Crime in Sports - #67 - A Penchant For Prison - The Thickheadedness of Patrick Cote

Episode Date: May 9, 2017

This week, we head down the lunatic trail, and end up in a crazy place, with a man who could never get enough of two things... fighting, and prison. He destroyed his career with drugs & alcohol, but destroyed his life by doing everything a person could do to get back to jail. Drug trafficking, violent intimidation, and bank robbery, to name a few of his tactics. He is truly a mountain of wasted potential, and personal disaster. What a fun ride! Load up your trunk with drugs, punch an older guy in the face, and beg for more prison time with Patrick Cote!! Check us out, every Tuesday. We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman New episodes every Tuesday!!Please subscribe, rate, and review!Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!Head to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Crime in Sports!For merchandise: crimeinsports.threadless.comCheck out James and Jimmie's other show: Small Town Murder Follow us on social media!Facebook: facebook.com/crimeinsportsInstagram: instagram.com/smalltownmurderTwitter: twitter.com/MurderSmall Contact the show: [e-mail] on Patreon: patreon.com/crimeinsportsPayPal: paypal.me/crimeinsports See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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No, no. Grace was early? Yes, Grace hit early on this guy. The fall, it's a loud thump. Like out of an airplane. Fantastic. Like in a con air when they tossed that guy and he landed in a thump. That's what happened here.

That was Dave Chappelle. Yeah, exactly. It's Patrick Cote. Timble. All Yeah, exactly. It's Patrick Cote. Timball. All right, Patrick Cote. Patrick Cote. It's C-O-T-E, but Cote, he's a French guy. He's from Montreal.

Gotcha. He's French-Canadian, which is French enough for me. Yeah. That's pretty French. He speaks it. Oh, that's all he speaks, too. Patrick Cote, he's a hockey player. Don't get him confused.

There's a couple other Patrick Cotes out there. He's born January 24th, 1975 in LaSalle, Quebec, Canada. All right. He lives in Montreal later on. He's a big guy. We're going to talk about his early life here, but he grows up to be a big guy. 6'3", about a little over 200 pounds. He's a big dude, and in hockey, height is a leveraged thing, and it helps a lot.

He's a big dude, and in hockey, height is a leverage thing, and it helps a lot. Now, I'm not sure if this guy is more of an idiot or an asshole. He's one of those guys, but I guess that's what we're here for, to decide whether he's a bigger idiot or asshole. Does it have to be mutually exclusive? Wow. Yeah, but I tend to think that it's like a dominant hand. You know what I mean? If he's right-handed, he's more of an asshole. So you can never tell.

Some guys are like, oh, just stop. You're an idiot. I'm going with ambidextrous. Let's go. He's an idiot and an asshole. I think you could be right. Early on, normal family, born to normal people, nothing, no craziness. He wasn't shipped away to a foster home and sent.

He's not a little orphananny or anything like that, a little Canadian orphananny. He's a good student, well-liked by teachers and peers, and everybody's fine with him. He's very into sports from a young age. That's a common theme we tend to get here. You generally are. People who grow up to be professional athletes usually are good athletes or athletic physically. And into it. And into it.

But also two guys that are not also very into it very into it yeah but not not maybe they're not don't have actual ability right and he actually had uh showed a lot of athletic ability at a young age his father uh gilles cote gilles cote said quote he's a good guy patrick he has always followed in sports when he was young he enjoyed having fun. Everyone thought good of him. Keep in mind, this is all translated from French. So anytime I give you a quote, it's translated from French. So if it sounds like, who fucking said that? Who talks like that?

Did that person get hit in the head two minutes before they said that? No, it's just odd translations of, you know, halted. It always happens in the translation. As a teen, this is when things got interesting for him as a teen. He's always on the fringe here, starting as a teenager. Him and his older brother, Daniel, worked in a marijuana growing operation. Awesome. They worked in a weed field as a teenager. What? That's that's I think I would have enjoyed that as a teenager.

Canada has those. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They like their weed in Canada. Big time. Absolutely. And it's got to come from somewhere. But they have a whole field. And him and his brother were working the field like a couple of migrant farm workers. High as a kite the whole time, I'm sure. They probably had a great time. Think about that. When it grows like that, you'd think that like you just like a farmer jamming that stick in his teeth.

Like you just jam a bud in your mouth and just chomp away. Just chomp away. Look around. But you have to dry it out and everything first. But still, I think he's taken some home with him at the end of the night. I think this is much better than stealing a cheeseburger from Dairy Queen. And I love Dairy Queen cheeseburgers, but this is still much better. Oh, they're so good.

They are delicious. Get to Dairy Queen, get yourself a cheeseburger. Do yourself a favor. He started getting in some trouble, obviously. If you're a teenager working in the weed fields, there's not much of a different line between that and getting in some trouble. Yeah. You're on the road.

Yeah. You're in the right lane of trouble here. Yeah. And the exit's coming up in about a quarter mile. It's rapidly approaching. Yeah. He starts dabbling with drugs and alcohol. Yeah.

And just general jerk-off kid stuff. Sure. His brother Daniel said, quote, Patrick was not a saint. He still made small, bad shots. We made mistakes of youth. Wow. I don't know, small, bad shots is something that probably doesn't translate. It's probably a French cliche or a French, like, you know, whatever.

It's a stitch in time saves nine right there. I think that's what it is. Yeah, it's a cliche. A French cliche doesn't translate well to English. Teen years, he starts to become a pain in the ass. Okay. To people around him. And, you know, he starts getting in fights pain in the ass to people around him. And you know, he starts getting in fights. He's arrested for some misdemeanors, some serious

shit that gets knocked down to misdemeanors as a kid, possession of drugs, theft, things of that nature. That's what happens when you grow up in a weed field. In a weed field, playing hockey, getting hit in the head a lot. These things happen. Also, this isn't a good advertisement for weed is not a gateway drug. No, no. Well, he was drinking way before that. All right.

So alcohol did it. This is Canada. He had an 8% alcohol beer in his hand at age seven probably. This is Canada. Come on. He's mainlining Labatt and tilling weed fields. I think there that's the equivalent of like my family, like my grandmother told me in Italy how they used to give them wine as kids

and you'd have wine with your Sunday dinner when you're nine years old. I believe the Canada's probably the same way. Did you guys do that? Oh yeah, they're drinking the kids' wine. They put a little water in it. White trash just rubs whiskey on your gums when you're teething. This is so you can have it with the meal. That's incredible. So you can enjoy the whole meal because the

grapes, they were grown locally anyway. Brings out more flavor. It brings out the flavor. And the gravy. Trying to teach you some goddamn class and culture, cocksuckers. Have that. That's hilarious. Let's go, kiddo.

Let's teach your ass some class. Get over here. We're going to class you up nice. I'm going to teach you about a decanter. Come on. So hockey's his salvation. This is the only area where he's not a complete jerk-off. He's on the ice, and he's really good at hockey.

So it works out. Big drinker, though. Drinks like a fish, this guy. Really gets into the booze, which for a hockey player is kind of normal at a young age. Even in the States, I knew guys in high school that were hockey players. They were the biggest drinkers I knew. You've got to numb the pain. It's part of the culture.

Even over here, I feel like they're like, let's pretend we're Canadian. We'll play hockey and drink beer a lot. It'll be fine. You bring the schnapps. You got it. I don't think they're drinking schnapps up there. I'm assuming. Coverment schnapps warms you up. That's all I'm saying. It does. That's true. And you're on ice. You want something that warms your guts.

Le bats. Fuck it. When he signs with the Junior League when he's 18, when we've talked about these Junior Leagues a few times in our other episodes, Steve Gerbano, Mike Danton, we don't have a lot of hockey players. They don't commit as much crime as other sports for some reason. Or it's just not documented. Well, it's just a lot of DUIs they get.

I look at a lot of DUIs, a couple vehicular manslaughter, but nothing we can really sink our teeth into for the most part. Throw in a wife punching from time to time. Oh, yeah, they'll punch a wife now and then. It happens. It happens. But in their defense, they thought she was high-sticking. So she was trying to cross-check me.

I had to put her down. What do you want, a punch in the face or a couple minutes in the box? I feel like that's what it is with a hockey player. They don't realize that's not okay to act like that. They're really, it's like we said, hits in the head mixed with just too much Molson. Real quick, just to point that out, how many hits in the head they take. Did you see that Crosby, Sidney Crosby, he just got blasted in the face this past week. And they're now discussing, it's not even worrisome discussing of how many head injuries

they've had. They're just like, maybe he'll have to many head injuries they've had they're just like maybe he'll have to retire early because he's had a few oh yeah a few more concussions and i watched a highlight reel of all the brain trauma he's had and i'm just like this poor kid he's in his 30s and is even in his 30s he might be 30 he's eric lindros 2.0 that's what happened yeah remember he started getting those concussions and then he'd be out for six months and come back and play two games and get another concussion. And it was like you couldn't touch him in the head, or else he would have a concussion.

And this poor kid, he's out for the playoffs now. Yeah. And he's the best guy going out there. Best guy in hockey. I don't know shit about hockey, but he looks pretty good from what I've seen. He's so good. He looks pretty good. Basically, this Patrick Cote, back to him away from Sidney Crosby, he's a knucklehead,

but he's like a good kid. He's a knucklehead, but he's like a good kid. He's a knucklehead. He's just a good kid. Like, ah, he goes out and he drinks and he plays hockey. Get out of there, you little scamp. Right. He'll grow up and grow out of it and he'll be fine.

You know what I mean? Scoundrel. You little scoundrel. It's one of those. Doesn't have any addiction issues. Yet. Yet. This is the thing.

Growing up, he's not like super hooked on anything. He likes to drink and party, but everyone's like, ah, it's not a problem. Which I feel like, like I anything. He's just, he likes to drink and party, but it's not, everyone's like, ah, it's not a problem. Right. Which I feel like it's, like I said, it's just the culture. 1993, 1994, at age 19, he begins playing with the Beauport Harfangs. Oh. Yeah. It's Harfangs.

What's a Harfang? It says in parentheses, snow owls. So I think a Harfang is a snow owl, I'm going to guess here. They sound dangerous. Probably peck your eyes right out of your head. Dude, owls are fucking vicious. They're totally vicious. The ones out here, we have like the great horned owl, I think it is, and they will fucking

take your dog. They are vicious. They take dogs, they take cats. Well, I assume a snow owl would have to be even harder because he lives in the snow, so he's going to have to really dig for shit. You know what I mean? He's got to forage for meat. He's got to forage, man.

So this team is in the QMJHL, which is the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Jesus. Major Junior. This whole show is a Major Junior League because they're all juniors with this. He's not a junior, but our show is a lot of juniors. This league was formed in 1969.

Quebec Major Junior League Hockey. Jesus. Hockey League was formed in 1969 when the Quebec Junior Hockey League joined with the Metropolitan Montreal Junior Hockey League. They got together and they said, we're major now. Now we're major. Before we weren't. So two juniors equal a major, apparently. So we got that.

So Otis Nixon should just be called Major Nixon. That's a callback to Otis Nixon from a few episodes back. Otis Major Nixon. Major Otis Nixon. That's what he should be. Major. Yeah. Major.

Otis Nixon's name was Otis Junior Nixon Junior. That was his name. So, yeah, that's – he could have just been Major Otis Nixon. He could trade his two juniors in for a major. God. Now, my favorite team, of course, of the QMJHL is the Halifax Mooseheads. Obviously, I think they're your favorite team, right, Jimmy? We're planning on getting together.

We got a jersey. Yeah, in the fall, we're going to get together. I bought the package, the QMJHL package. We're going to watch all the Halifax Mooseheads games because they are my favorite. Mooseheads games because they are my favorite. I know. The Q-M-J-H-L-L-G-T-L-B-G-T-Q. Fucking unbelievable.

That's a lot. It's like ESPN, all their fucking networks. The Ocho. Just stick them all into one. So many. You can't have more than four letters in your name of your organization. I'm sorry. That's all you can have.

And I'd say stick to three. I agree. You know, stick to three. The acronyms are too much. If you need to do four, we'll let it slide. Five, go fuck yourself. Sorry. Fuck out of here. Delete a couple of words.

That's right. And root for the moose heads, I'm telling you guys right now. Holy shit. Now, while he's in the juniors, we have a quote here from a teammate. This is the goaltender on the team that he's on here, the Beauport Harfangs. This is Martin Biron. He says, quote, about Patrick, quote, he was an extremely tough

guy on the ice, but he also had good hockey qualities. He did not just use his fists. He worked extremely hard for the team and for himself. Coach asked a lot of intensity from us, and Patrick gave him that. They all say that about him. He's the enforcer.

He's the fighter. That's his job. And the goalie always is the smartest guy. That's a very educated thought. Yeah. Well, they're sitting back watching everything. They just watch everybody. They see what people do.

They're not just in it for themselves. They watch, and they're like, oh, shit, I'm up. It's my turn. Okay, all right, now I've got to sit for a while. So, yeah, and everybody throughout his career will say that about him. They'll say, like, I'm on the ice, man. You can count on this guy. You know, because if somebody comes and takes a cheap shot at you, he's going to come and fucking thump him.

Period. That's it. That's his job. To let him know he's here. As we'll find out, because he fights a lot. Really? Oh, wow, does he fight so much. Well, he's in Beauport, 93-94.

He plays in 48 games. He has two goals, four assists, and 230 penalty minutes. 230, and that is all fighting pretty much. Two goals, four assists, and then this laundry list of minutes in the penalty box. He's such a fighter, man. So many fights in his career we're going to get into. It's amazing. He's fun to watch, too.

He's a good YouTube. He's just a good guy to be like, let me YouTube this guy's fights, because you can just keep watching him and watching him and watching him. There's so many of them. Crazy Horse was very similar. He's fun to YouTube, too. Just so much fun. This is the same thing.

But these fights are actually better. Awesome. These people look like they can fight better than the people in the Crazy Horse fights. These fights in hockey are much better than that guy's UFC fights. They're much better. Yeah. In hockey, there's no fucking around. Yeah.

There's no dancing. There's no squaring off. You have a limited amount of time. If you stop, the refs break you up. So you've got to keep, you get in there and you throw blows until you're too tired to throw blows or one of you goes down. Any injury in hockey is more exciting than any other sport. On ice, it's fast.

Right. Watching Sidney, going back to Sidney Crosby, I feel so bad for him. Jimmy doesn't watch hockey. He's seen one game and Sidney Crosby. I feel so bad for him. Jimmy doesn't watch hockey. He's seen one game and Sidney Crosby was in it and he's like, I'm going to talk about him a lot. He took notes. He's like, this is my go-to. No, he was in the highlight reel of his head injuries and that man took a fucking hockey

puck to the face and broke his jaw and split his face wide open. It's a tough game, man. It's brutal, man. It's seriously a tough game. But it's awesome to watch. I'm in. And this guy is the toughest, This is as tough as it comes. He's not the toughest, but this is as tough as it comes.

If there's no fight in the game, though, fuck that sport. You know what I mean? That's what I'm saying. It's so fucking boring. I love, by the way, I have to say. If there's no injuries or fights, I could give a shit. That's the truth. I want the blood.

I have to say, watching all these fights, too, my favorite thing in the world is the way announcers switch modes when a fight starts. That is fun to listen to. In basketball, when there's a fight, they're like, oh, no. Oh, OK. This is so horrible. Come on, refs. You got to go.

This is no good. They don't talk about the fight. Literally, they'll be like, and he's down the left side and throws it into the back of the net. Oh, we got a fight here at Midnight. Let's see here. Oh, it's Probert. It's Probert and Cote squaring off.

And they're just like, eh, Cote gets him with the left. Oh, he's in tight. Oh, a sweeping right by Probert misses him just over the head. Oh, hits the left hand free. They're wrapping each other up. Oh, swinging around. They're calling that they turn into boxing analysts. It's fucking amazing.

So good. Literally like left hand, left hand. Ooh, that one rocked him pretty good. His helmet popped right off. You can hear the crowd roar. There's something about the phrase. I'm not even kidding. It's amazing.

There's something about the phrase rocked his head back that just fucking makes me so excited. There's one of the fights he has with Bob Probert. He has a ton of fights with Bob Probert. Awesome. He has a bunch of fights with the same guy a lot. One of the fights, Probert hits him with an uppercut and his helmet just pops off his head back. And you hear the crowd go bats. He's like, oh, rocked his head back with that one.

With this Canadian accent. Why does that get me going? It's so funny. But I'm like, when I first watched him, I don't watch a lot of hockey. So I'm like, is this normal? These announcers are great. And then everyone is like that. You're required to turn into a boxing analyst.

You're required to turn into Larry Merchant in the middle of a hockey game. The phrase rocked his head back is my equivalent of boobs coming out. I'm just like, fuck yes. Yeah. Rocked his head back. Now I have to become Burt Sugar and tell everyone about this. Report on this shit. I love it.

Unbelievable. So 94-95 at Beauport while he's a snow owl. He plays in 56 games, has 20 goals, and 20 assists. That is 40 points in 56 games, which is like... That's incredible. You're playing some hockey right there. That's not bad. And let's not forget...

How many minutes? You would think he's concentrating on scoring and offense. He's at 314 penalty minutes. That's my man. He is fighting his ass off. Also, in the playoffs, he had eight goals and eight assists. Wow. In the playoffs.

And that's not all-star caliber in that league? In that league, maybe. But I don't even know if they had an all-star game. His numbers should be retired for those numbers. Those are incredible. He's looking strong. He's a badass that can score. This is a guy who the NHL is looking for.

Absolutely. A badass, a big guy, a guy who's not afraid to throw down, but has the skills where he's not just a thug. Because this is when hockey started changing now, where they were kind of looking for more skillful. They started to get away from the enforcer type player a little bit at this point. And nowadays it's just gone. They want a Lemieux.

They want a fucking Sidney Crowley. Well, yeah, that's what's on tickets. Right, yeah, that's who puts asses in seats. This guy also puts asses in seats. They do. I'm sorry. But they put the wrong asses. They put my ass and your ass in seats. This guy also puts asses in seats. They do. I'm sorry. But they put the wrong asses. They put my ass and your ass in seats. I went to a

game. I remember going to a hockey game as a kid specifically to see Marty McSorley. I wanted to see Marty. And the first goddamn period, first period, him and Jeff Bukabum were throwing down. I was like, that's what I'm talking about. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here, baby. And the crowd, like I said,

it was like a boxing match. They're quiet. A punch lands. They roar. They come back down. It's awesome. It's much better than the fucking game. It is because you don't expect the fight.

Like, oh, there's a fight. It's going to happen. And like I said, you know it's going to be a good fight unless they just lock on to each other and fall down, which happens sometimes. I've gone to three Coyotes games and all three of them, one of them had like four fights in it. And it was the first game I ever went to. I was like, this is the greatest fucking sport that ever happened.

Then the last two games I went to, no fights. No fights. I'm like, I'll never fucking come back. I'm not wasting my time. He plays in a league later where there's this one website that I think it's hockeyfights.com. There's hockeyfights and there's dropyourgloves.com. Awesome. I found these for these guys.

But I think it's hockeyfights where you can see the fight he got in in that game. It'll have them by date. And then you can click on other fights in that game. Fuck yeah. And it'll show you other fights. This other league later on, all they do is fight. You'll click on other fights. There's like eight fights in every game.

It's like, what were they doing in this league? How was anyone left on the ice afterwards? It's just legit UFC fighters that are like, I can't fight enough. I'm going to play hockey where I'm playing every night, and then we're just going to fucking fight. Yeah, get a paycheck, and I can still train. It's great. Rocking heads back. So good.

I'm telling you, he does so well in Beauport that on July 8, 1995, is the 1995 NHL draft from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. See, that league knows how to do their thing. All the other leagues, they do New York, they do Chicago, Edmonton. That's where you want. Alberta is where you want to have your deal. Not even Calgary. We're going to Edmonton, baby. We're going right to the oil fields.

Let's do it. Number one overall pick that year is a guy named Brian Berard. He was picked by Ottawa, number one. He played for 14 seasons, had 323 career points, played for the Islanders, Maple Leafs, Rangers, Bruins, Blackhawks, and Blue Jackets. So he had a full career as a number one draft pick. I don't think he was ever even an all-star, though, because they're highlighted, the all-stars. I don't think he was an all-star.

Finally, round two, pick 37, Patrick is selected by the Dallas Stars. So now he's a second-round draft pick in the NHL, which is great. Second-rounders make the team. Second-rounders are in. I mean, they're expecting you to be a part of the team if you're a second-rounder. Is that the only team in Texas? They have the Dallas Stars. Is that it?

Does Houston have one? No, no Houston. San Antonio doesn't have shit. No, Dallas. They moved down there from Minnesota and dropped the North in their name, became the Stars. Beautiful. Here we go. Well, way to rename a team.

So clever. Dallas dust stars. Here we go. It's North. That state is all about, remember when we went? It's all about stars. It's everything, stars. By the way, your state is the lone star state.

You get fucking one. Knock it off with all the goddamn stars. Pick a star, your state is the lone star state. You get fucking one. Knock it off with all the goddamn stars. Pick a star, put it somewhere, tell us where to look at it, and fucking knock it off. Stop it. Everybody's got a tattoo or they remove their fucking bow tie on their Chevy truck and throw a star there. They got a star over their goddamn

door in their house. Everything is a star. Stop it. Ezekiel Elliott, pry that shit off your helmet right now. Pry the star off your cowboy's helmet. One star per guy. That's what it is. You want one star. You put it right in the middle of the fucking cowboy's field and everybody else shut the fuck up.

You know what? You've decided that's your capital. Cowboy Stadium, Texas. Enjoy. So we go back to Martin Biron, we'll call him. I think it's Martin, probably. Probably. Martin Biron said after the draft, this is our goalie, his buddy from Beauport. He said, quote, when he signed his contract, he bought himself a new Mustang.

He was very proud. He was happy to show it to the guys. So he came back to the team and he's like, I got drafted. Look, here's my Mustang. And they're all like, oh, man, this is the greatest. And think about team and he's like, I got drafted. Look, here's my Mustang. And they're all like, oh, man, this is the greatest. And think about that. It's like, you know.

Local boy done good. Yeah. He got called up. Plus, on the team, they all probably, he was 20 and 20. He had 40 points. He's beating the shit out of everybody. They probably love the guy. They're like, yeah, he's the man. He's going to make it.

And to his credit right now, I'm actually kind of proud of him for buying a Mustang. He bought a $25,000 car rather than buying some fucking 150 000 garbage ass car just wanted to have something decent something to get around in look it's not a toyota a little bit especially when you're 21 that's like hey look at this it's a mustang it's got a v8 it rumbles you can rev it up a little bit if it's a if it's the uh if it's that model the 502 gt right uh so uh father here has jillies his father said about him quote if you're chosen in the second round, you're supposed to have a great career. Yeah.

Which is true. He's not wrong. He's not wrong about that at all. Now, right away, he's sent to IHL, the International Hockey League. Yeah. It's the minors there. To the Michigan K-Wings. They're known as the Kalamazoo Wings.

Yeah. They, for some reason, sometimes call them the Michigan K-Wings and sometimes they're the Kalamazoo Wings. Gotcha. I don't know why and Michigan K-Wings and sometimes they're the Kalamazoo Wings. I don't know why, and I don't give a shit because they're a minor league hockey team and nobody gives a fuck outside of Kalamazoo. And even they're probably pretty slim, the people who care. He plays in 57 games that year.

Four goals, six assists. So that's not bad. It's still something. He's scoring something. 239 penalty minutes. He's not fucking around. He's scoring something. 239 penalty minutes. He's not fucking around. He's showing you what the hell he did. He's showing you, look, I'll fight. I will throw down for your team.

I'll protect my teammates. That's a big thing. You have to look like you're willing to protect your teammates. Is that your job? Right. Team makes the playoffs. He doesn't do anything in the playoffs. It's a minor league hockey playoffs.

Who cares? He ends up playing two games for Dallas that year. Actually gets called up for two games just to look around. We've seen this every time we have a hockey guy. They bring him up his first two years. They don't do shit. He plays like 20 minutes of the whole season. They just bring him up to, hey, here's where the locker is.

This is where you put your dirty underwear. That sort of thing. This is the place that smells like shit. This is the place that smells like shit. He had zero points in the two games, and he did have five penalty minutes. That's great. Five penalty minutes because on April 12, 1996, he has his first NHL fight. I love it.

Against Todd Ewan of Anaheim. He has his first NHL fight. He must be so proud. He must have felt great, and he has to go out there and fight because he has to go out there and show he's not afraid. He's going out there and taking out all his aggression on that dumb fucking movie on the docks. Yeah.

Because he's in the generation. He was born in 79. He watched those stupid movies when he was a kid. Yeah. He was inspired by them. He's like, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do it. He's like 18.

He's like, yeah. These assholes. Emilio Estevez can make it. So can I. But I feel like this is what we'll see and how he comes into the league. He picks the toughest guys that are known throughout the league and tries to fight them immediately. I like it. It's like he's in prison and he's in there and he's like,

that's the biggest guy. I'm going to go stab him right in the temple. You bet. Perfect. Rookie year, he makes $350,000, too. Wow. So for a Canadian kid with a little bit of a drinking problem working in the weed fields, that's pretty good.

That is excellent. Pretty good payday for him. That's Mustang money right there, baby. Let me tell you something. Now, 96-97, he plays 58 games with Kalamazoo. In that 58 games, he has 14 goals, 10 assists. Not bad at all. That's pretty good.

237 penalty minutes. Fuck yes. Keep fighting, brother. He does not stop fighting. So much fight in this kid. So much fight. I love it. It's so great watching him fight.

It's hilarious. It really is. And then later on, he's such an idiot. You're going, ooh, all those blows to the head might have affected him a little bit. Maybe I shouldn't have enjoyed that so much. At this point, though, you're kind of rooting for the kid. Oh, yeah. Oh, this point.

Yeah, I'm rooting for him like crazy. He's so hungry that he's willing to blast anybody in the face over it. I'm loving this guy at this point. He has no fear of anything. He's going out there. He's trying to make a name. And he's trying to make a name for me. He's young.

He's like 22 years old. And he's out there fighting with men. Like an underdog podcaster. He's so hungry. Like he's hungry. He's an underdog non-network podcaster who gets fucked over on their ad money. We'll talk more about that later. More about that later.

Back to the story. So Dallas, he plays three games in about that later. More about that later. Back to the story. So Dallas, he plays three games in Dallas that year and has zero goals, zero assists. 27 penalty minutes, though, in three games. That's not bad. He's fighting. Nine a game? That's great. That's good.

That's fighting. He's getting out there. It's almost like they sent him out there to say, well, let's see if he's tough enough for this because they need to test their enforcer out. 27 penalty minutes, not bad. $375,000 he makes that year. Amazing. So, hey, things are going well, right?

OJ's killing it. Absolutely. In that year, October 13, 1996, versus the Chicago Blackhawks, he has his first fight with Bob Probert. All right. Bob Probert is so much fun. First fight with Bob Probert. Bob Probert is so much fun. We will talk about Bob Probert someday because he's got a plethora of charges of varying, like a rainbow of charges.

But he's a big, tough, rough. You'd look at him and he's a guy you'd go, ooh, I don't want to fight that guy. Like if you saw him in a bar and he was getting angry, you'd move away from his stool. You know, like I don't want him to just punch me. He's one of those dudes. He's a tough son of a bitch, and he's known as a tough son of a bitch in the NHL for years. So he's got to come in and go, I've got to fight Bob Probert because he's the toughest guy around. Absolutely. So he does.

Six days later, on October 19th, 1996, he fights Ty Domi, who Ty Domi is another one. He's just like Rob Probert. He's known as a huge fighter. It's the same exact thing. So he's like, okay, six days later, I fought Probert. Now I've got to fight. He's got like a list of bullies he's got to go try to beat up. It's like Steve Buscemi and Billy Madison.

Yeah, exactly. Probert kicks his ass most of the time, too. That's the thing when they fight. He hangs in there. All these fights, when they're doing stand-up fights and they just hold your jersey with one hand and punch it with the other and switch, they go toe-to-toe and nobody's trying to take each other down. He's a stand-up, punch me in the face, I'll punch you in the face back kind of guy. I mean, just trying to make a name for himself.

Those are the best ones, too, because they fucking, boy, do they go at it. They do. And the switching of the hands and stuff and holding on to each other. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Uppercut, uppercut. And the other guy takes a couple shots. I really like it. And watching the strategy of them ducking their head to try to bounce the hand off of somewhere different is so great.

One of these angles. Yeah. Looking for these angles. Bang, bang, bang, bang. But when they get that really good blow, and he's like, oh, that one hurt. I love that one. One of these Probert fights, I don't remember which one because I watched, I think, five or six of them. Yeah. One of these Probert fights, I don't remember which one because I watched five or six of them. One of these Probert fights goes so long.

After half the fight, I'm going, how are they still throwing punches? It's just so, and they're playing hockey, so they're tired anyway. It fights with them just getting too tired to fight. It stops with them getting too tired to fight. They literally both just kind of lower their arms to hold in each other's arms and just stand there. And then the refs come in. The linesmen come in and take them apart. And the announcers are even like, I think they're happy to see the linesmen on that one.

I don't think either one of them could lift their arms for another punch. That's how they just beat each other until they were too tired to punch anymore. And they were connecting, too. That was the fight where his helmet popped off with an uppercut, and he just kept punching away. I was like, holy shit. And hockey is exhausting. That's what I mean.

It's exhausting anyway. So tiring. That's why you see what's so funny. If you look at all of his fights, 80% of them are in the first period because the guys are like, I'm not going to do it when I'm tired later. I'm going to go out there when I'm fresh. Do it now. Yeah.

And also, too, you don't want to do it when it's a 2-2 game in the third period and they cause a power play against you. So that makes sense, too. Now we have an in their own words. Awesome. On fighting in the NHL and how he likes it compared to if he wasn't in the NHL. It's a short one, but I had to use it anyway. Let's get French, Cody. A, he doesn't talk a lot.

I don't know if it's the French thing. We don't get a lot of whatever. And B, this is a great quote. So I had to use it. Uh, he says in their own words, quote, all of my friends back home fight on the street and they all get arrested.

That's it. That's the quote. They were like, do you like fighting here? And I make three 75. That's what he said. That's exactly what he was saying. He didn't even need to say the other part.

He's just like, they all get arrested. I get to, I get a Mustang. I get more time. I get a new Mustang to go pick up chicks afterwards. Gotta get punched in the face by Bob Probert a whole bunch.

So, summer of 1997, he goes to Sweden to attend a special skills hockey camp over there. Some big NHL kind of young... I feel like it's like Winter League. The baseball sends the guys to the Dominican for the winter.

And he also begins boxing training in Montreal. Awesome. He's boning up on his penalty minutes. That's great. Yes. Not only that, not only to fight, because he's a stand-up fighter, but I think it's also just good for general conditioning and everything like that. The stamina. If you can box, you can do anything.

That's it. Because it's constant movement. Yeah. There's nothing else like it. There's so much cardio involved. Absolutely. So go out there. Spar for three minutes. That's it. That's what a absolutely so he began go out there spar for three spar for three minutes that's what the round is all you need spar for three minutes you'll make it to two minutes and then you'll say am i having

a stroke i think i'm having a stroke i'm gonna throw up and then you're gonna sit down and it's not even because you're being punched no because you're sparring it's just moving nobody's hitting you that's if a guy had just gloves on The focus gloves and you were just working them over. That's what it would be like. Now imagine also getting punched in the face every eight seconds on top of that. And trying to dodge them. Yeah, and in the stomach and knocking the wind out of you. So, yeah, he's beginning boxing training, get his cardio up.

1997, he plays in four games for the K-Wings over there. Has two goals in four games and four penalty minutes, too. So he wasn't even fighting that much because he plays three games in Dallas that year. So I don't know if he was hurt. I don't know exactly what happened because this isn't a prison stint. There's other times where he's going to go away for a while, but this time is not one of them. I'm not sure exactly what the deal with this was. I actually looked up, and I don't think this is the same guy, but it was from the same period. I don't know what he would have been doing in Maine, but there's another guy named

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You can listen ad-free on the Amazon Music or Wondery app. Plays in three games for Dallas 97-98. Has zero points, but 15 penalty minutes, so at least three fights. I love it. Good for you. He's left unprotected by Dallas for the 1998 expansion draft. In 1998, the NHL was expanding to let in the Nashville Predators. Was that the only team?

That was the only team in 98, yes. They had one team that year, Nashville Predators, and what you'd have to do is you'd have to leave a few guys on your roster unprotected. Anytime there's expansion in any league of any sport, every team has to leave a few people unprotected and they have an expansion draft where they get to pick from everybody's deal.

That's great. The Predators got to take one guy from every team. That was their deal and you had to leave, I think, two to three people unprotected. It is cool. I like that. Did they do that with the NFL too? Did they? I don't remember that. Yeah, yeah.

It's a rule, whatever draft, that's expansion. NFL is the most complicated rules for any kind of personnel. And that makes sense because it's so hard. You can't just fucking rip off the best player somewhere. Baseball does that. That's how the Diamondbacks got Matt Williams when they first started. He was left unprotected by the Giants and they drafted him. They all have an expansion draft.

So he's left open for that and he's chosen by Nashville as on their team. By the way, that may have been the best thing that ever happened for Matt Williams. Oh, coming here? Yeah, the man's career has fucking exploded. Oh, it has. He's still in the majors now. Granted, he's not playing,

but he's coaching. Old people love him. Yeah. They'll stick around. Fucking old people, I love him. He's a fucking madman, but I love him. I hate Matt Williams.

I cannot fucking stand that asshole. I adore him. He's such an old fart asshole. He's such a dick. I love that he's such a, yeah, I love it. And I've heard, I know a guy who played with him

and he said he's a very cool guy and he loves to talk baseball and all that, but he said, yeah, he's kind of a hard ass for no reason. It's like, dude, fucking lighten up, bro. And he's got a hot wife. Well, he did. Yeah.

He's one of those guys where it's like, you make like fucking four mil a year. Calm down. Relax. Have a good time with this. Why are you acting like you're so broke and angry? Yeah, come on, dude. And you got a fucking ring, you jerk off. Absolutely.

You're always a gold glover. Just be happy. Be goddamn happy. So 97, 98 season, he made $375 grand also, same salary as before. God damn it. Now he's moving on to an expansion team, which is great for him because expansion teams suck. They have nobody. So that's a chance.

It's a clean slate. Nobody's worked in already. You could be the star. You could be the star. You could be a starter. You could be a guy. This is when the alcohol and drug issues start to really, really percolate up to the surface. Yeah. They start to feel like a big shot, I think.

And he starts to just feel himself a little too much. His ego's there. That's what it is. Yeah. No, it is. That's what it is. It's his ego. He's made over a million dollars now.

Yeah. And he's super happy with himself, super proud. And he's just like, I can do this in my sleep. He's playing in Nashville, which why the hell do they expand? And when I think hockey, I think Nashville. You betcha. He's playing in Nashville. Why the hell do they expand? When I think hockey, I think Nashville. You betcha. Don't you? Why?

I think Elvis. I think Bruce Swidge Shoes and Graceland. That's definitely hockey. That's Memphis. But Nashville's... Isn't that where Graceland... You're right. It's Memphis.

You're right. I think Dolly Parton's house is in Nashville. You might be right. And so is Dollywood. That's what I mean. Dollywood. That's what you call it. Yeah, Dollywood.

Thank you. So in the hockey mecca of Nashville, he begins to party extremely hard. Memphis is a shithole, so it doesn't matter. Sorry, Memphis. I've been there. It's a border town. Anything that's a border town blows. Yeah.

Well, especially when you're bordering Arkansas. Yeah. Sorry, Arkansas. You have the worst state I've ever been to. Sorry. Have you paved your fucking road there yet? No. I've gone back and forth on the 40 through there.

It's smooth, smooth, smooth. You get to Arkansas, it's like you got four flat tires for hundreds of miles. Then you get to Oklahoma, smooth again. You're like, how does Oklahoma figure it out? Have you been to Oklahoma? For Christ's sake, they don't even have a fucking, they don't have a hill over four feet high in that entire state. It's a shithole, dust bowl dump, and yet they can figure out flat roads. Figure it out, Arkansas.

For Christ's sake, you produced a fucking president. It's true. It's true. Almost two. So, almost. Almost. So, they begin to party hard. He stays out all night drinking.

He's doing, he's in his early 20s. He's famous. He's a hockey player. He's doing, in his early 20s, he's famous. He's a hockey player. He's fighting people. In Nashville, where there's booze fucking everywhere. They love, they're professionals down there in Nashville. He doesn't sleep much. His father comes to spend a week with him in Nashville, and his father was just shocked and appalled by his lifestyle.

He's like, how do you live, basically? His brother, Daniel, who he worked the weed fields with, said, quote, he drank a lot of beer. Then he started having bad relationships. First of all, I got to interrupt this for one second. He's drinking a lot, having bad relationships, fucking off his career. All he has to do is find religion and name his son Junior. And he is a crime and sports hall of famer. Yachty.

Yachty. Back to the quote. In the presence of my father, he would return at five in the morning my father told him that he couldn't go on like that but he said he knew what he was doing he's like i back off old man i made half a million last year what'd you make i think he's thinking that in his head that's awesome that's definitely what a kid says to their dad in their head for sure because dad will knock the fuck out of you in your 20s i don't think jillies is going to knock him out at all from what we're talking about here. His father said, quote, for him, resting was secondary.

Now, a teammate about this time period, an unnamed teammate, because it's anonymity. I'll talk some shit about him. I'm not going to tell you who it is. Seeing this guy on the ice is going to fight me. If I ever go to another team, he's going to kill me. He said, quote, I confronted him a few times, but it's no use taking him to the river if he's not going to drink. He didn't take it seriously enough. He made efforts, but it was stronger than him.

I told him a few times that he was drinking too much. It was not unhealthy. He had problems, but he was still nice to his teammates. Cote knows exactly who the fuck that is, just so you know. Oh, of course he does. Because he's the guy who came up and told him. Also, too, we heard that bullshit quote, I took him to the river, but he can't drink. I can't force him to drink.

It's whoever speaks in cliches on that fucking team. That guy says that all the time. That guy says that. He's talking to a guy about his kid, and he says that about his kid trying to read. Right. You can take him to the water, but he won't drink. But he won't drink. So he's going to be illiterate.

What are you going to do, eh? So stupid. What are you going to do, eh? Okay. Stop speaking in cliches, people. Knock that shit off. That is annoying. Be creative.

And stop with the fluff piece, shitty wordplay article titles for these fucking assholes. No puns unless you're trying to fuck with James. Exactly. Unless you're Jimmy or Sarah, my girlfriend, who does that all the time. So 1998, 1999, he's in Nashville. He's in for the whole season. No minor league bullshit. No IHL. None of this crap. He plays in 70 games in Nashville. He's in for the whole season. No minor league bullshit. No IHL.

None of this crap. He plays in 70 games for Nashville. One goal, two assists, and 242 penalty minutes. At least he's keeping something consistent. According to hockeyfights.com, that year he had 30 fights. Wow. 30. That's a shitload of fights.

That's awesome. That's so many fights. I like him. That's a lot. That's 70 games and 30 fights. That's awesome. That's so many fights. I like him. That's a lot. That's 70 games and 30 fights. That sounds like an agitated drunk. That's what he is. He's an agitated.

He's hungover. He's out there. He's hungover. It's his job to punch you when you come up and piss him off. He's like, I'm going to kick your goddamn ass. They're playing late at night. He's got the night sweats, and he's just like, fuck it. I'm fighting.

He probably has a constant headache this week. Between the alcohol and the blows to the head he's just constantly just i don't know if i'm concussed if i had too much booze i don't know what's going on he's just always rubbing his brow just always like massaging his eyebrow when he walks he just rattles he's got a bottle ibuprofen in his pocket like tic Tacs. Sounds like a rattlesnake. Yeah. He made $375,000 that year. Unbelievable. Good for you, buddy.

He's keeping the money consistent. Yeah, it gets a little better here. Now, 1998, 1999 that we just discussed with the 30 fights, some of his fights here we'll get into. On October 10th of 98, he has two fights in the same game against different people. Normally, you see the guys that go fight again. He's the same guy different people i don't like you and you're an asshole too it was whoever he was covering and then his replacement he's like i'll fuck you up too i'll fight you too i don't care who's on the second line bring him in where's the third let's go peter worel and paul louse he fights uh october 19th he fights Ty Domi again, as we've talked about before. October 24th, five days.

This is all within two weeks. Two in one day. 19th, Ty Domi. October 24th, he's back with Bob Probert. Jesus Christ. November 14th, Rudy Pozczyk, who we will definitely be talking about. When I was looking at this episode, I'm like, I'm looking for a hockey player. And it was either Postchek or Cote. So he's coming up at some point. November 17th, back to Bob Probert again.

That's three times Bob Probert this year. He fought more than, you know, Hagler and Hearns, for Christ's sake. This is insane. And finally, January, or Hagler and Leonard is what I was thinking about. I think Hagler and Hearns only fought once or twice. I think they got three. Did they get three? It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. Probert and Cote have at least five, so I think they're setting the record. And then on January 1, 1999, he fights Tony Twist twice. In the same game? Same game. He fights the same guy twice. I mean, he is just cooking. January 19, he fights Donald Brashear.

You know who Donald Brashear is You know who Donald Brashear is? No. Donald Brashear is a black guy, actually, black hockey player. I believe he's the guy that Marty McSorley hit with the hockey stick, high-sticked him, and he fell and knocked himself out cold on the ice. Holy shit. Did you see that? No.

It was probably 2001-ish, 1999, 2000. Marty McSorley, the enforcer, came up from behind him and just grabbed him with a stick, and he fell down and smashed his head on the ice and was out cold just sliding on the ice on his back. That's what I was going to say. Did he curl up in a ball and slide into the wall? He just slid on the ice. It was wild.

And also, too, Donald Brashear ends up fighting in the MMA. He ends up fighting MMA later on. Get out of here. Later on, he fights MMA, like 2010. Later on, when he's old and retired. March 2nd, he fights Tony Twist again. Good God, he can't get enough. And finally, April 15th, Bob Probert.

One more time before the season ends. That's four times this season he's fought Bob Probert. They just know each other. I picture they probably go out for beers afterwards. Either that or they're just like, there he is, got to fight him again. They just know each other. I picture they probably go out for beers afterwards. Either that or they're just like, there he is, gotta fight him again. They must hate each other to keep fighting. I want them to have a personal relationship where

they're great off the ice and on the ice they just fuck each other up. They're just like, alright, let's get out there. Let's go for a run to golf, eh? They're like the coyote and the roadrunner in that cartoon where he just punches in and he's like, alright, see you there. And then when they're done, they're like, see you tomorrow. And they punch out on the time clock and go home.

That's what I feel like when they chase each other around. So 99-2000. He's in Nashville still. He plays in 21 games, has zero points in 21 games, but he does have 70 penalty minutes and 12 fights. Fantastic. So 21 games, 12 fights. Not bad. Makes $450,000 that year.

So his money is creeping up. Getting some dough here. Now, 1999-2000, he had some fights here. He fights October 5th, 1999. He fights Chris Dingman twice in the same game. Then on December 11th, 1999, he fights Peter Worrell twice in the same game. By the way, the Dingman fights, both were in the first period. Wow, he's... Same period.

He's not fucking around. They fought, they went in the box, got back out, started fighting again. That's amazing. And I must not have encountered Bob Probert that year is all I can think is that Probert or Ty Domi, neither of them, they missed each other. Star-crossed lovers is what they were. They couldn't quite hook up.

Couldn't quite hook up. Couldn't quite hook up. Now, on June 12, 2000, he's doing well in Nashville. He's probably loving his life down there. Sounds like it. Although I don't know why a Canadian would like Nashville. There's booze. There's booze. He's a boozer.

He's a celebrity. Everything's great. Patrick is traded to the Edmonton Oilers. Back home. For a fifth-round pick, yeah, but in Edmonton, which isn't home, he's from Quebec. Still Canada, babe. He's happy. He's going to be happy.

But Edmonton is like Edmonton is like moving to, you know, Boise basically. That's not great. I'm in. I am not in. That sounds terrible. And I know there's a lot of Mormons there, but it's fun. I know from comics that work Edmonton too. They're like, it's just oil field workers that is all it is it's not really a city as much as it is a bunch of drunk guys beating the

shit out of each other that's my kind of place yeah i'm in to watch that i love people watching i'm not gonna sit and talk to these idiots i don't want to try to tell them jokes that's the problem that's what i'm saying right there uh so they trade him to the edmonton oilers for a fifth round pick in that year's draft who turned out to be a guy named Matt Kolska. OK, I've never heard of because I don't know shit about hockey and I don't know if that guy ever did anything. Now, he's probably a fucking Hall of Fame. Probably. Now, in Nashville, his whole time in Nashville, he had 42 major penalties for fighting.

Wow. Forty two, which is second all time and on Nashville to this day. What's a major penalty? It's a time difference and a penalty difference. They'll give one guy a minor and one guy a major, and it'll be three minutes and five minutes or whatever. So the five minutes is the major. I believe so. It's got to be, right?

Don't quote me on that because I don't know shit about hockey, but I know that much. I'm sure that's close enough. It's close enough, yeah. I understand. He's second all-time still to this day, and basically in fights in Nashville. And how many years did he play there overall? Three years. Jesus.

Yeah, there was 97, 98, 98, 99, and then he got traded. Yeah, so he barely played there. And he's second overall. 99, 2000. Three seasons there, and he's second overall. Probably the guy that's been there for a dozen years, too. That's the other thing. Now, in Edmonton, 2000, 2001, he's on a new team.

When you're on a new team, you have to prove who you are. So he gets in a fight in the preseason. Doesn't even count. It's just, eh, whatever. He's fighting anyway. Fights in the preseason. In the regular season, he only plays in six games for Edmonton. Has zero points.

But he does have 18 penalty minutes. He ends up playing 16 games with the Hamilton Bulldogs, which is their minor league affiliate in the AHL, which is the American Hockey League. Two fights that year, though. Good for him. November 17, 2000. This is so sad. He fights Bob Probert for what will be the last time.

Oh, no. Isn't that sad? Don't you want to see him fight again? I really hope they call each other after this years later. Like, buddy, I don't know what it is, but your fist ringing in my eye socket, it's just warming my heart thinking about it. I miss that ringing in my ears that you gave me. I miss hearing that pop. That good pop.

That pop. Oh, it's the worst fucking noise. Nobody could take an uppercut like you, buddy. Your helmet would pop off and man, it just made me hard as fuck. I couldn't take it. So I knew you'd laugh at that for some reason. So he also makes 500. Gay, just man sex of like legit men like that always makes me laugh.

I'll never stop laughing at two super, super manly dudes banging each other. Especially if you saw Bob Probert. You'd be like, Jesus, if Bob Probert's fucking you, it's because he's angry at you. You know what? I take it even back. Like, super, super twink sex makes me smile. It does. Go fuck yourself.

Any dude fucking is hilarious. If you saw Bob Probert, you'd go, yeah, he only fucks out of anger. That's it. Out of anger. He's enjoyed all three of his orgasms that he's ever had. There's no lust that this man has ever had. It's all just, I'm going to, you like that, don't you? Yeah, I know you don't.

That's right. I'm Bob Probert. Sweating all over you and my beard's gross. Gay sex is hilarious. Oh, Jesus. I don't know how they enjoy it. Yes. I'd be giggling the whole fucking time.

Unless it's like that. Well, that's how you know you're not gay, though, I think. Unless it's for it. I think if it's, I'd be giggling the whole fucking time. Unless it's like that. Well, that's how you know you're not gay, though, I think. Unless it's forced. I think if you were gay, you'd be like, this is great. Yeah. Because that's what would be in your, you know what I mean? That's what would be in your heart from birth. You'd come out and you'd be like, yeah, that looks good.

I don't think you would think it was so funny. Unless it's forced, then it's just terrifying. Well, then it's not fun at all. Any kind of forced sex between anybody it's not fun but like forced like superman sex is terrifying but so if you're saying just for an example if you're saying bob probert if bob probert rapes another enforcer that's funny so fucking funny and then the bigger beard that either of them have, the better. I think that's how it works. I think that's what you're getting at.

You want that, right? All right, good. Look at the beard on him. Hilarious. By the way, rape isn't funny. No, it's not. It's not funny, but it's not actually going to happen. Bob Probert does not go around raping other men, so this is not a real thing.

We have to say that, probably for legal reasons. I'm not sure. Unbelievable, man. So anyway, he makes $550,000. He does Cote. Rape is not funny. Rape is not funny. There is a great rape joke.

Which one? Sam Morrell does it it and he says i had sex with uh my first black woman this week and she kept saying the n-word no and then he goes and then he goes i like how everybody's laughing right now because it's just a rape joke yeah not a rape that's funny that's fine like the old george carlin rape is never funny. Picture Elmer Fudd raping Porky Pig. That's fucking hilarious.

That's fucking hilarious. Yes, no, and rape is not funny. No, just jokes. Unless it's two cartoon characters with speech impediments, then it's going to be funny. Or Bob Probst. Or Bob Probert and any other NHL defenseman. I said Probst. Like he's the guy from Survivor's Dad or something. Okay, yes.

Unbelievable, man. All right, let's move on. Jesus. March 26, 2001. March 26, 2001. Cote Patrick enters the NHL substance abuse program due to drug problems. Now we're at the point. Voluntarily.

And this is, he has hit Grace. He's in a toboggan cruising down Grace Mountain at about 400 miles an hour. Being raped by Bob Roper. Yeah, he's like Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation when he oils up his sled and he

shot down the thing and he's on fire. That's what he's doing. It gets bad quick. The wait is over. So far you're not losing. The only thing you're losing is my patience. Quickly, I see that.

Bing! The queen of the courtroom is back. I didn't do anything. You wouldn't know the truth if it came up and slapped you in the face. I see he's not intimidated by anything. I can fix that. New cases. She wanted to fight me.

Leave her alone. Okay, so, um... This is not a so. This is a period. Classic Judy. Did you sleep with her? Yes, Your Honor. You married his cousin. His brother.

That's not him. Yes, ma'am. I would make a beeline for the door. The Emmy Award-winning series returns. How did I know that? I have a crystal ball in my head. It's an all-new season. It's streaming.

You can say anything. Judy Justice, only on Freebie. Freebie. In his entire NHL career up to this point, he had 105 games played, one goal, two assists in 105 games, and 377 penalty minutes. That's the most yet. That's a lot of penalty minutes. Hell yeah, it is. That's a lot for one goal and two assists.

Yeah, you're around for one fucking reason, period. Yeah, that's it. And that's to fight. Yeah, you're around for one fucking reason. Period. That's it. That's to fight. Now, September of 2001. Okay. Now, we're going to... He signed somewhere else in the meantime in a minor league team that we'll talk about in a second.

Okay. But in September of 2001, first of all, take any money you can get in September of 2001 because shit got real weird there in the middle of the month. It really did. take any money you can get in september of 2001 because shit got real weird in the middle it really did uh september of 2001 he has offered a contract in the nhl by the boston bruins for 350 000 god that's so much money it's a lot of money he's a guy who was traded to edmonton yeah played in the minors of that year only played in a few games didn't do anything on the ice and got and and then had to go in the substance abuse program. So he should be super lucky that anybody wants him.

And he's making the same amount of money he's been making every year still. He turns it down. What? His last year in Edmonton, he made $550,000. Oh, okay. And he feels like that's his price point. Yeah, I'm not going to slide down like that. On the Boston offer, he says, in their own words, quote,

this offer does not seem acceptable to me. For now, I prefer to train with the Chiefs. I'm not saying I'll be playing there all year. If I am offered a good contract in the major leagues, I will accept it. Now, turn that down, you fucking idiot, because guess what? There will never be another contract in the NHL offered to you ever again. Oh, my God. He signs in 2001 here with the Laval Chiefs.

Laval Chiefs are the LNAH, which is the League Nordamerican de Hockey, the North American Hockey League. It used to be called North American Semi-Pro Hockey League. Back then, that's what it was called because it was fucking semi-pro. Gotcha. He turns down $350,000 because that's not enough for him. Yeah. That's how big his head is right now, which is insane. Now, Laval, the Laval Chiefs, I don't know if I'm saying that right.

Don't really care. The Laval Chiefs won the league's title that year that he was there. They won the Futura Cup. He only plays in six games and had zero points, but 53 penalty minutes in six games. So he was cooking there because he came in and that was what he was there to do. That's what he's there for. He has to lay it down. They were excited to have him because he was in the NHL last year.

And this is a league that gets nobodies who will never play in the NHL or a guy who's like 46. But he's like, I can still do it. And he's like, all right, whatever. They sign him up. You pay him 100 bucks a week and we'll do this. And then they get a guy that'll throw blows for nothing. They got it for nothing and turn down the NHL to do it. Right.

Because in his mind, he is literally there to train and work out for his next NHL deal. Stay in shape, stay fighting, get some good shit on film or whatever, and just dominate and move on. Be the champion and move on. Move on. The coach of this team, a guy named Dennis Shelfor. Shelfor? Shelfor, we'll call him.

Shelfor. Shelfor. Shelfor. Shelfor. We'll call him. Shelfor. Shelfor. Shelfor. Shelfor. I don't know how you say it. It sounds like he's telling you what he's about to do. I am Shelfor. He's pointing that direction.

I Shelfor that way. He said, quote, we were so happy to see this guy on our team. He was still a good player. Strong guys like him brought respect. He had an A1 attitude. So they loved him. They were like, this is great. He's going to go out there and kick some ass.

Now Patrick, now he's there. This is like I said, 2001, 2002. So he's like, I'm going to stay there and I'll get a better deal. So he's thinking this is no problem. But in the meantime, they don't pay much in this league. He's got to be making money somewhere, right?

He's got to be doing something. We finally figure out maybe what he was doing on February 7th. And this is also, this is disputed whether it's February 7th or May 17th. But I'm not sure. I saw February 7th slightly more. So I'm going to say February 7th. Got it. It happened 15 years ago, so it doesn't fucking matter.

Either way. Yeah. Patrick is driving in Malone, New York. It's a small town up near the Canadian border. If you go straight up the Hudson River, a little bit to the west of it, it's all the way up there by Canada. Got it. It's a 14,000-person little small town. He's on Main Street, right down the center of town there on the Main Street.

It's a 30-mile-an-hour zone. It is 317 in the morning. Uh-oh. 30 miles an hour on Main Street, 317 in the morning. And how fast was he going? Well, he is driving his Audi A6. Oh, he's that asshole. And it's a 2001.

It's like a brand new Audi A6. He lost me already. I was really excited for him with that Mustang. Well, he is driving 65 in a 30 down Main Street at 317 in the morning. I'm sure he's blowing stop signs and everything else. A police boat off the coast there clocks his speed and calls it in, because that's what they do from out there, calls it in the police who try to pull him over, and he doesn't pull over.

He didn't stop? He didn't stop. Oh, my God. He's in a small town out there. I don't know what the hell he was thinking, but he takes off for almost a mile before he pulls over. I don't know what he had. Maybe he was ditching whatever he had in the cockpit of the car there.

They pull him over. They're a little pissed off because they chased him for a mile. They're like, what are you doing, basically, asshole? What are you doing? Why are you here? What have you been doing tonight, and where are you going? The typical questions, and they ask it a little differently if they're pissed at you, too. Everybody's had that run-in with the cops, by the way.

Even if you're just fucking going home and you're not up to no good. Everybody's had that. Suspicious and everything else. The asshole cop that's just like, you're going too fast for my liking and now I'm just going to be a complete dick to you. Yeah, now let's see what you got here. So they don't like his answers to where he's been and where he's going. That's not the good thing to do. And he's going 65 and he ran.

First of all, also, when you run from the cops, they tend to think you've got to have something to hide if you were running because it's a it's a speeding ticket what are you gonna not and now you're gonna be a dick and and and tell me what's what because because you don't want to be talking to like first of all yeah i hate those videos online that the people are like i'll only roll my window down this much you you don't need to see my whole face you can just see this much it's fine no fuck face just roll down window. Give them your ID and shut up. That's annoying. Yeah. I hate those.

I stand for my rights. I stand for my. Well, you know what? I do too. But you're going to fucking be an asshole and cause a scene over nothing. Just give me your fucking ID. I like two different reactions from that from the cop too because I'm kind of a dick. I like the reaction.

I like how you preface that. Yeah, I am. I like the reaction where the cop is like, fuck you, and they drag him out of the car because like i like the reaction is that yeah i am i like the reaction where the cop is like fuck you and they drag him out of the car because i'm like yeah and then i also like the reaction where the cop's like well shit you're right you don't have to do that fuck yeah you thwarted me there i also love that i love seeing someone thinking they're hot shit like walking up get out of the car blah blah they're like don't have to don't have to blah blah blah and they're like oh fuck i wasn't planning on that shit yeah that's what i mean like i like that too but then again i also like it when they're pulling them out i just like to see i like to see people

in uncomfortable situations there's one don't be a dick if a cop pulls you over give me your fucking license stop being an asshole there's one of the guy flying a drone and a cop stops him tells him he can't fly there because it's by the police station or whatever and yeah and the cop doesn't doesn't realize that that man's already had a talk with the chief and the chief's totally okay with it because it doesn't infringe on anything. It's not illegal. Whatever. But the cop that approached him is a complete cunt about it. And then the guy's like, look, man, this isn't illegal.

I'm not going to stop flying this. And then he's like, I'm calling my superiors. He's like, cool, get them here then because I'm not wrong. And then the superior comes over and goes, leave him alone. Get away from him. I'm just like, that's kind of cool. That's great. That's kind of funny.

I just like people being embarrassed of whatever they're doing. It doesn't matter. But the asshole that holds up the fucking checkpoint because he won't. Just stop. I want to get home too, asshole. Just go. Just stop. Let the people do their thing.

They want to go home too. Let them do their goddamn jobs. That cop doesn't want to be there fucking with you being an asshole. He doesn't want to talk to you. He'd much rather be home being berated by his wife. Yeah, he would much rather not talk to you. Yeah. Absolutely not.

It's ridiculous. Just go along. God damn it. his wife. He would much rather not talk to you. Absolutely not. It's ridiculous. Just go along. He'd much rather be on February 7, 2002 having Patrick Cote pulled over and deciding that they want to search his car. Let's check out what you got in there. Why you're running. So they bring in

the canine unit and they find 30 pounds of marijuana in the trunk. Whoa. Not a little bit. Not a handful. Not a bag. Not an eighth. He didn't get a quarter. 30 pounds. Not a joint in the ashtray. He had 30 pounds of weed. That's so much weed.

That is selling weed. Yeah. That's trafficking. Yeah. At the time, it's like about 100, 120 grand in weed. That's a shitload of weed. I was trying to do that math in my head. I'm glad that you just hit it right there.

That's a lot of weed. That's a living. That's what he was doing instead of playing hockey to keep his lifestyle up. Definitely. And he was like, I can just do that. And think about him. He's going, I'll just do this for a little while. Right.

The Bruins offered me a contract. Someone else is going to throw one for that little extra scratch, and I'll take it. Don't have to do this anymore. No problem. Tough shit. You're busted. Now he's fucked. He's trafficking now.

He's also, they take $1,980 in Canadian money and $21 American dollars from him, too. $21 is all he's got? $21. It was $21.50, as a matter of fact, to be exact. I love that they had the exact number. They took the coins off him, too. They did. I don't know if that was just in the ashtray instead of a joint.

They had 50 cents. Like, get that out of the ashtray. So he does that. He's arrested. That's a mess, obviously. He's going to be in the paper. People are going to know about that. People are going to hear.

They're going to find out. Right. He's arrested for possession and drug trafficking, obviously, because he's a fucking idiot on this whole thing. Of course. Now, 2002, 2003, he's still with the Chiefs at this point, too. This is the next season starting after this happened. This was at the end of this season. The champion Chiefs have a player who is trafficking drugs.

Trafficking big time. Yeah, huge. 30 pounds is a good amount to just be driving around in your car with. That fills your trunk. Yeah, that's a good amount. Think about how much a dried up plant weighs. Well, I don't know back then. I'm trying to think back then.

It might have been like shitty brick weed back then where it was all compressed and you get like a quarter pound in a thing the size of a brick. You know what I mean? Yeah, but 30 pounds of it? That's a lot. That's a QP though. And that's still four of those times 30. That's a lot. That's still a lot.

Yeah, that's still a lot. That's 120 bricks you're putting in your trunk. That's a lot. Maybe that's why he liked his Audi. It had a good trunk space in it. I have a Volkswagen. Excellent trunk space. They're made by the same person. Maybe that's what it liked his Audi. It had a good trunk space in it. I have a Volkswagen. Excellent trunk space. They're made by the same person.

Maybe that's what it is. Not sure. 120 bricks. Looks like you're laying a driveway. That's a lot. They also confiscated his car, too. They also confiscated his Audi. Oh, no.

He's just fucked. Now, he's back with Laval in 2002, 2003. Plays in 19 games. Four goals, three assists, 134 penalty minutes in 19 games, four goals, three assists, 134 penalty minutes in 19 games, which is excessively obscene. That's a shitload. He's angry. Now, he plays less in that he only plays in 19 games that year

because his court case comes to a problem here. His court case comes to a head in August of 2002 when Patrick pleads guilty to a reduced charge. So they do a little deal with him of fourth degree conspiracy. I guess conspiracy to traffic. Fourth degree conspiracy. He's sentenced to 180 days in Franklin County Jail, which is the county in upstate New York there. And also one to three years probation.

That's great. That is not bad at all. He got off really nicely, actually. Really lucky. For that much weed? That's great. That is not bad at all. That's really, he got off really nicely, actually. Really lucky. Yeah. For that much weed? Like,

that's a lot. I mean, look. It wasn't even two. That was up near the border. Yeah. The border patrol. Yeah.

That's international traffic. That's bad shit. So they were saying, you're trying to traffic over the border, is what they were trying to say. That looks really bad. And that's how they pressured him into, you know,

pleading. Gotcha. But my point is, like, I don't, I don't, look, weeds, whatever. Yeah, I don, like, I don't, look, whatever. Yeah, I don't care.

I don't give a shit. I couldn't care less. But don't get busted with 30 pounds if you're in a state where it's not okay. That's going to be a problem, I think. That's a big problem. Yeah, so 2003, 2004, back at Laval. He plays in 28 games. He has six assists, no goals, 320 penalty minutes. He's back, baby.

That is over 10 minutes a game in penalties. That's a shitload. He's doing it. He's grumpy. They took his Audi. He's fucking pissed, and he's ready to fight whoever comes in. They took his Audi. They took his weed.

He could buy three Audis for the price of that weed. That's a lot of weed. Probably kept him calm. He could buy three Audis for the price of that weed. Like, that's a lot of weed. Probably kept him calm. Now, in 2004, a New York judge in Franklin County issues an arrest warrant for Cote in 2004 after he fails to report to Canadian probation officials. They basically made it, and I've seen this with a couple of cases where we had a Canadian who was back and forth in America.

Yeah. Where they did something here, but they're on probation in Canada for it. Okay. Because that's where they're from and that's where they are and that's where they can check in and that sort of thing. So he was supposed to do that and he didn't. Uh-oh. So he got out of jail, did that, never reported to finish his probation. So they filed an arrest warrant for him.

That's in 2004. He just ignores it. Keeps playing. Bad plan. Yep, 2004, 2005, plays in four games. That's it for LaValle. Has zero points, 23 penalty minutes. I don't know what was wrong with him.

He just wasn't doing anything. Maybe it was this, that he was busy being a complete moron. Again? Well, he's not getting arrested this time. He's doing something equally stupid to throw his money away with no experience. He opens, he and a partner open a restaurant. Oh, Jesus, God, don't do that. That's dumber than trafficking weed on the south shore of Montreal.

Stop athletes. Yeah, I know some of them work, but most of them don't. Most of the time you just lose $300,000 and you shut it down. Well, that was embarrassing. Whoops-a-daisy. Move along. A liquor license costs how much? Oh, Jesus.

So stupid. The extraction system broke? how much? What? Oh, Jesus. So stupid. Yeah. Look, restaurants. The extraction system broke. Right. How much is it? What? Right. There's how many Olive Gardens across this country?

Let's open one. Let's open something that rivals it. Don't do it. Don't. Just stop. The guy that runs that is smart as fuck, and he's cheap. Know what you're doing. Right. Know what you're doing.

Each meal is portioned exactly specifically for a reason, because that's how they make the money. It's true. It's ridiculous. You can't just make your own shit. No, there's a great book called Kitchen Confidential. It is a kitchen confidential. I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what it is. It's Anthony Bourdain's first book. Anthony Bourdain wrote it when he was still a line chef in New York City. And it's basically all of the stories of fuckery and drugs in New York and in the restaurant business. But he has a couple of chapters that are don't open restaurants if you're this guy. If you're a dentist who's had dinner parties and people go, you should open a restaurant.

Your jalapeno jelly's. Don't open a restaurant. Stop. Don't do it for love. Don't do you have to be a cold calculated fucking. You have to be an asshole. Business man. That's it.

There's no business woman or business it. There's no... Or businesswoman or business whatever. Businessperson. There's no... You can't just do it because you're like, I just love food. Tough shit. You have to love... So do I. Go eat it. Yeah, you have to love measuring portions now. That's what you have to love. You need

to love counting pennies because that's what it is. And so both he, Cote, and his partner are huge drug users. They're still doing coke. They're still doing else. They're drunks. That's perfect for the restaurant business. You know what? I take that back. I said before you shouldn't open

a restaurant. Tell you what. You got a coke problem and a drinking problem, you should open a restaurant. There's free booze there and you hang out late and just do a bunch of coke. It's great. It's fun. You can drink the booze too. You won't go out of business. It's terrific. So they're idiots and they go out of business pretty quickly. They lose a ton

of money. A ton of money. They're just out whatever it costs. What an idiot. So 2005, 2006, still with Laval. He plays in 14 games. Two goals, one assist, 81 penalty minutes, five fights. Not bad. Five fights in 14 games uh two goals one assist 81 penalty minutes uh five fights not bad five fights in 14 games two of them versus a guy named jason hamilton don't know who he is but he

must not have liked him right cote had a problem with him um in all the fights this year this is so weird i don't know what the fuck he was thinking, if he was losing his edge fighting or what. In all the fights he has this year, 2005, 2006, they have a special note saying that it was fighting and he also received in every fight a penalty for illegal equipment. What? And I found out what he was doing was he had his hands heavily taped on purpose. So that he could throw harder blows. So he could fucking fight. And he was getting every time he fought, like he would see what he was going to do when he felt like he was going

to go fight he'd go bench he'd tape his hands up and then he'd go out there and fight wow which is you can't do that that is way illegal and kind of a shitty thing to do it's really fucked up out there like okay we're both we're gonna fight we're agreeing to this and you have a weapon basically so every time he got busted for that too i i can't imagine whether you see that guy with a roll of tape run because he's he's coming for you because he wants to fight now he's got a bob probert rape face going watch your ass watch your ass so 2006 2007 laval becomes the saint jean chiefs instead of the Laval Chiefs. Makes it easier to pronounce. Easier to pronounce for me.

I like it. I don't have to worry about it. I'm probably still pronouncing it wrong because it's French. He plays in 28 games. He has three goals and nine assists, which he hasn't had that many of anything in a while. So getting his offense back a little. 184 penalty minutes. He's still fighting.

This guy is consistent. No doubt. I'll say that. Remember like a Steve Durbano started out with all those and then kind of petered out on the penalty minutes like, hey, I'm getting older. I'll relax. Nope. Fighting my way through everything.

He's just an angry guy. And how many years in are we now? Oh, God. He started playing professionally in 93. Yeah. So, yeah, we're like- 12, 13 years in? Yeah, almost 15 years in.

Jesus. So, you know, he's in his mid-30s now. Yeah. Still fighting. It's a problem. 2007, 2008, he's traded. And in this league, they traded. I would think in this league, you'd be like, your team sucks.

You're not trading me anywhere. Don't tell me where to go with your shitty team that no one even knows fucking exists. Right. Are you joking? He paid me in chickens last week. You're not trading me. No, it's not that. They paid me in bats last week.

I have to smuggle weed to make my payments. Do you understand? That's what you're doing. No. So he's traded to Sorrel Tracy Mission. Jesus. That's what they're called. Sorrel.

I know I'm saying Sorrel. Thanks a lot, guys. You could trade him to somewhere that James may as well just spell. Thanks, guys. Thanks. That's what it is. It's a hyphenated name. Mission is what they call them.

He plays in eight games, has one goal, one assist, 34 penalty minutes,s to have cleaned up his life when he comes in now. That's his season. But before the season, when he first gets there, there's fanfare. They're excited for him here. I mean, they're pumped. He says he's cleaned up his life. They're like, oh, he's back. This is going to be the shit.

When he's traded, the mission, this team, their GM, Jean Lassignan, I think I got that right too, said he was aware of Coates' quote, consumption, but he didn't think it was a problem. Consumption. That's what he called it, his quote, consumption. He said, quote, we never talked about that. He was not an individual with a bad background. He was in the wrong gang. He was visited by some people.

He was at the end of the scroll. In his head, he could not get away with it. He was no longer able. In his head, he was gone. Who is this guy? I don't know exactly what he said, but like I said, it's French, so it's translating from French.

But in French, he's basically saying he hung around with a bad crowd. I saw some of these guys. They were up to no good. And in his head, it didn't matter to him because he was already out of hockey and on to his next thing. But this guy really believes in him.

But he does. They all do. Silver-haired, middle-aged white men are falling from the fucking ceiling up there. He really believes in Kotel. Canada is full of them. At this point, how do you? How can you? The man was trafficking.

It's true. Canada, though, they see a hockey player and it's like they're amazed by it. It's true. Canada, though, they see a hockey player and it's like they're amazed by it. And also, too, not for nothing, but I know that this is how it is. Well, not always in baseball and not always in hockey, but a lot of times in hockey and baseball, they pluck these kids out. They don't go to college. He didn't go to college at all, which that's going to do well later on in life. So he's got nothing.

Don't make it. Remember with Peter Story, the soccer player, they would train him when they were teenagers. He was 14 years old. 16 years old. And they're supposed to be going to school to learn a vocation in case it doesn't work out. And they're like, yeah, they look at you like you're a piece of shit if you do that because that means you're not really into soccer. So now you have no life skills when you're done. So that's

basically what's going on here, I feel like, with him. Now, a teammate said about him, this is about him on mission, a teammate on mission said, quote, when Pat is on the ice, he is always bothered. He can change the game at any time with a good check or a good fight. In addition to being one of the best pugilists to have ever

played the game, he can be used on the power play. I'm very happy that he's coming here. Second time on this podcast that the word pugilist has been in. I like it. Pugilist. Yeah, I like it. Pugilist. That sounds good. It's heavyweight pugilist. What was his name? David Tua. Heavyweight pugilist David Tua. I love that so much.

God's doing you the best. Go on. Now we have an in their own words. All right. In their own words on signing with Mission. This is the shit. This is him saying, I am good now. This is his French Canadian, I am good now, translated into English.

He says in their own words, quote, I'm out of therapy. It's been a long time that I did not feel like that. You'll have a new Pat in Sorrel Tracy. I can do more than fight. I will always be there to defend my teammates and I know I can be useful on the ice. I'm a team guy and I want to win the cup in Sorrel Tracy. The chiefs will regret having exchanged me. So he's don't trade me, motherfucker.

I'm going to come in and I'm going to do it. I'm a new Pat. I'm the guy. It's new Pat. So new Pat is involved in this whole thing. New Pat, new Cote. Now, new Pat. He's on the team. February comes up. Now this is 2007, 2008, so he's on the team.

They're waiting for that new Pat to show up. He only plays in eight games and they're like, I don't know, he got a goal and an assist. He's still fighting. But still seems like old Pat, I feel like. Still seems like old Pat. And old Pat rears his ugly head here with a new activity. On February 28, 2008, again, still trying to supplement that income, Patrick is arrested in St. Catherine, Quebec.

He is charged with assault after he beats a 53-year-old man so severely. He beats this man in a restaurant parking lot. Oh, my God. Breaks his jaw, breaks his ribs, his cheekbone, and he has hemorrhaging in his brain. Why? This guy beats him. Well, it's said that he's trying to collect a debt. Oh, Jesus. He's literally going around strong-arming for debt collectors. Oh, my God. That's what he's doing now. So he's like, I tried weed. That's kind of a rough one. It fills your whole trunk. But if I just go around and beat up a 50-year-old middle-aged man and take his money, that's what I do.

That's terrible. That's what he's trying to do. So Grace, he's all the way at the bottom of the hill. Is he an organized crime henchman? Is that what he's doing? Or is he just like, he's loan sharking and then going and getting the money back? First of all, I know French Canada, is that the way you'd say it? But like Quebec, Montreal, a lot of organized crime there.

Really? Oh, there's a shitload of organized crime there. There's a wrestler named Dino Bravo that I found. I knew who Dino Bravo was, but I found his ultimate fate in some research I was doing where he was smuggling cigarettes back and forth across the border. That was a big thing there, smuggling cigarettes. For some reason, there was a tax issue and whatever. Oh, I got you. So they'd smuggle cigarettes, and basically he ended up being – one of his warehouses got busted, and the people who he owed money to came in and shot him like 35 times in his house.

Holy shit. And this was like – he had just stopped wrestling in WWE at the time. WWF was like 92, and then they found him just riddled with bullet holes in his house. Holy shit. And this was like, he just stopped wrestling in WWE at the time. In WWF, it was like 92. Yeah. And then they found him just riddled with bullet holes in his home.

See, kids? Cigarettes are dangerous. Yeah, that's how they're dangerous. But I mean, there is known to be a lot of organized crime in the French-speaking Canadian world.

This is very normal. And a guy who- And they are vicious over like the most fucking petty thing, smuggling cigarettes. That's amazing. There's big money in that, though.

I'm sure there is, but it sounds stupid. But this is like he's a guy who, you know, if you want, this is almost like Rocky in the first Rocky. They go around and break. He's a, you know, kind of a bum athlete. Go around and break that guy's knuckles. I mean, it's that sort of thing. So he beats this poor guy so severely, like I said. Terrible.

Terrible. Now, in addition to assault, he's also charged with breaking and entering and mischief. Oh, no. His general mischief and breaking and entering. I think he went in the guy's car, too, and did whatever. I mean, he's amazing. Just added circumstances. Added circumstances.

But that's not it. You think that's it? Just violence? Just violence? Just trying to collect a debt? Just being a complete scumbag like that? Just attacking a man in a parking lot? What else did he have?

That just being a complete scumbag like that, just attacking a man in a parking lot. What else did he have? Well, when police arrest him, they search his car. Yep. And they find both crack and powder cocaine. Oh, my God. He's down to that now. So both rock and cocaine. Grace was up here.

Oh, it's so gone. Like I said, he is now across the street. Oh, he went over. There's a hole in the bottom of the toboggan that's burned out. It's Chevy Chase that went through that little house. Everything, man. He's on the other side of the town at this point. He's a complete mess.

They're expected to charge him with the cocaine, too, in the next couple days after it. He's being held at the time without bail for psychiatric evaluation. Let's make sure this guy even knows what fucking planet he's on because clearly he's insane. He's got rock and powder in his car, and he's roughing folks up. And he's beating guys silly. And he probably gets himself all coked up so he can go beat the shit out of a guy and not fucking have any whatever. And have plenty of stamina and energy left over.

Plenty of stamina and energy. I mean, beat the guy so bad he was in the hospital. I don't know how much money that guy owed, but Jesus Christ, I think we can clear his debt now. Brain hemorrhage? I think it's over. Ribs, face, jaw, yeah. Wipe it to zero.

Let's wipe it to zero, depending on what he has. So now in 2009, a little later, beginning of 2009, this finally goes through and he is sentenced to two years in prison for the assault. Wow. Now he's going to prison. He got more time for beating up an old man and having rock and powder than having, what was that, 30 pounds or 40 pounds? Well, he didn't hurt anybody having 30 pounds of weed.

Yeah, but he's trafficking. I like that. I like it to where he didn't hurt anybody, so that's fine. But then he almost killed a man in a parking lot. Let's give him time. He wasn't hurting anybody. I guess I'm on board with that. But trafficking is so scary to me because people that are trafficking, they're probably

not great people. They're probably this dangerous. Yeah. I don't like it when anybody runs from the cops. I think that's so fucking stupid. They're going to catch you eventually. Just fucking quit. Just pull over.

It's over. And stop trying to make people chase you and then you all get in accidents and die. Stop. You're going to kill innocent. Right. Just pull over. You're going to T-bone a pregnant woman in an intersection and you're going to ruin two lives and much more probably.

Fucking deal with it. This idiot has ruined his whole career. Think about this. He started out. He was a nice Montreal kid. His dad's – remember how proud his dad was of him? And he's playing. His teammates.

He's got a goddamn Mustang. He's super proud. Dad didn't even tell him to get some rest. He was just like, I suggest it, but I'm not going to force it. I'm not going to force it. He goes to the NHL. Yeah. They think highly of him.

He disappoints them. Right. Then he goes to the shit league, and they're of him he disappoints them right then he goes to the shit league and they're like we're so excited to have him and he gets arrested for trafficking and then they're like we're so he's a new guy he's been in therapy and he gets arrested for this he's a fucking mess he screwed over a million people i feel bad for all these people jimmy i feel bad for all of them i really do but not You son of a bitch. Not nearly as bad as I feel for Patrick Cote,

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nope not even close patrick cote the welterweight and middleweight mma fighter for ufc yeah that's that is if you look up uh assault violence patrick all him All come to him. Former champion in the TKO and MFC promotions at both weights, middleweight and welterweight. Also fought in King of the Cage like we did with Charles Bennett. And then he went back to UFC for about seven years, the last seven years. And April 8th, last month of 2017, he fought a fight and lost to Thiago Alves and announced his retirement on the spot. Wow. He finished with a 23-11 record, and he's also from Montreal. And he still hasn't fought as much as our Patrick Cote.

No, he hasn't. That's the thing. Our guy had 30 fights in one year. This guy's got 34 in his whole career. Nothing. What a pussy. He's a pushover compared to... I want to see these two... I want to see Patrick Cote and Patrick Cote fight. That's what I want to see Patrick Cote and Patrick Cote fight. Versus Patrick Cote. Hell yeah.

That's what I want to see. Our guy's bigger. This guy knows how to fight more, but our guy's bigger and he can take a punch. Fuck yeah, he can. Bob Probert's a man. I mean, he's clocked him right in the face and he stood there and took it. And the loser gets raped. That's what I want.

The loser gets raped by Bob Probert. I want Patrick Cote raping Patrick Cote. No, no. I want Probert to just stand there on the side going, I'm going to get one of you. Licking his lips. Yeah. I'm going to get one of you. I want his lips. Yeah, I'm getting one of you. I want to see that bad.

Just salivating. Actually, why are we dragging this poor Cote? He didn't do anything wrong, this fighter. I don't think he's been arrested. I think he's fine. The poor guy, but if you search Patrick Cote Montreal, Patrick Cote fights, Patrick Cote anything, you get this guy. So you think, oh, wow, what a scumbag. Jesus. By the way, guys, wow, what a scumbag. Jesus.

So late to by the way, guys, he hasn't done the crazy shit yet. Really? This is all mild. We have insane things coming up. Three insane things coming up. Like the crazy part of the story hasn't even happened yet. Not even close. We haven't even scratched the surface.

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Okay. Early 2011. He, wow. In Malone, New York, if you remember where Malone, New York was. I don't. Malone, New York is where he got busted with 30 pounds of weed. Oh, okay. That was the border town up there.

I was trying to think from another episode. I'm like, what the fuck happened there? I don't know. Ocala? I don't know. I remember trafficking. Yeah the fuck happened there? I know Ocala. I don't know. I remember trafficking. Yeah, we're there. So New York, this Malone town, police chief Chris Primo there, and he was the chief back when he got busted, when Cote got busted to begin with.

He says that they have Cote in custody up there in Malone. Apparently, he was arrested at the border crossing in Champlain. This is for the probation violation warrant from 2004. We're in 2011 right now. He's being held without bail. He intentionally turned himself in. They didn't catch him. This is a quote from Chief Primo.

Quote, he'd been serving two years in jail in Canada on an assault charge. He had just gotten out of jail over there. He was dropped off at the border by a taxi and walked up the bus lane. When an officer approached him, he said there was a warrant for him in New York and that he wanted to get it taken care of. He was very decent. His attitude was a lot different than last time.

I thought I'd never see him again. I thought he was gone forever. I picture this guy, I was sitting in my town, never show up ever. There he is, boy, I'll tell you, shows right on up now. The ghost walks. The ghost walks.

So he does that. He actually does some time there, too, to take care of that because he skipped out on his probation. So he does some jail, blah, blah, blah. He's out of jail. It's May 2014. He's all out of jail. Everything's behind him.

Everything's fine. Sure. Everything's good. Right? No. He's good now, right? Jimmy, he's good now, right? He's got to be. He's good now. He's got to be good now. He is driving a Cadillac. That's nice. He's driving a Cadillac. It's not an Audi, but it's fine. He's in Ontario in Canada up there. This is amazing. He stops at a service station. He tells the clerk that his car is broken down and asks the clerk if they would please call a tow truck for him. The clerk finds his behavior suspicious and calls the police. Now, while the clerk calls the police, that's really aggressive.

It must have been really suspicious, like super suspicious. How suspicious do you have to be to go, hey, I need a tow. My car broke down. Someone go, I don't think so. I'm calling the cops. Something illegal going on. Not even like they're going to rob. I'm calling the cops. It has to be crazy. The only thing I think

is maybe the clerk thought that he was casing the joint to rob. That's the only thing I could possibly think of. He keeps reaching in his fucking waistband. And he looks dangerous. He's a crazy person. He's a big dude. Now, while this is happening, while he's a crazy person dude uh now while this is happening while he's supposed to be waiting for the tow truck patrick waits at a nearby tim hortons of fucking course it's a canadian story it has to involve tim hortons remember steve

durbano was busted for trying to start a brothel with a undercover cop in a tim fucking hortons there's every can i danton there was a timortons connection. Every goddamn show that brushes up against the border of Canada, someone's arrested at or near a Tim Hortons or for something they did at a Tim Hortons. What would it have to take for you as a convenience store clerk? Somebody walks in and their car's broke down. How do you

call the cops on them? Pointing a gun at me? Otherwise, I don't care. Or their dick? Even then, I'd be like, get out. They're already left. What do I care? I've seen a dick before. It's not going to before it's not gonna kill me stroking in front of you and he's like maybe that's what it was yeah call me a tow truck i want a cab and then he looks at him probert's behind him slow even slower stroking waiting to get in there it's gotta be just it would have to be something like that we've turned poor bob probert into just an aggressive rapist for no reason i don't think he ever raped anybody i hope not i hope not or i hope he has i could say well We've turned poor Bob Prober into just an aggressive rapist for no reason.

I don't think he ever raped anybody. I hope not. I hope not. Or I hope he has. I could say, well, fuck him then. Good. I hope it was hilarious. Yeah.

Well, if he did, it would be. We know that. So police arrive while he's in the Tim Hortons and they look over the car because that's what they're there for. They look over the car. They run the plates. They see that it was reported stolen a week ago. Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

Right? So they go into Tim Hortons looking for Patrick and they're told, I'm sure in a very friendly They look over the car. They run the plates. They see that it was reported stolen a week ago. Uh-oh. Uh-oh, right? So they go into Tim Hortons looking for Patrick, and they're told, I'm sure in a very friendly manner because it's Canada, they said, oh, yeah, that guy. They said he left. He left the store. So he left his car there. That's a little suspicious, I would say. He left his stolen car there. They find Patrick walking along Route 132.

This is what they do. They find him. They pull up next to him. They pick him up for that. They say, hey, Patrick, along Route 132. This is what they do. They find him. They pull up next to him. They pick him up for that. Hey, Patrick, go on over here. Arrest him for the car. And right then, he admits to having a busy week. This isn't the first indiscretion he's had this week.

He just admits. This is on the roadside. He starts admitting to the week he's had. OK? Let's talk about it. A few days before that, say four days before that, there had been two bank robberies in the area. On May 23rd, on May 23rd, a branch of the CIBC bank on Boulevard Tachereau in Broussard

was robbed. Constable Mark David for the police in Long... Oh, Jesus. Longue... Longue... Longue... Longue... Longueuil? Longueuil?

I don't know what the fuck it is. Some shitty Canadian cop up there is a constable, said, quote, the individual wearing a three-quarter length coat, beige, appeared in the bank, handed a note to one of the clerks. On the paper, it was written that he was armed and wanted the contents of the drawer. the clerks. On the paper, it was written that he was armed and wanted the contents of the drawer described as about six, three, about 200 pounds made off with $2,000 and whatever French or whatever French Canadian, 2,000 croissant money, 2,000 beaver dollars. Yeah. 2,000 hockey puck money. Um, I don't know what it is. Uh, the note that the, that the robber left said, quote, I'm out of jail. I need $5,000 and I have a gun.

That was his, I know Canada has the dollar. Canadian, I know that. The beaver buck. The French, I feel like they'd be like, we don't want your money. We do something else. We can't even speak your language and it's part of Canada. Nah. Nah.

Nah. I don't know why. Just some distasteful grunt at the end of the sentence. I am better than you. I am better than you. I will have probate rapio like nobody's business. With a pop of a cigarette. So a few days later at the Laurentian Bank in the St. Constant was robbed in the exact same manner. So two bank robberies, two days apart, exact same manner. Patrick admits to being the robber.

What? It's right there on the side of the road. He's like, yeah, I stole that car. By the way, a couple of banks right here. I'm your guy. I'm your guy right here. And he's arrested. You're looking for a bank robber. I'm your guy. I'm your guy. He's arrested. No shit. He was already getting arrested

for the car. But he's got that hacky, the guy said three-quarter length beige jacket. He's got that hacky beige trench coat. That stupid one. I'm sure he had sunglasses on and a hat. With that fucking waist rope. It looks basically like somebody made a bathrobe out of khaki pants. That's what it looks like.

I'm going to take my pants. Here's what I want to do. Make these dockers into a fucking jacket. I have a lot of pants. I really do. Way too many. Way too many pants. Not enough three-quarter length trench coats, though.

Kind of windy out. Really feel like, you know, like, and it gets down, I have a windbreaker, but that's up above my waist, and I have like a floor length, like a duster, but I don't want to get crazy with that. So I'm going to, we could make these dockers into a nice trench coat. Here's the thing. When it's windy out, I got my windbreaker on, I got my dockers on, my balls never get cold.

I'm telling you, these pants would make an amazing jacket. Perfect jacket. Perfect. Perfect. It'll keep Bob Probert away from my ass, too. The ugliest jacket that ever happened. Unreal. So, yeah, he admits not only that he robbed the banks, but also tells them he wants to

return to prison. Really? He's like, I want to go back to prison, he tells them. Arrest me. Do this. I guess he's right. It's already in a bad way. It's a better place than bank robbery. Yeah. So July 23rd, 2014. Yeah. Cote's lawyer. They're

in court. His lawyer's name is May Remy Cornier Quintal. I'm already laughing. As soon as you say his lawyer's name, I'm like, this is going to be hilarious. May, Remy, Cornelio, Quintal. That's what we were going to call him. He said. Lots of I's and E's. Yeah. He said that if his client wanted to return to prison, if that was true, it was because he, quote, did not like the outside life. Well.

That's what he said. Who does? No. But I don't want prison either. I like it. Do you like your outside life? Yes. Very much so. Not very much.

No. Better than that. A prosecutor told the court that Cote may be in danger because of owing people money, and that's probably why he was stealing the money, because he's involved in God knows what. He's an enforcer. He knows what he's into. He likes his coke and his crack and everything else. Have you seen his jacket?

He's clearly got problems. He's clearly got issues. No one wears a jacket like that unless they're robbing somebody or their balls are freezing. He's clearly got problems. He's clearly got issues. No one wears a jacket like that unless they're robbing somebody or their balls are freezing. So June of 2014, or July of 2014, like I said, this is at the court of Quebec. He's being sentenced for the robberies at this point because he pleaded guilty for it.

He hasn't talked to his family in over three years. So basically since he got out of prison for the last thing, he hasn't really talked to his family much. Do you think that's because he feels embarrassed? Yes. think he does drugs and i think he's embarrassed and i think his family says you got to get it together and i think he just separates himself from all that no i don't he's at rock bottom yeah this is it he's spinning the you know circle in the bowl right now that's all it is uh yeah so they're all there at court uh judge uh stefan said, quote, it is important that you understand that this sentence will have an end. All I can do is suggest that you take advantage of inside services and try to prepare you for being out in order to be better than you were on your last exit. It's so hard because it's French and the syntax isn't right.

I got you. So, yeah, so she said, you know, get your shit together because you're going to get out. Yeah, you're going to get out. She says, quote, I still consider you very young. You have many years ahead of you, and I do not think you're interested in getting in and out. Patrick responded, thank you. It was a touching speech, but he actually wasn't being a prick. He actually meant it. And the judge said, quote, sometimes it's sometimes it's worth it.

Other times less. Right. Which. Yeah. Now, then she sentences him to 30's worth it. Other times less. Right. Which. Yeah. Now, then she sentences him to 30 months in prison. So not bad. You, sir, may fuck off.

You can go fuck off. You know, it's not that bad. You know, you can fuck off or you can hold off for a little while. You can fuck off later. You're going to be stopping the fucking off. Yeah. Fuck off. But come on back when you're done.

You know what I mean? So, yeah, he Patrick is taken out of court. He avoids eye contact with his family as he's taken away. By the way, crazy part has not happened yet. There's two insane things coming up. His father, Jilly's here, he's just devastated by this. I'm sure. He said, quote, I was proud of him for a long time. During the last year at Sorrel Tracy, he was no longer himself.

He was no longer the same it is not a fine end he had everything to succeed succeed and then he breaks down crying and sobbing and says i can tell him i can i cannot tell him anything other than i love him and runs away sobbing so his father's just a broken fucking man he's just like new pat sucks new pat sucks a dick and he was like you're gonna love new love New Pat. New Pat eats dick. New Pat's a real asshole. Yeah, New Pat needs to get punched in the face by Bob Probert or Ty Domi or somebody. Get them in here.

So, yeah, he's sitting there. I mean, good God, his family's so disappointed. He couldn't even look at his family. He couldn't even look at them. I wouldn't either. He's in court. He's had everything in the world, and he's got nothing and he's sitting in his fucking cell and his family won't even come and

see him either because they're, you know, he doesn't want to talk to them. They don't want to talk to him. So they like don't know what to do. He's sitting there in the cell and there's a knock at the door and he's like, what the hell is that? And it's the Mexican pimp and he's back. Dragging his gun along the bars.

I'm telling you, it's a Mexican pimp, and he says... How is it you've come to arrive here? Why are you here? Why? Why? Why you come? Look, you have everything. You fight with no consequence.

None. You fight. You punch the man in the face. It's okay. You punch the man. You fight with no consequence. None. You fight. You punch the man in the face. It's okay. You punch the man. You punch the man. You have the trunk full of the marijuana. Why?

Why? What? What? I do not. I don't understand. I don't. I don't. No.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

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No. No. Habla Espanol. No. No. No. No. This you know speak? No, France. You don't speak? Habla espanol? No? This will not work. Never mind. You are lost cause. And poof, and he's gone in a puff of smoke.

He's gone, and that's it. And by the way, I know that that's not a Mexican accent. The fucking point is he sounds like a pervert. That's the point. He sounds like Antonio Banderas in Saturday Night Live, and that's what we're going for. Puss in Boots. Your accent sucks. No shit. I'm not and that's what we're going for. Puss in Boots. Your accent sucks. No shit.

I'm not going for realism. I'm going for fucking funny. So laugh at it and eat a dick. God damn it. You don't know what satire is. Yes. My Bobby Colorado's fantastic. It's spot on.

And so is my Dexter Manley. So suck Bob Probert's rapey cock. Okay. So while in prison, he gets in trouble even in prison. He gets written up for intimidation. He's going around collecting money for people. That's what he's doing. Also trafficking in both tobacco

and stamps. Alright, still smuggling those cigarettes. He's smuggling and he's intimidating people to pay him. And stamps? And stamps. Well, they're on the internet. Especially back then. Not back a couple years ago. I don't think they had the internet. So he was just like, you got to mail a fucking letter.

You got to mail a letter. That's probably where most of the stamps in the country are used. Yeah, it probably is. Elderly people with their electric bill and prison. It's got to be. He had to be transferred to a tougher maximum security prison. Awesome. That's how much he was fucking being a disaster, this guy.

I love it. Yeah. Now, February 7th, 2016, Patrick is released from prison. That's how much he was fucking being a disaster, this guy. I love it. Yeah. Now, February 7th, 2016, Patrick is released from prison. He serves his time. According to the parole board records, he begged to stay in prison. He said that he's just going

to go out and use again. He's like, I'm going to go out and I'm going to use drugs and I'm going to fuck off. He's like, I know it. I don't have the tools to do it. Keep me here. They say, nah, you're good. They can go, nah, you're good. You go out there. We spent enough money on you. Bye-bye.

You make a life for yourself, buddy. So February 7th, he does that. So on February 12th, five days after he gets out, a man walks into a Scotia bank in Brossard, same city, and slipped the teller a note saying to hand over the money in her drawer. Okay. The robber left with an undisclosed amount. Again, 6'3", 200 pounds about described. His image was captured on the surveillance video.

They get him. So on February 21st, 2016, police release a video of the robbery to the public. Patrick turns himself into police, admitting he is the bank robber in this. Okay. He did this on purpose to go back to prison. That's where we're at right now. He's the equivalent of a homeless man pissing on a cop's leg just to get three hops in a car.

Exactly. Because it's cold tonight. Right. That's exactly what it is. Now, March 1st, 2016 in court, Patrick pleads guilty to robbery charges. He says that he wants to return to prison. Yeah. Asks for more prison time.

They sentence him to 42 months in jail. That's not enough. That's not enough. That's not enough. He's like, what the fuck do I have to do? What do I got to do? Hey, you know what? He needs to step up his crime game. Go ahead and fucking kill a guy.

Go ahead. Pick out somebody good. No, don't just kill a random fucking guy. Pick out somebody good. Find a scumbag. And kill him. You know what I mean? Just strangle the life out of him.

Who cares? Kill a guy. Kill the right people. Or at least try. Go be Dexter or just give it a shot and and get attempted murder yeah go find somebody who's you know awaiting sentencing for molesting like eight kids and go bash his fucking skull we're fine you get to go to prison society loses an asshole everybody wins i'm okay with that that's perfect you know what i mean fuck

kill fucking kill people if you want to go to prison. Kill assholes and then go to prison for all I give a shit. Jesus Christ. Fuck them all. I don't care. Okay. Now, on October 7th, 2016, he is at the Donacana, Donacana Maximum Security Penitentiary. Sounds lovely. It does sound lovely.

It rhymes and all that shit. It's really not lovely. No, it's not. I saw pictures. It's terrible. Compared to an American prison? Yeah. Fucking heaven.

Fucking heaven. Compare this to like Angola. Yeah. Holy shit. pictures it's terrible compared to an american prison yeah fucking heaven fucking heaven compare this to like angola yeah holy shit paint on the walls dude if you took guys in angola and said would you like to go there they'd be like i will blow whoever i need to to get to that i'll blow everybody in here for a week that's amazing man that is amazing so patrick in this at this moment they're in the fitness center yeah This is about 10 o'clock at night. I don't know why they're still out of their cells, but they're in the fitness center. It's a total Oz situation, the TV show Oz on HBO. It's total Oz. Patrick is beating another inmate senseless. He's trying to strangle the man. Maybe he found his guy.

Maybe this guy's a kid fucker and he found him. He's like, I found a diddler. I'm killing him. Fuck it. I'm going to get more time. Yeah. But the problem is, as he's attempting to strangle the life out of this man, and he really is, two guards show up to intervene. They tell him to stop. He won't stop.

They shoot. They did it polite and all that shit. You know they did. They did. They did. So could you please stop? Could you please stop? Like the people who called the cop.

Yeah. So he does that. Then they use gas on him. Oh, my God. They gas him to try to get him to stop. He still doesn't stop. So they take their guns out, fire two warning shots. He still does not stop strangling this man.

Two warning shots. He still doesn't fucking stop strangling this man. They're very serious at this point. So the guard shoots Patrick in the chest. Oh, my God. They fucking shot him in the chest in prison this is great holy shit that's what i mean this is a chariot this i said don't fucking go anywhere because this is crazy he gets shot in prison he's fucking taken to the hospital uh insane the prison spokesperson uh ann matthew said quote we are talking about a violent altercation between two inmates. An irritant gas has been used by the agents without success.

A shot was then fired. The two prisoners were transported to the hospital Thursday night, and there were fears for the life of one of them, and the other one suffered minor injuries. Patrick almost dies from this. He actually survives it, though. Wow. He actually survives it. The guy's an animal. He's an animal he's an animal this guy can take a gunshot to the chest and survive but i don't think he wanted to okay that's

the thing because he had been talking for weeks up to this about that he wanted to die in a fire fight like the famous french bank robber jacques mesrine who was known as francis robin hood fuck you that's how he wanted he was trying to get the cops to kill him. Yeah. And they shot him in the chest and he was like, yes! And he woke up like an hour later and went, fuck! God damn it! How am I still alive? Ow! I can't get prison time or killed. I can't get

killed. He can't get killed by police, this fucking guy. Unbelievable. Jesus Christ. Move to a shitty place in America and it'll be no problem. So terrible. Un-fucking-real, this guy is. So he is alive now, which is good for him for being alive, I guess. But there he is, alive.

One shot, though, because he's in Canada. In America. Oh, they would have dumped a clip into him. But they don't have, in prisons here, they don't use live rounds, right? Not usually. They have them locked up and then do the riot thing, but maybe a situation like this, they'd come in with them, but I doubt it. I've seen them use live round in the yard before in prison riots and stuff.

Yeah, those are beanbag guns and the shotguns, too. Right. They'll shoot all the beanbags, and then when they're out of those and they're still going, I've seen one where they shot a dude in the head. That's so crazy. It's horrible. It's awful. This in Canada, you've got to do a lot to get shot in Canada.

I mean, it's fucking, you got to be a real dick. I mean, dude, they tried to gas him, and he stood two warning shots. You'd think a warning shot would make you just jump and release the guy. Yeah, at least jump. He cinched up. He's like, I'm not going to choke him faster. Jesus, because I'm either getting killed or a murder charge. One of the two, I'm getting what I want.

Either prison or dead. One of the two, I'm getting what I want. Either prison or dead. One of the two. Wow. So if you can't get enough of Patrick Cote. He's still there. He's still there. If you can't get enough of Patrick Cote and you just love Patrick and you need more of him, you need to have him in your home overseeing what you do, you can go on Amazon.com.

They have a very nice Patrick Cote autographed hockey card. So if you need his signature, take his power in your heart. It's a 98 pinnacle is the card. It's got his autograph on the bottom. It's $13 plus $3.59 shipping and handling. Seems a little pricey, but whatever. And there's a shitload of it. $3.59?

Where's it at? It doesn't matter. It's a card. You can send that from pretty much anywhere for less than that. You can send that with a forever stamp. One stamp. Yeah. I assume it's Canada is where it's a card. You can send that from pretty much anywhere for less than that. You can send that with a forever stamp. One stamp. Yeah. I assume it's Canada is where it's coming from.

But whatever. Either way, there's a ton of hockey cards and a bunch of autographed shit from him, but not like jerseys or anything because he didn't do anything. It wasn't like, this is my jersey where I scored that goal. Or it's, you know, this is my jersey with Ty Domi's front teeth on it. Right. It wouldn't be the only thing like that. That is Patrick Cote.

That's my jersey that i used to clean up bob probert yeah yeah i gotta wipe it down and it's pretty good it's a little crunchy but that's all right now that's patrick cote did i promise you the ending would be the crazy part or what like that's bananas bat shit i mean not only does he get out of bed five days after getting out of prison he goes and robs another bank. He's like, I want to go to prison and then tries to strangle a guy. I was like, this is the craziest fucking story I've ever heard. What a loon. Wow. This was one of those stories on the surface where this is a guy who was one of those guys where I'm like, I don't even know this guy. Like, who is this guy? And he couldn't have done that much. It took me like

hours of looking into him before. I'm like, oh, my God, he's done so much. He's such a terrible person. He's a maniac. He's such a terrible person. He's a maniac. He's a fucking menace to society. But that's our story, guys. Like most of our guys. Like most of our guys. And if you've noticed, too, this week we have some ads that we put in this week.

We didn't put them in just out of nowhere. We were requested to put them in. And that's because we like to fulfill things that we've committed to with certain... We like the companies. The reason why we took off the pre-roll ads in the beginning is because we don't really... We've turned

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You guys can sit out there and you can listen to podcasts and you can go, well, this seems like it's listened to by a lot of people. I bet these guys do pretty well with this. You want to know what we made in sponsor dollars? Do we want to do this? I'm going to fucking do it right now. I'm not going to mention company names or anything else. But for last month, last month, we were paid $111

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And so have you, because we split that cost. But I'm telling you guys, your Patreon dollars and your PayPal donations. I have a list of people that you people are driving this show. That is what makes this possible. Because I swear to Christ, if I didn't have that and somebody paid me $111, which was way fucking less than we're supposed to be paid. fucking less than we're supposed to be paid if somebody pays me that for all this goddamn work i'm doing i'd be going around like cote looking to be shot by somebody because i'd want to strangle everyone that's the thing so this shit right here your donations and your and we're gonna have i know i promised a rant for anybody that follows on twitter i promised a big rant about this but

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