown bet.
But our boy,
Greg Gatsby's going to send out.
That's good.
Jack's laughing.
Got him.
Yeah.
I'm telling you,
we got to switch that camera around.
The jack cam.
Yeah, we need the jackat.
If we got a jackometer,
you guys had the tech nerds here.
Why didn't you get that sorted?
Well,
they needed to go to.
Let's go eat.
Edmonton.
They needed to go eat.
What?
I've got a lot of cables everywhere.
and we just kind of slapped everything together.
And this looks great.
Best by.
Okay, well, we'll meet you at the restaurant.
Okay.
Yeah.
Thanks, fellas.
You ever wanted to listen to Allentown in Allentown?
Denver and Denver.
Shanghai and Shanghai.
Yeah, that's what like that.
The boss.
Which, which?
What?
Springsteen.
What?
Yes, he is.
What?
All right.
He's got a hungry heart.
Tune, tune, tune, tune.
He would,
yeah, thought we had the button were so.
close.
All right.
Goodbye.
You already pushed it.
Ryan Leslie,
huge.
Oh,
yeah,
Monster, yeah.
Huge Springsteen guy.
So is coach.
Which coach?
Dean Alancia.
Okay.
I wonder how many times
this would be for Leslie to see.
Oh,
this would be like 60 or 70 for my guy.
I bet she's over two dozen.
Does he have those like not residencies but where he'll play like a stadium like five nights in
in a row.
Like I know Billy Joel used to do that.
You might have?
Because that's where you could really get the numbers up.
But I think.
Different sets.
I think he is still as not as good as ever, but I think he's still.
He's still like unbanging it up for three hours, not like 10 songs gone.
I'll text on him and Courtney Cox, Bill didly.
Really?
That was her breakthrough, right?
When she was, did you know that?
I made, I, send me more info.
This sounds exciting.
She did the, uh, Bruce Springsteen video.
Oh.
You said she did Bruce.
I'm like me with the Paul Brent.
Convoy.
Yeah.
It's a huge.
This is Paul.
Alberta Brown.
I'm leaving.
See you,
buddy.
Have a good Thursday.
Fun football game.
Where are you going?
Lamar over rushing yards.
I just texted Leslie.
We'll find out how many times he's seen.
All right, team.
Have a good date.
Jack, let's go to lunch.
You guys want to come help me with my eaves troughs?
I got leaves in there.
I don't think.
it's sending.
I've been having some trouble.
I tried texting you back yesterday.
Yeah, I did.
And it, look, it's still
message send failure.
Try again.
I wonder if he's got some Yankee phone
that you can't text to.
See if it went through.
Yeah, I need someone.
Jack, you hold the ladder?
Yeah, I can do that.
Because I can't.
I don't really dig.
Dig ladders anyway.
And now this, I
because it would say delivered.
My previous text to him says delivered,
but this one doesn't.
So it hasn't gone through probably, right?
Yeah, or he just blocked your number.
Well, he wouldn't do that.
I'm a lovable guy.
Okay, bye, Dean.
You know what it is?
I took it off the Wi-Fi.
Delivered.
Okay, all was that?
Yeah.
But they're skating.
Maybe done skating by now.
It might be in the room talking to players.
Well, yeah, I guess it's just
just you and me, guys.
Oh, that's terrible.
That's the saddest shot ever.
Leslie says, I've seen him a few times.
Ha ha.
Last summer, this is Leslie.
Last summer, he was in Munich and Italy.
to see Springsteen.
No, it's...
If you're,
if you're going to see the Wiggles,
it's like RJ with Disney.
Then you're a dork.
But...
Yes, he says,
should we do a show on?
Yes, we should.
Actually talking about it right now.
This is kind of like the post show.
This is the post show, yeah.
Yeah.
You had enough?
I mean, for sure, I've had enough.
I wasn't even really crazy
to do one at all today.
Flames didn't play.
They don't play for another,
you know.
There's not much going on.
We had Jeff, though.
Jeff was good.
Happy to get Jeff there, for sure.
We talked to football.
I didn't, see,
you never know where the show's going to go.
I didn't think we'd hear about the Lawson Heights
Food Court,
but we did.
Back to back days with some stew talk.
What's that,
what is that food?
court,
Brett was talking about.
I think there's one on like first
Ave.
It's not brand new, but it's relatively
new. Is that what it's called?
It's somewhere down in that area.
Yeah, I love it when you, I love you
because your deuses are wild girl,
like a double shot of loving so fine.
I've been loving you since you was a child
girl because you and me
is two of a kind.
So yeah, I mean, I guess if he's talking about when
we were both young,
even back then,
um,
um,
first street market.
That's what it is, right?
That's what he'll be talking about.
Because there are numerous places in there,
but it's not,
uh,
chains and stuff, like you said.
Food. Oh, and there's boos pender.
Yeah.
Yum, yum. Get in my
tum. So there's pizza,
some Italian.
Oh, well, no wonder.
There's a place called,
that does eggs Benedict
do you do eggs Benny
Jack no
Warner would step over your
mother to get to some eggs
Benedict really he would
shove your grandmother down a flight of steps
if she was standing between him
and some eggs Benny
yeah I could yeah yeah
fried chicken well
let's wrap this up I'm starving
are you yeah we've been talking about food for
yeah I know weird feels like
yeah
You want to keep going.
You know how to shut her down.
I don't really want to.
I got nothing to say.
I got nothing to say.
You know what, Jack?
I've done this for so many years.
Like, I'm done talking today and really for the rest of time, if need be.
Really?
Yeah, I don't.
I mean, what?
So we're going to come in here again tomorrow.
And what are we going to talk about tomorrow?
Well, it's Friday.
It's Hawaiian shirt day.
And I guess it's a game day.
Well, what do we think?
So Zeri at the center spot.
Well, we got to do the...
Who gives a shit?
Right?
I guess, boom, I don't know.
I don't have the answers for you.
We've been talking for two hours and seven minutes.
That's unacceptable.
How long do you guys think you could have gone for?
Four hours?
Yeah, like we were just...
Well, here's the thing.
If food shows up...
And yeah, we could just sit here and keep...
Yeah.
We should try that.
one day. We just sit here and...
Well, how long... Because we do the
Christmas show
that goes on, but that just...
That ends because it has to, because
people need to go to sleep.
We should probably have a meeting about
that. Where is it happening? What are we doing?
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Well, somebody's saying there's too, but I mean
between what, Facebook, YouTube,
X
Instagram
there's
way too many
people watching this
there's hundreds
of people watching
for whatever reason
okay
let's go
I played the thing
hit her again
I have some new drops
I've just been kind of sitting on them
okay well give us a couple before we go
no I don't want
I'm gonna save him
yeah I'll save him
okay
yeah I'll save
there's some I don't
I think
I don't even know how I'd use them, but they'll be there if I need them, Jackie, boy.
I'm really glad that you got that figured out.
Are you?
Yeah.
I don't use it a lot.
I use it for the odd shovel, the Pinder Report, and then the end of the show, mostly.
I'm going to hit it.
I'm ready to.
See you, buddies.
