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Episode Date: February 18, 2025

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We're dealing with a lot of stuff today. We got a lot. Got a lot right here. We got phone issues. Do we? We got clicking. Yeah, the clicking drives me nuts. I don't like loud noises.

Even when the kids are banging their sticks on the bench, I have to plug my ears. Yeah. It comes from concussions. Is that what it is? Yep. CTE is Jack Wittles. Because your brain goes into panic mode and starts to try to protect itself.

So is this the same phone that was giving you grief last week? Or is this the one I was so proud of? because it had the kill switch. Yeah. Yeah. And now it's shit. Well, it's cracked. Yeah.

Fraudulently cracked by my kid, I believe. Fraudulent. Yeah. And the buttons, you know, the back button, you want to have access to it. You don't want to have to reach across the whole phone to try and get that bastard. The back, like the backspace? Yeah. You know, or back a screen.

You know what I mean? Yeah. Okay. You do. Just being ignorant. No, I was going to say I'm not that familiar with Android. I've been an iPhone guy. Some of us can't afford it.

Yeah, right. That's what it is. About a used phone. That's what you were saying. You ordered a used phone. Refurbished, I think they call it. Yeah, yeah. You know what?

There's some deals to be had. The refurb market. Who they have of mine to be able to afford a new phone? That's right. Take what I can get. Yeah. We're talking about TV shows. And you were saying.

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Sent Ozzy Nan back to land down under. Beat it. She got here one day after the plus 13 and was right here through the throes of an incredible cold snap. we did have that sneaky warm weather there yes two days later she arrived oh the winter was this february sucked asshole yeah february's been an asshole you get a punch february yeah bit of a jerk february because was is it or is it january that was the goat that i think it was a cold january that's the problem this january gorgeous yeah uh so i before the show

show conversations, you know, being what they are. I know that our friend Jack really enjoyed himself on Saturday after the Canada-U-S matchup. Oh, he's living it up in all the chats. USA. He was a USA. Shearing for.

No, we knew. He's a front runner. So once they got the lead, he was on them. It's a great day to be American, right? That was yesterday. And today. What a game, eh? It's going to be short-lived, you little bastard.

cover for you. Yeah, if they look at anything like they did yesterday. Oh, fat cats. I was a great day to be an American yesterday. They looked pretty. And look, that's an impossible game to try to play. Because you're just trying to get through it. It means nothing.

It's a meaningless game. And the Swedes are playing for pride because it's like, look, we know we're not in the finals, but we're playing for our country. We've got to show that we care. 3-1 goal losses for the Swedes. You kind of feel for them, but also like just be better. Both games yesterday were kind of, you're not going to get back to that level.

I didn't dial in on them. But it was, you know, lacked, lacking. Maybe what they should do is just have Sweden and Finland. They play each other in a like a best of. And then like Canada and the Americans.

And you can do the checks and the Slovaks do it too. Call it a rider cup, do it every two years. Yeah. It's still international. We love best on best all of a sudden. Yeah. It's been unreal.

But, um, why were we doing this one? Like Finland was not. expected to do well and they didn't well i mean yeah they they did better than we thought what are we hoping they beat the sweets they're missing their top two dmen so the conversation is either Canada you need a summit and we need all hands on deck and we have to write the ship and change everything or the fins for no any good not i think it was that with fins this is all

Thursday but you get my point right if the fins win yesterday Oh, sure. Is in summit mode. No, totally, totally. So only, I think Thursday is still summit mode. Like, you know, which, whichever team loses on Thursday, it's going to be like, why didn't you take Brake Nelson? Why didn't you take Tage Thompson?

Why didn't you take Jason Roberts? And why did you take Brandon Hagle? Why didn't you bring, like, both teams are going to do that. Yeah. And both teams have some guys that you'd hope to have been better at the bottom of their roster. And they left some really talented guys at home. So, like, that conversation is still happening. It's just whether it's the Americans of the Canadians.

on Friday. Triple O T. I mean, look, it's going to happen. It's already happening and both teams are in the final. Like, Brock Nelson has no business being in this term. You know what? Just to throw this out there, Jack,

because you're putts. Crosby sucked Saturday night. So. I said that in the chat. Mike Sullivan, Adam locked down. Yeah, that's the boy he's been trying to send to the moon

for a couple years now. Shelly coach Mike Sullivan. Great. So great. Something about Sullivan gets near Crosby. I don't know. Anyway, that was a hell of a game.

Like, that might be the game. greatest game we see in years like the fights the intensity you probably can't stage the political background stuff what's that i don't think it can be needed more scoring or the americans shut it down yes they did they did their credit but i mean it was what a one goal game until an empty netter with how much left like you were hanging on just like one play make one play superstars make one play. And, you know, he's in the chat, you're talking about your goalie. The last time Canada, USA played best on best, one nothing,

Kerry Price shut out. Like, that's how it's going to be when you have the two best teams in the world. It's not going to be six, five. Like, I, I expect the low scoring game does that. They're going to light it up. One team's got a really, really good goalie. Yeah, they do. Yeah. One goalies played well this tournament. That's the thing about this tournament. Yeah, one guy's been good. And the other seven,

have been, I mean, like, Lankan, no, Saros, no. Olmark, no. Erson was actually good yesterday. Bennington has an eight points, as point, I mean, it's an 862. It's no good. It's no good. And each game, there's been a couple where you're like, oh, that shouldn't go in, or at least one where you're like, and if he wins one game.

And he wins one, he's fine. Because even yesterday when it was, because it was, what, three nothing. So, you know, this is what, this is what Bennington needed. Yeah. Yeah. Shut things down. And really feel good about himself and really feel goal. Okay.

Well, three one. Four one. Pull the goal. You'll pull the goal. Four, four. Four two. So,

well, I mean. Four three. They went with Bennington. He's been the guy. He's going to go again on Thursday. That's that much is clear. Yeah.

If you were going to change, you had to play a hill yesterday. They didn't. So Bennington's their guy. Yeah. It's kind of like the absin in the cup with Kemper. You're like, it's not going to be pretty.

But, if everyone else is good enough, you could probably do it. You know what the problem is, too? He hasn't been good. Yeah. Right? Because we, okay, the goalie's on paper.

You don't like, just don't stink. He has stunk. Yes, he has. He has stunk. It has absolutely come home to roost for the position for the, for the Canadians. And given that he stunk, I don't know what the hesitancy is to go away from him. Gaden Hill, I would have a head of Bennington to begin with. Now, they didn't, but they seem,

hesitant to pivot. Yeah. Like is he played well? Oh, no, he's our guys. Is he your guy? It's so easy to look back at it.

Because I was trying to think after, because I wasn't shocked that they put Bennington in, but I wouldn't have been shocked if they went with Hill either against the Americans. Yeah. It felt like a contest. It's a dab if you do. I mean, that's the other thing.

I think that. And I don't begrudge it. I think he knows that guy better. Doug Armstrong knows Bennington. Way better than you're flipping a coin. I want to go with my guy. And if Kelly McCrimman's a GM, he's starting.

Hill game. And that's, you know, people call it nepotism, but it's like, look, if you've been in the trenches with a guy, you trust them more. We don't call anything nepotism because we don't know what it means. It's a big word. I guess like, uh, Neptune. I love to say it's like space travel or something. Astrological is the word you're looking for, Dean.

So Sid was no good. Much better. I had to go radio silent on Saturday night because I had hockey game, hockey game. and talk about tough, like literally walk through. Oh, yeah. Everyone's, yeah. Don't talk to me. Yeah.

Everyone's watched the best game of their lives. Three fights and nine seconds. But it was worth it. It was worth it. So you got through unscathed? I got through unscathed. Wow. I got through unscathed.

And it was worth it. And I got, I stayed up and I was excited and I had popcorn and I had a root beer. And God damn, I liked the fights, although the Canadians kind of, I wanted someone tougher. Preycodone did, okay.

But yeah, the other Kachucks, they pick smaller guys. The Kachucks, too, they always pick smaller guys. Yeah, I mean, Benny, you know, Benny's hold his own in that. But he gave us a bunch of pounds. Benny's tough as nails, but yeah. I'll tell you, it didn't even cross my mind that that would be a thing. That won't be a thing.

Scrapping. I didn't either. I knew the intensity to be high, but. Yeah, I never thought that, that it was even allowed. And I was watching Warwick. they did this half our pregame show and they're chatting while we're watching warm up and kachuk goes past center right at the center line as you see and he's chirping haggle I'm like classic battle of Florida like panthers lightning like yeah didn't even think of it

and then there they are opening dry like he can't why didn't I even fight and why didn't I even in the warm up I mean I don't know when he asked her if it was then or not but he was he was chirping him in the warm up is what I'm saying because chuck said that they were in a chat with a team and said that's what they wanted to do to start the game well that Yeah, I get that they wanted to. Yeah, how he knew Hegel was starting. You would have the lineups at some point around that. Yeah, they probably would have been in this line.

I've been in those games. I don't think that that's, you know, who's starting. It might be after one of those they do the line. But either way, it's just like, hey, he might ask three guys to scrap one on each line. I don't know. Yeah. He was looking for a fight and it happened to be Hagel's line that started. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't know that, but he had a dance lined up.

And then the second one hit. You're like, oh, my God. It's like, all right, this is. Holy mo. It was pretty great. I was making pizzas. I had my hands right in the dough. No way.

One everywhere. Turn the volume up. Turn the volume. What's, holy shit. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

But I truly, I had never even crossed my mind that that would play in. It's not the Olympics. It's not double IA. The Olympics you're going to get. It's, yeah, that's another advantage of World Cup over Olympics.

Time zones and NHR rules. It harkened be back to, the time it was lockout season. You remember lockout season? Never. Good times. When Dion Funnuf and Colin Fraser came back from winning gold and Ryan Getslap and Andrew Ladd came back to Calgary and it was rebel versus Hitman. Drop of the puck and I think it was Getslap and Fraser or whoever it was. So they led the next the next face off. It was Ladd and Funnuff or whatever. Oh, we were teammates. go. Yeah. Spirited stuff. And then you're like, okay, well, that makes sense. Like, this is a good pressure release. The building was upside down. The, you know, the, the tension around this, the game, it couldn't

have been in a better venue for the, just the, the energy of it all. You're like, okay, that'll settle things down. And then J.T. Miller gets in Bennington's face. Like, are he got another? Yeah. His gloves were off. He was ready to go. Spring loaded. Yeah. He was ready. I was like, yes, please. That is awesome. I'll say that. this, you know, in the, you know, as we like to do, hand out kudos and hootie, hootie cardos and give them, give them some of these. We said it last week, the organizers, great job picking Montreal, great job starting there. Montreal set the tone for the tournament.

Mario. Right? Like it was, that was a master class. And I gave no doubt what Boston's going to be like on it's going to be mayhem. Yeah, yesterday was not the true indication because the USA was playing for nothing. and the Canadians were expected to roll the weakest team in the tournament, and kind of did. And to the players,

the players are what's making this thing. Yeah. Because I think when we talked about it, it was, well, you know, the guys would they rather go on on vacation and that sort of. I kind of felt that way,

that there'd be a lot of guys, be like, I was going to get away for seven, eight days here. It was going to be great. And then there was the lips. service. I'm very excited. I can't wait for this. It was sincere.

These guys are all in. So credit to the players, because if they didn't care to the extent that they do, clearly, we're not feeding off of it like we are. Yeah, I think there's the geopolitical stuff, which you can't control the NHL, there's where you put it and when you put it, so the fans are right, and that's

another piece. But the players have been exceptional. Like, exceptional. Damn it. All Gary's good, eh? All garry. He got right into Trumpers ear. Let's cause a little bit of animosity here. We'll really help the sales of this hockey tournament. We have some tariffs to announce until this tournament's done.

You want us to bring in a sheriff? I don't know what that has to do with hockey. Anyway, you do you and we'll take care of the rest. Oh, do you think they're going to, here's why the Canadians are booing the anthem and this. Are people really that? I think in this country, it's quite obvious, but I don't know that. There would be Americans that are out to lunch on anything of it's even going on. So they would.

And all they would hear is a media clip saying, the ignorant Canadians, but we are our anthem. I'll tell you. I don't think it's. Social media being as, you know, it's a warm,

fuzzy place. Canadians are taken, I saw somebody, I shouldn't even say it. It's the internet. I think I could say just about anything we want here. And I still feel like I should. There's some people that really don't think very highly of us right now,

because we booed their anthem. They're very. protective of their animal we could do some of self-evaluating and not think so highly for ourselves yeah but it's nothing to do with us booing there yeah although i don't think it's necessary it's a bit and i've said this before it's a little exhausting and i can get why americans would be tired of hearing us it's our game and it's our this and are that you just watch every every commercial oh canadian this you know there's all the babies are coming out of they're being born with gloves and sticks and it's like

Oh, fuck. Okay. Like, got it. It's our game. We love our hockey. And honestly, like, I don't have a problem with it because it's like, first off, why do you get why it's, it's very smart. I understand both sides. So I get why Americans be like enough of these guys. Yeah. And I think they'll boo the ass of the Canadian Anthem on Thursday. I'm fine with that. Just like I was fine with Keny's booing the shit out of the American anthem in Montreal. Like, if you put anthems ahead of sporting events, it's kind of, you're trying to stir up people's emotions. Are you actually trying to tell me that we shouldn't do anthems? No, we could. I mean, I just think that what you're trying to do is stir emotions more than it. Because what you're taking is we're just having the anthems are there as a side of respect for people that have sacrificed their lives. For some people, that's what they reflect.

No, that's not what they reflect. It is what they reflect. So it's not your interpretation of it. It's not an entertainment value. It's not a place for people to show off their talents as a singer. I totally respect that viewpoint for sure. I also think like you used to see it before school class every morning. Yeah.

So why don't we? I don't know. We should have some civic pride. I don't know. We shouldn't. But I just. So your argument is don't take pride. Why are we prideful Canadians?

No, no, no, no. I think that. So you're opposed to the. I'm not opposed to the anthems. I'm just saying if you do it, you're going to get into people's emotions. And if you're getting people emotional, when they're not happy with said country, they're going to make noise. They're not thinking about veterans.

They're not thinking about the U.S. Army. They're thinking about a hundred year ally suddenly, a complete change of, you know, tact of how you're the relationship between the countries. That's what they're frustrated with. Well, I'll go back to what I said. Maybe we should do some self-evaluating. I'm not suggesting that Canada is perfect at all. And again, I don't have a problem with Americans are going to boo the Canadian anthem,

even though I have two grandfathers that have passed that served for our country. I don't view the anthem as a reflective of them as much as you would. But that's just my position on it. I'm okay with yours. I think a lot of people view the anthems that way. way. At least they have been saying, please, you're trying.

They put out that warning ahead of time, which really seems to have had an impact. Oh, shoot, that's right. I was going to boo. Thanks for reminding me. Okay, good. Yeah, the anthems are coming. I know you're going to boo.

What's this? Oh, they don't want us to do. All right. I guess we'll sit through it and enjoy it. No, I'll say this. It would have been awful. if we didn't get round two if some banana peel came and like you say

if the Finns say holy shit yeah it would be full on summit mode while the four nations event would be tarnished or even just or even just take you would just take that away everyone deserves the players want it so bad the fans want it it's the tournament

it's arrogant of us again though do you think the like I get what you're saying and I don't disagree from our point of view if I'm in Finland I want the Yeah, no, I just think more than, it's not like we're looking at powerhouse best ever Sweden right now, nor a healthy best ever Finland. And these are countries that have won a lot. Like, these are very, you know, worthy adversaries in this tournament, no question. It's just right now on paper, the two best teams of tournament by a mile or Canada USA.

Would there be any appetite to see the Finns and Swedes one more time? I enjoyed the game. I watched it. Yeah. I thought it was a great game. What do you mean? For third place, no. Oh, no, God.

I think especially because you're trying to do this a small window. When you get to a World Cup and there's eight teams, yeah, I would watch a third place game. Can you imagine if you played that game and three guys went down with twist? No, I, uh-uh. And I don't have any interest. I didn't watch a game last night because it was a nothing game. I watched them both and yeah, the American one was weird because they were just kind of going through the motions whereas Sweden was playing to like, listen, we're out of this, but we're playing for our country here.

show up and they didn't go away. And then guys get dinged up on the Americans, like they're just done for the game. They're not hurt. They're just being careful. Yeah. It doesn't matter to them. Opening statements from a cloud law as we get into it here. Of course, I, you know what? I bet you Peter Klein had a Canadian jersey on. He's a jersey wear. We've seen him at the, at the playoff draft, got the jersey on, goes to games. He's a jersey guy.

He's got a 2010 Crosby for sure. Yeah. Jersey in the, in the closet, I'm guessing. Go to Austin. Oh, you'd have something a little more often. You know, did I tell you, my buddy went to that Saturday, Montreal? Did it? That's planning. He bought tickets when they came out.

Yeah, in the phone. Flights, the whole. Two weeks ago, it was not hard to plan. It's, uh, yeah. Anyway, McLeod law. If you see a guy with a jersey on it, might be Peter Klein. Peter Klein. Yeah, good chance it is.

Say hi. Say hi, say hi, Pete. And, I mean, talk about a stroke of luck if you happen to be having some problems with your disability insurance claim. at the same time. Jerks. Like, hey, big game. Looking forward to it on Thursday.

Hey, are you the, that's perfect. I'm getting the run around. I could use your help, Mr. McLeoddashlaw.com. Speaking of injuries, the news breaking this morning. Lots of news today.

Charlie McAvoy is out for the Americans. Which at first glance, sounds like bad news for the Americans. But upon further review, they are now flying in Quinn Hughes. So they'll be better. So is it confirmed he, gets to, he will play or is he just doing the, the, one of the challenges with this tournament is that

since it hasn't been done before, right, they haven't run into the situations that were unforeseen yet and they're running into them now. And so when the Canadians had some injuries on the back end or Kyle McCar got sick, it's like, well, shoot, we already had the injury to Theodore in the first game. Now we're down to 5D or 60. We need another guy. And they're like, okay, well, we're not going to let you fly Thomas Harleon, but he can go to Boston. Then they change. No, no, no, no, he can come to Montreal. Then he plays. Yeah. And then McCart. healthy and it's like we really like Charlie can he go back in or is he still that emergency recall guy now that your number can he go in well apparently can but they didn't play him and now the

americans are running into the same spot uh and yeah if you can find any way to get quinn using your lineup he might be your best player so hell yeah yeah are we outraged though like i'm no i mean if you were outraged that the canadians you know wasn't outraged rules about thomas harley but i just go back to the i am confused if they have six healthy guys if they could use them that's where it feels a little weird you are also the purity of the best on best. Hey, look, I'm more excited for the game with Ken Hughes. That's the thing.

I mean, Harley wasn't going to make the team. Hughes, if he was healthy, he was going to be on that team. I'm not sure Harley should make. Harley's going to make that team next year. He's, he was their best defense. It's great. He and Donnie were the best pair.

Tave struggled with him a car. It was, Thomas Harley's on this team next year. Like, great young defensemen in the Olympics. Yes. Milano Cortina. Nice. been a couple. Should we go to that? Are they off flights?

Do you look at his age and what he's done in Dallas behind Miro Haysby where no one talks about him? You didn't like how he played? I thought he was fine. It's just, he's, oh, no, he was really good, too. Okay. Just, I didn't know he was in ink. Oh, yeah. Already, that's good. I'd be shocked if he's none. You're probably right. This end, this would be. And look, I follow the data nerds. They've been raving about him for a year and a half.

This would be the place to stretch your stuff. Yeah. You got it. Best on best you got. Yeah. Yeah, you got it. Um, so yeah, if, but it is murky. Because you don't, you don't need Sam Bennett playing D. All right. Let Harley come in. If the Americans have six healthy guys, they were already on this roster.

I may kick up a stink. If I'm like doggy Armstrong. So call Gary, Sanderson, good Calgary boy is there, was their seventh D. Yeah. And he came into play. Good Calgary guy. Good to see him.

Let the boy play. Let the boy play. upset now Quinn Hughes here. He's like, yeah, Jake. I love you, we need you to get a sore throat real quick. Like, start coughing.

I don't know. I don't have the clarification on the rules, but even the insiders are like, there was a hard no one hour ago. And then 30 minutes ago, it's like, no, he's coming. He's like, it's like,

they're going to make it up because they're going to are. It's not going to sit in Boston. I'm kind of with you. I mean, play. Yeah, and watch, you know, he'll score an OT winner and whatever. Wait, just can be held a game.

You know what? Then fine, it'll give us something to. How about Mac, though going after McDavid. What a statement. Couple big ones. That D-Corps, they were tremendous. That's a team you don't want

giving a lead to because the D doesn't let you do anything. They can all skate. And then you got Hellabuck in behind that. Yes. So your meh, quality chances now face arguably the best goal in the league. Or at the other end, you know, a guy who's in the league. So, yeah, I mean, yeah. And the

other guy back there. Werenski, every time the Flames have seen Columbus, it's always been about Johnny this year, and rightfully so. And the games kind of were a backseat to the emotion of it. He's having an incredible year. You can see it statistically, but to actually watch him play, because I don't think we get a lot of Columbus. You don't really seek out Columbus if you've got the package. He's been phenomenal. Like, he's probably been one of the rest two or three players. Every time there's a big play, Werenski's right in the thick of it. Yeah. I mean, like you said, his points are through the roof. it's amazing to watch the

because you're right TAVE struggled without McCar one of you guys played with for four years probably like so what are you then I can make it way it's great having a good deep so why are you here that was their idea right because it was like

Patrangelo Theodore McCar and Taves it's not the best four Canadian defensemen that was going to be your tough war because I was guys played together yeah no I get it but it does make you kind of So there's a bushyard, there's a Uyghur, there's a Tana. If Taze was like that, you could find some guys do better. Where's your buddy?

There's your buddy. The Rattan and think they're going to bring it out a cheaper defenseman. Right. Because it's not. Taves doing it. It wasn't ranting. It's the other guy. Or it's just like the guy next to him he's always been with and they work great

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I'm good. You know, I'm offended that you guys say that I wouldn't be able to handle it. I mean, just to be fair, like I do have a lot extra. I feel like I'm well equipped to get through a long winter. We wouldn't want to subject you to it, but you have to grow up in it.

It's not a... Yeah, you came to Jasper a couple of years ago, and I don't know that you were enthusiastically outside trumpeting the minus 28 weather. I think that's some suspect hazy memory from your, your high kicking that you were doing at 4 o'clock in the morning that night. Well, to say that his memory may be hazy, probably for sure,

probably bang on. So here we are. We are humbled. One game left. Egg on all of our face up here in Canada. We feel shame. And we just hope to make a close on Thursday. What's the vibe as we get ready for this one?

Well, I think the vibe is, it's been shifting based on what these rosters are looking like. At one point this morning, I think, you know, everyone collectively that's, you know, rooting for Team USA sees that one of their top defensemen and Charlie McAvoy, who is a physical force on Saturday against Canada, hospitalized with an infection that stemmed from a minor injury, all the sudden ruled out of the tournament. Then I report in short order that the U.S. has been told by the NHL that they won't be allowed to have an injury replacement. And then after that, Mike Sullivan at his media availability,

announces that almost like you can picture it, Quinn Hughes is flying in with a cape to Boston to save the day, one of the best defensemen in the world, Hart Trophy candidate, the day when Team Canada has a chance to really change, the game with Cal McCar, being the huge difference maker from Saturday to Thursday, could be leveled out if there's a way that Quinn Hughes can get himself into the lineup on Thursday that, man, it's like the, it's, it's been peaks and valleys just today. And we're still

two days away, 48 plus hours away from this ultimate game seven. So walk us through all this, because the Canadians went through something similar with Harley and he played on Saturday. Then they didn't play him yesterday, but it sounded like he could have played, even though they had six healthy guys? Why are emergency guys once they're in? All of a sudden, no, no, now you can play whenever you want. And why is the lead going back and forth? Because at first we heard Harley couldn't even go to Montreal. He'd go to Boston. Like, we're just making that up as we go here. Anyone pissed off at this? Look, I think there was, you know, some facets of the tournament, the other teams in the tournament that were not happy with the way that the Thomas Harley situation played out.

And now I guess what goes around comes around. The U.S. is obviously in a spot with their roster, and they're being afforded the same flexibility that Canada was with Kail Makar's illness. So my understanding of the situation is, and this is part of what's been reported here, I've been on the air for two plus hours now, so still trying to do some additional reporting, that Quinn Hughes is on his way here and is ineligible. to play and practice with Team USA unless they drop below the threshold. So they've got 12 forwards, they've got six defensemen.

Unless they're under that number, then Quinn Hughes can't play. However, here's the one caveat that I'll throw in that I don't have an answer to that I just asked the question. What if one of the three forwards who is injured for the United States, what happens if one of Matthews or the two Kachuk brothers cannot play on Thursday, can the U.S. position agnosticly

add Quinn Hughes so that you could go 11 and 7? Again, don't know the answer to that, but would be a fascinating development or curveball to this in that that might be a way for Quinn Hughes to play. I feel like the Kachuk boys

would need to have severed body parts before they will be out on Thursday. There didn't, you know, to be a high level of concern or either for Thursday availability. Well, here's the only thing that I'll add to that. I, so I think Brady is a, was pure precautionary. He could have finished out that game had it meant something and had there been something on the line.

I think with Matthew, it's a little different though. And I did have a pretty significant level of concern because I watched him walk to the bus on Saturday night at Bell Center. And he was not in good shape. And here's the other part of that. you just mentioned that for these guys to sit out, that they would need to have severed limbs. And I would agree.

But 12 minutes remain in the third period of a game very much in doubt on Saturday night. No one knows how those last 12 minutes are going to play out. And he took himself out of the game in that environment. Yeah. So it had to tell you that it was pretty significant. I believe it's a soft tissue injury, whether it's a groin or hamstring. I don't know and can't tell the difference. but in this case, I do have some level of concern as to whether or not in five days time,

something like that can heal up enough to be effective in an impact player. So I think he'll play. I think he'll try and make a run at it. Another wild card is Austin Matthews. There didn't seem to be a lot of question about whether or not he could play on Thursday, but is this connected to the injury that's nagged him all season long with the Toronto Maple Leafs that would certainly add another layer to that conversation? I was just with Kachuk still.

I would guess that there would be concerned from Florida and Bill Zito. Is there, what's the etiquette where for Bill Zito to make a call and say, listen, this is all fine and good. This is my guy. We have big plans this year with our little NHL team. I know you've got your tournament, but I just, does that hold any sway? Is that a call that you make if you're at NHL GM?

I'm curious. Well, here's the good part. Bill Zito is the assistant GM of this team and he's at the tournament. So that's a nice part of it that he has direct knowledge. And I did run into Bill Zito at the game last night. And I said, any concern for Matthew? And he said, none at all. So he seems to be comfortable.

I'll tell you what is weird, though, is the Boston Bruins issuing the statement this morning about Charlie McAvoy being done for the tournament. Their GM is Don Sweeney, who's the GM of Team Canada, who's issuing an injury report about a team USA player. That part makes my brain explode, but nonetheless, obviously a ton of information sharing and we know with millions of dollars on the line for these guys where the true priority lies.

So we talked about it. Like if the hockey's good, they can tweak this thing and it'll be great. If the hockey sucks, this is a huge waste of everyone's time. In season, for a lot of Canadian fans, never really feels right because of the injuries, because we have seen them really successful in September preseason. And in the U.S.

It just isn't the case. Football is so huge. You've got college and NFL at that point. Right now there's nothing. Like you look around the landscape. They've got a lot of real estate here, this tournament. How does the NHL, its owners and GMs weigh the benefits of this time of year versus the risks of, you know, losing an MVP, a captain, multiple all-stars at this tournament for a stretch run?

I don't think the owners are the appropriate people to ask here. Yeah, of course they hold a ton of sway. And I'm sure they feel certain ways about this. but it's the players who also don't want September because then to think about it from another perspective for this tournament's only, you know, 90-ish players. But when it comes to if you expanded it or if you were to take a World Cup and try and do it in September, you're ramping up your training now at a way earlier date. And then you're heading right.

So you complete an intense tournament and then you head right into the regular season. I don't think they like the idea of it. And that kind of killed it. It was a non-starter. They didn't like the way that September played out previously. And you're right. This is the ultimate sweet spot on the sports calendar. I mean, think about Saturday night.

There was, you had all-star skills for the NBA. There was nothing to compete with. Yeah. The Super Bowl is done. College football is done. And pitchers and catchers have just reported to spring training. You've got the entire weekend to yourself. So that's why traditionally they've done the all-star game that weekend.

but we know that that doesn't produce any meaningful buzz. I think the true recipe for success moving forward with this tournament, it's not going to be obviously four nations again, but it's going to be getting some time off from it. You can't go to the well too often. And I've seen people say, oh, the NHL can never go back to the All-Star game again. How could you do that? This was not really designed to be necessarily an All-Star replacement.

This was designed to be a. appetizer for the 2026 Olympics. This is long overdue and the fact that we saw the fireworks on Saturday night at Bell Center. It was for a lot of reasons, the politically charged environment, the pride and rivalry of these two countries. But let's not forget the third part of it, which is for a lot of these players, this is 10 years in the making, 11 years in the making.

They haven't had a chance to wear their country's jersey and best on best competition. and they've been craving this. They want this. And that part, I think, was lost on a lot of people who came in with the commentary of, oh, this tournament's not going to mean anything. You're not going to see the intensity out of these players. I never for one second, and you guys have had me talk about it. How many times have I said take Saturday night, February 15th,

this is going back a calendar year and hook it into my veins. And I don't say that to pat myself on the back. I say that because the evidence was overwhelming of what we, we're going to expect from these players when they have this kind of opportunity to make a team that's so hard to make and to be put on a stage like that. Yeah, I said it earlier. I give credit, obviously, picking Montreal was what a stroke of genius. It was just everything that they needed to, for the most part, for this to be a success has really happened. An exciting game with Canada. The crowd's been into it. Montreal's been alive. I'm guessing Boston's going to be the same.

Now you've got these two teams. And the big key is that the players, they're not treating this like an all-star game, that malaise that just kind of sinks that whole event. They decided this mattered and played that way right from the start of game number one. And yeah, some of them saw their dads do it, their favorite players do it. Now they get to do it. I give credit to the players for making it matter. And I was just thinking, we've all got kids. And I'm guessing all of our kids have done something once in a while, maybe at a sporting event where they do something silly.

the rest of the parent group kind of looks over at you. I was just thinking of old Keith Kachuk, his boy starts a scrap off the opening draw. Then the other kid does it two seconds later. It's like, I think he called them lunatics. Well, yeah, they're lunatics. I don't know what to tell you. So, I mean, you're you're bursting with pride.

You're kind of sheepish about it, but kind of hilarious that it would be the Kachuk boys to be right front and center in it. Well, here's the other part of this, though, again, that I don't think enough people have sort of drawn the next connection to, but everyone remembers here, at least, him taking on Claude Lemieux in the same building in the 1996 World Cup of Hockey. Do you not think that as this group text was evolving, and in the back of the Kachuk brothers' minds,

they know that their dad did it? Do you think there was any, like, encouraging from Keith? Do you think he said, like, hey, go after him from puck drop, be the aggressors, and go punch Canada in the face. I'm not saying he spurred it on, but his actions, his previous actions, their family history,

I think nonetheless spurred it on. Yeah, these aren't apples that fell out of the tree and got into a taxi and went to the next state. They are right below the tree. Like, this is how Keith played. Go watch the 96 highlights. Like, no one should be surprised how they're playing if you saw the old man play.

And because of that, my phone was blowing up on Saturday. friends that don't watch hockey, don't like hockey, don't care about hockey, were tuned in from Jump Street, and we're going nuts. They were going wild. And so now you have this atmosphere here heading into Thursday that's way more than a hockey game. You've got fireworks, politically charged environment, environment shifted now country to country, one team playing on home soil,

another anthem that might get booed, will, Will President Trump be in the building? There's a million layers to this now that people, you're going to have the best, maybe arguably the best hockey audience that's ever been produced in the U.S. And, you know, they're going to have an opportunity now to showcase the game. And I would think that there's probably pressure on some of the Canadian players now.

Will they do the same thing? Will they, you know, issue an invitation to drop the gloves off the off puck drop because they know the stage that they've got now and how many people are going to be watching. This is kind of longer view, but the next version of this will be a World Cup. I imagine we'll have eight teams because that's a nice number for a tournament. Russia will likely be out of the penalty box by then.

There are seven great hockey nations. How do you determine the eighth, whether it's Switzerland, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Austria, like Italy. Great food. But how do you see them doing that? Is there a smaller tournament in the, fall to qualify or i mean i'm way down the road here but i've been yearning for this for you know since the 11 years ago that we saw sochi which was the last actual best on best yeah so i by the way i can't

ret tell you like at least five people stop being on the street in montreal hey paizen how come there's no team italy and i'm like oh all right like here we go but i am looking forward to that in in milan uh let's get team italy out there i could be the uh i could be the gm um that said to determine, I'd like to see a qualifying tournament being played in September, kind of like the Olympics before this. Let's get Ange Kopitar and team Slovenia. Let's get Leon Drysaitle and team Germany. Let's get Switzerland with Roman Yossi and these guys.

Let's put all these teams together. And I'd leave two qualifying spots open. Okay. And like, may the best team emerge and win to then. ultimately get pumped by some of these superpowers in the tournament, whatever it might be. I think more competition, again, more conversation. Hey, look at this qualification tournament going on.

It can only better suit the game. What are you, I guess what are you hearing your thoughts, the people that you're kind of amongst there? Jordan Bennington is going to start on Thursday, but his numbers, his performance has not been great. It's almost been what Canadian fans feared. It's like, on paper, our goalies do not look very good. But you know what?

Just don't, don't be awful and we'll be, well, it's almost been all. It's been kind of awful. I guess is what's the, that's the bridge too far. Don't, don't you think awful is a bridge too far? A little bit. Okay. I would say there's been bad goals and some great saves, but generally speaking, you'd want more saves overall.

But here, here's how I would term it average, very average. At a best and best tournament, he's average, yes. Yeah. that's all he was to begin with. I agree. That's why that's the fear. Well, but what were you expecting? Like, and, and anyone hoping? I think we were only expecting that the easy ones, we would hope that he would be able to step up in this tournament and not let the easy ones in. And there's been a couple iffy. I see, I, I look at it from a different perspective. And one is that, um, because he has been average and that's, if you went into this tournament,

you said, just give me average. I think he's met that threshold. Two, turning to Hill, like, how different is the expectation? Like, I think we're talking like single digit percentages either direction of being a game changer, another goalie that falls into the average category. And three, I think Binnington has done his job in the sense that in every single game Canada has played. they've had a chance to win. They had a 1-0-0 lead on Saturday night.

They were down 2-1, heading in the late stages of the third period before an empty-netter. Think back to the first game. Yeah, was there a blown lead? Should they have salted away a regulation win? Yes. That's why I asked for Hill.

But how much better is Hill? I don't know. I like them more, but not significantly more. They're still not top singles. That's my point. But now can you, after, if you were going to bring in Hill, it needed to happen in either the second game or at the very least the third. I can't imagine under any circumstance turning to a different guy now and the panic that that sends to the rest of the team, the message that that sends, hey, you know, this whole thing needs to get blown up. Right.

And again, like, they don't have a lot of good goalies to choose from when they made the decision. Logan Thompson said a whale of a year, but they didn't make this roster when he was far and away of Vesna candidate. now. Maybe you tweak that and you allow the selection of the team a little later, because I think these rosters would look different, a bunch of these guys. Or do you say, is Bidding to tweak? Did he tweak something? And Hill's, fly hill and well, but they got Montempo. I don't know why the hell did Kenby Matumbo's third string in Kansas net? Like, what the hell is he done? Somebody tried to argue. Hard backup around the league. Tombo should have been in Montreal.

Like, what are we doing here? Like, so yeah. Let me ask you another question. Okay, let's just say, like, for whatever reason, they made a different decision. and pick Thompson off the start. Yeah. How much better would you really feel today? I think you're not talking about a blown lead against Sweden nor a soft game-time goal against the Americans. Dude, that's highly speculative.

Well, I mean, the body works, how many games, Frank? 60 in the NHL, he's been exceptional. Okay. He's right there amongst, like, with Hellebuck and goals saved above expected. I understand. This is the time. I've gone to for 30 years and had an elite netminder. This is the first time they have it.

But we're also kind of two shit burger goals away from feeling just fine about Bennington. Oh, totally. Yeah. Maybe you let in one, one if he goal in three games. And look, if he's great on Thursday, nobody cares. It's just this is the only Achilles heel of the roster. But here's the other part of it. Okay.

And look, trust me, I'm not absolving Jordan Bennington at all. I would have started, and I said it was very clearly last week, I would have started an Aiden Hill from Jump Street in this tournament. That said, if Canada. scores more, where are the superstars? You scored one goal with a vaunted Canadian attack that at one point in time, you can throw the nuclear option at them and go Crosby, McKinnon, McDavid, and the entire team produced one goal. If they score more than one goal, we're having a different conversation likely about Jordan Bennington today. The mistakes are magnified. Yes, the margin is that thin.

Yes, maybe just the difference in a close margin between Hellebuck and Bennington. Is the mistakes? Is the difference in this tournament, but you can't sit here for one second and pin it all on him. I'm going to the stars and saying, hey, this is on you. And hey, by the way, did you guys know that our bottom six is allowed to score a goal in this tournament? I mean, these are other parts of it that if you want to focus in and magnify and crucify Jordan Binnington, but by all means, go ahead. But let's talk about some of the real issues. No, this is a real issue. I'm not blaming it all on it, but it's, it's, it was the area you worried about and nothing that's happened would stop you from worrying, heading into the final.

How many people have talked about Sydney Crosby's two crucial turnovers on Saturday? Yeah, and he's playing through something that we forgot about after the Thursday. Oh, yeah, that's what I was going to say. So Thursday, he's unbelievable. And look at this guy and then all of a sudden the narrative the next couple days is, but how much can we reasonably expect that of Sydney Crosby? It's one or the other. It can't be both.

I think, you're right. And I'm not trying, but I'm interested to get your take on. First of all, I think Quinn Hughes should be allowed to play because it's supposed to be best on best. And I don't give a shit about rules or this or that or the man. And he was originally named to the time. I think he should be able to play. But Charlie McAvoy is out. And Charlie McAvoy made a huge statement and shut, put him on his ass, everyone and every time their defense was awesome.

If he's out, two things, sounds serious if you're going to the hospital for an infection. That's nothing to just brush past. So hopefully he's going to be just fine. But secondly, I know what Hughes is going to bring, but can he, what McAvoy does and what Hughes does are two different things. Is that a benefit or an hindrance? Because if, you know, if McCar and McKin, not McCar, but McKinnon and McDavid have the puck on their stick all the time,

is Hughes as good against that as McAvoy was? Do you know what I mean? I don't even know what the question is, but it's a different strategy, Hughes versus McAvoy. It's just a different stylistic fit, right? And I think it is a really fair question to ask because in order for Quinn Hughes to be successful,

he really does need to have the puck on his stick a lot and does do a lot of controlling of the game. That said, I think if you have the ability any way possible to get him in the lineup, you're opting for him over and not, again, not nitpicking, but you're opting for him over Jake Sanderson, if you can, or maybe if you do go seven defensemen and 11 forwards, that anytime you can get a difference maker on the ice,

I think you take it. But point well made that there's a reason why Jacob Slavin got so much attention on Saturday night. It's because the style of game that he plays is exactly what the U.S. needed. And what you got from Zach Worensky was exactly what the U.S. needed. So there's an element to playing against team, Canada and John Goyens broke it down beautifully on our show last night. He was showing us the quadrants that the U.S. played in, why they were able to have success

in slowing down Canada and why they made so many opportunities for Canada, one and done, because they were able to kill cycles. They were able to kill plays and get the puck out. A lot of it was simple, right? It was like an alley-y-oop. We got the puck at our goal line. We're just going to flip it out into the neutral zone and run under it and live to see another day. and that was the U.S. being comfortable in that situation against Canada who has the firepower and opportunities, knowing that Connor Hellebuck's there to make the key save off the rush or whatever it might be that keeps your team in the game.

So, and again, to get right back to the beginning, just to clarify, at this juncture, the only path for Quinn Hughes to play is if there's one more injury beyond McAvoy. Currently, yes. but my question again is, is that position agnostic? If you have one of your forwards that cannot play, then can the U.S. draw Hughes in and go 11-7? That's the question that I keep checking my phone

to get an answer on and don't have yet, but I think it is certainly of interest to the U.S. And again, I was told two hours ago they couldn't make any changes and couldn't bring anyone in, and then this is rapidly evolving and fluid. Are we overlooking the Matthews thing? Is this an issue or are we just kind of?

Are you mean the injury or his play? Yeah, it's both. I mean, hard to overlook the injury and I think if you're a Leaf fan, this is probably a worst case scenario, your fear heading into this tournament was what happens if he gets hurt? What happens if he reagravates this injury that's kept him out a significant chunk of our season?

season. Why can't he take the path that Quinn Hughes took, which is I'm injured. What's most important to me is my team success and as tough as it is to bow out, I need the rest, and I'm going to stay home. Now to potentially exit this tournament in worse shape than when you entered for a guy that means so much to what the Leafs do, I think it would have to be concerning. That said, I think what would be more concerning if I'm Brad Tree Living thinking about building my team, Think about the way this tournament has played out. Matthews has hit a couple posts, hit a crossbar, has gotten some good looks, but for the most part hasn't dominated.

William Neelander didn't do much at all for Sweden. And then you've got Mitch Marner who had a moment with that overtime, but hasn't produced anything at even strength outside of three on three. So, you know, if I'm looking for Canada, or sorry, if I'm looking for the Leafs and I want to dispel this notion or narrative that in these big moments, you know, my guys don't show up. I don't think we've gotten any closer to dispelling that narrative. But the big caveat to that is we've got one enormous game on Thursday

where there's still, you know, chapters left to be written in that story. It's totally true. Like this is so wild that there's going to be heroes and goats and like all that Friday morning is going to be our show. We, we know it could be Matthews. It could be martyr. Like one of them's going to lose and the narrative lives on. Did you have anything else there? Wow. I was actually thinking about it with Matthews. I'm like, what are the Leafs getting judged on? Playoff success. Yeah, big games. So if I'm Matthews, Friday morning, I are. I am. Clear up. Can they not use that cap space? If he's out to the playoffs, yeah. Right? Like, just say,

you go get healthy. Come back when. we need you. That's a whole different time. I'm looking at it. It's Theodore, Matthew Kachuk, Charlie McAvoy, Austin, Matt, like these are all very important players to their club teams that all of a sudden their statuses are up in the air. Like, theater is not going to be short term. Whatever.

Vegas uses their money. So, you know, coincidentally enough, the back end of this is up. Vegas might have an LTIR candidate again. Are you, what is the vibe on the street down there? Like, is it as wild as like everyone here is talking about it, which is kind of expect, maybe not. expected because I'll raise my hand.

I was one that said, I don't give a shit. I'm not watching this. It will be boring. The way they've played is being exceptional again. Everyone's phone blew up on Saturday night. Are you watching this? But what's the vibe in the States in Boston? It's

unbelievable. I honestly like I went out after the game last night and that was a prelim game that meant nothing. A Monday night, bars are packed. Everyone's wearing gear with American flags on it. And the cool part for me was a lot of 20 to 25-year-olds,

a lot of, you know, in that age range where you're looking, if you're the NHL, what's our next generation of fan? What is the age group that we want to target here? And everyone's up on the news. Everyone understands what all of this means. And they're into it. And this is a hockey, a passionate hockey market. But again, what's cool is the people that don't watch, don't like it, are now in.

And it's their first best on best, right? But yeah, but what I would say is that's actually also a challenge for the NHL. It's one thing to get them in the boat. Keep them. It's a lot harder to keep them in there. And that's what I think is going to be the big question is you've hooked them, but now what? Well, like Calgary plays San Jose on Sunday. Columbus, Buffalo.

That's going to be tough, right? Now, is this a major punch in the face for the NBA, too? Like, I mean, I got a feeling that this is huge, you've alluded to it. This has got to be massive for the league. You got all the eyes on it. And the NBA is thrown out an All-Star game, which is a joke. All of them are. Is it a double down for the NHL in this?

And how did Gary, I didn't know this about Gary, he's buds with Trump. Like, he added, well, he got Trump to talk about the tariffs and stuff to create this political turmoil, right? Like, think about as a genius. I can just tell you this. Last week, the NHL was very squeamish about being caught in the middle of this political vortex. And it's the best thing that's happened to them. It's a total happy accident.

And by the way, like, I've been getting calls all morning. There's like debate and talk behind the scenes. Is President Trump going to be in the building on Thursday? Why? Why not? I'm just saying, like, this. is going to another level and all the sudden he shows up and he starts tweeting about hockey and and and like it's there's a lot going on here that that could take this to to yet another level that we still got 48 hours plus to figure this all out there's a lot brewing here that's what they should bet you know the mayors of the stanley cup finals teams we bet a case of beer but i got to wear the opposing jersey to yeah to city council me to I mean, I think the only problem with that is that you'd have to then have President Trump view

Justin Trudeau as an equal. And obvious in the tweeting that that's not the case. I'm not thinking it was weird. I'm not sure. Well, appreciate you, Frank. We'll let you get to work. I did see your frustration. You got pendered there.

That's what this is every day. You get into a conversation with pender and he'll take you one way, but then it's back the other way. You can't have it both ways. It's a lot of both ways. It's just like off the opening puck drop. Sometimes you just got to slap them around. That's right. That's right.

Good to talk to you. Be well. See you guys. There's Frank Cerrovali. Boston. Did I both weigh something there? What are you talking about? He got frustrated with you because it's how you do it.

Because what was he frustrated with? Your goalie thing. Oh, yeah. No, and look, I get it. Like, I'm not blaming the loss of Bennington. I just, fuck, he's so mid. Why do they keep rolling him? Drop it.

It's kind of well. Yeah. I mean, his, but his point is, he's the guy that said he would have started. to begin the term like yes i agree so let's go to them all right i'm not going to do it now uh crystal water's plumbing and heating is your crystal clear choice for home comfort 403 219 4100 check the about a crystal clear calgary dot com can they fix beeping beeping you get some beeping going on yeah because it always goes off about 1230 at night what kind of beeping you talk well i think it's one

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Yeah. Weird. Maybe it's a spy camp. I'll tell you, and like Frank's point there. And I just kind of, you go on social media and just seeing some of the, because he was talking about how big this is for some of the American people. there were a lot of people retweeting, you know, celebrities, NFL players. It's like, holy shit, what, what is this?

You're at the NBA All-Star bullshit skills thing. And everyone in sports worlds are connected to a certain degree, right? Like, we don't cover basketball down in the States. You'd cover all sports, mostly, some bigger than others. But if you're at that shitty NBA event and your phone is going nuts because of this hockey game, Well, I saw somebody put the tweet together. So at the NFL, they did a little flag football deal, and they're doing this little alley-up deal.

And here, they're fist fighting. And again, like, to Frank's point, this isn't supposed to be an annual. It won't be an annual. And it's not an All-Star game. But it is nice to see the casual sports fan come over and say, this is unbelievable. It's what hockey fans have been yelling at the top of their lungs with their whole lives.

The problem is when they come in on Sunday and it's sharks flames. Eyeballs that just would not have been there. which does make you wonder if this is, let's assume that it's an American win and it's thrilling. Where will American hockey fans put that in terms of, like, is it 1980? Is it, well, if they win, it's right there. Buddy, I'm telling you. It would be big. 1980 was the greatest underdog hockey story of all time.

Well, it might be the biggest underdog. This is another. They were co-favorous tournament. But yeah, it would be huge. I don't think it's in Miracle and Ice team. It's the average goaltender, but the huge. should be better than average than I. No, they were co-favorites at the beginning of the term to win.

The 1980 team were college students up against USSR. This is a totally different level of, you know, overcoming. Either way, it's going to be big. It would be huge, though, yeah. So my question is this. Again, I'm all in now, and I hated this event. So bear with me. With the, I know, I think I know the answer, but I think they should consider it.

Take six games off the FN schedule and do this. How often? Every other year? Skip the Olympics. Well, the... Like, I know, it has been that good. And if your eyeballs are going to... Now, can they duplicate it every...

I don't know. That's the thing. It's so good because it's... But I'll tell you, this is... The only point I'm getting at is that the schedule is too long for the players as it is. It's hard. Guys are hurt.

It's draining. Your product gets worse because of it. You don't want to become the NBA where it's what do they call that load management bullshit yeah 76 games they'll never do it they won't but the finance and it's all money but it's like if you could make that money up because you've got a great event and you can take this time in February and no one's watching other sports it would be pretty cool even if it was just best on best years you dropped to 80 even just two games like it's just so much hockey for these guys you look at like florida guys

So they got a lot of players at this term, whether it's Nico Mikula or Reinhart or Kachuk, on and on, the list goes. Like if Russia was playing to be Bobrovsky, like you got two cup finals runs in a row. So you're talking 20 plus playoff games on top of preseason, the top of full 82 game schedule, on top of now you're going to be asked to go to the four nations this year, Olympics next year. Like, these guys are going to be running on a few of us, but this is not an issue unique to hockey. we're seeing this in global soccer in a huge way because FIFA is like, let's keep throwing more of these events because they're doing so good for us financially. Like players, now we're doing Nations League players. Now it's an expanded World Cup players.

Now we're expanding Champions League. It's like, geez, like you're burning these guys out. So I don't know that there's any solution for it because the owners aren't going to say, yeah, I'll take less money. How about less? It's a challenge, right? Yeah, that's the one area. And even the NFL is talking about adding an 18th game, even though players really didn't

want a 17th game. It's more and more are being asked to these athletes. I know you do, but you're not, you're not your knees that you're more is better always. But it would be hard because it's so great right now because it's fresh and everything. If you did it in two years, it would still be, you know, it could still be very good. World juniors is typically good again. And we're Canadian. We have a bit of a bias towards it.

But it's very much, it's exact same scenario as the world junior championship. You know the real loser here is the world champion. championships. Good luck in people to show up to that. But again, good. Or Spengler. Shoot that to the birds for non-NHLers anyway. So it's a non-emans. Spengler's for HLers. It's whatever. I was just putting, hey, we're putting our jersey on for our country. Remember when the Kachukes fought at the center? Let's do that. Kind of hard to rep. Well, and look, I mean, it wasn't that long ago when people were like, World Cup sucks. Why do we even try to do this? It's not Canada Cup anymore. There's no Olympic rings. And now you're like, well, why do you even need the IOC? Like, things are chapping. Things are chappening. here. You can realize that in your own time zone with the NHL's rules, that's a huge perk over Nagano at 2 a.m. Yes. Over, you know, oh, there's a fight and you're kicked out of the game,

double IHF BS. This is what this was always about. It was always about the NHL building their version of international hockey. And not giving it to the IOC for free. And they're not giving it for free. For the first time ever, the IOC is advertising on NHL game saying the players are back next year. Don't think this isn't a big part of that. The NFL's like, we won't come back if you don't become a partner with us. We don't just give you our players for free and not pay insurance and travel. Love this guy. We'll build a tournament better than yours if you don't start becoming a revenue driver for us.

Rick and Gary. And I wanted to ask Frank when he was on, but maybe you guys, we kind of touched on it. Jack's an idiot and Sullivan sucks, but he came up with a great game plan that shut down the Canadian and so that Jack could cheer against Crosby. And way too drunk on Saturday, yeah. Right? Like, what is it? Is Sullivan a genius or a clown?

It's one game. So if he can do it again, you give him his flowers. I'm not asking you, I'm asking. He thinks Sullivan's a brutal coach, but now he's a master class. It's the full jackometer here. We need the Jack. Sullivan, good or bad coach? He's a great coach.

There it is. Just shut down the best player in the world. And again, Jack, who are you trying to fire? at great length over the last year and a half. Mike's all. Okay. They'll never fire him. Full circle.

God, he'll never let him go. Full circle is you want to fire it again. Yes, we will be back there. Yeah. What, Sunday?

You want to fire me? Yeah. Unless they lose on Thursday. Then Thursday you want to fire. Yeah. That's the full circle moment. Is there any way that we're let down?

Be hard to. I mean, it's in shit suspense. Yeah. I guess. Yeah. A blowout would be. Um,

If it's 3-0 after one because Bennington led in two softies, that's, and I mean, that's, yeah. Yeah, if it's 3-0 Canada, I think you're still watching because they haven't been talking to things away, right? If Hallibuck gives the 3-0 lead, that's the recipe the Americas need, a lead, because you can see they can defend and you can see they get saves. And don't require anything of me on Friday, because I'm going for it. You're going for it? I'm going for it. What do you have in mind? Are you cooking the goose?

People over. I'm having a party. He's doing all the food and all the business. Face painting, Jack, for you. Wow. Don't bring any of your friends, actually. It's got some of friends. Yeah. It's got a lot of friends.

Twice. Fender levels of friends all of a sudden. I'm winging it up. I'm going to rip it up, maybe. Bontan? No, no, wings and pizza. Now, if you wanted to write yourself a note for Thursday today, what would you set curfew as and what sort of expectations are you going to?

For Thursday night? Yeah. Curfew might be easy because sometimes I, get over exuberant. That's right. Guse gets cooked. And then I am not afraid to just. Shut it.

It's like the air fryer. Gets done so much faster. Right. In a fraction of the time, you end up at the same spot. I'm eating it. I've cleaned it. We're already done.

It's done. Good night. And he doesn't even say goodbye. He smoke bombs all the time. There's no device. He's just gone. Where do you see a ret? No, no.

There's no. There's a shadow lurking out there. Gone. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. So if anyone wants to pop over. You love it when people pop over.

Love when the pop by. Yeah, just stop on by. He's like, you know what? I got a bunch of seats on the friend bus. Why don't you just swing on by? I'm going to have a screen outside on my deck. How cold is it Thursday?

It's nice out Thursday. Is it? Yeah. Like, five. It's nice. I got heaters. Yeah,

yeah. Well, that guy's questioning me. Well, it doesn't have. It doesn't have. Curious. There,

you have been known to come up with some ideas and plans. and then it is warm on Thursday. It's gorgeous. Get us to Thursday. It's patio weather. Get us to Thursday. I saw it was like it would be like a 29 degree swing or a 32 degree swing. Are we going to the red mile after they win?

What are we doing? Oh, Jackie. Ian. Canada wins are going to the red mile? I would, but. So far now. It's so far.

Your old house is right there. Yeah. Yeah. $5 cab from your old house. I should have kept that house. Yeah. No, you should. You just,

you should not. Oh, no. I'd be divorced. You would be. I'd be, not good. Which house? either.

Yeah. Pinda report. Oh, dear. Are we supposed to have one of those things? Well, I mean, how hard can it be? You got the algorithm. In fairness, no NFL. The NBA did something.

Oh, it was not good. They're like, here's the rising stars against the G League. I'm like, am I watching the HL equivalent of an All-Star game? Yeah. What are we doing here? Village Honda, Northwest Automol online at VillageHonda.com. You got repairs done to your to your ridgeline. You took it out on the road, how performed.

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Well, the NHL fellas may feel like it's a long way away with all on the four nation, but 32 teams will return to the ice today with practice. No four nations players, obviously, they'll be given some time to finish said tournament. But for all the other plebs

and normies, Rhett, they'll be back on the ice. Like, Mom? Is it? 2 p.m. at Winstport is the practice today. And of note, there is an expectation that Conner's area and Kevin Ball should be available. and on the ice there's your pike bomb. Pike bomb, pike bomb.

It's a pike bomb, bike bomb, baby, me. Pike bomb, pike bomb, it's a pike bomb. Get ready for a big pike bomb. Now, I am meant to spitting this area and Paul will be back reaching out. There's a lot of positivity surrounding the availability of both. We'll have to wait and see what Ryan Huska unveils in terms of what colored jerseys and what lines look like, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

But last we saw the flames, there was a Dryden Hunt, there was an Ilius Salovov. So none of these guys got picked? That's correct. This forward group was left. Now, again, not Martin Pospis's fault that Slovak is not in the tournament. I'm sure he would have been there.

After that, Gisleth. And in fairness, Rasmus Anderson was there. 13 minutes yesterday. His only game played. And was fine. So proud. Sprout. I read somewhere that these guys are 32th second and even strength scoring or something.

32th? 32th. You should have the goals four? Yeah, something like that. That would sound about right. Five on five. Now Slovia. Our top score is 80th.

Ranked 80th in the league. Yeah, they're getting it done with the goaltending, right? And the work ethic. Tight D. Yeah. So tight that Ilius Solov, as you saw, was a top pair of trust. That's the last checked in. Yeah.

We'll see if Solo gets recons. called if hunts back up what the story is with the farmhands. Do we have? Is it Thomas Harley we have? Love to have Harley. Unfortunately, it's Joel Hanley. Well, I remember where that's like Harley. If they get Harley to put that's a real great.

Yeah, that's a hosing. Oh, no. They got the, this is a waiver guy. Right. This is not him. Yeah. I'll do respect to, uh, love you, Joe. Joe.

Joe Hans. Joel. Joel. You would call him Joe all year. I'm sure you can call him Joe. whatever j Joel is hard to say if you say quick enough everyone thinks you're just saying whatever they want to hear Joel jo jo jo jo jo jo joe joe joe yeah no only sounds better too i think his parents screwed up yeah maybe we could have word with them when's the next father's mother's thing maybe you could have a little one-on-one

yeah there's one in alaska this weekend for uh no the sea wolves you will let the nukes or the sea wolves jack can you throw the forward lines up real quick i don't want to beat the dead horse here, but if Connor's area is back, back, right? Where the heck you put him? In a lineup, Ryan. Yeah, I agree with that. Is he playing center? Is he wing?

Where do you put them? Oh, whatever. That dry, the hot spot looks wide open. I gotta be honest. Yeah. Because you brought Morgan Froston because he's a center. And that was the spot that's area.

Let's just go four lines. Roamed dog. Sorry, bud. Yeah, I would like to say sorry, but to Roondog. I just don't know. Love your room, though. Okay, we'll move on. I have the data.

I knew exactly right because I read it too. Data. 32nd in goals. 32th. 32th in goals per 60 minutes of ice time at even strength. Jonathan, you better know. 41 points good for 80th in league scoring. You're just pretty good, John.

I was so proud of them. You nailed it. Yeah, I did my rounds this week. Yeah, you were making your rounds, eh? Yeah. As for the flames, what schedule? Well, it's, do some before the schedule. It's a good schedule.

Oh, it's schedule. We're going to go to the schedule here. So end of the month of February is where we wanted to start. There we are. San Jose on Sunday. Then they start the arduous six-game road trip that RJ is called Huska's Nightmare, I believe. Right. Huska.

It starts in Washington, then Tampa Bay. You got some back-to-backs as we flipped to March. Florida, Carolina, Philly. And while, you know, you're down in the southeast, you may as well go up to Philly and then back down to Dallas. which is really close by. Then come home for... It does make sense. To get that East Coast twice,

kind of back and forth. And then... Right. And after that Dallas roadie, Huska, this is his nightmare? There'll be the trade deadline on the seventh.

In fairness, that's something I would do. Yeah, you would do. It'd be one of those things. You know what? Well, we're here. You know what we should have gone to Dallas

is when we were in the west there. Yeah. Because now we're just going to have to drive all the way back. Yeah, I guess so. Oh, shit. That was like the February trip to Chicago. Like, oh, shoot.

So is it far from Philly to Dallas? Is it out of the way from Philadelphia to Dallas? It depends. It's going up and over. Because it's west. You know what it is? They want some vitamin D before they get home, right? They are going back home.

Although they were just in Florida. It's Coleman. It's Coleman's birthday. They want to have a big deal. The home stand has got a couple interesting games. Vancouver in the middle of it, post-trade deadline. Colorado comes back in. and then another road trip where they go Toronto

and the three New York area teams. That's the eastern block. 10 of the next 14 on the road. Huska! I don't think those games, man. We'll find out if they're doing. We'll know by then, right? We'll know by the deadline.

We'll ask us then. Talk to us then. We'll know by the six. No, we didn't do a show on Sunday. And that means we didn't have the opportunity. Ret really wanted to. I said, sorry, right. You're going to need you to not work today.

workaholic you. I'm a workaholic but with booze. So we missed on Sunday by not doing the show, Lanny McDonald's birthday. Lanny! We love you. What a guy. Happy a Lanny boy.

Always a good time to talk about Lanny McDonald, what a great human he is. So happy birthday. We're sorry we didn't do a show on Sunday, Lanny, but Rhett refused. We wanted to, just for you. Think about how many people he's made happy in his life.

Just you walk away from... Compare it. Compared to guys like, God, yeah. That guy's wet blanket. You know what else? He's positive. Lenny wouldn't have interacted with the fans.

He's new players soft. Yeah. Be bothered. Fragile. Focused. Rett's least favorite flames prospect, Zane Perrick continues to have a monster year. Pass the puck.

Now 30 points over a point per game pace. Oh, he did. Two. assist to assist plus 32 and 79 points in 49 games. You don't say. Not a bad G, yeah? Not a bad G. 202 shots on net as well.

These are like forward numbers for a defenseman. Look how giddy he is. I've got more on your least favorite Flames prospect. Give me more Zane Perrick, or Perex, excuse me, after a quote, slow start to the season. He's now on pace for 37 goals, 74 assists, 111 points, plus 49 and 280 shots on net.

Rhett, why do you hate Zane Perret? Because he's playing at Saginaw. That place drives me up the wall. Bad rink? Oh, just, can't get a rink burger? Terrible names. Sagina. The spirit. Get out of here. It's doing too much winning. He's got to get out of there.

There's no winning Saginao. They suck. Let's get to the Four Nations. We talked about it. Quinn Hughes on his way to Boston. We'll see what rules they change and amend before Thursday's game. Can we get Logan Thompson on that private jet? Seriously. Just slide them in there. Just slide them in. Just case, right?

Yeah. Bennington's come down with some ass rashing. He's a red ass. He's a sour. Get them out. And I don't know if that's part of it too. It's kind of nice. You feel like,

oh, are they going to have to do all of this? Are they got two guys hurt? Let him bring in a guy and let them play. You just, what are we going to do? The beauty that it's an NHL runner. They're making up the rules as they go.

You can do whatever. F you want. Just just do the right thing. Sorry, Jake. Jake, Sanderson, wonderful boy, great family. John, great boy. You're out. We're going to let Quinn Hughes play.

Yeah. Sorry. And look, we just checked in in the Canadian locker room. Jordan Bennington's out with a case of hurt feelings because we told him that Logan Thompson's going to where you guys keep really hot to go away. The beautiful thing is no matter what happens on Thursday, there will be a monster choker in Toronto. That is the great news coming out of this for 31 other fan bases. That's a good point. Who is the great joker of all time? The only way they could really all be chokers is if Matthews doesn't play the game and Canada loses.

Yeah, that would be the thing. If Matthews is hurt and there's genuine concern that he's got a long-term injury and Marner pisses a puck away. And then the Americans win anyway or something. Well, he's done it in Boston before. Good silver line. Oh, he loves Boston. Yeah, he's great in Boston. Here's the odds for the game.

It opened with, it's moved right to dead pickum. It's a dash 110 for both these clubs. it was slight favorites for the Americans. And we'll see it with the as we get more clarity on Quinn Hughes. That's going to move the needle a bit. So we'll see if that. 5.5, eh?

5.5 and a half. Over even money. I like cheering overs, Dean. Yeah, game feels like an under the overs. I love cheering overs. I think the Canadians would like it to be an over, wouldn't they rent? That's a good sign if it's an over for Canada or no.

Not necessarily. Mm. Yeah, the Canada, it's moved a little bit. Okay, what's it now? Just the plus, plus one and a half goals, minus 280. Okay. So it's the Quinn Hughes effect. What we know is that this event was panned pretty hard by most,

and everyone has really fallen in love with it. Here's some of the nerd stuff that could prove commoners coming to chase hockey. Here we go. Google search. You know, right? You're going to love this because you're all about, your phone wouldn't be tracking this, but everyone else's phones. Ice hockey on Saturday.

Googled more on Saturday night than any other night ever. In fact, almost double cup finals, which were previously the highest dates of ice hockey being Googled. It is the greatest thing that could have happened for Gary, for the event. It really is. Because true,

there were people that were seeing this. What the hell am I what? Holy cow, let's, yeah, fuck, they're fighting. Yeah.

And to read the same for Thursday. The NBA was putting on a dreadful exhibition I can't play in the back to back because my knees a little sore. This is the NBA player and the NHL player. I am willing to die for my country in this exhibition. That's right. That was pretty much summarized it nicely big content.

I do like that they were comparing it to an all-star game because it is not really. No, it's definitely not an LLSA. Yeah, that's right. We'll take the kudos. Even if they're totally misplaced, we'll take the flowers. You know, didn't have a good tournament. It's not a Toronto,

may believe. One Vancouver Canuck named Elias Pederson. He was straight doing cardio yesterday. 9.54 of ice time. Zero's across the board. Now, there's a word for this or a verb for this or a name for this.

The Tony Snell of the NBA. The Tony Snell. 28 minutes played 0-0-0-0-0-0. Zero rebounds. Zero points. Zero everything. Your big zero. Pims?

A lot. Maybe he had Pims. But in the old days, you could hook and hold. Yeah. You get away with it. Damn it. Your hits would be more than zero. This is a full no hitter too.

Might have had a minus. Swedes, interestingly, weren't that bad, but also just weren't that good. They lost all three games by one goal. Undefeated in regulation, beat the Americans,

and on the final, but probably don't deserve it to final. And they weren't good because guys, like, Puts boy there. Puts boy, at least Petterson. Yeah.

Putsy Peterson. Or are you, he talks about Rassie. Smas Anderson. Poutty Penh. Yeah. Because he didn't really. He played 13 minutes yesterday.

Why you are in quite eight? Hey, now that we've been eliminated, Rasmus, why don't you come in and play? Thanks, guys. Really like you. Thank you so much. We really like you. My buddies are in Cabo. Eliminated and now I get to play.

He's phone and Connie and Connors. We'll give you a couple days off. I don't get, give you a room and bam. What are you like? Did you get some new runners? Shut up, Conroy. Did you get a track? suit. Although he

might not have, he may, they're done. So he could have left this morning to a beach till. You're skating today. But yeah, he probably gets a couple. He would get the break. He gets a couple. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's getting the break. He's getting the break. He's getting the right for sure. Skating today. No, yeah. He could hustle back to Calgary to skate. I don't

expect him to do that. You know what? If he was committed, he'd get his ass back here and get on the end. Playing both sides. Yeah. But I also, isn't it like snow? Like a crazy. Fliped over in Toronto. much you're always a ton of snow it's like we're here in boss it's it was beautiful maybe we'll just hang out here no no you can't even do the duckboat tour and you don't want to come to calgary because of colard in hell now thursday he comes back i'll meet so weather's kids come back thursday all rasmus sorry rass

a pickle you're in a dear plus your trade stock yeah i've also gone down now is that right yeah who's picking them i can't even make does that mean is resigning stock is resigning number yeah yeah just tell his agent uh given that we didn't have nchl jack was scouring the web for lower levels of hockey. This is, we go to the ECHL. Oh, it might be. Here corner,

huge hit. It's a goal. He's saying, let's, let's go. How do you think off the block? You got a weapon there. He can't be.

Chase. They don't want to hurt anyone. That's pretty good. Hey, everyone was watch Canada USA. Arlespired. They're like, that's an exhibition.

Now, which teams are these? No idea. Is that the Rapid City rush against the main whalers. I don't know. Now, is that boarding, charging? It's the ECHL.

We had a kid to get one on Saturday night. It wasn't good. It hard. Everyone okay. Turned back into it. How do you not know? You kind of let me down here. Oh, who cares?

On what? But this is one of the things you'd know. I looked at the main marauders. Well, I looked at the mainz got the harpoon. So I think that main whalers. Main Whalers. And then the Arc. Rapid City, Kins?

I don't know. Roanoke. Jack, Google who that is. Roe-Noke. Jack should know. He's a yank. Let me down. Also, we love great play-by-play broadcasters,

but we especially like poor play-by-play broadcasters. This is just everything. It's the accent. It's the call. It's the emotion. Mac with the save. And they score. God damn it.

Sorry about the swear. God damn it. Oh, sorry about the swear. I do that a couple more times. Mac with the save. And they score. God, damn. Damn it.

Sorry about the swear. Playboy. I've caught up in the emotions. What are you looking at? Let's try to see what. What teams those were? What we were talking about there. Well, they're kids.

Yeah, God damn it. Midge of triple. Not even. Now, this happened Friday after the show, the Eagles parade. We showed you bits and pieces, but there's just one fly through this pretty epic. Sports are hilarious because a lot of it's contrived and, you know, just play enough games. Maybe we'll get some good stuff. but then there's championships and there's parades.

And if you remember Argentina when the World Cup, this is pretty much right there with it. What a season. What a team. They are the greatest team in modern Eagles history. It is an honor to introduce the Super Bowl 59 champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. We'll do that here one time.

That'd be great, guys. I don't think you can see anything from back there. Nope, but it doesn't matter because you piled up in your team one, right? That's what you're talking about. truck and you're just rifling wallets left and right hanging off street signs yeah i mean you're at the parade you're happy you team one are you going but you're right in the middle you're right in the middle there jack's going you can't see anything you can't and then you get i mean you got phone so you could get back in touch but you're probably getting separated oh yeah unless you're with mount bender you're

lost yeah that's a great handle for it congrats eagles Yeah, yeah. Hey, today was a deadline of sorts. Right. Midnight last night, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. said, yo, if I'm not signed before we report to training camp, I'm kind of done negotiating a contract extension. He's in the final year of his deal.

He's set to become a free agent next winter. I like his focus. Needless to say, the Galaxy Brain front office of the Blue Jays and Vladimir Gras Jr. did not agree on valuations of said extension. and he has shown up today without a contract beyond the one-year deal he has for this year. I don't want my teammates to go through any distractions about that. I'm here today.

I'm ready to, and I want to win a lot of games and make the playoffs. That's all in my head right now. Management's a bit like Trump. Bleep. They have a different approach to things. They're just going to make up their own stuff. Trump, I don't know that I necessarily agree with all the things he's doing.

He gets things done. This front office does not get things done. Him and Trump and what's the guy's name? Kagan Matheson really captures the essence of it. Recapping the three separate press conferences held by Guerrero, Atkins, and Shapiro on whether the negotiations were close. Guerrero in one word said no. Shapiro says he doesn't believe in close. And Ross Atkins says that close is too big of a word to talk specifically about.

I mean, which is exactly those bleeping guys. Wow. close is too big of a word to talk specifically about your shut the hell up and sign your star players rather than wait for another 10 years for another star player when you're going to be fired near anyway you ass hat i don't believe in close they're doing a hell of a job they're doing a great job you know if you're at least they got a shitty farm system they're already deep into the luxury tax and they don't have a deal for bishette either if you worked for rogers you

Yeah, we don't have a waste of money there. More money for you. Right? Damn right. Don't ever pay that guy. They did get Max Scher, not Prime Max Scherzer, 40-year-old Max Scherzer. Remember when Scher came in the league 20 years ago. His son might be in his prime.

That's old he is. But more important than Scherzer on the mound, he was actually on Leif's morning take where our boy Jay Roseville got to chat with him. Season number 18, team number seven. How excited do you be in Toronto now? Yeah, it's going to be fun. I get with this group of guys, go out there and compete. Definitely in the ALE East, which is loaded.

That's what makes it great. You got great teams coming in every night. And I look for it. Look forward to the challenge and look forward to get out there and being healthy and go out there and competing. Here's Rosie. Max, coming to Toronto, you've played on a few teams in your lengthy career, but what makes a good city to play ball in?

Good question. I mean, obviously, it's the fans. When the fans come in there and they bring that energy every single night, you know, at the end of the day, that's what you really want. That's what really makes playing baseball fun. And then obviously, you know, now with me, I got four kids. So I need having some other things to do with the kids. That's the other thing that makes life a little easier for me now being a parent when we got some activities for the kids as well.

And like you said, having good sports fans, having other good sports teams around, all the sports. For me, I'm a huge sports fan. It's not just baseball. It's not just football. I'm a basketball fan, hockey fan, you name it. So I love watching, you know, guys go out there and compete and watching, being a fan myself. Boy, he's going to love Matthews and Meyer.

Just pause here for one second. This guy's like a good joke, like got a lot of dope. He's going to make like 13 and a half sheets this year as a 40-year-old still pitching in the majors. What kind of apartment are we renting? Yeah, that's his spring training one, I'm guessing. That better not be in Toronto. He would be down there for your pitchers and catch. Yeah, he's done eating.

Yeah, it won't be. It'll be what some provided by. I do think I do It's got two different colored eyes I don't know Yeah he's got the brown And the

I don't know Anyway Um A lot of stories about him Being a good guy Yes There was whatever Conditioning stint go down

Triple A Pitch down there To get those bought all the boys Expensive suits Oh yeah We're having We're having

We're having great meals Brought into the clubhouse Treating the young guys right Great human Not the one dating Kate Upton by the way, that's Verlant. That's the other.

That's the other old guy. Get him and her to come to Toronto. That'd help. You know, did you notice there that the ex-athlet with the good question? So are you happy to play a baby? We can't help it. We live it every day, right?

We come in, we get guests. We just fumble around, don't know how to ask questions, and then you deliver the hard hitting goods every single day. We were well aware. I listened to your BS for a while of this. I was listening to the answer where he said he's a fan. I, you know, you need good teams and sports teams, and you want cheer for those teams.

I'm a fan, and I'm a sports fan. I got kids. As he's like, do I know who plays? Do I know any other Toronto sports team? I know they don't have NFL. What other sports games? I was going to say the Argonauts. That would have been impressive.

I'm sports with balls and sticks and maybe hand all sports. Mortal Kombat. I just love, I love them all. You know, when Ricky Williams came up, played for the Argos, I was big into it, and I've been a huge CFL fan ever since. I love the Roos. that's what Jack always says. That's a great question.

Former player. So Scherzer in. Vladdy. One year left. Now, yeah, that does, it does beg the question. They're not going to get an extension done with them, which is tragic. But now it's like. Trade his ass.

Are you going to get the hall? You can let this go walk for nothing. Because the front office, it's one's up at the end of this year, the others at the end of next year. Like, this is disaster. You can't. You'll have a rebuild. You are a fan? When you don't have stars, yeah.

When you do have a star, you choose not to sign. No, I don't love up in Raybalt. What have your stars done for you? Oh, I don't think it's terrible. Make the playoffs. Six years, think. But the games don't matter. Don't forget that part, Dean.

I'd rather have Vladie than no, Vlad. I don't know what are you guys are building. Stars are nice. Yeah, they're hard to get. And you get it. You definitely want to sign them. And surround them with. But he's, I mean, listen, we've, we talked about Vladdy.

for a lot of years. And then he arrived. And then it took, he was too fat. Then he kind of lost some weight. Then he was really good. And then it was going to be a gold glover instead of a slugger. I don't really want to play there.

I'd rather play them there. And then it was a good run. And there's one more year. And it's not Shapiro and Atkins Falls. He could have signed. They had a lovely offer out there. So fair. Depending on whether or not they were close.

And I mean, we can't. Well, and close is too big of a word for me to specifically talk about it's too what a fuck it's like do they have I don't know is it like a thesaurus

like what are the most annoying things I could say what are the most annoying I'm going to say a bunch of stuff without saying energies like it's just corporate LinkedIn garbage BS lexicon yeah oh

another big word part and does it with a smile on his face and you always just kind of got that valuation all the time sharing risk shut the hell up and sign your stars. Okay. We'll move to,

well, I mean, the shoveler. Yeah. We've heard a lot about her. It draws a lot of joy from getting out there and shoveling. But your neighbors apparently weren't happy because I guess four in the morning is not the right time to shovel your driveway.

Get up and get out. Why? Sound up here, Jackson. It seems right. So, Rhett, I mean, we could turn the volume down a little, have the things middle of the night, everyone's grumpy. feelings, feelings healed over the since then?

No. Still frosty. Not, never to be repaired. That bridge is burned. Yeah, that's a tough one. Now, do you take the corner of the shoveler in this one, Dean, or not? Where you're shoveling is, takes priority 4 a.m. or not? Yeah, thank you, Daryl.

Who is in the wrong here? Who is in the wrong? Um, who did it worse? I'm going to, I'm going to side with the shoveler. Really? Yeah. Wow. 4.30 a.m.

The hell is he supposed to do? He's got to go to work. Randy? Dean knows what it's like to be up all. You got to get up. That's right. Yeah. Other people know what it's like to be really sound asleep, but then hear the scraping of metal on concrete. You're a light sleeper. Put on some white noise. You should have a background noise. Lightweight. Yes. Oh, cat's sleeves, four o'clock. Get up. Picking Randy's side. You should make the guy coffee. Maybe say, hey, buddy, I'll do it. Get to work. I'll do this at 9 a. Or be like, hey, hey, you know what? Probably good idea. I should probably get up and get that done.

Guess it snowed last night. I better get up. A good idea. Jack, who's in the wrong. He's no... He said he called him a sea sucker. Yeah, he did. I think the neighbor whining's a little bitch. He's a bitch. Quit your bitching.

That's how things don't get so neighborly. That's right. You know, being a bad neighbor, neighbor neighbor, baby. Now, here's the thing. Rett was feeling all cocky. What do you got back inside there? Do a little dance for the shoveler. Do a little dance.

Most are your pants. Yeah. You do wear them high. You can lower them a little if you wanted. I could do. like that i watch the feet here at this is where you get the old day it's running behind a little shimmy shake oh yeah think that neighbor i'll shovel what i want you're happy going man fun with your new length yeah your growth shades inside boomer snows yeah to see it crops or slippers you got

they are slip i just kind of they're open-packed slippers which is easy in and out be careful yeah you know you hate to blow a tire there when you're some moves to us. Yeah, he does. It's got a lot of things. Now, I think in Romania, this was happening, Jack, there was a kind of a UFC type event. Yeah, Romania. Romania, which might not long be for Romania.

Sorry for the day. But two professional MMA fighters in the ring at the same time, very normal, because usually one fights each other, right? Yep. This event, they had two professionals against 10 strangers. Ooh. It's, uh, oh, yeah, they're closing of the pros.

You can see him right away. You know, this thing, you're saying, like, you just love sports. Sports great. Fan of sports. We don't only take one. Tucker punched. Well, this is what they're trying here.

At least they've got charms on. I feel like it's bare-knuckle. I like the amateurs a little more here. This feels like something. This is, all due respect. This should be in Strathmore. It could be. The road.

Yeah. Talk to the Hilton. See if they can't line this. up. Oh, he's down now, but hang on. Refle let him get it back up. And how does it finish? Place your bets. Who do we like? Professionalesty or amateur? Professional S.D. They did it. Yeah, I lost. Dennis and Alex.

How did you lose? Did you get knocked out? No, I rolled my own ankle running away from the guy. I was in retreat mode. Yeah. Stubbed my toe. Now, has it been too cold for the plunges? Because I know you and Wim Hof, really, the colder, the better, you say. I don't know. This might be back in Buffalo. Robbrily,

you go. In the pool. In January. Oh, I broke my back. Oh, that's tough. Yeah.

Into the pool. In January. Laura. Oh, that would hurt. You know what? You've got some compression of the vertebrae. Yeah.

Yeah. What numbers of those? Oh, four. C4. C5. C3PO. compressed for sure. Now, you do a little bit of gardening, don't you, Rhett? Yes.

Well, big green thumb. Now, one of the things that he misses in the winter is that in the summer, he's just got a lot of little sneaky things. So you can see the beautiful gardens here. Rett's got a lot of flowers. But one of those true joys about gardening is just being able to get away from all the chaos of the house and get into his.

Sneaky bus supply, Red. You're looking good with the necklaces and mustache. Can you read what's on the bottom here? 95 and 96? Got to see what we got coming? Well, we got something before that. We got the snowboard tobogging going on first. It's the jack labeling system that I love.

And the bad English and the inability to spell. Poor shit, stupid truck. I mean, what are we doing? Yeah. Well, this is before that. Oh, okay. This is Rets, kids. Courtney.

Landed it. And what are we doing with the old boogie board? That's boogie board, right? It doesn't make me a haul of this. Oh, send it. Send it. Yeah. Oh, kids are so dumb.

I love it. Loss of sun. Did that's as good as it's going to go. Yeah, that's the best way. Nailed it. And they throw snowballs. Look at these precks. Damn kids.

Yeah. Oh. Yeah, you almost caught on the curb there. Well done. But he's really good. Very good. Quite talented. Yeah.

Send our congrats, right? You got to work at things, folks. Now, he called this horse shit, but clearly it's mislabeled. This is bad day at work. Oh. Because there's no horses at all. Let's, uh, let's go to the footage. So you're hosing out the old, uh, cow feeding, but, oh.

Oh. What happened? Oh, dear. I, this is a bit of a mess there, which is tough day at work. Again. our bad days it's like we're fighting about a best on best tournament you think you got shit on at work today yeah that's right yeah let me tell you uh this one's labeled new truck i believe ret's side project stupid truck oh my look at this hey retro offroding yeah you need those

cussanza cushy lanes or the kramer ones yeah took care of the middle y bad backs right here We're good. And finally, up in Jasper, Dean went to bed a little too early, but we did get into the pool table games. We found an amazing drinking game with the pool table where you had to keep the balls moving. This is even better.

This is how degenerates find things to do. We've got different colored balls. We're taking cash on all them. We've got the robot vacuum on the pool table. Let's go. We're in for green and white. Who's in green and white? That's what a room does that we call this?

Or a name brand? Yeah, it's the robot vacuum. No free plugs. The billiard balls located all the way around the pool table, and we'll see which one will go into the pocket first. Courtesy the robot now. You have a favorite color, Jack?

Do you think so? A favorite Jack? Jack, how do you like here? Let's go blue. I don't like purple four. Red stripe, right in front here. Red and white. That's Dino.

Brett? They're going to wait. Yeah, you want to see what direction? It goes, you cheater? Purple four. You got a pick. Right, you got to pick. Pink down to the far left there.

No pink. Thank you. It's good. Okay, here we go. We're going to start this thing up. Let's go. Come on now. All the DGN's got the bets in.

You've got to move the money. Press the button. It's your, in the comments, Jack. Let's see some predictions here. What color? Here we go. Here we go. It's doing the old back and forth.

Been around. You like anything more or less now? You're doing it still? Scream with it. Help? That really is. This yellow is going to get hit. I got a feeling.

Man. Oh, now this is the total. Oh, it. Stupid robot. What's more stupid? The robot are us sitting here watching? That's for sure. The robot doesn't have feelings.

Come on, Orange! All white, yellow. No, come on. Look at the excitement here. Cliffhanger, Steve. White ball. No one had the white ball. Come on.

Where are you going? Come on. Yep, back this way. Yep. Come on now. Red and white. Red and white.

Red and white. Oh, Chuck. How much is left? How long is the second? Holy second. Holy. That's what happens when you take away NBA.

Yeah. But we're not drinking and part of it. Yeah. Yeah, we could have, like, edited it. You sped it up. I certainly could have sped it up. There it is. That's Red's pink ball down there.

Oh, geez. Jack, how much time is long? 30 seconds. Not a lot. Oh, too. So close. Why does the money have to be on the vacuum? Good question.

Not sure. Oh, geez. You had them right there. Well, you can't touch. it. And there it is, blue and white. Sorry, no honors. Very anticlimatic for the builder.

We'll play against tomorrow. We'll have a new game of robot vacuum on the pooling table. Thanks, Ryan. If you were there with money on board, you'd be invested. You just had to imagine a little harder. I'm sorry, Billichada. I hope you're not ending on that. Yep.

Oh, Jesus. Jack, do you have anything else? Do you miss anything? No. He's new at doing this. Oh, out with a bang. That's Saturday night. Probably got left with the hidden booze in the garden,

the ice and the pool. Damn it. 10 on two fight. I've forgotten about his dance moves now. Could end up with that. You know what? Dancing guy was the way to go. Dancing guy was at the scent.

I think so. We all kind of enjoyed that. Although, let's be honest, I'm not sure that there was anything there that would be like a, ha ha, there it is. And that's the pin, you know what I mean? Kicker. Yeah, the shovel one took a little too long.

You know what? I would have actually been okay with a. Calpoon on the guy's head was tough because the video was a recap of actual sports. Yeah. No, there's no sports. Like McVoie crushing like David. Well, that's a RET report.

Do you have one ready for today? I don't do a RET report. Okay. Top five McAvoy plays. There's a few hits. Pretty good. Did you like how Frank sort of twisted that into? Oh, yeah, and the team.

end of the GM, the Bruins announced. Yeah, yeah. I didn't find that interesting. It felt like a heavy conspiracy theory. I just like that they're just, guys hurt. Get somebody into play. Well, geez, you know,

we can't, uh, was the initial selection. There's a 90 day period. And, uh, sure. Fly Petrangeloan. Let's go. Let's go Pete. Go ahead. Yeah.

I don't think he. More better players, please. Both teams. Let's go. Yeah. More better. and play. We're better.

That's been a report. We're sorry. Sorry, Village. It's better tomorrow. Rumba, three minutes. I hope it wasn't three. Geez.

Oh, how long was it? It was like 220 maybe. Yeah, but you had the build up to it. It was brutal. That's the thing. There was just sitting there putting money on it. And then the, see,

I would, Jack, let's see it one more time. Here's two minutes and 53 seconds. We'll never get that time back. You can't watch it again. See, if that, even with an algorithm, I'm not watching that whole. What are some things in your life you'd have been able to accomplish in that two minutes and 53 seconds?

Yeah. Did you watch that whole thing or did you just watch like 10 seconds? I remember which ball went in. I must have been just like in one of those zones where he's spaced out on the phone. Jack, again, this is, this is, you see the stuff what you're putting it in. He doesn't even glance at it. He just labels it improper.

and throws it in the system. That's what he does. Literally cow pooing and a guy says it's not a horse shit. Stupid truck, horse shit. It's not a horse. Not a horse. Ah, you know, though.

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bombed at my house. I think I finished like a whole bottle of Captain Morgan's Oh dear. Then someone pulled out the Jack Daniels and were playing some stupid game. Oh my gosh. Was it on a pool table? Is that from your house? Yeah, good for you, Jack.

It was fun. Yeah. Please consult Were you resisting getting into the chat group and sending us a bunch of texts? It didn't look like it. There was a two or three that came through it was like he's going to enjoy it. I had my phone off. So I don't know. Right away.

That first fight I was like, this is epic. Yeah. It really was. It was terrific. Nobody could have imagined it being that good. It just was wild. So, and Frank talked about it. So if you're Canada, what do you do?

Is it, do you try and do the same thing? If you're the Americans and somebody says, hey, we go on? You're like, oh. do you say yeah i don't know that's a good question i feel like the the canadians were clearly not at their best that night they looked a little better yesterday they played a much inferior opponent i don't know like what would you do they're all sick the americans are starting to get a little sick now what would i do probably fight well i mean you're going to be a once you know you've wrapped up your

illustrious broadcasting career you're going to be a hall fame coach in the n hl what would you be saying to the canadian or broadcaster i don't think you would say anything the emotion level would be so high he has a here's the starting lineup. Go get him. Yeah. Don't do anything stupid. Have fun.

No, I was on penalties. No. You're overcoaching now. Okay. Let the emotion. Yeah. Go get them. And you're coach.

And I don't know. You're used to coaching kids so you feel like you have to remind them of something. These guys are NHL players that have won Stanley Cups and played in the biggest games. And world. Yeah. No. And even at U. 11, it's like the S.O.

final is not a Tuesday again. to whatever, I'll make night. Like, yeah, this is a game you don't need to say anything. You go over your pre- your video way before, way out the game plan. So when Brady reaches with his left, make sure you, here's your video. That's right.

Do you think we'll see a fight on Thursday? I know we got another couple days that break this thing. Who's going to fight? Boy, I hope so. But yeah, I almost doubt it in a way. Matthew's dealing with something. He's not going to go. I don't think a Chuck's going to fight.

Brady. I feel like they did the fighting. I'll say this. I don't think it'll be the same. I don't think they're starting with scraps. Yeah. But the emotion gets the best of you in a charged environment. That building's going to be insane too.

Yeah. There could be, maybe it's a bump on a goalie or something. And guys are. So the third fight started. Right? He wanted to fight prior to that. He went deliberately. He totally wanted to fight.

He totally wanted to fight. He had nothing. He was. Oh, yeah, no, I agree. He was making physical. The Americans, I believe, think they can win a more physical game. And I think what you saw on Saturday was them setting the table to say, we're the more physical team.

Let's go. I would say they are. Yeah, I mean, what? Yeah, I think they probably have a slight. It's okay to say they are. No, I don't, but again, there's also a lot of guys that. aren't physical at all in that team. Most of these groups, the highest skilled players in the world typically aren't Keith Kachuk. Right. Yeah. So it's, it's okay. And Canada took,

I mean, somebody kept saying, they should have had Wilson. Oh, okay. Because you could have taken, you could have had that if you felt like that was. And that's kind of the Bennett role. I think it was going to be one of those guys. Do you need to? I know. But if you had Bennett, Will, like, and I'm not, I'm not one way or the other. If you thought that was. going to be in a big piece of you winning the champ. They made a decision on the lineup and went with it. It's whatever. And yeah, can

Tom Wilson skate at 5 on 5 in the tournament? Maybe he can't. He's having a great year. Maybe he can't. Sorry, he's just a half step too slow. We're taking Bennett instead. Because I'm just thinking, like, you've got Hegel, you got Bennett, you've got. But then you're going to get criticized. Jarvis. It's supposed to be a bit of a Wolverine. We haven't really flashed much.

Who? Jarvis. Thethe. Well, Kine's a guy. Yeah. Another guy. But he's a little guy. No, is he a little? It's five. I don't think he's overly big.

Anyway, but I'm with you. I do think, and they almost said as much, that we're going to set the tone. Yeah. And it's the type of game we're going to play. Yeah. And if nothing else, we'll find out if, in fact, we have the ability to, to step up against the Canadians. Yeah, like if you, if this was all just about physicality, like, I like Nathan McKinnon's chances against any star forward of the Americans, but I don't know that he's ready to do that. I don't think that helps.

yeah like i don't see it as a clear advantage for the u.s but it was clear that those are the terms they wanted the game to be played on on saturday should we go on don't let us down two more days to hype it up yeah yeah i'll just drink real fast it's a letdown i have faith in you i have a read here i have to bed earlier that's it do it do it dean don't let fatigue and no not this one getting the way of performance so we're here to stand by I'm going to talk about the trade deadline, Jack. Do you have the trade deadline? Is there a trade deadline for this event?

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adjust for your local time zone? 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern adjust for your time zone. Okay. That's in parentheses. Right. And the DFO Live will be live. Didn't they do all day last year? Defoe Live.

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No kidding. That's exciting. Do you wash his hands? I don't... I left her. I left first. Yeah. Wait for him to finish.

Did you wash your hands? No, never. Okay. Get more germs from touching the sink. This airport's pretty good. You don't touch anything these days. COVID. So, did you guys get asked to do that show?

No. God, no. That's Defoe Live. No. I know, but like, we're a big deal, big market. I think what happens.

In our city. Flames make a big trade. We'll do a live show like we always do. I was on, it might have been our first day or the second day when we started the show. Ever? I came on before the show with Frank and.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're I'm checking. Yeah. Anyway. and must have gone so well, not back since. Well, you can't duplicate. Can't do it. Kind of like best on best.

You're going to go 11 years. 11 years. Yeah. I'll be right here. Scrapping from the opening face off in nine years. The thing is, though, I don't think the flames are going to be doing blockbusters. They're not going to need to talk to us. You don't know that.

What's Connie telling you? What happens on this? Stupid road trip. Stupid. Rob the bodd cleans them up in Carolina. Huskers, nightmare. First place, Washington has their way. Now you're six back.

I would like them to listen on Rasmus Anderson. Is that too much to ask? I would be fine with listening for sure. Good. We're on the same page. No need to fight. Yeah. Just listen.

Let's just call up some of his, just listen. Some of his game tape here from the Four Nation. Actually, let's not do that. Still listening. couldn't get in a yesterday but yeah after already eliminated it was a token it's good blue line too to be fair good blue line yeah catch foursons and your dahlines carlson was awesome i did not expect that was fours headman uh florida john forisland no that's a broadcaster

kind of came out of nowhere right he's a waiver claim from carolina back in the day nicely done ill zito doesn't help your cause though if he's playing a hit of rassman trying to trade them. Look at the contract that you just said, give Forestland. Maybe that works in your favor. Hey, you got to take less than Forestland? What he's doing good?

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Wallets frozen shut. I would, but are we putting terrorists on super chats, Jack? What's going on over there? Crazy American. I was thinking about that bet you were talking about that, you know, you could do the two, the prime minister here. Yeah. Maybe if, you know, you know. so if Trudeau Loses maybe he'd have to put like a MAGA flag on his pickup truck

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Fierce negotiators. Yeah, if they were negotiating. Guys, are, I just need the, are, are we close? Well,

what's close? Close is too big of a word. I don't know. All right. Fuck this. I'm out. See you, buddy.

I got to have a nap first. Yeah. God, these guys are dropping. Oh, bad news. No noodles tomorrow. Why?

Got to go to Thursday. But hang on, good news. Thursday. What is. That's better. Thursday noodles. Thursday.

Are you going to start drinking during the show on Thursday? No. What if I put on tragically hip and open the fridge? Well, sometimes. Yeah. Jack? Yeah, let's do it. Pizza, too.

Oh, pizza day, Thursday game day. We have a lot of, that might be. Yes. That is a pizza days. That is a pizza day. I'm writing. Put it in your daytime. I mean, I got to come down here.

Yeah. Pizza. Looks warm Thursday. I got a lot. I got to get organized. I got to get the face painter set up. Yeah, you do.

Strippers. Clowns. Poles. Yeah. You got to go. Like, can you get American bills like some ones? Because you can't stuff them in the old thing there.

You're not doing the Lunes? You're not doing that with two. I got to go to Costco. Get the baby oil. Get the kitty pool, the cream corn. Jackie coming over? Yeah.

He's there. Well. Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, the good news is we've got a show to do tomorrow with all kinds of fresh content. Yeah. Yeah. A lot will happen between now and then for us to react to.

Yeah. Sharshow. Shosh. Sure. Well, we got to come in, too. Why? We got a special guest joining us. You're going to like it because I'm staying home.

He's going to be a friend of ours. Old friends. Old friends. Trying to watch funny shows at night. There's nothing funny. Nothing's funny anymore. What happened? It's a bad millennium for comedy.

It is awful. Movies are, like, just in general. Something to make you laugh. You got to go back. You know what was good is that I didn't watch any of that Saturday Live 50th, but it did get people tweeting their favorite Saturday Live segments. You got to go through it. It's a volume play.

It's a long show. There's a lot of skits for the odd Chris Farley van down by the River Bang. I love it when they make the. of the best one SNLs when they're cracking when they're cracking at each other else 100%. What are you look at it?

Is there a show? Jack, you're a, you're a Muppet. Are there funny shows? I don't, yeah, there's no shows.

I've been rewatching the office. Have you seen the British version? No. After you rewatch it, it's unreal. Love the British version. Yeah, because it inspired

the American one, obviously. Yeah. The other thing, like, if you want to get back in trailer park, boys, me, Kenny Powers, He's bounding down. The righteous gemstones?

Is that funny? I think it's, I enjoy it. Yeah. Is that the evangelist? Yeah. Okay. We do have a super chat.

It just came out. Because I'm guilty. Even there would have been big shows like how I met your mother and some of the, I was done. Is it Seinfeld? When did Seinfeld in? Is that 40 years ago? Okay.

I haven't really. Those sitcoms are, I mean, some people. Yeah. I guess it almost started Seinfeld again. That'd be kind of fun. Maybe that's what we should do this week is watch some funny shows. There are.

Let's go. Simpson's season four through. No, no, we'll just, we'll pick one that's on. World Police. Team America.

What's a show that today, this 2025? Team America. This is a, this is a new one. This is a sitcom that is successful and is popular. Funny. and then we'll be the judge of that.

Judge of that. Jack Wisness. Well, I was just save soup. So we say about it's a son about soup. Well, how about this? You spent a little dough. We're going to get you on the show. And then take that dough and give it to the youth centers of Calgary.

Yo. Oh, show. There's Ken five bucks. How about Ken? Yeah. Okay. She's talking with the anatomical structure bones. I'm not supposed to be talking about Mr.

Orange beans. I like, dude. people pissed off. I mean, Dean says he's putting it on the screen. That's probably, he's got a hold up his end of the bargain. Yeah, we had one last week, too, didn't he? So who's he more mad at here? I think everyone.

Ken's just sour to everybody. Yeah, that's fine. All right. There's a good reason to be sourd everyone. From the TV guide. TV guide. That's still around, eh? Thanks, Jack.

Thanks, Ken. Thanks, Jack. Phil Olin wrote the article. Oh, my fault. 25 shows. We're excited to severance. Is it funny? That's not funny.

I just sound funny. But I think it is popular. Yes. I'm trying to. No. Suits, that's old. There's a new one.

Is there? It's called suits. L.A. Mm. How about that? There's no new ideas. Lawyers. Not in New York.

Was that a comedy? Not really. I mean, it was. Did you ever get into Parks and Rec? That was one. I watched it during COVID. That's a good one.

Good? Yeah. Seth Rogen's, funny, right? There's a limit. Well, I'm just saying that he, yeah, this is the studio. It's not out yet. Last of us, another one of those.

That's not funny, but last of us is good. Apparently those mushroom things are real. They're coming to get you. Oh, good, nice. Not the, no, it's kind of turned you into weirdos. Good. Yeah. Handmaid's tale is not funny.

No. Bear season. There's nothing. Absolutely. nothing, Dean. And we're doing this on our show. Like would Kirby, Curb your enthusiasm? It's so cringy. It's not sure.

Chad Powers. But it's, it's a common. It is a comedy. It is wildly popular. But it's done now, to your point. Yeah. It's not current in the sense that the show has ended. Tim Robinson. Swapping. Sketchy comedy. The bear?

Ted Lassow. Lass is good, but it's done too. It was three seasons of awesome. All right. Mrs. Maisel. There's your homework.

Good luck with lunch. You're at. Shorzie. Hit that button, Dean. The boys. It's not the super bad monkey. That's Vince Vaughn's thing,

right? Yeah, it was all right. It was kind of playful, but also. It was a show to have on while you fall asleep. I didn't mind that. It's a name there.

It's a sad time, guys. Yeah, it's tough. Don't worry. AI is going to get on it. They'll know what's funny. Yeah.

why isn't it if they can do so much with AI hey this this is Randy Travis singing it's not Randy Travis very serious no is it they're not here for humor it's pretty good at the Christmas show yeah parody or maybe these are popular and

we're just out of touch Jack are we lame I don't know any of these shows either what is the last funny show to come up well you weren't allowed to be funny for almost a decade yeah there was that Ted Lassau was very That was also. But it was more emotional and heartfelt than like slapstick.

It was funny though. Yeah. Cute. Feel good. Yes. Some people are saying modern family. That's a good show. Yeah.

Also a long time. That was a big show. Yeah. That was a big show. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah.

When did that end? Forever ago. Ever. Ever? Ever. Ever? Ever. Yeah.

Yeah. We watched the Squid games. That's not a funny one. It's not funny. Is it painful? It's what it is. Did you watch the first one? I did when I was sick once.

I turned it on. Yeah. It was... Turn it off. It's unique, right? It's, probably haven't seen anything like that before. No.

But it's very similar. They've got a... They've got their thing figured out there, and they go with it again. Do you watch it in English or with the English subtitles? English subtitles. English subtitles. Yeah.

I'm a purist like that, too, Dina. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just lazy because I have to go looking for it. This is what came up. It's like, oh, okay. Just feel like the actors are probably better than voice actors, dubbing over actors. I guess I'll do some reading.

You love to read. Love to read. Such a good reader. Always read. Yeah. Yeah. It's always sunny. Is that still a thing?

Are they still doing it? I've never really sat through a full season, but I'll catch an episode here. It doesn't even matter. Each show is you can watch it totally out of you wouldn't even know. It's beautiful. That's a funny show. Always Sunny. You ever watch that, Jack?

No, I haven't. Oh. It's phenomenal. I have a hard time with your humor, though, because we just watched you. No, no, no. Don't do that. Now, is it as funny as stupid truck? Like, is it stupid truck funny? Stupid truck's like a quick hitter and we move along.

Whereas always sunny is actually good for 22 minutes. Got it. Dude, go birds. All right. Well, much like the Pinder report, we're going out with a bang. Thanks for the five bucks. Hey, we did good for the kids today. They need it today because it's called five bucks.

So tomorrow, no noodles, but more of this. And Thursday, more noodles and less of this. Yeah. See you Thursday, buddies. See you, buddies.