Crime in Sports - Silence Of The Russian Lambs- Alex Galchenyuk

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

This week, we discuss a man who followed in his father's footsteps into the world of hockey, becoming a prospect, who seemed to be the future of whatever lucky team ended up with him. But there were problems, not only with his on ice production, but with his immaturity. There was a domestic incident that he was quite embarrassed about, there was his alleged substance use, which sent rumors flying around the league, and finally, a wild incident, where he threatens to dismember police officers in a very creative way, even making up a new dish!!   Follow in your Belarusian father's hockey footsteps, have a thick Russian accent, even though you were born in Wisconsin, and come up with a whole new recipe, that includes parts of police officer's body with Alex Galchenyuk!!   Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!!   Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman   Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com   Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!!   Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/crimeinsports [e-mail]

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Names are tough, man. And we're going to find out just how tough names can be right now with this guy here. Our fellow of the week, clearly not an American. He's Belarusian. They say he's born here, but he has an accent. It's very weird. Anyway, Alexander Alexandrovich. His name is Alexander Alexandrovich.

So his first two names are Alex Alex, number one. Last name, Galchenyuk. G-A-L-C-H-E-N-Y-U-K. That's American. Alexander Alexandrovich Gilech-Galach-Galchenyuk. Gilichnich. Gilichnicholikov. Yeah.

He's a hockey player. Yeah. Shocked, he's not in the NBA, I know, everybody, but he's not. He's a hockey player. And he's born February 12, 1994. So he's still a young man. Very young. Still too young for crime in sports.

Indeed. If you get a crime in sports before your 40th birthday, you are a royal fuck up. You've fucked up life so immensely. You can... Sub 40. Sub 40. You can gauge how bad off you are by if we are talking about you before your 40th birthday. You have fucked up horribly.

That's not good. Horribly. By the way, next week we're going to have a Lenny Dykstra update as well, by the way. What did he do? We'll talk about it. It's a mess. So he's six foot one, 200 pounds when he grows up here. He's a center in, you know, hockey.

That's his position. His parents are Alexander and Ena Galsigniuk, but I don't know if he's a junior or not. Not sure. I don't know if his dad is Alex Alex or not. He's got siblings named Mikhail, like Mikhail, like Gorbachev and Anna. Make it simple.

May as well. The lady's got the easy names over there. Yeah, that's easy. It's a literary name over there too and shit so they can... There's a shitload of Anna's. There's a lot of Anna's. So early on, he's born in Milwaukee. Really?

Which is very funny. His parents are from Belarus. Okay. His dad, yeah, he's got to be a junior because they're calling it senior. He's a junior. He's a junior. He displays junior behavior in spades later. It's wild.

His dad's a former... hockey player who Remp presented the Soviet Union in international events. So there you go, including at the 1987 World Junior Championships before his dad transitioned into playing in North American leagues like the IHL. He played for the Milwaukee Admirals and there. His dad never played in the NHL, but did play six seasons of minor league hockey in the United States. So definitely a hockey family.

his dad also, in addition to playing on the Russian national teams, played professionally in Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and Belarus. Didn't retire until 2007, his dad. Holy. Yeah, he was 15 years old. His dad, senior, represented Belarus at four I-I-I-H-F world championships and the 1998 Winter Games as well, Olympic Games in Nagano. He had previously represented the Soviet Union in the 1991 Canada Cup and in two world junior championships, including 1987 in Czechoslovakia, where the Soviets and Canadians were both, the whole teams were disqualified for a giant bench clearing fight involving the entire rosters of both teams.

Really? I believe the coaches, too. Olympics, huh? No, it was some other world junior championships. Okay. So that's- Wow, junior hockey. Just to disqualify two entire teams. You're both out of the tournament.

That's a lot. That's amazing. Yeah. That's a lot. People had to take some serious shots for that, right? And guys are yelling in Russian and French. It's a mess. That's a disaster.

That sounds gross. Yeah, it's real bad. So his professional career made Alex a bit of a nomad. Yeah. You're moving around from team to team in place like that. And Alex's birth was, while his father. was with the admirals. Okay.

So that was when he was playing in the United States for minor league team. His younger brother, Mikhail, also tried to play hockey. From an early age, Alex here, was exposed to the professional hockey environment through his father's involvement. So that's how it goes here. Now, here's a story about Alex Sr. here. Okay. Jesus Christ.

Here is from an article from 2000. the Kodiaks monsters never had a chance. Yeah. Okay. Professional hockey in Madison was a huge failure. But some names do stick out from the past five years. Who can forget Mike Johnson, Dave the Hammer Shultz, Ken Hawley and Jim Dohert.

I know I've never forgotten them, Jimmy. The Hammer sounds impressive. Yeah, he's got a cool name. Yeah, that sounds like Dave the Hammer Shultz. That sounds cool. That's like the wrestler, Dr. D. David Shultz. Who can forget. Alex Galchenyuk.

Who? Alex Galchenyuk, you know, the guy who provided a perfect example of what professional hockey was going to be like in Madison. Rewind to October 13, 1995. The Madison Monsters were making their home debut, and the Dane County Coliseum was buzzing. The announced crowd of 7339 was a record for the Colonial Hockey League at the time. The red carpet was even rolled onto the ice, and Galchignac proceeded to trip on it. Ha! Walked on the carpet on his skates.

Yep. Fell flat on his face. This is in Madison, Wisconsin, huh? Yeah, yeah. Wow. Yeah. And so in the end, did pro hockey in Madison. It fell twice, actually.

But just like Gelchiniuk, it got up, dusted itself off, and began to skate again. And then fell again. Galchiniuk, however, was able to remain standing the second time around. Pro hockey, on the other hand, should never have tried a second time in Madison. I can't believe there's not a team there.

It's so fucking cold. They love it. And that city will support anything. They love hockey in terms of in Wisconsin. I mean, I don't know. I don't know if maybe the college. I mean, I guess you got the badgers there and that's all they give a fuck about. I think that that might be the problem.

It's the same reason why there's no professional baseball teams in North Carolina. Yeah. Because they care about the minor league down there. They like that. There's no, you know, you don't see Raleigh having a pro basketball team because they have Duke and UNC and Wake Forest and NC State there so they don't need it. So I think maybe that's one of the things because I know like the NCAA hockey tournament, the Frozen Four that they do and all that.

Wisconsin's a major player in that. They're always involved. It's always like Wisconsin. The badgers. Yeah, yeah, like Iowa and Michigan and all these, you know, cold weather. Northern Minnesota is usually huge up there. Wisconsinites, is that what they are? Whatever they are.

They love a reason to. go congregate together and drink. I believe it was Consonels they like to be called. Yeah. Like the Dells. Yeah. Yeah, they love hockey and they love going out. Anything to go drink a beer or a cocktail and have a beer and have a margarita and a beer.

And generally indoor sports do well in cold environments like this. But nope. So in 1998 when young Alex, our subject here, was only four years old at the time, his family relocated to Europe. This is why he's got weird. He's got like a weird accent where I'm like, I don't even know, I can't place it of what it is. It's like some weird. Probably just a hodgepodge of everything. Yeah, it's a good Western Russian.

Like a random cartoon villain accent. You know what I mean? You're like, I can't place that to a country. It's just bad guy accent. He's got almost like a Bond villain or something. It's strange. So they relocated that following because his dad was playing hockey. That included stints in Germany, in Italy, in Russia.

And then the family eventually settled in much. Moscow, where Alex spent much of his early childhood immersed in the Russian culture and language. Yeah, and they fit in. Yeah. From 4 to 15, he lived primarily in Russia, becoming fluent in Russian and developing his hockey skills and local youth program. So this is where his weird accent comes from. During this period, his father played for a bunch of different Russian teams, and so he got to be around professional hockey and all that kind of thing. In 2009, the family returned to the United States, settling around Milwaukee, and they moved to the Chicago area to access stronger junior hockey development pathways for young Alex.

So, yeah, so he did that. Alex transitioned into that, and, you know, it required a bit of an adjustment just from a European style to an American style. Sure. But he got into it. He concluded his minor hockey career in 2009 and 10, so he's about 16 years old. With the Chicago Young Americans, this is an under-16 AAA team in the Tier 1 elite hockey league. The best of the 16-year-olds. The best of the children.

The best ice skating and fighting children we could find. He led the league in scoring with 44 goals and 43 assists, which is great, 87 points and 38 games, which is incredible. That seems wonderful, yeah. That's great. So, yeah, he also was selected by... the Ontario Hockey League, first overall by the Sarnia Sting. Yeah. Sold Sarnia there in the 2010 OHL priority selection draft.

That's where, remember Simon and Jordan, they used to live there. Yeah. It always, every time I hear it, I think of Narnia. Narnia, Sardia like they live in. Lion, witch in the wardrobe shit here. Totally. It's all fantasy town. It's not real.

It's not a real. How do they play hockey? Yeah. How do they play hockey? They float above the ice and shit. It's very entertaining game. So, yeah, he selected first overall a 16-year-old, and he's at the time six foot 180 pounds or six-foot 180 pounds doing well. And here's an article on him.

Elite in Chicago, Galch and Yuck, ready for his big step-up. All right. So, yeah. So that's what he says. What's a step up from that? there. If you're, you got to age in, right? Yeah, this is, well, this is, I don't know what the fuck. He's only 16, which I mean, kids get drafted in the NHL when they're 16. Sure. But I guess age into that, right? You can't just go do that. Nobody plays in the NHL at 16, right?

I mean, I don't think they play at 16, but they're driving like Sidney Crosby guys like that. They were, yeah. They were got drafted with that, you know, young young like that. Did Sidney Crosby get drafted at 16? I think he got drafted. Yeah, I think he was playing when he was fucking like 19 or 18 or 18. Is he done playing already? Already. Yeah, it seems like he's been around for a long time. It does seem like he's been around for a long time. But it also, if you look at it the other side, it kind of feels like he's still new. To us, yeah, but I'm taking my like old guy brain that like stopped developing time. And I'm like, he's been around a long time. He seems like a child to us.

40s, those guys. Some of them do. Yeah, some of them do. And some of them are too banged up and injured. And Sidney Crosby's not 40 yet, is he? I don't know. That's a good... 38. He's still a baby. 38. Oh, he's got another 10 years in him.

This guy. Yeah, right? He's still got to teach people how to play the game for Christa. What are we talking about here? Teach these young bucks how to do it. So in his rookie OHL season, he recorded 31 goals, 52 assists. That's a lot. 83 points in 68 games, finishing second among rookies and scoring,

and earning a spot on the O-HL first all-rookie team. Wow. Not bad. He's very good. They said that here's one guy, said that Galch and Yuc doesn't have the speed, but his hands are every bit as good as Yacupov. Oh, not as good as Yacopov.

Are you kidding me? We're going to compare him to Yacupov. Come on. That's just not fair to the young man. How is he supposed to compete? It's like for Yacupov. Yes, no, that's probably P-O-V. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. It's Y-A-K-U-O-V. Yeah, K-O-V. Wow. Right? Yeah, Q-Pov, something. That's a fascinating name. Yeah, they said,

Yakupov has as close to a one-timer as former Sting-Forward Stephen Stam-Cost. Well, not Stephen. Now they're bringing up Stephen Stam-Cost and Yakupov. Yacob? None of this is fair, man. This is ridiculous. The comparisons. How you supposed to compete with that?

Jimmy, first time you went on stage and did comedy, I know me. first time I was on stage with a microphone. If someone said, hey, man, you remind me a Yakopov. I would have put the mic down. I'd been like, listen, I can't live up to that pressure. That's a lot of, it's hard work. Jimmy's been told he's a very close, very close comparison to Stephen Stamcoast for years now. And it's just brutal on him.

I know. He's had a hard time overcoming it. Oh, man. So, yeah, his 2011, 2012 season was tougher on him. he suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in a preseason exhibition game. So that's not good. He underwent surgery and was limited to two regular season games that year. So he had an extended rehabilitation, but this didn't hurt his prospect status because he came back strong.

And a lot of guys tear their ACL nowadays. It's not a big deal. The scouts noticed that how hard of a worker he was in recovery and made him. and maintained his skill set the whole time. So they were like, okay, if a guy is that committed, then that's what you're looking for. Yeah, when you have an injury and it doesn't change you unless it makes you stronger, that's pretty impressive. And an injury is almost like a good test for a young guy like that. See how he comes out of that, you know?

Yeah, a lot of guys get injured and they're just never the same. Yeah, yeah. I mean, even like Michael Jordan was injured, this rookie year or second year, he had a pretty good ankle injury. And, you know, people were like, oh, that's it for him. He's not going to be able to jump anymore. Then he came back and he was fine. So that was like a, you know,

it showed that he had resilience, I guess. 2012, 13, Alex was named Captain of the Sarnia Sting. And he's only 18 years old. And he had 27 goals and 34 assists and 33 games, which is excellent. So he was very good. And basically he's going to be up for the 2012 NHL entry draft. There we go.

And yeah, so they're saying he might be gone. Who knows? 2012 in June, they're talking about the pre-draft stuff here. And somebody here said that he has a very good understanding of the game. I compare him to Ron Francis, who that's someone I actually have heard of, a smart, steady player who's now in the Hall of Fame. They said he's a center and he can always impact the game in more ways. Great.

So, yeah, there you go. That's what they're saying about him. He could be really good. They said he's an intelligent player with above average skating, a talented playmaker with the ability to make his line mates better. Yeah, and the center's the guy pushing the puck, so you're going to be, if he's smashing assist and scoring, that's huge. Yeah, if you're in the middle and you can dish it out.

And, yeah, they said his knee appears to be 100%, but teams will be asking for a second opinion. They say that, yeah, the Canadians, Montreal, is who might be drafting him here. Now, his sister Anna, I guess, co-founded Galchanyuk business enterprises in 2012, where she has, apparently she went to college for sports management. And so she's trying to promote and support her brother's shit here, which is interesting. His father, obviously being a player, so she knows a lot about that and everything like that.

So the 2012 June NHL entry draft. Yeah. Okay. Now, this one, Jimmy, number one pick in the 2012 NHL entry draft. 2012. Shit. I imagine Crosby's been playing for a few years by this point. So it's going to be.

Borat Yagadisha. It's Yacupov. Yacobov is number one. You can't compare with Rakopov. That's the thing. Yeah. What would Borat's last name? Exactly.

That's what it is. That's what I picture is a lot of Borat skating around. Yeah. A whole lot of names I can't ever say. Wasn't him really? Yakopov got drafted number one? He does bongong, another man onus. Yes, he does.

Yeah, no, he is number one. Yacobov, number one. I don't think this is the regular draft. No. This is the entry draft. these players seem to have an amateur team. This isn't like an amateur draft. This is the entry draft. So it's different. This isn't like, you know, Sidney Crosby out of high school or anything like that. Was he out of high school? Yeah, a lot of those guys were. Yeah, I think Retsky was 18 when

he started in the NHL. He got drafted early, too. He was too good to keep in the minors. Some of those guys are just too good. So Yakupov, yeah, he's number one. But Yakupov only played about half the games that our guy did. So what do you think of that? Who's good now, bitch? Yeah. Take that. A bunch of other guys. Jesus, these names, man.

Junis Corpiosolo. Junus. Just picking these names. And Junus is J-O-O-N-A-S. Junus. That is wild. These names are Oscar with a K. There's all sorts of fucking weird names in here.

Okay. So they were saying that he was this year's wildcard. He could be a great player. He could be a bust because of his knee. And one of the scouts said, quote, I'm pretty sure if he doesn't get hurt, we're having that discussion of whether he goes number one. For me, it's the injuries. Talent-wise, he's up there with Yakupov. I mean, just this goes to Jakub.

Up there with Yakupov. I think he will develop into a superior player than Yakupov. Well then. That's right. So he said, obviously, the injury, this is Alex. Obviously, the injury is a tough injury. But in the end, I was very proud of myself that I came. back. A lot of people said I wouldn't play this year, but from the beginning, I said I would work

really hard and come back. It was important for me just to go to games and show that I can bounce back. So he's selected by the Montreal Canadiens. Okay. So that's where he's going to go play. The 2012-13 Montreal Canadiens are, this must be a strike. Was there a strike that year or something? 29, 14, and 5. That's not enough games. What year is this? 2012, 13 had to be a lockout or something. It must be. They finished first in the NHL's Northeast Division here. They lost, though, in the playoffs in five games to Ottawa.

So that's what happened there. Wow. Here's their roster of a bunch of people I've never heard of. Wow. I don't know any of these people. I really don't. I could give you a bunch of names and you go, okay. Well, man, yeah, it's a match.

So anyway, Alex makes his NHL debut January 19th, 2013 against Toronto. It's a lockout shortened season. Yes, 48 games that season. He had nine goals, 18 assists, which is promising in only 48 games. That's 27 points in 48 games. He was the youngest player to play a full season with the Canadians since 1984. Wow. So, yeah.

He finished in the 10th. top 10 of all three offensive categories among rookies and was sixth overall in rookie point scoring. So not too bad. I mean, we can't ask for much more than that. He played... And that's real NHL. Yeah, that's exactly right. It's not bad. That's the NH fucking else. That's the show, babe. That's everything. Played in 48, for all 48 games and had a pretty good time there. It doesn't seem to be much of a fighter. I'm looking at his... Not a lot of fights, Not a lot of fights, which is weird because usually when we have a guy on our show, who's a hockey player, he's a fighter.

Likely here because their heads been bashed in. Your proberts and your Durbanos and your Cicorelli's and your guys like that, they're all fighters. And this guy, not at all. He's a finesse guy. Cicorelli started a fucking sports bar, didn't he? Yes, yes. People sent us the menus for it. Yeah.

2013 IHF World Championships. He represents the United States at the senior level here. This is held in Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki, Finland. As a 19-year-old here, he joined the team late in the tournament after the Canadian season was over. He had to do that first. In four games for Team USA, he recorded two goals. And, you know, not bad. It's good.

They won, I guess he had, he scored twice in the shootout during the bronze medal game against Finland, helping secure 3-2 victory for the United States and their first medal, first medal at the event since 1960. What one did they get? Did they get gold? No, bronze. Okay. The first medal at all since 1960. Wow. 2013, 14, Canadians here, they are 46, 28 and 8 for third in the Atlantic Division.

they win in the first round, they sweep the lightning. They go all seven games and beat the Boston Bruins in the second round. Then in the conference finals, they lose to the Rangers in six games. So it's rare that you lose to the Rangers in a conference final, I will tell you. The Rangers have been decent lately, haven't they? Have they? I thought they have been, yeah. But, I mean, they were bad for years and years.

And then in 94, they won. And then they were bad for a long time again. So I don't know. That's one of those. New York has streaky hockey teams. New York has streaky teams. Not really. The Yankees were pretty good for about 100-something years.

They seemed to figure it out. They seemed to figure it out. The Knicks were good for a long time. They just didn't win any goddamn championships, but they were good for years and years and years. Then they stunk. Then they were good. And then they're very consistently terrible for about 20 years.

And now they're a playoff team that won't go any further. So, again, we're really. back to that. I don't know if they still have Brunton, but that guy is one of my favorite people to watch. He's so fucking good. He's fun. This year, Alex had 13 goals, 18 assists in 65 games,

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Now back to the show. So, you know, not too bad. And 65 games played 13 and 18 on the goals and assists. Nothing to be embarrassed about at all. Apparently, he had a lower body injury in the late, I don't know which a leg, Possibly. That's what your lower body is. There's only a couple of things down there.

Knee, ankle. Yeah, something with your leg. I guess knee, foot, ankle. Legs. Leg, yeah. Or it's low. Yeah, out of your nutsack. Or your taint is.

Or your dick, yeah. Your taint is ruined here. So this was, this limited to him to just five games in the postseason, all in the conference finals. And he contributed two goals and one assists, including a crucial overtime winner in game three of the conference finals. Wow. So that was a big deal.

so people start thinking of him as like a clutch performer after this. 2014-15 Montreal, they're 50 and 22 and 10. 50, 22, and 10 for first in the Atlantic Division. Wow. They beat the Ottawa Senators in six games and then lose to the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games in the playoffs here. So it sounds like there's some frustrated Montreal fans out there. Yeah.

It's not like a frustrating team to be a fan of. It feels like that town. Doesn't really have much, right? Not anymore, but they love their goddamn hockey. They really do. Yeah, they don't have much. I mean... No.

I mean, but the, like, the exposos when they had the expos, like, they didn't really care about the fucking expos. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, the whole... The building was empty a lot. It was empty a lot. And that place, the expos, like, they were... By the end, when they finally folded and then became Washington, in there. They didn't even have, they weren't even on TV.

Really? In Montreal. They didn't even have a radio broadcast in English in Montreal. The only media that covered them at home that broadcast their games was French language radio. So people just completely didn't give a fuck about that place, about that team up there. Yeah, Montreal. It's a party town, though, isn't it? Like, people like do things. Yeah. Yeah, because it's French Canada. Yeah, it's beautiful there. And there's food. Yeah, people like it. There's great food. And I've never been there.

And it's like, if we get in my car right now and get on the Taconic in three and a half hours, we'd be in Montreal. Yeah. We could be right there. Want to go to Montreal tonight, Jimmy? What do you say? I mean, I'm not opposed. I don't know if they're going to let us in nor let us back. As soon as we hit stop on this.

We're going to Montreal. They can't stop us, Jimmy. We're doing research for crime and sports. What if we get in and they don't want us back? It's official business, Jimmy. It's crime and sports business, so we get waved right through. Don't you know how this works? You got to let us go back.

You got to let us. We have houses, please. So this year, he had his first career hat trick on December 16, 2014. If you know nothing about hockey, that's three goals in a game. Or soccer. Or soccer, yeah. I didn't even know that was called that in soccer. Yeah, yeah, three is a hat trick.

I figured they called it a turkey, like bowling. Ha! Yeah. Three bagger or some shit. Yeah, you know, yeah, what connects soccer and hockey, other than you can't touch it with your hands? I mean, they call it ice hockey, or ice soccer, don't they? No, not that I've heard of ever. Yard hockey?

I've never heard that, maybe. Field hockey is actually field hockey. Is the thing with the sticks. Those little crooked sticks, yeah. Yeah, in my high school, I just remember it was a bunch of chicks with short shorts and sticks. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good sport to watch.

It was field hockey, it was called. But is it also lacrosse? Is that the same thing? Kind of, no. LaCross is the ball and the net thing at the end of year. That's not field hockey? No, lacrosse like you run with it and you pass it to people and you fling it. Lacrosse is dangerous and shit.

Lacrosse is like hockey. Cross is like hockey on a field. Except you're holding a ball and flinging it. But like all the guys I know that played hockey would play lacrosse in the offseason. Can you run with that? Yeah. There's no dribbling or anything. Do you only get a few steps?

That I don't know the exact rules, but I know that you're definitely, you run with it. Yeah, you're running. Yeah, you can get checked. Yeah, you run it. They were helmets and shit. Yeah. Yeah, I think they wear little helmets now. Don't they wear them now?

Little jockey helmets, maybe. The field hockey doesn't. They've got little candy canes that they're whacking the ball with. Yeah, yeah, there's like little short sticks. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I remember about it. So this year, he finishes, by the way, 80 games played 20,

goals, 26 assists for 46 points, which is pretty goddamn good. Yeah. It's not bad at all. So he's doing really well. July 30th, 2015, the Canadians and Alex agree to a two-year deal. Now we're talking. Now he's getting a deal. I don't know what he's getting paid, but he will count $2.8 million against the salary

cap for each of the next two seasons. So I don't know if that means that's what he's getting paid or what? Yeah. We don't know. but the general manager of Montreal said he shows maturity and fits in well with our other young players development philosophy. Alex is an integral part of our core of forwards and we are confident in his ability to improve his game. Okay. So there we go.

Looking good. 2015, 16, Montreal is 38, 38 and 6. No playoffs. Sixth place. Not good. Alex, on the other hand, though, let's see. He does this year. He did okay.

Problem is, in the middle of the year, he had a little bit of a problem. Uh-oh. January 12th, 2016. Yeah. Here we go. Apparently, players Alex Gelchenyuk and DeVente Smith Peli were called into a meeting with the hockey team's general manager Tuesday after an incident Sunday that led to the arrest of Galchiniuk's girlfriend.

Oh, his girlfriend got arrested. His girlfriend got arrested. Janelle Jesus. This goes like eight letters without a vowel in here, man. Oh, you can't do that. L-E-S-Z-C-Z-Z-Y-N-S-K-I. I guess you've got to use the Y as a vowel. Yeah, it's definitely a vowel.

I mean, holy shit. It's probably Lazinsky, too, or Leszzynski or something. She was arrested early in the morning of July or January 10th in what is being treated as a case of domestic violence. A 911 call was made at around 8 a.m. that day from the apartment in a downtown hotel where Alex lives. Police questioned him, his 27-year-old girlfriend. He likes the older ladies. And other guests at the apartment, as well as hotel and building staff. Montreal police confirmed being called to the address but would not provide details.

So that's all we know. It's a 37-story residential complex in downtown Montreal. The girlfriend is being identified as the instigator of the fight. The other guy who was called into the office was called him because he was there as well. So that's what it is. An official with the team said that they were going to talk to the players and see what the hell was going on, basically. This year, he plays an 82 game, so all the games, 30 goals, 26 assists. So his best season by far.

That's great. That's not bad at all. 56 points. So he's doing great. 2016, 17, Montreal. They're 47, 26, and 9 for first in the Atlantic Division again. Hell yeah. I assume.

Yeah, that's so they went for being shit to good again. Not bad. But they lose in the first round to the Rangers in six games in the playoffs. That's not great at all. So, yeah, it's frustrating to be a Montreal fan, it sounds like. It's probably frustrating to be a, a hockey fan at all because there's there aren't, are there a lot of

dominant ones? There's only a few, right? Yeah, they seem so fucking happy with it though. Yeah, they love it. It's like there's a bunch of mediocrity. Yeah, they don't seem to care. That's the sport where the fans seem to be the happiest watching and going to the games.

They just love going there. I don't know if it's the beer. I don't know if it's what it is, if it's the violence, but they fucking love it. It is one of those sports, though, that you can identify it right when you walk in the door by the smell and the sounds. Oh yeah. Absolutely. You walk into any basketball game or football game, baseball game, it all smells the same. Baseball smells like grass and mustard, hopefully. Yeah, it's a lot of booze, a lot of beer and food.

You can smell the food. You can smell the concrete and the pretzies and shit like that. Yeah. That's for sure. In hockey, though, because the ice has so much scent. You can smell that right when you walk in. It's strange because if you watch an NFL game, the people watching the game, they like know when to cheer. And it's almost like a cultural thing. Like, oh, we all cheer now. We all do this. But they don't seem to be having a great time at the game. No.

If you go to the stands for the most part. It's a lot of rage in that environment. Yeah. They're either just sitting there or they're drunk and arguing with somebody for no reason. And baseball is the same way. Baseball, you got a couple of guys with like headphones on listening to the game and like taking Scoring the game. Keeping score and all that shit.

And then you have people who are trying to keep their kids in their seats and, you know, people are just dicking around, looking around. But hockey, they're into it. They're like, Paying attention. Everybody's got their eye on the fucking puck. Even the little kids are paying attention. Everybody loves it.

And it's a fast fucking game. Oh, it's very, especially live. It's a great game to watch live. Low-ass scoring, but boy, is it fast. It's so much fun to watch live. It really is. It's like a different, it's a complete. different game to watch live than it is on

TV. Any TV. Yeah. TV. It's boring as shit on TV. I can't watch it on TV. Boring as balls. But live, it's like, holy shit. It's like black and white in color. It's a wild difference. And they're so big. And they're huge. And they're on skates, making them even taller. Yeah. These people are huge. Gates and pads. So July 5th, 2017, they sign, Canadians re-signed.

him to a three-year deal. Hell yeah. This time for $14.7 million. That's money. Now he's doing it. Yeah, this is great. So now he's very happy. He's only 23, for Christ's sake.

Still never heard of him. Wow, that's amazing. Only 23. He was set to be a restricted free agent, so they gave him this deal. So he's not a free agent now, which is terrific. Good for him.

2017, 18 Canadians are 29, 40, and 13. They go up and down. Yeah, they do. No playoffs this year again. Yeah, a bunch of guys I don't know on their roster again. Now, October 25th, 2017, this is after he's signed. Now he's having some problems.

Oh? I don't know if it's the money or what it is. And this is translated from a French language article. So please bear with us if the syntax is a little off or something here. They said, this time the controversy came from Maryland. Trembly. The former head coach of the Canadians declared that Galnechuk has been, or Galchenyuk, has been, quote, in two NHL cures. What is that? Rehab. That's rehab. It's been a rehab twice. They call it a cure, huh? Cures. I think that's in the translation from French to English.

They probably don't have a perfect word for rehab. That's all it is. So he said, I don't listen to the radio, I have Spotify. I don't know what you're talking about. That's what Alex responded. That's how he, that's what he replied when someone asked him about it. I don't listen to the radio. I have Spotify. So I don't know whether I've been in rehab or not. I haven't been on the, I don't know. I'm not sure. Yeah, they tell me what it is. So if you don't listen to the radio, you don't know where you've been, really. That's how I find out where I was yesterday. I listen to the radio. I'm like, oh, that's right. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Thought that's weird.

then he said, I don't know what you're talking about next question because they said, well, your general manager said this. And he said, I don't know what you're talking about. So he's denying it here. Trembley said, I don't know what fly bit galchinyuk, but in my opinion, first of all, that's a French term, what fly bit him. Fly bit him. But in my opinion, first of all, we know that he had problems off the ice. We can mention that he was in two NHL courses, one or two, but I think it's two. Okay. Now, this is, now this Mario Trembly, who is this guy? I don't know who this guy is. A former head coach of the Canadians. Yeah.

He's a former head coach who's on the radio. That's a very famous name, though, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, I've heard that before. And I think that he's as his own radio show now, I think, or he's being interviewed or something. But, yeah, he said, I think it's two. But the team refuses to confirm nor deny the assertions that he's been in rehab because this is a confidential program. Oh, yeah, yeah. They have an obligation to not say it because that's part of the collective bargaining agreement with the players is to not blow up their spot here.

So they're saying how cure or not, this is not the first time that his life outside the ice has been talked about. In January 2016, number 27 found himself in an embarrassment after his girlfriend at the time was arrested at his home early on a Sunday morning. Then last spring, during the team's end of season review, two of the team's pillars, Carrie Price and Shea Weber, made allusions to their teammates' life off the ice. The first had mentioned the good choices that Alex should make, while the second had recalled that the veterans tried to instill in him, quote, good habits to help him become a good professional. You know, don't get arrested and get drunk every night. Don't be a nightmare.

He said, before the duel against the Panthers, Galschen Yuck had a slow start with only one goal in eight games, performances which earned him a demotion to the fourth line. Yesterday, he scored his second goal of the season and probably had his most convincing outing since the start of the calendar. The NHL's aid program is intended to be confidential, at least in the first four stages, provided for their end. They said anonymity is one of the pillars of the program because it is what encourages the player to ask for help.

Sure? Yeah. So for the first step, the player requests help on a voluntary basis and therefore has the right to remain anonymous. He's not suspended and is entitled to his full salary. So they care about them and they just want them to get healthy. So if you come and say, I got a problem, they'll help you. Several sources assured us that the players team does not have to be informed of this step. They can go, it's not that through the team, you go right to the league.

You just go do it, yeah. And technically, they don't have the right to ask questions either. There's nothing to do with the team. This is between them and the NHL. According to a player's agent interviewed, hockey players at least for far serious far less serious cases, generally resort to this step once the season is over,

which promotes their anonymity. In peak season, it becomes more difficult to maintain confidentiality since the absence must be justified. People are going to say, where the fuck is that guy? You can only say, you know,

he's got the flu for so long before. This has been 28 days. This guy has got quite the flu going on it, doesn't he? Stages, two, three, and four, however result in sanctions with suspension of up to one year in phase four. Okay. So this year anyway, he scores 19 goals, 32 assists, and he played all 82 games. Right.

Think, though, that they see troubles on the horizon with him. Tell me more. So they trade him. Oh? To a now non-existent team known as the Arizona Coyotes. Coyotes, yeah. So weird when they were the Arizona. It's just...

Well, they're not the coyotes anymore. No, they're... The mammoth? Stupid name they gave them. Yeah. I hated Arizona coyotes too. Yeah. I hate that Arizona teams have to give their fuck...

People are such babies in Arizona that if they don't live in the city limits of Phoenix, and I mean, if they live in Mesa or Gilbert or something or fucking Peoria, they don't... You shouldn't call it the Phoenix Coyotes. Guess why you're in Peoria or Mesa or Gilbert? Because Phoenix fucking exists. Otherwise, it'd be the middle of the goddamn fucking desert.

Yeah. That state is a city and a bunch of desert and forest. That's it. And Glendale's just a suburb of Phoenix. It's all a suburb of Phoenix. The whole fucking state is a suburb of Phoenix. Tucson would not exist without Phoenix. Do you understand?

They just say, fuck it. Let it all be a goddamn nuclear wasteland desert. Who cares? But are there any other teams that play in a suburb of the city that they're named for? Tons of them. Tons of them. The fucking giants and jets don't even play in the same state. Right.

Tons Arlington is the Texas. That's why they named them the Texas Rangers. But there's plenty of these fucking places that are they, you know, don't play in the city proper. They might play in a burb. I think Kansas City's out in the burbs. That's not probably in the city proper. They're moving to Kansas. The Royals or the.

The Chiefs. The Chiefs. I was talking, yeah, I'm thinking about the Coffman Stadium because it's out in the nowhere. I guess Arrowhead is. Arrowhead is out there too. Yeah, and it's even further now, because it's going to fucking Gans. That's ridiculous. That's fucking ridiculous.

But I hate that in Arizona, though. They were playing, and they did it with the Cardinals too, although they're not the Phoenix Cardinals, really. Yeah, you're right. Yuma is a big part of us. Yeah. You're right. It's Yuma. It's fucking Kingman that's really responsible for bringing the team here.

They were looking at Phoenix as a location for a relocation, but they were like, do they have a really nice shit hole four hours away from them that we can. we call them the Winslow Cardinals. Yeah. God damn it, that pisses me off. So, yeah, these provincial dipshits got a change to the Arizona Cardinals. And they trade... Arizona Coyotes. Coyotes, not Cardinals, yeah, coyotes.

They trade Alex to the coyotes for Max Domey. For who? Max Domi. Okay. I don't know. I believe is that Ty Domi's kid, probably, I would think. Probably, yeah. I would assume.

2018-19 coyotes are 39-30. 35 and 8 for fourth in the Pacific Division. Sure. There. I don't know anybody on this team either. Okay, great. They had a whole lot of mediocrity that whole team forever. The entire time they were in Arizona.

That's a 500. They got a guy named Schmaltz on the team. Is that right? Yeah, Schmaltz. Isn't that like a thing you call people like as a derogatory name? It seems like a Yiddish insult, doesn't it? Whatever, Schmaltz. Whatever Schmaltz, yeah.

It's like an old Jewish insult. Yeah. He schmaltz me. He's all schmaltz, this guy. He's not, no substance. He's got a smaltz on my thigh. All schmaltz, no substance, this guy. I don't like him.

So he was a prominent, Alex assumes a prominent role in the coyote's top line. Mm-hmm. So he's doing well here. 72 games he plays in, and he scores 19 goals, 22 assists. Terrific. Very similar to his year before.

June 29th, 2019. and he's traded again. Uh-oh. To the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yeah. Along with Pierre Olivier Joseph in exchange for Phil Kessel, Dane Berks, and a fourth-round pick. I didn't hear Sidney Crosby in there. No, I don't think.

They didn't trade for him. 2019-20, Pittsburgh Penguins are 40, 23, and 6 here. Dang. They lose to the Canadians in the first round of the playoffs or the qualifying round. Really? four games. Crosby is on the team still then. He's captain at that point.

Oh, he's still playing for them, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was definitely on them in 2020. October 2nd, 2019, Alex is hurt. He's got a, quote, unspecified lower body injury. That's the dick, right? That's either your dick taint or legs. One of the three.

It's your dick or balls. If it's unspecifiedness below the waist, why wouldn't you talk about it? I don't know. Well, you don't want to say whether it's an ankle or a knee. I don't understand it. They said our hope is that he'll join practice tomorrow, but we'll make that decision tomorrow. Yeah. They don't like, go, I wonder what's what part of his lower body's injured.

Like this article doesn't say shit about it. October 10, 2019, they place him on injured reserve after he aggravated an undisclosed injury. What are we talking about? If he's uninsured reserve, it's fragile. It's got it a little cast. Yeah. People are signing it real small. Not too big.

Not too big. Come on. They got the guy that writes on rice at the fair. Yeah. What's your name? So once he's on injured reserve, why don't you go ahead and tell us what's wrong with him at that point? Rather than just saying lower body injury. Fascinating.

Very odd. But he ends up getting traded anyway on February 11th, 2020 to Minnesota. Oh, wow. He is bouncing all around here. Yeah. They, this is the penguins acquired a left winger Jason Zucker from Minnesota in exchange for Alex and a protected 20-20 first round pick and a minor league defenseman. They've got to, with sports, they've got to have somebody in that organization that's like the mover, right? Because it is fucking expensive to relocate.

They have assistant. And every league has, because I remember hearing about this in several books that. players wrote. Every league has like relocation, fund reimbursement and stuff like that. They all have that. They have to like pay your, like back in the day and like baseball, like they would have to pay your, your like rent or like to get you out of whatever lease you're in or something. You'd have to pay for that and moving costs get reimbursed and shit like that.

I mean, for a normal person, probably to move states and states away, 20 grand. At least, at least. Yeah. You can't just do that. And to hire a truck and all the shit that goes with that. And there are guys that every year are in another city. I guess you just, at that point, you just have expendable shit. You just throw it away and buy new stuff.

A lot of people, yeah, a lot of times, too, they don't, unless there are someone who's been on a team for like seven, eight, ten years and makes a lot of money. They don't really buy a house or anything. They get an apartment in a hotel like he did that's already furnished. You could just fucking fuck off and go to the next place. Or you just kitchen out of a box for a while until... Yeah. And then you just have a bed. These teams have people that, like, they'll refer you to.

This is our corporate housing guy. He can find you an apartment. You know, they have shit like that that they can help out. But basically, you're kind of on your own. You're kind of... Like, if they're married, the wives end up having to collect the whole house because the guy's off playing. That's what happened. But if you're a single dude, I guess you just give that bed away for free because it's just going to be disgusting anyway.

That's what a lot of guys I remember in the Jim Bouten book He was talking about He had like one guy's like Small black and white TV For like a year and a half Trying to get it back to him Waiting for them to cross paths

Because he had left it when he got traded Holy shit He couldn't bring it because he was going on a plane And so he said you keep it for me And then you know whatever I'll get it back some other time Like that's guys would have like pieces of furniture All over the country

Because they're moving around a lot back in the day So this year The Minnesota Wild Like I said they are I don't know if I said it yet They lose to the Canucks in the qualifying round of the playoffs, old Minnesota here. And that was crazy that Minnesota didn't have a hockey team for a long time. Yeah.

They had the North Stars. Imagine being Minnesota and losing your hockey team to Dallas. That would piss me off if I was fucking... To lose anything to Dallas would really piss me off. When it's a fucking hockey team, that's crazy. It pissed me off way more if it was a football game. Don't get me wrong. You don't want to lose a football game to Dallas.

but really. Yeah. So this year he bounced around a lot and didn't do much. And playing just for Minnesota this year, what do you have? Oh, that's the playoffs. Where was he? Oh, all through. Okay, there it is.

Eight goals, 16 assists for the whole year. Okay. So now he's a free agent now and he signs with Ottawa. Okay. The senators. Yeah, Ottawa senators. It's worth 1.05 minutes. million dollars. So he's still a million dollar talent. Yeah, I don't think you can pay a veteran

much less than that though. Yeah. And at this point he's been in the league almost 10 years, right? Yeah, he's been around a while. So they said he's played for three teams. They're talking about his cap hit and all that crap. So now he's on the senators, 2021 Ottawa senators. They're 23, 28 and 5, 6th in their division. This was like a shortened COVID season. I believe. Yeah. So we got less games here on that one. February 13th, 2021, he's traded again. God damn. He managed just one

goal in eight games with Ottawa. Yeah, not good. And then he's traded to Carolina here. However, they, of course, have hockey and Carolina, but I think they do well down there. Yeah. Oddly enough. Doesn't make sense that, it's a

strange place. Yeah, it makes as much sense for hockey as Arizona. Or Dallas. For Nashville. I guess Nashville. I suppose. Not much. No, no. I don't consider Nashville a winter destination.

I mean, it's not. It's not, but they do well. That team does great down there. It does. Oh, my God. They do well. That town fucking loves hockey. That's strange.

It is. They have odd taste in that town. Yeah. I think it's just they love hockey. They love country music. They're just like, that's the whitest sport. We love it. I don't think they even love it.

I think they're just so drunk. They just do whatever. And that's a place where beer is sold. Yeah, whatever they're told to love, they go, yeah, I do. Yeah. Explains a lot about what the state of country music. Yeah, I do love that. You told me to.

Yeah, that's great. Keep playing it. Sure. So he's traded to Carolina, February 13th. Then February 15th, he's traded again. What? That was fast. Yeah.

This is great. He's like a penny stock. or something. He's getting sent all around here. He is traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a forward and a defenseman. So he finally ends up in Toronto on the Leafs here.

He's 35, 14, and 7 the team is that year for first in the NHL North Division. So he joins a winner too by the end of the year. Not too bad, but they lost four to three, seven games in the first round of the playoffs to Montreal. Oh no. He's like, God damn it.

I can't win for lose. I can't win. This sucks. So this year with Toronto, he is, well, the whole year, 34 games played, five goals, eight assists. So his numbers have dropped precipitously here. He's not doing great for this whole thing. And this is still the COVID season and all that. September 22nd, 2021, he signs a professional tryout contract with the Arizona Coyotes. Tryout. They've had him. They know what you do. Yeah, this is just, they'd sign a tryout contract, I think, in case you hurt yourself in the triaths and whatever. So he's only 27, by the way. That's unbelievable. Yeah. Then, here he is. He's back. In Arizona. He's back in Arizona. He signed a one-year contract with the coyotes.

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Now back to the show. Alex said it means everything to me. I couldn't be happier than I am today. It means everything to me to have a job. I'm so happy to be employed. That's great. Coming here, there was definitely a weight on my shoulders on a PTO. That's a tryout player.

And earning a contract and getting it done was huge. I'm looking forward to the future and just excited to get started officially. He's ready to return to the coyotes here. PTO professional tryout. That makes sense. Yep. And he said the head coach, quote, got me even more fired up to be here. He's ready.

He said, in the past, I would say that wherever you're working, that's where the hometown is. But for me, playing in different places, I would still say, my hometown is Arizona. My hometown is Arizona. You asshole. Is that where you live? The whole state, your hometown. Oh, my. Yeah.

Oh, man. The coach said he was as advertised. He worked really hard, smiled every day, doesn't mind the work. First guy in the gym. We're happy to add a talented player who has that hardworking mentality. And that's important. He's going to work real hard in the back of a police car here pretty soon, which is very funny. The 21, 22 coyotes here, they are 20.

25, 50, and 7. That's how you lose your hockey team when they're that bad. That's how Utah wins. Yeah, that's how no one shows up. And this goes on like this. And I think they were, oh, no, never mind. Okay. So this team here, what does he do, though?

He has 60 games played six goals, 15 assists. Okay, but the year's over. That's a one-year deal. so he joins the Colorado Avalanche on a tri-out contract again. So, yeah, keeps bouncing around and here he is. So he remained with the Avalanche through training camp before he was injured in his debut preseason game, resulting in a release from his try-out contract. So now he's kind of fucked.

But he signs an AHL contract, minor league deal, with the, I guess, still within the Avalanche organization, Colorado Eagles. Oh. Yeah. He had seven points in seven games with the Eagles. Then he signed to a one-year, two-way $750,000 contract with the Avalanche. I think that means he'll play minors in the NHL, if it's anything like basketball,

anyway. The Avalanche are 51, 24, and 7 that year for first in the Central, but they lose to Seattle in seven games in the opening round of the playoffs. Uh-oh. Not great at all. But for him, for Colorado, Alex played in 11 games and had no points and no assists. That's not good. He did nothing.

Nope. He's waived and returned to the Eagles on December 6th, 2022. Now, he returns for a third stint here with the coyotes. Yeah. Yes. Now he's back again. So there you go. July 14th,

to 20203, though, he's placed on waivers again, 12 days after signing his deal. That's because here, they said, we were aware of the incident involving Alex and strongly condemn this type of behavior. Once the club was made aware of the allegations,

we immediately began the process of terminating his standard player's contract. As a result, the coyotes have exercised the team's right to terminate the contract due to a material breach of the terms of his standard player's contract. That sounds bad. Yeah, he was arrested by the Scottsdale Police Department for charges that include private property, hit and run, disorderly conduct, failure to obey, resisting arrest, and threatening or intimidating. Hit and run? Yeah, this is, I don't know if this is the one, because there's a couple incidents.

I think this is the incident that was at Scottsdale Road and Shea. he hit something, which is a big intersection. There's a good amount of bars right there. Oh, yeah, there's a ton of them. There's a wine bar pizza place. There's a Philiburto's up the street for your post bar needs. They're on the west side over by Desert Cove. They have one of the last blimpies in operation of its own private thing there behind the super pumper.

It is. You know how I know? I fucking ate there. You just ate there. Two weeks ago. Yep. One afternoon, I didn't know what I wanted for lunch. I was like, you know what?

I haven't had this in a long time. I'm getting this shit. Is Ernie still there on the corner? I don't remember. Southeast corner. I don't remember. This was just, yeah,

they got all that shit. Dirty dog saloon over there still. There's a lot of bars right there. Right there. Oh, that's Scottsdale and Shea. I was talking about Tatum and Shea. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Not Scottsdale and Shea.

Scott Staling Shee has that Circle K and the tattoo joint up above it. They have all of it. They have all of that. They have all of that. What was it? Handlebar J and all that crap was over there. And then. And then the Mexican, there is a Mexican food joint right there at Desert Cove.

And yeah. Right there. So anyway, he has been released. Now, this is July 14th. They talked to the reports of it. Alex repeatedly used racial slurs toward a police officer in training and threatened to have the two officers killed during a traffic stop last weekend. And this is what I have the body cam footage of. He threatened to have them killed.

Have them killed. Not just them, their daughters and their wives. Oh, shit. It's hilarious. You have to hear it. Do you tell him he's as fine as a goddamn dandy? Because he is really Randy travising the shit out of this arrest. Oh.

Out of this arrest. He's going full Mel Gibson on everybody here. See, that's the thing about that Russian accent. If you say that shit... Anything sounds aggressive. Oh, my God. Any of that, too, you take it dead serious. Oh.

And he could be giving you compliments and you'd be like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, come down. Don't, you don't have to be so fucking, you know, aggressive. Take it easy. No, it's okay. It's everything sounds like that. Whereas Randy Travis, when he says the things he says, it's hysterical. Because there's, you can't, you just said that in the most kind Southern way I've ever heard. You don't sound threatened.

When he's drunk. Fuck, yes. When I hear that accent, I hear the complete opposite of that. I want to send you the video. It's hysterical. Oh, I've seen the video. It's hilarious. It's the way he talks.

Yeah, yeah. It just sounds soft. It doesn't sound impressive. If I hear that accent, that's not what I'm thinking. I'm not thinking, oh, that's kind and soft. Thinking the opposite. Just so soft. He does, yeah.

Yeah. He said, quote, and I'll play it for you in a second. I'm going to chop you, I'm going to chop you, your wife and your daughter. One phone call and you're all dead. Your whole family. Your bloodline is dead. That's so aggressive. That is very aggressive here.

Yeah, so they said once they were fucking made aware of that, they were like, okay, we're releasing you here. I'm going to chop you. I'm going to chop you. A witness told police that a white BMW had hit a curb and a sign. A training officer and a trainee arrived and saw Alex on the ground about 20 feet from the car. They watched another man put him in the passenger seat before driving off. Hey, maybe get involved in that, guys. What do you say?

The officer pulled the car over and noticed both men were heavily impaired. He called another drunk guy to pick him up. Hey. That's amazing. I'm right of you. Dude, that's awesome. That's like I saw one time on On Patrol I was watching and they arrested like four people in the same family.

They arrested, there's a couple and they arrest the driver for DUI. And the passenger was also drunk so they can't drive. So they said, you can call someone. The person showed up. They were drunk, arrested that person. They called somebody else. They were also drunk, arrested that person. person and the cop said think hard before you call anybody else.

Please find someone who is sober to come pick you up. We can't arrest anybody else. Like literally we have no more room to arrest anybody. We got no more cars. They said please don't send another drunk person. We don't want to arrest anybody else. Please just call. Can't you, when you call them, you don't go, hey, cops are here?

Are you sober? Nope. And it was just three people in a row, drunk, drunk, drunk. I was like, this is insane. They didn't even warn them. Hey, come get me. All right, I'm on my way. I should have probably told them the cops are here.

The passenger's probably sobered up by now. You can just let her drive. So Alex became agitated and making erratic movements, which is another thing. He's got something in his hand. He called them a name and he had something in his hand, but it wasn't anything threatening. But the cop said, you know, put that down. And he goes, blah, blah, blah, blah. And he goes, I don't care.

You were just making threats a minute and go, get out of the car. The guy says, and they start grabbing him. Pulling him out. He love when they put that fucking, like, you're my dad fucking voice on. Like, shut up. Who do you think? I'm going to move faster. I would move slower.

Yeah. I'm an adult. Calm down. He yell at me. Then again, I wouldn't be hurling racial slurs at them and threatening their families either. So I guess it's a moot point at that point. So he struggled with the officer before being handcuffed with the help of the officer

in training and then made threats and repeatedly uttered the racial slur as he was driven to the jail as well, and he was released on his own recognizance somehow. I mean, eventually you get out, right? They process you and just send you on your way, but they just basically say, you know, get a car and then you'll have a court date. I would fucking hope so. But if you're a threatening cops and calling them racial slurs, they just fucking let you sober up and get out?

I mean, that's... And what are they going to do? Hold you if that's not like a felony charge of racial slurs or whatever. Just hold them until they see a court or see this. Sometimes I guess you can see a judge and just get the fuck out, right? Yeah, that's the thing. It's once you see the judge, I think, is the main issue here. So we're going to play this video for you in a second, which is a lot of fun.

Okay. So, yeah, I don't know. Just let you out, but here he is. This is him. I apologize for sound. But here we go. Let's get it on. You think the Moscow will come help him?

They're buried you in the fucking side street and the fucking Glenwood fucking green oak and pussy. One fucking phone call and you'll never see your fucking family again. How scary is that? Holy fuck, one phone call and you're dead. Your whole fucking bloodline is dead. How much is that? You fucking cunt. How nuts is that?

All your fucking kids, all your fucking wives, all your fucking dollars will fucking die. I'll make sure of that, motherfucker. You know that's true, right? You know that's true, right? You know that true? I'll kill your fucking wife. I'll give your fucking daughter. I'll get your fucking wife.

I'll care of your fucking shit. That is so dangerous. You remember here from me at every gal. This is crazy. Please. Oh, that's hunt you. You know, you know. you, if you caught me across, they'll fucking chop your fucking liver across, right?

You know that, right? The liver. No, no, right? You know that. You know what if you call me across? My fucking Moscow will fucking cut your fucking chopper liver across. And you'll never fucking breathe, right? You know that.

Why are you? Why are you, man? No, I love it. He knows, man. He knows that. It's all right. She knows that. But do you love me?

how'd you keep talking to me like that? Not if you keep talking with me like that. The fucking Russian, real motherfucker. Put your liver to the fucking style. Fucking make a Bolognaise out of you, motherfucker. Make a Bolognaise that he just said, I'm going to make a Bolognaise from your liver.

That I never, that is a new threat. You know what? I'd have had to crack up laughing if I was that cop. I was that, you know what? I've had a lot of people in my car that are nuts and no one's ever threatened to make Bolognais from my liver. That's almost a classy threat. Thank you.

Polineers out of it. It's very specific. You're a copse. People tell you bad things. But how about this? I make... I cook with your intestines. I cook with intestines.

He's like fucking Hannibal Lecter on the ice. I'm going to feed you to people with a nice sauce. Polineers. Okay, that was that. Oh, my God. That is fucking hilarious. He's frightened. He's drunk as fuck.

Is that just drunk? That's dangerous. His face has like cuts on it because when they tackled him he was like in the fucking in the gravel because everything in Phoenix is gravel. Everything's gravel. So like his face was in the gravel and it was also July so it was hot gravel. But yeah, he's in the back of the car and just drunk as fuck. Wow. And we've heard people when they're drunk, they say crazy shit like that.

But yeah. This, he went above and beyond. He basically said, I know Russian mafia people and I make one phone call and they're all going to make a bull of ayes from your liver. How nuts is that? How scary is that? I make one phone call. How nuts is that? Your wife, your daughter.

How nuts is that? You know it's true. He says, how scary is that? You know it's true. You know it's true. He's such a fucking mess. What a fucking nut. What a fucking nut.

Dude, Jesus Christ, it's goddamn booze and gets people crazy. It really is some amazing stuff. It should have a skull and crossbones on every bottle. That shit is so dangerous. It's fucking, it will make you do that. It should have a little button that you press and that video plays. Yeah. And you go, oh, God, Jesus.

Be careful. How much is that? How crazy is that? How scary is that? So he apologizes to the police for his deeply disrespectful and despicable behavior, he calls it. Yeah, we don't, we, we condemn it. Is that what the team said? Yeah, the team said we condemn it.

We cut him. Yeah. Fuck off, basically here. Lost his job over that. Yeah, they cut him. And I don't remember, I didn't hear racial slurs, did you? No. I heard cunt.

He called somebody a cunt. That was something. He must have said something. else, right? Did he let me go back again? What was the, I mean, later on or something? Do you? Was the arresting officer probably a Mexican guy?

No, he sounds, I mean, just from sounds. No, he sounded like, I would say, a large black man from the sound. Oh, was it a black guy? Just from when he said, do you like me? And he said, you keep talking to me like that. I'm not going to wait, just the depth of his voice. I mean, obviously, it could be a white guy too. but if you said just gun to my head,

I'm going to say, uh, large black man. All right. Um, all right. Let's go again here. Because this is fucking fuck.

You think the Moscow will come help him? They're buried in the fucking side tree and the fucking Glenwood fucking fucking grinned old kid pussy. One fucking phone would. And you'll never see your fucking family. How scary is that? How scary is that? Holy.

Holy fuck. Your bed. Your whole fucking bloodline is dead. How nuts is that? How nuts is that? You fucking cunt. How nuts is that? All your fucking kids, all your fucking wives,

all your fucking dollars will fucking die. I'll make sure of that. Motherfucker. You know that's true, right? You know that's true, right? You know, not sure, I'll kill your fucking wife. I'll give your fucking daughter. I'll give your fucking wife.

You're fucking shit. So drop me off right here and you'll never hear from me ever again. So drop me off right here. Hold on. Somehow I missed that. This is why we listened again. I was so overwhelmed as I'll chop your daughter up that I missed. So drop me off right here and you'll never hear from me again.

That is amazing. Just drop me off right here. Go ahead and pull over. I'll get on now. Drop me off right here. You never hear from me again. I'm going to threaten to murder you and your whole family. And then you just drop me off and we call it a day.

And that's like it never happened. Wow. That is. That is amazing. That is some drunk thinking right there. I want to continue. Please. Please.

You know you. And then please. Like, obviously I'm in the right here. So please. I will be polite. Please. Drop me off. If you caught me across,

don't fucking chop your fucking liver across, right? You know that, right? You know. Okay. Right? You know that. You're aware. You know if he caught me across.

My fucking Moscow people will fucking cut your fucking chopper over across. And you'll never fucking breathe, right? You know that. Why are you bringing this man? No, I love him. He knows that. He knows that. It's all right.

That's not love. But do you love me? How did you keep talking to me like that? Yeah. You know that. The fucking Russian real motherfucker fucking, put your liver to the fucking style. I will fucking make a bollanez out of you,

you motherfucker. It never stops being. I'm like a bullionese. I make a bolognaise out of it. He has no idea what to say. He, like, ran out of shit. And he's like, they chop your fucking liver and make your body big bolognais from you. He's so drunk.

It never stops being funny. God damn it, that's funny. Every once in a while, we're going to have to play that clip during this show. Whenever someone's mad, just I make bolognese out of you. You fucking cunt. Do you love me? What is that? Oh, man.

I still didn't hear racial slurs, though. No, I didn't hear anything racial at all. I might have missed it, but. It may have been later. It may have been at the station. We don't know. Yeah, who knows. There's other pieces of the, like,

there's the iractual arrest they have on camera of him getting tackled and shit. That's just more of a visual, less of a audio. I imagine if you tackle a guy, he's probably angry. He probably said some shit then. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? You said something crazy then. Before they even got him out of the car, he was acting crazy, apparently.

Okay. Because they were like, well, that's why you're saying that to me, and they'll yank him out of the car. So, yeah, he's nuts, obviously. How nuts is that? How nuts is that? He actually says, though, that I guess he sent the police officers a letter. Oh.

He sent all four of the police officers a letter through the prosecutor. to apologize, saying that he knows he has a long road ahead of me, quote, unquote. Shit, yeah. And that he could enter the player assistance program as early as Tuesday with the NHL. And also, they said the NHLPA executive director, Marty Walsh, told ESPN that Players Association is still contemplating whether it will file a grievance on behalf of Alex regarding his contract termination. Oh. because they say they might not have had the grounds to immediately terminate them for that. You can't fire somebody for that?

No, I think it has to be specific things. It's like domestic violence. It's like there's specific things. But I don't think threatening to make Bolognese out of a police officer is technically on the list maybe. I don't know if that's a, you're trying to fold it into something else. That's certainly not. You don't know to put that in the contract. Conduct detrimental of the team, right?

It seems like it would go against the. That part of your contract, the conduct portion of the guy. It certainly makes the team look like dog shit. I would say it's definitely embarrassing here. He said that the police officers, quote, did not deserve that outburst, and he was sorry that the pain of the pain that it had caused. He said, my actions after drinking alcohol were not representative of who I am, but I must take responsibility for them.

And I hope to one day be able to show you that I am a better person than who you said. badly encountered last week. What all of you do putting your lives on the line to protect and serve others is nothing short of selfless and heroic. He wrote all this, I'm sure. This was not his lawyer, by the way. He wrote all this. How do you say in English, yes, selfless. That's right. Thank you so much. Your liver is safe for now. Okay. He says, I appreciate and respect each of you, and I want you to know I will work on myself every day with the goal of one day being able to make amends and try to earn your forgiveness.

He also sent a separate letter to the coyote's organization and its fans, calling his behavior deeply offensive, uncalled for, horrendous, embarrassing, disrespectful, and just plain awful. And I hope you all can forgive me also. Yeah. It's very funny because now that it's all on video, he has to say this because we can watch it.

If this happened 20 years ago, he'd just say, That's bullshit. That never happened. Now he has to, you have to take it on the chin. He said, I am beyond embarrassed and disappointed with myself,

and I feel awful for having let everyone down. My family was counting on me to be better. The coyotes and the amazing coyotes fans deserve better. And the brave police officers who risk their lives to keep us safe, deserve better. Yeah. So, yeah. He said he was devastated and felt personally responsible. And I guess.

apparently he was very upset about his fiancé, who's now his wife. That's why he was drinking? No, I guess this is just another thing. He said he was given bad advice that his then-fiance, a Canadian citizen, could travel with him despite the fact that she had outstayed her American visa. So when they arrived back in the United States, she was deported back to Canada. And he felt personally responsible. And the couple hasn't been able to live together for a year. and he was hoping that a new contract with the coyotes

would allow for the couple to begin planning their lives together in the U.S. That he could get another visa for her and she could come. So instead now his wife is in Canada and he's here. And they don't want to help out? They're less than sympathetic. Is that what you're saying? Yeah. They don't want their livers chopped, apparently.

So July 26, 2023, speaking of Canada, Alex is sued for $400,000 by a Canadian bank. Why? Wow, that's not a good time for him. It's the RBC Bank seeking $400,000. According to them, he breached the contract with the bank to pay back a loan. Oh. So in 2014, while playing, he took out a loan worth $299,466.

And 88 cents in U.S. dollars from the bank. And I guess didn't pay it back. They said this represents in today's value approximately $395,400,000. $714 in Canadian currency. And they said, failure to pay back this loan has since caused RBC to request the amount paid back in full. So Alex had to talk to Adrian Peterson to feel better about himself because at least it wasn't $50 million or whatever. And his behavior made it way worse. Way worse.

Way worse. I guess last April, the bank allegedly told him that he was in default. He allegedly refused to pay the amount he owed to the bank. So they said the defendant is in default under the terms and conditions of the loan and that it has failed to make certain payments and the default has not been cured to date. That's not great. Apparently the bank, therefore, now wants the person whose main residence is Sunny Isles, Florida to repay the entire loan with an interest rate of 9.2%. Good God. So now he's in deep shit here.

And it's a high interest rate. Very high, yeah. August 21st, 2023. I mean, Christ, he had to be 19 when he took the loan out, too. He couldn't have any credit or anything. Okay. He has five of the six charges against him dropped in Arizona. Okay.

Okay. Let me be pled? You, sir, may fuck off. 30 days of jail time. Yeah. One of which counts as time served, and 27 of which will be suspended upon successful completion of an alcohol recovery program and 12 months without consuming or possessing alcohol, which for a Russian is a lot.

Yeah. Yeah. For a Russian is quite a bit, by the way. That's a long way to go. So, yeah, that's what they're talking about here. So he had apparently all of the charges except I'm trying to figure out which one that they kept. Not sure. But either way, he's ready to go.

He said, I'm very much looking forward to starting my life with my wife here in Arizona, playing alongside some of the best in the NHL and entertaining the incredible fan base the coyotes have built here. By checking myself into the NHL-NHLPA player assistance program, I hope to get the help I need and to ensure I never make a mistake like this again. He almost feel bad for the guy, don't you? I mean, it's a pretty wild mistake to make. He's making threats. I don't know if I feel bad for. That's the other thing.

I mean, yeah, he's acting like a menace to society. I mean, I do. You don't quite feel bad for him, but I do feel bad for... No. Alex Galtzhenyuk, student at Sierra College in Las Vegas. That is a human being. Right up the road. Right up the road.

That poor bastard. I just thought that was amazing that there's one of those. So, here we go. August 25th, 2023, Alex signs a two-year contract with... Who do you think?

The mammoth? S.K.A. St. Petersburg of the Continental with a K. Hockey League. Yikes. The K-H-L. Which is in Russia, obviously. He recorded 16 goals and 26 assists

for 42 points and 61 games in 2023, 2024. So he plays well over there. Yeah. Then it ended prematurely when the club released him in May 2024. Why would they release him? He had great numbers. And he drinks like a Russian.

Yeah, he might drink too much for the Russians even here. Not sure. March 6th, 2025, he receives a Russian passport. Oh. And he says he loves Russia. Oh, boy. Now he loves Russia. Wow, he's now a dual...

I don't know. He's now a dual citizen. He received a Russian passport. He said, I'm pleased to announce that one of the leaders of our hockey team, this is the team's president, Alexander Geltsch and Yuc, received the passport of a Russian Federation citizen today. So he's a citizen of Russia. Of Russia. This is the club's chairman and also a local politician saying this. He said, I'm sure this will benefit both the player himself and Russian hockey.

We have communicated with Alexander a lot this season, and I can say that in spirit and mentality, he is ours. a Russian guy. He gets drunk and threatens death on police officers. He's a real Russian. He's a Russian. In creative ways. Yeah. He loves Russia, the team, and our fans.

Therefore, we can say that today, Alexander has simply returned home. Oh, really? Okay. By the way of Wisconsin. Milwaukee. Yeah. So he no longer uses up an import roster spot for them. That's why they caught him.

He was, they needed it for another guy. They have a, remember in the Philippines, we talked about that? There's those Philippine basketball episodes where there's only a certain number of foreigners you can bring in. I think that's the problem here. So, yeah, August 2025, he is named the captain of the team. Wow. Handpicked by club management and sparked debate over his past off-ice issues and potential nepotism giving his father's research. hiring as a developmental coach.

Okay. There we go. The leadership role highlighted as growing adaptation to the H.L's tactical demands, including faster transitions and defensive responsibilities, which differ from the North American style. Now, in the NHL, he made $25,241,463. Imagine that. For being really inconsequential.

Incredibly mediocre and did nothing really about it. No. He's definitely most famous for threatening to turn someone into Bolognese. That's definitely his most famous out. Their liver specifically. Chop their liver. Wow. He's like, I see this movie Silence of the Lambs and

this guy, he has good ideas, but I have better. I make Bolognaes. That's the thing. It goes better with the quainti. Yeah, I don't want no father fucking beans, man. I make Bolognaes. Bolognaes in the Kianti is good. Yeah. Volingia's.

Cope liver folignayes. Cop liver fucking Scotsdale cop. They probably got a real fucking fatty, juicy liver, right? I would think so.

Oh my God, by the way, I missed two other Alex Gelchenyukes. There's more? There's more. A postal worker in Canada. Yeah.

A Canadian postal worker and a software engineer in Frankfurt, Germany. And we're positive, none of these are this man. Not this guy. No.

No, I didn't see Bolognais chef as any of their any of their titles probably not. Culinary genius. Yeah. So anyway, so that's what he's earned. Can't get enough of Mr.

Alex here. He's fascinating, isn't he? He's a fascinating cat. Well, you can get his 2013-14 future watch Alex Kelchiniuk rookie card here.

Autographed came like in the package. 24 of 999. it looks like the number is. For $11.99. $11 for $1.000 for one of a thousand. For a fucking, yeah, for an auto pole too. On a tax, those are expensive with anybody half decent.

Or you can just get the 2015-16 upper deck buybacks number 58 Alex card, which is a dollar. Okay. It's a little more reasonable there. Yeah. And otherwise, I don't know, let's keep an eye out for him. He's in Russia, though. I feel like the kind of behavior that'll get you kicked off a hockey team here. We're not going to hear about it.

is considered just normal behavior over there. Just Russia. We said this literally for 10 years, said it in the Dotsik episode. Russia, if 4chan was a country, it would be Russia. Yeah. So you pretty much can do whatever you want. I know 4chan is really around anymore, but you know what it is. Yakov-Smirnov, what a great.

Yeah. No shit. So in Russia, the government meme you. No. So anyway, that's where he's at, so I don't expect to hear much from him. He got his dad a job over there, too. Yeah. And it looks like he's just going to stay in Russia where drinking and being abusive is considered, you know, patriotic behavior.

Yeah, it's part of the gig, babe. It's just part of the gig. So there you go. By the way, show note, we are going to start pretty soon a multi-parter on Robert Rosier, who we did in the very beginning of crime in sports. And I think it was episode like 11 or something. And we just, yeah, we just did not have the resources to do the research to get the whole story. People are stabbed you guys.

It's crazy. He killed like 11 people. He was part of like 11 murders and it's just giant cult that he's a part of. It's got 70s shit in it. And he's on the Raiders for a while. Even after he was nuts. There's so much crazy. It's a lot.

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I don't like that. I need a break from that anyway. That last one was a lot. Smoking wise? That was so, it wasn't the smoking. It was that goddamn edible. Oh, that's the highest I've been since high school. That's,

If you don't know on the virtual live show, I gave, there was a plate of brownies would say nine brownies on it. And I said one of these brownies is loaded with weed. Every four of them. One of them has wheat. Jimmy ate one. And I said, all those brownies are loaded with weed. He was like, oh, fuck. Too much weed.

Yeah, yeah. We didn't have a, we made those. I mean, they were a guess. Yeah, he couldn't, I couldn't tell you, oh, this is a 10 milligram. That could have been 100 milligram. I don't know. You were eating it and you were getting stoned enough. It was too much is what it was.

And it was like they were really well cooked. They were delicious. They were great. The baking on them was just, mw. Oh, they're crunchy on the outside. It's sticking your teeth too because I'm chewy. Oh, they're so good. Oh, they're so good.

Oh, man. So then I spent the last like 25 minutes of the show wondering what's in my teeth. how much brownie is in my teeth. And if I get it out of there, will I get higher? I don't want to get any higher. You will. Oh, man. So definitely get yourself Patreon while you're at it.

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One crime and sports, one small town murder, and you get every damn drop of it. This week for crime and sports, we are going to do part two of old-timey stuff from the newspapers, which is amazing. It's from, you know, some old, they used to write articles in a really frank manner back in the day. And these disasters and murders. And murderers and accidents. Yeah, they're just like, well, I mean, he exploded and his head landed on top of here. All right.

You just keep going. And then the ads, too, are amazing. Some of these old-timey ads for medicines that are complete poison, and then we know are poison now, but they're like, miracle drug. You know, oh, no, please, don't do that. A car accident just happened near my house, and they just said one child, and it was six kids in the car. One of them passed away. That's what they say. One child did not make it.

Whatever. Oh, they would have detailed. James, the kid was cut in half. And in 1903, they would have talked about at what vertebrae. Yeah. And making a bolignéz out of it. They would have, because his family was poor or something. This kid was bisected and they'd be like L7 or whatever the fuck.

Yeah. It's fucking crazy. So we'll talk about that. For small town murder, one of the craziest cases I followed and I've watched the entire trial. the Corey Richens trial. She is a Utah mom and murderer of her husband. Bad woman. Bad lady.

Really bad lady. It gets even worse than that. The scams she had going on. Stealing. Dangerous. Money and all this shit. She's nasty person. And then she's nasty person.

I just sound like that. She's nasty person. She's nasty person. I chop her liver. Then she also wrote a book to, quote, help her kids grieve with the loss of their father, where he's like an angel and he's always there with that.

She's a monster. We'll talk about that. And more. Patreon.com slash crime in sports. And in addition to that, you also get everything we put out. Crime and Sports, your stupid opinion.

Small town murder all ad free with your Patreon. That's a great deal. And you also get a shout out at the end of the show, which is right now, Jimmy, I would like you to not chop my liver. No.

But hit me with the names of the people who would never, ever try to make our bodies into a bolognese. Jimmy, hit me with them right fucking now. This executive producer of Gary Howard, checking in Lebanese or Lebanese, North Carolina. Erica Brimhall, thank you so much, Erica. Elena Zemmel, thank you.

Thank you. Corporal Carl Kirchner. Again, thank you. Other producers this week, Peyton Meadows, Happy Hours in Carrizo Springs. Carrizo Springs, Texas. I don't know where the fuck that is. sounds awful.

Fucking idea. It's a huge thing. Janice Hill. It's probably one of those places that asked you for directions and you told them, what makes them think that you're from around here. How dare you? That was he never, nothing's ever amused you quite so much.

The greatest thing I'll never forget. With a dismissive puff of a cigarette. How dare you think I'm from around here? sniff my methal and get away from me. I couldn't help it. It just came out. The no thought was put into that statement. Rachel Benson, Madison Haltzworth, Jared Kinney, Jared's Kidney Stone.

I think I said Janice Hill, but we'll say her again. Adele with no last name. Perhaps that one. Colleen. Thanks, Adele. Deswan chick. This one chick? Is that what that is?

This one chick. Colleen, this one chick, Colleen. I think that's what she's going for. Olivia Maddox, Heather Barnett, Oz would no last name. Rachel Williamson, Melissa, would no last name. Share with an S with no last name. Moxie Goodwinch, Anthony George, Jennifer Walzer. Yep, Walzer.

Nantthy, Nanty, yeah, Nanty. Nancy Buxensmith. No, that's not it. Bootson-Smith. That's what I. I don't know what I said the first time, but that's stupid. I think you got that. Christy and Drew Corey.

Rose Reed. Maggie Thompson. Kristen Greta. Mary Hoover. Matt with no last name. Sidney van dermer. Merway. Van der Merway.

Betty Surrey. Nancy Nehus. Leicar 3. Karen Irba. Helena Ann. Nick N. Sweet Jane. Heather Sky.

Amaretto Waffles. Jamie Holland, perhaps Jaime. It's probably Jamie. Heather Holden, Gary Barant, Natalie Rich, Cassandra Hopkins, Michael Self, Dawn would know the last name. Smoorsbox. Gross. A crow, you know. Nicole would know last name.

Alan Miexue. Mew. What is that? Mew. It looks like French and Spanish together. Wow. Mew like Mario. And then Arrow like fucking.

Shira. Okay. Or Tashara. How do you say that? Maybe it's Meshara. There you may be. Moushera. Hey.

Probably not. Cassie would know last name. Victoria. Dizdar. I love you. Victoria with a K. That looks rather Russian. Or, you know, Eastern Block.

Joy Gilbert. Joe would know last name. T. and Flo Malone. Someone waiting for a wall to fall down. Somebody that probably needs. Probably needs food. Maybe. We'll get your food, Victoria.

Sheena Haas Tillapaw. Eric, oh, and he has the last name, but he didn't tell it to us. Sarah Ferris, just Bobby. Kim Kelly, Jim's daughter or sister. Probably his twin sister, Kim Kelly. Obviously. Nicole E.R. K. K. Keulman. Sue Richardson.

Bobby Waterman. Jennifer Patton, J. Champion. Anita Apollo. 1-25 Curiosity. Shriver Ashley, probably reverse those. Roy Pascoe, Charlene Palmer, or Carly, it's probably Charlene. Jody Brockman, Stormy Reuter. Ruder. Rodney Erickson, B. Payton, Tanya Hill, Mountain Mama, Hannah, Muriel.

A lot of Choir. Lodo, a lot of French there. Lee Matthews. A lot of valves. A lot of valves. Valves, valves. Why did I say valves? A lot of valves and valves. Tina Christensen, McKenzie Irish, Joshua Pettigrew, Josh Chastain, Katie Blevins, Holly O'Neill, Kevin would know the last name, Genevin, Genevin, Sexton Goltz, Paul Brown, Andrew Bootsma, Barbara Beasley, Mali Escamilla, Lucci, CMF, I'm a Computer.

I'm not me. Dusty Kay, Margie would know the last name, Sam Seeger, Oh, Bob's Kid, Lori Capriotti, Tish Bell, Nicole Dingman, Bunny would know the last name, Michael Bellow, Karen would no last name, Sanjee, Sanjay Sang, Melissa, Kistner, A.L. Miller, Brittany, Woolchief, Matthew Richards, Melvin Hancock, Weekums, Weekums, Joanne Holley or Hale, Aiden Fullham, Cheryl Sam's, Ashley would no last name, Kate Lucas, Lucassovic, Kayla would no last name, Katie Pace, Isaac Meow, Mao, right meow, Cindy Marshall, Angel would no last name, Danny Bellinger, Meg Clements, Kim would no last name, Robin Middlebrook, Kate Burkart, or Katie, Jennifer DeWill, John, John, Jennifer McGinn, Jerry Meatball, that's a fun one.

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