Empty Netters Podcast - Bruins Lightning Stadium Series Was The GREATEST Outdoor Game Ever

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite, so he gets on the sticks. Did TR show you the sauna cycle or was that all year? No, no, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't taken a body check. That's kind of nice.

Starting point is 00:00:24 Finish tonight with some chicken fingers and a few guineasas and ran into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready. And we are back with another episode of the. MT Netters podcast brought to you by BetMGM. We are remote. We are blown away because a lot of stuff is going on right now. I'm your host, Dan Powers, and over here, the newest member of the MT Netters team. He's a Penguins fan. He's an absolute riot. He's going to become your new best friend as fast as he did ours. Evan Watkins, welcome to the bench, buddy. How are we feeling,

Starting point is 00:00:55 boys? How was the flight back? The flight back was actually not bad at all. Agree. We'll get into it. Before we get into it, we'll get into this. guy over here. He's fully decked out. He's also so old and he's snoring so bad these days that he had to buy a special anti-snoring pillow. The guy's deteriorating before your eyes, Chris Bowers. As always, also doesn't work. Also, I thought it did work. No, it doesn't work at all. Doesn't work at all. And I don't think I'm deteriorating, though, according to you, Dan. Because I was like, oh, I think I snore now. And then you were like, no, you always snored when we were on the road. And I was like, oh, it's based on. That's actually, that's actually, no deterioration.

Starting point is 00:01:33 That is fair. Like it's, you do snore and it's bad, but there is the reality that we're just like, oh, he always did that. Ev, I, listen, guys, we got some great stuff to get into it. We're going to get all into the stadium series. Spoiler alert, probably the greatest outdoor game of all time. Certainly the best one that we've ever been to. Cannot wait to talk about it. You asked about the flight, and I just got to say, just a quick shout out, quick plug.

Starting point is 00:01:59 I know I'm late to the game, but I finally watched shrinking. I don't know if you've seen that. I ripped through all of season one on the flight. And, uh, man- You actually did pump that, dude. That was crazy. Yeah, I watched the entire season. And the second we are done recording this, I'm going to get under a blanket and continue watching the show because apparently season four has just come out.

Starting point is 00:02:21 I don't know why I'm surprised because Bill Lawrence is maybe my favorite creator of all time, given how much I love Ted Lassow. And everyone in that show is so fucking good. and I just absolutely love it. It is so feel good. It's just great. It gave me every feeling that I've ever needed. And I recommend.

Starting point is 00:02:40 High recommend to the folks is what I'll say. Yeah, I love Harrison Ford on a TV series. It's fantastic. Never thought I'd see the day. Was it done? Or like, how far into shrinking are we? I think season four just came out. So like I've got fucking time to grind, baby.

Starting point is 00:02:57 So we're humming along still. Yeah, big time. Big time, big time, big time. Speaking of big time, the hot ice is big time. We've got lots to get into folks, so let's not waste any time. We're going to get into the stadium series in a little bit, but first and foremost, had some breaking news. But even before that, Dan, even before that.

Starting point is 00:03:17 Oh, Hugh, I don't even want to do this, dude. You're going to bring up this rat scumbag again. Yes, I am. We did this last year. I know, dude. I just want Evan's take. Evan, happy Groundhog Day, man. Happy Groundhog Day.

Starting point is 00:03:32 Oh, yeah, that's today. Yep. And unfortunately, punk satan-y-filly saw his shadow, so we're fucked again. And I love that. That tone of voice, Evan, doesn't give a shit about Groundhog Day. When you leave weather, which living in Southern California, you like say goodbye to weather, you're like, who gives a fuck what's going on in Punk satan? I mean, other than the great movie, which is one of Bill Murray's, Harold Ramos and Bill Murray's best films. uh yeah it i like nobody we all know this is just a fucking hoax right like it's a hoax dude

Starting point is 00:04:05 so i i this is i've been saying it for years who is this who's this other rat bastard that we found out last year i forget there's another one ev he's like because i saw that phil was described as the world's leading prognosticating rodent and i was right is there another one is he one of one hold on let me go look it up yeah it's like some rambusage Random town, his name is ridiculous. Just Google it quick, Chris, and say, who is the other ground hog? Because his name is something nuts. I can't believe we're forgetting this.

Starting point is 00:04:39 Actually, it makes sense that I'm forgetting it because I have such a disinterest. Oh, shit, damn. There are a lot of them. Well, which one? You should remember the one. There's Staten Island Chuck. Staten Island Chuck. There's Buckeye Chuck in Ohio.

Starting point is 00:04:55 In Georgia, there's General Beauregard Lee. and where is he? Is he in Ohio? Georgia. Yeah, I don't like General Beauregard Lee sounds too Confederate for me. Like fuck that. That guy sucks. Yeah, what's he predicting? It's problematic.

Starting point is 00:05:10 Yeah. I agree. We're out on that, dude. There's flat iron Freddy in Colorado. He's a yellow-bellied marmot. And that's interesting. I don't hate him. Do they all predict how much winter we're getting?

Starting point is 00:05:24 You're telling me that this is such a, there's so many jobs. No one can get jobs in this country. Who's telling the truth, Dan? Who's telling the truth? We've got just droves of rodents and marsupials getting jobs, predicting how much more winter we're going to get. And it's Staten Island Chuck, who's maybe the biggest rat of all. I'm out on that, dude. Staten Island Chuck.

Starting point is 00:05:47 There's a woodchuck in Michigan who also predicts six more weeks of winter. So at least they're aligned. They get together and they say, you know, we're going to sink up on this. Side picture. I picture these rats, like the, what is it? It's like the Senate in 300, those like old mutilated weirdos that Leonidas goes to just ask if he can go to war and they say no because they've been paid off by Xerxes. I picture them.

Starting point is 00:06:16 They all meet right after New Year's and they huddle around and they munch on wood and they just, they go, we're going to just be scumbags and say there's more winter and depressed everyone every year. We said last year that right now it goes, if you see, if he doesn't see a shadow, summer's coming sooner. If he does see a shadow, more winter. And we were like, it should be two good things. So it's like if he doesn't see his shadow, summer's coming.

Starting point is 00:06:44 If he does see his shadow, then today's a national holiday. No work. Everyone work off. So then it becomes sick because you're like, dude, who gives a fuck? If he see, I might, I said I would scare him back in. I'd pretend, hey Phil, fuck you, scare him, seize his shadow, and then we all have work off. We get fucked up. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:03 How do we know what the hell he's seeing? What is he doing? I've also, like, never seen it. Like, I don't know what, I don't know, I've never seen it happen. Good point, Dan. I mean, it's on TV, I think. But yeah, he might have to go to Punksitani. It was negative two degrees in Punksitani, by the way, and they all stood out there to watch this

Starting point is 00:07:20 fucker tell us winter was staying. Yeah. Oh, no shit. Winter's still here. Speaking of, it was cold in Tampa, right? Like surprisingly. Holy shit, dude. It was very, very cold.

Starting point is 00:07:30 That's wild. Listen, like I said, we're going to get into stadium series. We're going to get, we're all off fucking Groundhog Day. We're done. We've done that. We've been there. Let's get into the breaking news before we get into stadium series because we want to give a lot of loved stadium series, a lot of love to a lot of people.

Starting point is 00:07:48 The big thing was Barry Trots. Barry Trots is going to be stepping away from his duties as GM of, the Nashville Predators. He's staying on board until they find a successor and had a little bit of a press conference today,

Starting point is 00:08:07 talked about it, got a little emotional, and that got me emotional because I think Barry Trots is great. Where do you stand on this, C.P.? I think he's great. I think I just can't tell.

Starting point is 00:08:22 Like when Bill Belichick steps down, I know that he's he's been fired, right? Like, I know that there's conversations that were had that were like, we're changing things and we want you to keep your dignity. Yeah. And this reeked of that when I first heard this.

Starting point is 00:08:38 It was like, Barry Trott's stepping down. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, that's great. But then I put these quotes in here that if anyone didn't see it, I just wanted to read this. It says, I've been in pro sports in some shape or form, probably 40 years now. And there comes a time when you realize that a lot of the stuff you've done and you've been immersed, you can't be sometimes present in both places. You can't be present in your job.

Starting point is 00:08:56 job and can't be present at home. I just felt like there's an end date. There was a responsibility that I feel to my family. I think you see your kids grow up. I'm very proud of my kids. Now they're getting married. I've got grandkids now. You're missing a lot of these dates, et cetera, et cetera. And then he goes, when I took this job, I said I didn't want it, I didn't want to do it to a point where I couldn't do the rest of the stuff, have time for the rest of the stuff. In the back of my mind, when I took the job, I was probably being fair and I was up front with everybody that will see where this goes. I wanted out of respect to the organization and ownership and everybody were trying to build something, collecting draft choices, but I wanted

Starting point is 00:09:24 to be here to win the Stanley Cup. I don't know how long. that long will be. So I wanted to give them a defined date and it was clear on both sides. So it kind of did strike me a little bit as he was like, I actually just feel that I'm missing too much time with my family and like this job is stressful and this life is stressful and I've accomplished so much in my career that I just kind of reached a breaking point to the to the point that I legitimately kind of believe now that he's stepping down on his own accord. I don't know, but I kind of, it rung a little true to me. I think it totally rings true. I think I saw some, you know, some journal tweets and shit that was like, you know, if you're a good player doesn't mean you're a good coach, if you're a good coach doesn't mean you're a good GM, this, that, the other. And I know a lot of people had a ton of high hopes for Trots when he went there and took that role with Nashville. I did. Yep, I did. Same. But I love this man. The guy wants to spend time with his family. I will believe that as long as I fucking want because I think Barry Trots is great. I think Nashville is great.

Starting point is 00:10:25 It's a great town. It's a great team. And if my man wants to go kick it with the fam, I'm going to support that. And I can't wait to watch the search for the new one and watch Nashville rise back in the ranks. It's going to be exciting times. Do you think, I mean, I guess you've kind of always put them out. But I've really enjoyed this resurgence. And remember he was like, I need more shit from these guys. And they're 19, 11 and 2 since then. They're only four points back in the wild card. I've really enjoyed this run they've been on. That's the only thing that's weird on the timing for me, where I go, even if you are kind of missing your family. I'm like, dude, don't you just ride this year out and, like, see if you can get the boys in playoffs without any distractions? No. Because he's, he wants to be with the fam, dude. Yep. Like that, that's why you, you shouldn't think any of this is sketchy. Yeah. They're, they're starting to buzz. And he's like, I got to step away. I got to go be with the fam. They can focus. They focus on them. That's when you know it's legit. Okay. I buy it. I buy it. I'm rooting for Nashville. I'm rooting for him. I hope he, you know, I know he's going to stay on a naked advisor. He won't, he won't be away from hockey and completely. He's too much of a hockey guy. He'll be around. I think he'll be around and I think the new role will be great. Uh, and I'm just excited, man. I'm excited about Smashville getting back on track. The question is, are they going to be sellers? Like, are we going to see a big mix up like we've kind of talked about maybe they need. That's interesting. I can't tell you. I can't tell you. Me neither. Me neither. Me neither. Me neither. Me neither. But, uh, listen. I want him to coach his grandkids team. I want him to fucking. go nuclear and become like a serious coach of his grandkids hockey team bring them to 10 straight

Starting point is 00:11:56 titles and that that will be his new agenda now some kicking and screaming shit yeah yes yeah mike dicka taking over a kid's team type thing here that's that's that's pretty interesting i like it i need more shit from you guys and they're like eight you know and everybody's like sir it is tough i will give it to nashville it's a tough time to try to find a new great gm you go from a guy like poyle to a guy like trots and you go, we hit the lottery. And now Trots is like, I got to go. And it's, you know, we're through 55 games of the season and you're kind of like, fuck. What about, what if they offered it to you, Dan? What if you got an email that said, you've been offered the position of GM of the Predators, you know, it's like, how much was Trots making? Like, it's

Starting point is 00:12:39 millions of dollars a year. And then, do you take it or do you go out of respect to the franchise and my incompetence, I will turn this down? I, I promise you, like, I swear to God. I would say, I would pull a Maximus Decimus Meridius and I would say with all my heart, no. Really? Yeah. Because I just know that I couldn't. Listen, I love this stuff. You know I love this stuff.

Starting point is 00:13:04 That's why I asked. But I, I am woefully underqualified for this type of job. I don't think I could handle the pressure. I don't think I would want the pressure. And I want better for the people of Nashville than me. I think you'd get draft aid. I think you'd be the little bitch GM that's like fucking everything up. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:13:20 I get bullied. You fucking lose all your. picks. Wow. Draft Day reference. That is, uh, we're, we're going to try to do that every week for the rest of the season. Really? Uh, yeah. Nice. So if we can just slide in a very authentic and organic draft day reference, that'd be great. I also, I do want to call, uh, I want to sewer Chris. Uh, he was watching draft day in his hotel room last night before we. I was. I was. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I love, I've said it before. You like that movie a lot. I like draft day. I like draft day because it feels like I'm playing GM mode. It's so ridiculous. And,

Starting point is 00:13:51 You're telling me I'm not going to love some Kevin Costner and some Jen Garner. You're out of your mind. Did that movie have all the split screens? Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's just switching. Sons of transitions. Yeah, that's, I think that's what put me off.

Starting point is 00:14:03 I don't like that. I'm like, if I want to read a comic book, I'll read the draft day comic book. Thank you. That actually would have slapped. I would have liked that more. I think people forget this. Shout out our boy, R.P. Chadwick in that movie, too.

Starting point is 00:14:15 Great in it. It's on too soon. Yep. God, fucking love him. All right, well, listen, Nashville. it'll be interesting to see what they do, but I've got high hopes. Got high hopes and all the best of trots, because again, hockey guy Supreme. Let us dive into the icy tundra of Tampa and talk about this fucking stadium series.

Starting point is 00:14:39 I don't even know where to begin. So, C.P, I'm going to hand you the reins for a minute. Well, first and foremost, I want you to do your Sauron joke or your Sauramon joke because it was so accurate. Just for reference, last year people were going. You guys know this scene? When Saaraman has his crooked little fingers atop that, the orb that Pippin steals, and he's just doing his thing, that was Gary. That was Gary this year, summoning the winter storms to both Miami and Tampa,

Starting point is 00:15:15 to somehow bring us unseasonably cold weather for the two outdoor games in Florida to make them both absolute bangers. And I don't know if you saw they were literally heating the ice because it was too cold. That's how cold it was. You had to heat the ice because for those who don't know, an ice rink, if it gets too cold, it can crack, which is like obviously dangerous for the players. But it was that cold in Tampa. Dude, it's crazy. This is, we don't even put it on the rundown anymore usually, but like in our episode doc, the title of our news thing is always hot ice because it's from Rookie of the Year when he's like, you heat up.

Starting point is 00:15:51 Brigma, the ice cubes. It's the best of all worlds. And I could not believe, Dan, we were here, and they were like this. We are heating up the ice. Literally. And I was like, oh, wow, we did it. Hot ice is officially hot ice. The top story in our hot ice is literally hot ice.

Starting point is 00:16:06 Yeah. We can end this podcast permanently now. Unbelievable. Listen, that was the most fun I've ever had in an outdoor game. Yep. And we've been to a bunch. But there are just so many people to shout out. And first and foremost, it's the Nourcane team, and we're going to get all into them.

Starting point is 00:16:25 But I do just want to take a quick second to tire pump the NHL. Yes. And I mean this sincerely. Gary is on, speaking of hot ice, Gary is on the biggest heater I have ever seen. Fucking humming. Gary's on his way out, potentially, maybe that's not, I'm, I'm, you know, Gary's an older guy. He's done an amazing job. I imagine he'll retire at some point.

Starting point is 00:16:47 What if Barry Trots takes his job? Yeah. I'm like there goes your fan kiss your fucking family goodbye dude see you later the busiest job on earth they've barry replaced gary that's crazy but yeah Gary betman is just on a heater the likes of which we have never seen with I mean it goes even further back but four nations into this mom everyone said you're crazy the Miami winter classic was amazing now we've got Tampa stadium series the whole shebang was just out of this world and you know we got to spend some time with guys like Keith Washington who's just like the fucking goat. And there are just so many people at the NHL making shit like this happen. And I can't get over how great the setup was, man. And we're going to get deeper into it. But the pageantry of this stadium series, with it being during Gasparilla,

Starting point is 00:17:44 let's talk about Gasparilla for a second. Yeah. The pirate theme, the tarp and. the designs all over the field surrounding the ice, the fucking pirate ship, the cannons, the light show before the game. The whole thing was such an eventized ordeal.

Starting point is 00:18:02 And it's got me thinking two things. Number one, we got to be eventizing and putting more pageantry into hockey in general. I'm declaring this. I think once a week, we need a, we need a pageant game. Once a week.

Starting point is 00:18:20 It can be one random Saturday game, but we need themes. And I'm not talking gimmicks. I'm just talking fun. When the bees guys rolled out in the colonial uniforms, the bolts players came out in the Bucks uniforms, the boys are just having fun. Eye black on, tukes and beanie's whipping around in warmups. Who says we can't do that once a week?

Starting point is 00:18:44 And I'm not saying I need all this production. I just, I think a little bit of fun, a little bit of pageantry, maybe some costumes, stuff like that. Just add a little bit of zest into the game more. We need it. Dan, I would say, don't even be so hesitant because Vegas does this every game. Vegas does a literal fucking night slaying dragon show

Starting point is 00:19:06 before the game every game, literally. And I know if you go to a lot of Vegas games, you're like, oh yeah, I've seen it, I've seen it. But don't sleep on that shit. That is really fucking cool. I couldn't believe the first time I went to a Vegas game. I was like, this is amazing. And why doesn't every team do that?

Starting point is 00:19:21 It shouldn't be just Vegas. Do something sick for the game every buck in time. That's what I'm saying, man. I think once a week we need something like this. And a huge part of how fire, you know, unbelievable this was. Ever, are you aware of Gasparilla? It's like a pirate fest thing, right? Is that what it is?

Starting point is 00:19:42 It is literally a pirate fest. Yeah. It is, we showed up and people were like, hey, it's Gasparilla. And I obviously the NHL knew this. And that was part of why all of the the pageantry and the design and the costumes were like this. But it was, I didn't know what it was. I thought it was just because they were playing in the Bucks Stadium that they were doing a pirate thing. And I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.

Starting point is 00:20:06 But now we're out here. We show up to the hotel and there's fucking yo-ho and a hoi-maidie banners everywhere. We got people walking around with peg legs and barrets. left and right. Eye patches everywhere. Eye patches. And I was just like, wait, what the hell is going on? So it's like, I was like, is this Mardi Gras?

Starting point is 00:20:26 And they're like, it's not quite Mardi Gras. It's more of just like a party. And I'm talking about the NHL doing more pageantry. Right. Is there a world where we as society need more citywide theme weekends on a regular basis? It's outside of the NHL. You mean just like, yeah, just in the world. Yes.

Starting point is 00:20:46 Like you're telling me if us here. in Los Angeles, if we, if in the entire city, they go blank weekend in April is medieval times weekend. Yep. You're telling me that wouldn't be fun. We do have Santa Con. They did that that. It's, that is that Santa Con thing. But you're saying it's more than just that one. Yeah. Like, I'm saying let's do, why don't we do one once a month? Let's just like pick themes once a month and just have some fun at specific cities though, right? Or do you mean like across the entire country it's blank weekend. Because I think it's cool that this is in Tampa.

Starting point is 00:21:22 I think it's like, oh, sick. Go to Tampa. You just, you threw me a curveball there that I'm not, I'm not sure I can hit it. But I'll tell you this. There's part of me that loves the idea of there in specific cities because then you can travel. There's also part of me that thinks it would be pretty sick if it was just a

Starting point is 00:21:40 nationwide medieval times weekend. You're inventing. What you're doing right now, Dan, is inventing holidays. You're inventing, you're going, this is, weekend is Thanksgiving. If one day we celebrate the birth of Jesus. It's called Jesus' birthday. I think it's great.

Starting point is 00:21:58 I think that they, I think regionality is probably more fun because then you have the chance to delve into like the history of. We're boosting economies, Dan. Like, I'm assuming there were pirates in Tampa Bay, right? They're not just making this up. See, that's what I don't know. But they must.

Starting point is 00:22:12 I don't know either. They're like they were in there were rum runners in the bay. You know, They were pooped to the bay. But I'll tell you what, it's weird. Actually, maybe it's not weird. I was going to say it's weird because Tampa's on the west coast of Florida. But maybe that's exactly why it works because they're in the bay and they're in the Gulf.

Starting point is 00:22:29 Yeah, they're easier to hide that way. So all those Caribbean pirates were swinging up in the Gulf maybe. Is that possible? That's what I'm thinking too. Because the Miami's too obvious. They're like, dude, I got to get around. Miami's too open. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:40 It's too open. So there must have been. Okay. The regionality and maybe historical context. could be more fun. Like we do colonial weekend in Boston. And everyone dresses like colonial soldiers. And that could be fun.

Starting point is 00:22:58 But nothing involving like a rodent that predicts shit, because that's tired. I was just going to say, I was like, we have fuck that. Let's not do that. So my only problem with every city, you know, ideally we get 52 weeks. Not ideally we get 52 weeks in the year.

Starting point is 00:23:13 But let's say ideally, we pick 52 cities and everyone gets a weekend and they get to pick their style week. The problem is this is too much travel. That's why I think they need to be national weekends so that everyone can enjoy. Yeah. I mean, 52 is a lot.

Starting point is 00:23:32 It's a lot of time. It could be 12 once a month. You know, you're like, oh, sick. I don't know. This is, but my larger point here is Gasparilla being a part of this stadium series was so exciting. And I think a huge part of that was because remember when we were in school? Remember when you're in college? You got so fired up for a theme night.

Starting point is 00:23:46 Oh, dude, I love a theme party. Everyone got fired up. And pirates are a great one. Why did we stop doing that? So when I'm seeing all these cities, when you got Mardi Gras, you got Southern Decadence in New Orleans, we were there for bachelor parties. One of the most fun I've ever fucking had in my life. And now you got Gasparilla.

Starting point is 00:24:05 I'm like, this is what I'm talking about. Are they doing this in the Southmore? Are we fucking dropping the ball in the north? I went to school in Savannah, Georgia, and the St. Patrick's, Day there was like probably behind Chicago and Boston pretty fucking insane. Really? Nice. I didn't know that.

Starting point is 00:24:24 Savannah, Georgia pops off. Yeah. That's cool. Some of our Minnesota listeners, like does Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Petersburg, do they have, do they have like a Viking weekend? Do they have, I mean, I know they, I know that they do, uh, Midsamar, but like, Midsomar's, you know, tons of cities do that because it is a Swedish holiday. And that's great.

Starting point is 00:24:44 But like, they should have a Viking weekend. weekend where they just fucking drink out of horns and drink aquavetes and shit like that. In the summer, damn, when you're on a boat anyway, you know, like it should be like, in the middle of the summer. Raid a village. Yeah. Raid a village on a random weekend. Pillage.

Starting point is 00:24:59 Uh, I think this was really cool because, yeah, 100% this was planned. I felt it felt like a happy action. But usually stadium series is a little bit later in the year. But this year comes of the break, I get them being like, oh, we got to move it up. Also, we want to move it up. So there's a chance it's colder in Tampa. And then it just landed on the pirate festival. weekend where the stadium you're in is a pirate mascot you know and I was like oh this went

Starting point is 00:25:22 really well and I will say the people some people at the league told us this weekend that Tampa the lightning franchise leaned in harder than almost any team they've ever worked with on one of these and I just got to say massive tip of the old pirate cap to them on that because they took a chance on you right like the league went hey we're going to fucking throw an outdoor game in Tampa. You never thought you're going to get that opportunity as the Tampa Bay Lightning. When you get it, fucking go all in. Don't be resistant. Don't be embarrassed about what, you know, just enjoy it, do the show. And I thought they did that so hard. And I hope they are, I hope and no, they will be rewarded with much more after that because that was awesome. Definitely.

Starting point is 00:26:04 It was awesome. So getting into the game, like we said at the top, we got linked up with the Norrcane team and we had this whole unbelievable watch unveiling their NHL specific watch. one thousand nine hundred and seventeen of them made for the founding year of the NHL all the details if you didn't see it our story check out Norcahn's page check out all the stuff that we did with them but they literally have ground up pucks in the band of this watch there are so many hockey elements to all of things like things on the bezel on those second hand it's all just fucking unbelievable there may this is if you haven't seen the rollout that

Starting point is 00:26:41 Norcane has done with the NHL with the hockey world working with guys like Sid, J.J. Moser was down there, which was awesome because he's obviously playing for Tampa. He's a Swiss guy. They've got so much cool stuff going on. So we got linked up with them. And just a massive shout out to Ben, to Matthew, to Emmanuel, to Mark Strait, to tie, like, the whole fucking team. When we said at the top, this is the most fun I've ever had at an NHL event. It is, I would say, 99% to them because we just had like such a sick crew. And then... Unreal, like rolling with those guys, because the event was... incredible. We do a tour before anyone was there,

Starting point is 00:27:17 tour of the arena, see the watch, you know, like get these, get up close and personal, see the watch, hear the whole speeches and all that stuff. And then, like, just, we ripped like a top golf day, you know, team dinners, team, I just felt like, you know, the crew on the road. It was electric. Always on time for everything.

Starting point is 00:27:32 Yes, do we didn't miss a meeting. Never miss it. We did. We did. We did. We did. I, not not the official NHL one, but I do have a Norcad on right now, and it's easily the best watch I own. It's fucking incredible. Yeah, I was, Dude, I was like, I actually need that NHL one. Like, I will acquire it.

Starting point is 00:27:49 I don't deserve it, though. Are you, you guys are watch guys? I love a watch, dude. Chris, you're so full of shit, dude. I am a watch guy, and now Chris is trying to be a watch guy because he tries to do everything that I do. I was a watch guy before Dan ever was, because I was a watch guy at birth. I was born with a watch on.

Starting point is 00:28:04 And my mom said it was brutal, but I had one on. If that is true, then I can't, I can't argue this. Born with a watch on. No, but it was just, just so fun. I love what we just said. CP was just like felt like we were on the road with the boys with the team. And it was just, you know, everything we were doing was so fun. And I mentioned Keith from the NHL at the top. And we posted one of the stories during the unveiling of the new watch. He was talking about things that the NHL is doing, brands that they're trying to get linked up with, this one

Starting point is 00:28:34 being one of them. And it just, this whole thing had such a cool feeling of all the things the league is doing right. Just fun people that they're teaming with, great people that they're putting together. to make awesome stuff happen. That's what this was. And the fact that it then led into one of the most electric games ever was hysterical. Like we just,

Starting point is 00:28:55 the game starts, boom, Hegel, 11 seconds and goal. It was incredible, dude. I was like, what the fuck? The place went nuts.

Starting point is 00:29:03 You immediately texted Army. You're like, hey, pal. But that's winter classic, though. That's a different category. He texted back to him.

Starting point is 00:29:12 He goes, I'm the king. Or what do he say? He goes, He goes, you're the prince of the stadium series, but I'm still the king of the class. And he's right. He's right. I love that.

Starting point is 00:29:20 That was awesome. But a fucking snipe job. Like that was a nasty goal. Fucking, the place was fired up. That was, it got louder later, as we'll get to, but that was loud. That was really cool. You know, because I was easing into the, I was like, okay, here we go. And then it was like, that was a great moment.

Starting point is 00:29:34 It was so loud. And then obviously, yeah, the Bruins go on a flurry of goal scoring. But it was just, man, when you go to a game like that, there were so many people from Boston who traveled down to Tampa for that game. And then so many Tampa fans, it was really cool. The Norcane team being in that we were sitting in the box watching the game. And people were like, damn, Tampa has some fans. Like they were booing Boston so intensely.

Starting point is 00:29:57 So that's just another tire pump for all the fans in Florida of both of these teams. It's amazing. But it's when you have a game like this, you have that vibe of you want, you want a show. You want the stars to show up. And it was just sick that like Cooch had a nasty game and a disgusting one time ago. Hegel had a nip. Geeky is fucking pumping in goals left and right. Pasta is dishing

Starting point is 00:30:20 pasta and is five-star service all over the place. Sway makes fucking 40 plus saves. It was out of control. So Boston starts ringing it up. They get that lead. We get the scrum behind the net. So let's talk about it. Let's talk about... We're going here right now.

Starting point is 00:30:36 Let's talk about the best moment of our dear friend's life. Jeremy Swamen finally gets his goaliefer. He's been waking up every morning praying for a fight literally he wakes up every morning fucking praying for a fight the second he threw it hagel and like hagel pops him back and i see sway get up dan like ran to the railing because he was like oh i know it's about to happen and i when i tell you watch this watch this when i tell you i almost fell out of the suite because i ran so fast to the edge of the window i like

Starting point is 00:31:12 I truly had to catch myself because I like the scrum was happening. We were all like, oh, sick, sick. And then, yeah, sway throws that blocker at Hegel. And then I saw Vassie and I was like, oh my God. And then saw Sway see him. And I was like, we're getting it. Like we're going to get it. It's the stadium series.

Starting point is 00:31:29 The refs won't break this one up. He's going to fucking get it. And then it happened. It was unbelievable. They were smiling. They were smiling immediately like kind of during the fight, but like right after they were just like, you think they just opened their Christmas morning gifts, you know? There was a part of me that was like, did they fucking plan this?

Starting point is 00:31:48 Like, they looked so happy about it that I was like, was this planned, but definitely not. And it was great how Sway was like, I did not want to fight the fucking biggest and toughest goalie in the NHL for my final fight. But, I mean, there you go. Yeah. But it was fucking great. They both got some good shots in. Vassie got the takedown for sure, but they both got a couple good licks in.

Starting point is 00:32:08 That's great. And, dude, it was so good. because stick tax to the refs because I don't know if this has been publicly said but it's the facts that they the league is like do not let them fight do not let the go off break it up every time so stick to the rest because they could have and

Starting point is 00:32:22 quote unquote should have broken that up and they did not so I actually give them a ton of credit for letting that go it was a fucking perfect fight because we got a little taste of it you really genuinely don't want any of them getting hurt obviously so it was not like long enough or violent enough that something bad was going to happen

Starting point is 00:32:38 the crowd went absolutely fucking ape shit. And yeah, oh my God. Like that was, I've never seen a goalie fight live. That was an all time, you know, remember it forever moment where I was like, oh my God. And the fact that it was sway made it even cooler. You know, we, well, whatever. It was just so funny talking to him and his family and everybody after.

Starting point is 00:33:00 Because like just an incredible moment, dude, packed, barred 80,000 people, two goalies going out at center ice. Like, what more can you ask more from an outdoor game? It was perfect. truly special stuff. I think the Boston fans would get mad at us if we didn't discuss the eight minute five on three. Yep.

Starting point is 00:33:18 It was, listen, I have zero complaints about that game. I, you know, I maybe would have loved to see the Bruins win, but all I wanted was a good game. We got the best game possible.

Starting point is 00:33:32 And I forget who I saw say, maybe it was wit, but someone was like, one of those penalties was like a little soft but otherwise like there were normal penalties like everyone stopped complaining and I hand up I haven't gone back and deeply analyzed every penalty call

Starting point is 00:33:51 which I'm not fucking going to but I am going to say there is that element of a game where it's like if you got a five on three and you just keep calling penalties on that team and being like yeah we're just going to keep you guys in the box there is a point where it's like

Starting point is 00:34:05 what are we doing here and it eventually got to the point where it was seven straight calls against Boston in this outdoor event game. That Tampa's getting killed in. Yeah. And it was a, so I get Boston fans being like, what the fuck? But at the same time, I don't know, man, it feels like, you know, both teams got got a point. And everyone seemed to have so much fun.

Starting point is 00:34:30 But it was interesting seeing Charlie at the end of the game getting interviewed. Agree, bro. And like someone asked him, was like, when do things change? in the game and he was like when they had a five on three for eight minutes like he was and that was him being like fuck off like you know that was not obvious right yeah yeah and i'm kind of like yeah fair point and then uh i loved pasta uh i think it was in overtime when hampus got called for that really soft hook or or hold or whatever they called pasta was like clapping his stick at the ref and kind of followed him to center ice and you got to imagine he wasn't

Starting point is 00:35:04 saying the nicest things in the world but dan that one with that was one of the few we did get a replay on. You know, and we were watching on that TV, and I was like, that looked like a hook. Like that one was, you hooked him.

Starting point is 00:35:14 Yeah. But I thought it was a little soft. Like, it wasn't egregious. Like, it was a tie up. He got it in his hands. But at the same time,

Starting point is 00:35:21 you called a fucking penalty on Boston in overtime. Yeah, right. Which is like grow up. And then right as they kill it, well, actually, right before they kill it,

Starting point is 00:35:30 Maccaboy gets blatantly tripped, no call. And then right as they kill it, he gets blatantly crouched in the back while he's just like in the slot trying to cover, defensively. And like Macboy gets up and he's like, are you guys going to fucking call anything? And then Hampas puts his stick anywhere near their hands. And they were like, bang. Yeah. And you're right, Dan, it sucks or as a Bruins fan. I was like, oh, it sucks the bees lost. But it did feel like at 5-1, because you did, Ev, the winter classic had the life sucked out of it by the range. It's just pummeling Florida. You know what I know. Okay. And it did feel like you were one Bruins, one more Bruins goal away from that place emptying. And it being a totally like forgotten day. And that. And that's, it being a totally like forgotten day. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And. And it was like goalie fight, lightning comeback, and then it turned into the sickest game ever.

Starting point is 00:36:13 So it sucked. But for the bees, but I was like, well, this was kind of awesome. Well, you did get to see them score a lot. So, I mean, at least it wasn't like a three zero. You know what I mean? Yeah. And listen, like I said, I clearly, I thought some of the calls were interesting. But at the end of the day, the, the bolts guys have to score still.

Starting point is 00:36:31 And they did. And yeah, it was so rock star that they got that done in the second period. Because, like Chris said, everyone would have fucking left. Like, it was cold. It was getting late. Tim McGraw had already played. You know, like, there's nothing else to wait for. You know, so I was thrilled that they got that done.

Starting point is 00:36:52 And then, yeah, we get to go to OT. We get to get a shootout and the bolts get a home ice win. They're 2 in outdoor games now. It was just fucking, it was a 15 out of 10 across the board. Here's some highlights for me. the bear claw scratches on the Bruins pants. Cool. I thought that was awesome.

Starting point is 00:37:13 That looked really sick. It looked like a monster energy drink a little bit. It definitely did. You know what? I wish you hadn't said that because now I do think that. And I'm sorry. Before I thought that, but that is cool. I once watched a video of a woman at a convention telling people that monster

Starting point is 00:37:30 that monster energy drink is satanic and she like gave all these reasons with like imagery and all this stuff. Did she make a good case, Dan? she listen she she she she said some stuff and as we know everything you see on the internet with zero credibility and proof is true so you should believe it wholeheartedly and just start going crazy about it so yes it is so yeah we correct yep monster energy drink is satanic yes um also i can't have gone this far without talking about this john cooper's fit oh my god bro thank fucking christ you did not let us move on without talking about this i fucking loved it I don't know if, like, I think this is kind of what the leaning into me was, you know, like the lightning were just, we're doing it. I loved it. But my, I want your guys take on it and I want your take on this. I feel like Cooper, part of the reason the lightning came back other than the penalties is Cooper must have said to them, boys, I cannot be wearing this if we are going to get coming six one.

Starting point is 00:38:30 Like, you literally need to come back because I am about to be fucking humiliated because I'm wearing this. I guarantee he fucking said that. Like, step it's literally, it's all he needs to do. Like, it's truly Peter Bredder in forgetting Sarah Marshall. He probably walked into that locker. I wish I wasn't wearing this fucking shirt.

Starting point is 00:38:47 Look at this. Come on. And then they just went, okay, we got to step it up for our guy here. But then the fucking aura farming that that turned into. Like he genuinely looked like the fucking coaching crooner. Just like, like an asshole on the bench when they were getting.

Starting point is 00:39:04 I think steamrolled. And then they come back and he looks like the biggest badass of all the time. Dude, I saw a bunch of people being like, give him the Jack Adams right now. Yeah. I agree. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:39:14 The picks, they had like stogies. Like, oh my God. Yeah. That cigar smoke. I was like, wow.

Starting point is 00:39:19 Insane, dude. I loved it. Did you guys hate it when you first saw it? Were you like, what the fuck? No, I absolutely love. I told you.

Starting point is 00:39:25 I told you. I turned around you because he threw up the fucking rock on shit too. Yeah. Yeah. And like, that is another one of those things, man. I'm,

Starting point is 00:39:33 I, I started this whole segment talking about how we need more pageantry and we need more fun. And I'm just, I want to fucking, as we've said, this year, Danny positivity. I just being butt hurt about stuff is out. Like, let's just like have fun and be fucking positive and fired up about shit. I completely agree. And like, that was awesome. I completely agree.

Starting point is 00:39:56 I thought it was fun. And also he probably planned that before he realized how cold it was going to be because he was showing some chest. He sure was. He was shown a little, you know. Those benches better have been heated because I don't know how he survived back there. I mean, that was fucking whacked out. Well, they looked like they were on about 10 pounds of cocaine in those.

Starting point is 00:40:14 Yeah, yeah, correct. God, what a fucking flex. That was amazing. And then I just, you had said, Dan, I'd never seen anything like this and neither had I. That pasta like penalty into game winning goal into just kidding, we call the penalty. Yeah. He's like one of the craziest sequences I've ever seen in an NHL game, especially like at that, not that it's, it's just regular season game, but in that quote unquote magnitude of overtime of the greatest outdoor game ever. I do.

Starting point is 00:40:43 I'm, I'm, I'm conflicted on that one because, and then we'll move off of this game. That was, that was just the strangest play ever. People are saying that they didn't hear the whistle because it was so loud. Maybe that's true. But it did just feel like everyone, including the refs, were. were continuing on with the play. And, you know, some people say that they think the slash by pasta was like a definite slash. I thought it was, I thought it was a little soft.

Starting point is 00:41:13 Yeah, if you're going to call that, no T. But like, if you're going to call it, you're going to call it. And they called it. And it is what it is. But it was just weird. It was so crazy because we couldn't hear it either. And I have seen one replay where I think it's Cooch who passes it over, someone gets slashed and they kind of like sent it back towards Cooch.

Starting point is 00:41:30 Yeah. In that replay, Cooch, very, very. visibly stops as soon as the Bruins player picks it up. So, like, they must have blown it. Like, you can see him hear something because he's like, oh, penalty. Yeah. So, like, 100% there was a whistle, but we couldn't hear it. So it looked so insane to have because we were like, oh, nice two on one, pasta hammer,

Starting point is 00:41:45 go. And we were like, let's go. And then everybody was like, actually penalty from fucking eight years ago. And I was like, what? Yeah. I mean, it, look, I'm not one to bash refereeing at all, but it did feel like there was quite a lot stacking against the Bruins from there. on this. I mean, just if you look at it

Starting point is 00:42:04 in that way. But, you know, it's like they're kind of like interpretive artists. I mean, if there was an AI referee who literally called every penalty that they could see, the game would be five hours long, right? So they have to pick and choose and, you know, sometimes

Starting point is 00:42:20 you get that. They chose. They sure did. Yeah, they did. Yeah. Well, listen, end of the day, for me, for my money, best outdoor game of all time, possibly. It's certainly up there. It's certainly the best one I've ever been to. And just massive, massive pat on the back,

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Starting point is 00:43:48 Bet MGM. Make it legendary. We are back and it is time for Netters College puck drop. We had an absolutely insane weekend. Headlined, of course, by the Penn State, Michigan State, Outdoor Double-Header. The Chicklets Boys were there and the coverage was fucking off the charts. What G and the gang are doing with Chicklets U and just the coverage of the college game is so huge for the growth. And they looked like they had a fucking blast.

Starting point is 00:44:16 Had Gavin McKenna on. If you haven't checked that out, go check out that interview right now. But things did not go well for the Nittney Lion CP. Oh, man, dude, Michigan State. Don't forget, Michigan State beat them early in the year twice at home. And that was kind of a big swing when we were all like, oh shit, Penn State's kind of falling down a little bit, falling down the rankings. So this was such a moment to punch back, especially with that environment. And Michigan State beats him 6-3 on Friday.

Starting point is 00:44:42 And it went bad right away, Dan. Like Michigan State goes up 3-0 in the first period. You just want to get ahead in those outdoor games. Give the fans something to cheer about. Michigan State 3-0 first. Penn State ended up pulling it back to 4-3 at one point, but that was as close as they got. But then you still got Saturday. You still got Saturday to try to figure it out, and they end up dumping that one to five.

Starting point is 00:45:00 four and overtime. McKenna was buzzing early in that game. Had a goal and two assist. Penn State's up three, two. He's got three points looking incredible. Penn State even went up four three, and then Michigan State tied in the third and then couldn't be denied it overtime. So statement wins by Michigan State

Starting point is 00:45:15 because I am like they might be fucking, like they might be the best team in the world. They're so good and listen, I hate it. I feel bad for Penn State because they put on a great show there with their outdoor game and you always want to see at least the home team get one.

Starting point is 00:45:30 Yeah. But listen, we talked about the fact that Michigan State had a little, you know, they had their slip-ups. They swapped in the rankings with Michigan and they're trying to get back on the horse. And at the same time, Penn State and Gavin McKenna had been surging back up the charts like a fucking freight train. And this was an immovable object and an unstoppable force hitting each other. And Michigan State was just the bigger donkey.

Starting point is 00:45:52 And they fucking rolled on them. And getting two wins like that with all the pageantry, as we've been talking about, the pageantry, that's. That's big stuff. So if I'm Michigan, I'm a little scared. I'm a little scared about Michigan State right now because those are two monster wins. And Michigan, we just said number one team in the country. They had Ohio State.

Starting point is 00:46:11 They beat him 6'4 on Friday, 3-2 and O.T on Saturday in Columbus. That's great. But again, Ohio State, an unranked team. I know it's rivalry stuff. But if you're in Michigan State, my point is you're licking your chops a little bit. You're licking your chops being right on the boys' heels. Totally agree, Dan. remember it was a weekend of great rivalry.

Starting point is 00:46:31 So we had B.C. Number 13, BC, they went to B.U on Friday, beat them 4-1. We've said enough about BU's challenges this year. I love this B.C. team. They look really great. There's going to be a very fun game right now happening. A couple fun games tonight. We'll get to in a second.

Starting point is 00:46:47 But we've seen that turn of Boston season around before, and hopefully it does again. And then number 11, Denver had number 7 Duluth at home. And Denver beat them 4-3 on Friday and 1-0. and overtime on Saturday. Those are two great games, but Dan, for the first time all year, for the first time since like week two or three of the college season, I am wondering if Duluth got overhyped. They surged so early and I was ready to be like, oh my God, they are sneaky, one of the best top three teams in the country. Now I'm like, actually, you might not be that. You might be very good. You're the biggest Denver guy there is though. Like you're, you can't,

Starting point is 00:47:24 you can't say that a couple losses to Denver is making you think that. Agree, but they've slip the last two weekends. I think they've been like split, split, and a tough place to play. Denver's nasty, but I'm just like, you want to be the big dog, you've got to be winning all these games. It's tough to go in what needs to be a bounce back weekend. It's tough to go into Denver and try to beat them. That's, that's brutal. But, you know, fuck. All right, Duluth. Duluth, maybe on fraud watch. Yeah. Maybe on Fraud Watch. We got number 10, Cornell. They go up against a good Yale team, beat them five to two at Yale on Friday. And they beat Bram. Round 4-2 at Brown on Saturday.

Starting point is 00:48:00 So a nice little Ivy road trip for the Cornell boys. They get two big wins. You love to see it. And number six, Kinnepiac beat St. Lorre, 7-0 on the road on Friday. They tied Clarkson 3-3 on the road on Saturday. You know I'm going to say it. I was waiting for this. Fucking Clarkson, man.

Starting point is 00:48:16 This Clarkson is the biggest trap game in the country, dude. Trap, trap-trap city, bitch, when you play Clarkson. It's insane. It's incredible. I've been loving that, dude. That's like a flag on my notifications out every time. Like, who's Clarkson got? truly. Number three, Western Michigan, my Broncos. They beat Omaha 5-2 on Friday at home,

Starting point is 00:48:33 but then they lost 4-1 at home on Saturday. Nothing to worry about, but first stumble in a long time for Western Michigan. They've been on an absolute scorcher. It happens. It does. And I don't think I'm going to pee-pwack them that bad because it's like, you know, it's not a good loss again, unranked team, but I'm not going to go too hard on him. Dartmouth, team we really liked who's been slipping recently. They got a nice win against Union 4-2. Then they beat Rensselaer 3-1 on Saturday. Dartmouth kind of getting back in it. And then Minnesota State, Mancato, they beat Fairstate 6-1 on the road on Friday and 4-3 on Saturday. I won't rule them out pretty much ever. Okay. I like that. Okay. Then we go to Wisconsin. Number eight, Wisconsin. They lost... Oh, yeah. Dude, they lost in Minnesota in many.

Starting point is 00:49:26 4-1 on Friday and 8-4 on Saturday. This one is crazy to me, Dan, because it's a tough place to play, obviously. But Minnesota is now, now makes me sad because they puked the beginning of the year away. I thought they were coming back and I was tracking them and Arizona State to be like, oh, you're going to save your season. Then the last two weekends, I'm like, never mind your season is dead. Leave me alone, please. Then you do this to Wisconsin.

Starting point is 00:49:47 And I'm like, just pick one. Pick a lane, Minnesota. And then also, I'm now like Wisconsin tricked me too. Because Wisconsin for a stretch there, I was trying to get in the two-scenters. seed. And now I'm like, wait, dude, you just get dummied by Minnesota twice. Yeah. Not even close games, really. So that's a, that's a, that's a, uh, an alarming weekend for me. Yeah, not a big fan. Um, here's some of my favorite sleeper games. So we got number 20. I'm going to roll through a bunch of these, Chris, because I love all these teams. Number 20, St. Cloud lost to Miami, Ohio,

Starting point is 00:50:15 two one at home on Friday and three one on Saturday. So like, St. Cloud, this team that was kind of creeping up. I'm like, uh-oh. There goes that top 20 ranking. See you later. And then my little Cinderella, St. Thomas, number 15 in the country, they beat number 19 Michigan Tech 4-2 at home on Friday, but Michigan Tech then won four-three on Saturday. That's just a good weekend. That's a good weekend. Probably not a lot of movement there. And then 16 Augustana, wins at home against Lake Spears, 6-1 on Friday, 4-1 on Saturday. And I'm like, these, I love it, like Augustana, St. Cloud and St. Thomas. I'm just like these sleeper teams, like in the top 20, like no one's paying attention to them.

Starting point is 00:50:54 but they're just stacking up wins, dude. Stacking up the games that you got to win. It's absolutely amazing to see because those, I like when those teams just go to war. And, you know, they're like in the top, the back half of the top 20 rankings, but it's just fun to watch because it's two good squads. And you want, I love a split, dude.

Starting point is 00:51:12 I love a split in college hockey because everyone goes home happy and it's a good battle. Yeah. Okay. And the last one we had number nine Maine beat number seven, or number nine Providence beat number 17, Maine three to and overtime on Saturday at Maine. That's a gritty win.

Starting point is 00:51:23 very hard to play up there. Providence is very good team. I'm loving it. Very gritty. Okay. Let's get into our rankings. Yep. They have to stay the same. One two is going to stay the same. Michigan, Michigan State. Now it gets tricky. I'm willing to put Nodak up. Okay. But I want Western Michigan still four. I, ah. All right. That's the current ranking. The current actual ranking is Michigan, Michigan, State, no DAC, Western Michigan. Do you want the exact same? Because I kind of want to give Quinepiac a boost.

Starting point is 00:51:57 Like, I want to put Quinnipiac top four. Quinnipiac tied Clarkson. Yeah, Clarkson is literally the biggest trap game in the country, dude. You're lucky to come out of Clarkson alive. I can't believe you, well, I guess Western Michigan did lose. Yeah, both of the teams that you're talking about

Starting point is 00:52:17 lost. No, North Dakota didn't lose, sorry. Fine. Quinnipeak, because I guess you don't want to reward Penn State. So we'll go Nodak 3. We're going to go Quinnipiac 4, Western Michigan 5. Five. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:52:33 Then. Is a double loss in an outdoor game hosting weekend against the number two team in the country going to drop you lower than six for you? Maybe. The question is, do you think Providence, Denver, Cornell, B.C., are better than Penn State. Do you think any of those teams are better than Penn State? No. Like, where's Duluth?

Starting point is 00:52:59 Yeah. How much trouble does Duluth get in? I think Duluth's pee-wacked here. They might be out of the top 10. Correct. Let's go Penn State there. What are we at six? Six.

Starting point is 00:53:08 Let's go Penn State at six. Okay. But then I could go, I could go Providence there. I like Providence here. I like Denver here. I personally, I love this Providence team. I think I have to I think I would pick Denver over

Starting point is 00:53:27 Providence. Let's go Denver Providence. Okay. Penn State 6, Denver 7, Providence 8. Okay. But then I'll tell you what, I'm going B.C. is in this. I agree. I want B.C. at 10. So in your 9, and I think I want to go Cornell.

Starting point is 00:53:40 Duluth deserves a little bit of a fucking face wash here. Duluth's out. Interesting. Okay. Cornell 9. Cornell 9. B.C. 10. Boom.

Starting point is 00:53:50 Maybe BC 9, Cornell 10. B.C. is better than them. Yeah, BC's better than them. Well, you just relax. BC 9-4-0-10. All right, tell everybody about the game of the week. Game of the week. Well, this is actually a really fun time in college hockey

Starting point is 00:54:01 because right now, as we speak, it is round one of the bean pot. The first round is Harvard versus Boston College and Northeastern versus Boston University. The winners play, the losers play, and the winners will be crowned the beanpot champion. So if you are listening to this, you've already missed tonight's game,

Starting point is 00:54:18 but I hope you're watching because you'll hear this on Tuesday morning, but they're playing right now. Then on Friday, this weekend, we have number two Michigan State and number one, Michigan. On Friday, it is in Arbor, and then on Saturday it is the duel in the D at Little Caesars. So in all-time, one versus two, absolute Numbie session in college hockey. That is going to be incredible appointment television. And then the following Monday, you get the beanpot vinyl, which is such an iconic event in the sport.

Starting point is 00:54:47 And a appointment television thing, if you are from Boston. and you heard Carl Weissman say that it turned their entire season around. So, oh my God, if you are going to watch college hockey ever in your fucking life, watch Michigan, Michigan State Friday, Saturday, and then watch the Beanpot Final on Monday. Unbelievable. That wraps up. Netters College Putscrop. We're going to take a quick ad break and then come on back.

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Starting point is 00:59:00 Welcome back, everybody, and we are going to get into a little bit of knot ice because we had a heated, heated debate at the bar. This was the least heated debate of all times. Yeah, it was actually a complete, you know what? I was much to say it was a complete agreement. It also wasn't that, but it was a lovely debate. It was a lovely, it was a lovely discussion. Discussion.

Starting point is 00:59:22 Yeah. Lovely discussion. Evan, what is the best time zone in the United, in the continental United States for sports watching? Mountain time. Matt, this guy goes mountain time on us. I didn't even know, I didn't even know mountain time was in the running. That just blew my mind. I think it is.

Starting point is 00:59:47 What's crazy is, he might be right. He might be right. So, so hold on, hold on. So mountain time is, so like if it's 5 p.m. here in Pacific time zone, it's 6 p.m. in mountain. Yes. Yes, correct. And then it's 7 p.m. in central and it's 8 p.m. in eastern.

Starting point is 01:00:04 Yeah. Fuck, he might be right. Here's, here's, you, you slick, son of a bitch, you might be right. Have you ever lived in Mountain Time, Evan? Absolutely not. So you've only done Eastern and Pacific? Yeah, generally in my life, yeah. Yep.

Starting point is 01:00:20 I, you know, you too, I grew up in Eastern, and I thought, you know, that's the way the world works, too. And this is sports watching only, but certainly part of the actual debate is it is the way the world works as Eastern Time. Like when you wake up here in California, the fucking entire universe has happened before we wake up. And you're like, Jesus Christ. So growing up in Eastern Times zone, I was like,

Starting point is 01:00:42 this is when sports are on. Like you fucking do your day and you eat dinner and, or you like, you know, like you come home from work and whatever. And then the games begin. And so it made so much sense to me. And it took me a long time to adjust to Pacific.

Starting point is 01:00:55 But then when you do, you get really addicted to that because I want that. I start itching at 4 o'clock when I'm home now in Maine. I'm like, where's the fucking Bruins game? And my dad's like, oh, buddy, you got three more hours. Yeah. Jesus Christ.

Starting point is 01:01:09 Okay, talk to me about mountain time, Evan. State your case. Okay, here, this is the evidence I'm going to put out. And this is mostly for weekdays. Because I feel like on the weekends, hopefully you can kind of make anything work. And game times get crazy. Four o'clock for me to watch a hockey game is kind of hard because I'm still doing work. And I'm still, even if I'm not doing work, work, I'm like wrapping shit up.

Starting point is 01:01:33 I'm doing whatever. If that game comes on at five, my time, uh, like, sometimes you're off work. Hey, it's five o'clock. Maybe you're,

Starting point is 01:01:42 maybe you're going out for a happy hour or drink. Also, you can miss the first hour or two, right? Um, games on at four. I don't know, man,

Starting point is 01:01:50 there's a good chance I'm not going to get to that to like the last period, the last little bit of it. And then the issue is on the East Coast. If you, if you're watching it directly after work at seven or eight or whatever, and you want to catch a, a West Coast game, you got to be up to,

Starting point is 01:02:04 1, 2 a.m., which I used to do when I was a kid, and that was awesome. But now I'm like, you know, I'm in my 30s and I can't fucking stay awake past 1130 anymore, no matter what. So I think mountain time is ideal because you get the best of both worlds should you choose to go with that. You know, the only problem is, I don't know, Colorado's cool. Oh, yeah. There's not a whole lot else living. Like, where are you going to live? You know what I mean? Okay. I guess Arizona, you know? I think fuck me.

Starting point is 01:02:36 I think he's on to something here because I, my entire model, my entire stance in this area on this topic is based on the reality that I think anything that is too late

Starting point is 01:02:51 is, it just sucks. You want more, don't we all just want more time in this life? That's what we all want. It's the, it's the,

Starting point is 01:03:00 it's the one thing. It is the one thing. that you can never get enough of. To quote, Howard Stark, no amount of money ever bought a second of time. And that is true. So whether it be a dinner, if you come at me with an 8.30 p.m. dinner reservation,

Starting point is 01:03:18 I say, how dare you count Dracula? Why are you staying up so late? I want to eat dinner at 5.30 because then we've got so much time left. We've got the rest of the night. There's an evening still left to be had. I love a matinee.

Starting point is 01:03:36 We're going to the movies. Give me a matinee. Give me a 6 p.m. movie time because then we get out and you can, you know, get home. You have time to do stuff. So I was prepared to be like Pacific time zone is the answer because just everything is on earlier. We talk about football. When you wake up on Sunday and football starts at 10 a.m. And you just get to watch football right away.

Starting point is 01:03:59 You get to watch it all day long. And then Sunday night football starts at 5.30 p.m. And it's over at 8.30. Like, you have a night. You can watch a movie after that. Sunday night football on the East Coast is ending at midnight on a Sunday. Yeah. That is insane.

Starting point is 01:04:14 That's like, it's actually crazy. Why do we do this to ourselves? It's insane, Evan. So I was prepared to be like Pacific is the goat, but I kind of forgot about little old mountain time. Yeah, it's hiding. Hiding in plain sight. I do think Central is still, Central's great, but it's still just.

Starting point is 01:04:32 Central's clown show. Central is for fucking clowns, dude. Central just feels a little too much like, you know, for example, Sunday night football, Central's like, oh, it ends at 11 p.m. And I'm like, that's still too late, dude. Like, you guys are not fully committing one way or the other. What if you have O.T? Yeah. You're dead.

Starting point is 01:04:55 You're dead. Call out sick tomorrow. Not even going to watch the most exciting part of the game because you're like, I'm going to go to bed. Yeah. Exactly. So I'm thinking Mountain. might be the winner because of what Evan said. It's like, yeah, hockey games starting at 4 p.m. in the weekdays, it's a little crazy when you're at work.

Starting point is 01:05:14 Like, there's oftentimes you're like, wait, are the games on already? I'm missing a game right now. There's a Penn's game on right now, and I've already missed an hour. There you go. I do think that Pacific with weekday games, like the 4 o'clock and 10 o'clock football, I know I'm a clown and still stay up way too late on Saturdays, which makes Sunday mornings harder. But both of those things, they come too quickly. Like there's no time for me to do anything.

Starting point is 01:05:36 Like when we are home on the East Coast, I don't mind at all that the Pats are on at one and I wake up and not early, but have plenty of time to accomplish tasks before it's like, football's on. Go drink with people. You know, here you wake up and they're like, where are we going to booze for the football game? And I'm like, Jesus Christ, dude, just woke up. God damn. You're in it quick in the Pacific time zone.

Starting point is 01:06:00 Yeah. That's true. You're asleep by the time the nighttime game comes on. Yeah. For day time, it blows me away. I think Ev is right here because, yeah, you, Pacific does. There's too many, there are too many examples where you can make the argument that Pacific is too early. But I don't think you're hearing that in the mountains.

Starting point is 01:06:19 No, agree. Five o'clock, dude, it's five o'clock. That's the universal quit in time. I think the mountains are, is the gold. Mountain time zone is the goldilocks of sports watching time zone. That's really interesting because, man, the one thing that I find really frustrating is when there's no thing, put it this way, college football, Dan, I kind of liked when it was like the, there's something on late. You know, it's like the eight, it's eight o'clock. And then there's like a sick game on. And sometimes your game would end here. And then you're like, what, so what's happening? Nothing's on. Like, it's all over. We're the last run of sports on the West Coast, you know? So it's like by the time of the game's here over, which are on normal. time. There's just nothing on. I liked that about the East Coast where I could always find something on till 2 a.m. when I'm insomnia in. But you made a comment at the bar last night when we

Starting point is 01:07:10 were sitting there and it's like one, it's like 1 a.m. And the Ducks are on, Ducks Vegas. And you're like, imagine if you are a Ducks fan who grew up there and then moved to the East Coast for a job. So you're like, the Ducks are my favorite team. And I'm like, you just have to sit up till 1.30 watching Ducks games 82 times. And I'm like, uh-huh. Yes. Yes. That is fucking nuts. I'm a family. insane. You're literally, hello, Count Dracula. Fucking crazy. Oh, it's absolutely nuts.

Starting point is 01:07:37 Mountain time. Mountain time's the winner. It's mountain time. All right, let's take another quick ad break, and then let's wrap things up, guys, with a beer league hotline and a blind ranking. Time for some movie talk. From the completely unhinged mind of Gore Vrbinski

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Starting point is 01:08:19 Good luck, have fun, don't die. R. Under 17, not admitted without a parent, in theaters February 13th, tickets are on sale now. Could I be more fired up to talk about? an original, exciting, amazing movie, starring one of my favorite actors from the chaotic mind of Gore Vubinsky, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Ring, Rango.

Starting point is 01:08:42 I mean, give me a break. This is as good as it gets. Dude, Pirates, Pirates is sneaky, one of my favorite movies of all time. And then also, dude, Sam Rockwell, you know, Dan, you and I both said this, but he is the most underrated actor ever, who guess, I guess, is maybe now finally rated,

Starting point is 01:08:59 finally, properly. But dude, Sam Rockwell in the way, way back just lives right here, lives here permanently in my brain. And that's what he brings to the screen every time he's on it. And this is one of those movies that, you know, I don't watch trailers that much anymore because I just try to go in cold. But sometimes you're like, I don't know what this is about. And I just want to find out. This one of those movies where I was like, what is this? Maybe I should watch the trailer.

Starting point is 01:09:22 And like 20 seconds into the trailer immediately shut it off because I realized how sick this was going to be. And I didn't want to spoil another frame of the movie because I was like, oh, my. God, dude, this is a perfect premise with a perfect actor. I am telling you, folks, if you miss going to the movies, this is exactly why you do it. It's not another sequel, another reboot, a superhero movie. It's an original story with an amazing cast. If you're a fan of things like Ted Lassow, Atlanta, any prestige TV, you're going to love the cast of this movie. If you love Sam Rockwell like we do, you're going to love this movie.

Starting point is 01:09:53 It's just incredible. Think about just a rag-tag guy coming back to say, this would be like if the state of the hockey world was in jeopardy. And instead of sending Maclin Celebrini from the future to save it, they sent me. Yeah. So you know it's just going to be as chaotic as humanly possible. So good luck, have fun, don't die. In theaters, February 13th, get tickets now because this is going to be sold out everywhere.

Starting point is 01:10:15 It will be the most fun you have in the theater in 2026. I promise you. Okay. Now it is time for everybody's favorite segment, the Beer League hotline. Ev, I hope we got a doozy today. Let it rip. Been having attendance issues, and one night we only had seven skaters. Someone on the team invited a woman to play with us.

Starting point is 01:10:37 She's good. Since then, we ended up adding her boyfriend to the team full time. She is still in the group chat for subs. Sometimes she comes to the games and hangs in the locker room even when she's not playing. She even tied her boyfriend skates once. The problem is one of our other guys can't play anymore because his girlfriend has an issue with the other gal being in the chat, and the locker room has made him quit the team.

Starting point is 01:11:01 How do we handle? Jesus. There are so many layers here. Okay. What the hell? There are so many layers here. All right, first of all, I'm about to disappear from the screen because I'm going to get down on a knee and propose to this girl. Agreed.

Starting point is 01:11:19 This is like, I feel like this is, this is two of the last three or four weeks here where we've just had Hall of Fame ladies in these beer. league stories. So this gal is the shit. I'm a little disappointed in the team for adding her boyfriend. Why didn't you just add her? Like what the fuck? She showed up for you. I don't give a fuck at him both. She is for, dude, you're in a, you're in a time of need and this gal shows up and she's great. Dude, because you had seven. Seven is un- To be fair. It says she's good specifically in this. Yeah, right. Well, that's good enough for me though. You know, it's a beer league, right? Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's good. And also, if she's showing up and hanging in the locker room, even on games where she's not playing, we always say, when it comes to Beer League, you need to be good at something. You need to be good on the ice or you need to be good in the room. It sounds like she's good at both. So what in the world are you not putting her on the roster? So that's step number one. Bump this gal up from rotation to on the permanent roster. Her boyfriend can be on the roster too. That's fine. That's my number one thing. My number two thing, we need the ladies to support the ladies. Why is one of the other girlfriends upset that this girl is on the team?

Starting point is 01:12:35 You've got to support your ladies here. Especially, Dan, because the sub-gals boyfriend is on the team. Like, if sub-gal was single and they were like, I'm pissed. I still wouldn't like it, but I would hear the logic of I'm pissed that there's this single lady who loves hockey, who's in the locker room and on the chat. I don't like this. I don't like you being around that. I don't agree with that decision, but I see the logic. This girl is spoken for and he's on the team and he's at friends with everybody.

Starting point is 01:13:03 Like what do not? Well, we've seen crazier things happen, but there should be nothing crazy happening in that situation because everyone is spoken for is present. Yeah. Jealousy is such a terrible, disgusting thing. We've got to work on getting it out. Getting it out of our lives. What I'm seeing here is a family. I'm seeing a family and a squad and a unit and everyone needs to be supporting each other.

Starting point is 01:13:27 Since she isn't though, and she goes, you can't play no more to the dude, what do they do? Because if they keep this girl in the chat, then this guy's off the team permanently. Is he good or is he suck? Yeah, right. That is such a wrinkle. But this is where we need to put our morals first, fellas, okay? If we want to be, if we want to be giving out this type of good advice, if we want to be a compass for good and for positivity, this is, this guy's got to have, get this figured out. with his gal. I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:13:59 This is an at home problem. This is an at home problem. This is an at home problem because it sounds like everyone else in the locker room is happy and is loving what's going on. It's a shame that this is an issue for you and your partner, but you guys have to figure out those issues. Maybe they double date. Maybe we set up a double date. We set up a double date. You never know. You two might love each other. Boom, boom. You might find a new best friend in all this. Maybe you'll wife swap. Maybe you set up a wife swap. Take it easy. What is wrong? You got to relax. I'm a slow. I'm exploring options.

Starting point is 01:14:28 I'm exploring options to keep the team together, Dan. Maybe we wife swap if that would help. Let's just do a caveat of, you know, if things get really dire, I mean, let's start slow here. We got to, you got to pump the brakes here. Jesus. So we double date first. I think, I think, wife swap second.

Starting point is 01:14:50 First of all, I think you go, buddy, this is a huge bummer, but the facts of the matter are, This new gal and her boyfriend are great additions. They're great in the room. They're bringing up vibes. They're on the team. This is an issue. You've got to work out with your partner. And we want you to work it out.

Starting point is 01:15:09 Our solutions are. And we lay out the solution. Solution one. Solution one, double date. Solution two until we come up with a better two is Wife swap. We'll see if we can beat Wife swap. Right now that's two.

Starting point is 01:15:21 Yeah. Just a coffee, just a day date would be one. I think a day. I think a day date. That feels like we're slotting that in at three. That feels like a perfect three. I think maybe like a rotational basis on, you know, maybe you, maybe you play one week.

Starting point is 01:15:36 Maybe they play the other week. Yeah. But she's got to stay in the chat, dude, and she's going to stay in the locker room because she bailed you out when you only had seven. And that is, that is an angel. That's a real angel. Sounds like she's a beauty on and off the ice. You can't lose that. Very weird that she tied her boyfriend skates once.

Starting point is 01:15:51 Yeah, I'm hanging up on that one too. I'm a little. I think it's cute as hell. I mean, maybe he was, maybe, maybe they got there late and he was going to miss the start of the game and he had to tape his stick. So she tied his boots while he was taping the stick. I might as sweat. I could have back pain. Could have back pain.

Starting point is 01:16:09 Go ahead, back, bad pain. This gal is a fucking absolute weapon. She's an angel. She's an angel. She's an angel. Yes. So at the end of the day, we see a path here where everyone lives happily ever after. We're going to work on that.

Starting point is 01:16:22 Yep. I'm in. Okay. Now we are going to kick it to a bow. hockey blind ranking. We love a blind ranking just as much as we love our friends at power because they give us incredible tools to make our game better. They give us a skate sharpener, but Dan, they give us the pulse. They give us the fucking beating pulse of hockey, the greatest tick I've ever used. Go check out of our pulse and enjoy this blind

Starting point is 01:16:41 ranking. We today are blind ranking the most exciting moments in an NHL game. So things that get the fans, Dan, like absolutely off their feet, screaming, howling. Like, rise, as one, you can tell something special is happening when you were at an NHL game. Yep. This is EvBot's inaugural blind ranking, too. So let's see how this goes. Ed. Hit us with the first one.

Starting point is 01:17:08 Mid-game penalty shot. Ooh. Great because there's a pause, right? Like there's like a full stop. And then the ref goes, bang, points to the middle. And they go, oh, yes, we're getting it. I think that's a factor. I think that's a real factor.

Starting point is 01:17:23 I don't think this is that high for me. okay you should cut me down no no it's cut me in half damn listen it's cool but I think the midgame is important here it's like well they're better than penalty shots at the end of the game no one gives a fuck about that

Starting point is 01:17:38 well what if it's tied no no I mean like the penalty shots at the end of the game like we go to a shootout and there's penalty shots no one cares about that I think a midgame penalty shot is probably more exciting than the shootout after over time you're probably right because it's more on it's like oh shit yeah it's special

Starting point is 01:17:54 It's a special thing that's happening. I'm still not going that high. I'm not going to go more than three here. I know we hate starting at three. We do it all the time. But that might be. Do you want to go four? You could talk me into a four here, honestly.

Starting point is 01:18:06 Well, yeah, I mean, I could be talked into it. I feel like I'm going to get horny at a lot of these things. So going to low doesn't, like, there's part of me that's like, are we going to hear that many that are that low? Yeah, maybe this one. Maybe this is a good one to go four. Let's go four. Let's go four. Let's go, all right, four.

Starting point is 01:18:22 Hat trick. Okay. I guess kind of depends on the goal. You know, sometimes it's an empty netter. Sometimes. Like, or oftentimes it's an empty netter. Okay. It's still cool, but it's like, yeah, you know.

Starting point is 01:18:34 Empty netter is the objective. But like when hats go on the ice, that's awesome. It's a moment. Yeah, it's a moment. You know what I'm trying to do here? You're right. You know what I'm trying to do here? Speaking of hats, I'm trying to put on my hat of.

Starting point is 01:18:46 I'm there. If I'm at a game and I have brought someone who has never been to a hockey game before. Great. Great. Great. What are the things I would be most fired? I think seeing a hat trick, I'd be like, oh, sick. I'd be like, this is a hat trick.

Starting point is 01:19:00 Yeah. And then they see all the hats go on the ice and they're like, who I forget who we were with, but we were recently out of game where a hat trick was scored and the hats went on the ice. And the person was like, do they get their hats back? And we were like, no. So like that's an exciting moment. Yeah. So you actually swung me back around. I think three.

Starting point is 01:19:14 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's perfect. Three goals. Three on the list. Yeah. Nice.

Starting point is 01:19:21 Golly fight. One. It has to be one, right? Like, I don't think that there is a single thing that gets the people going. Like, a provocative goalie fight. I mean, this is obviously very topical. But I think it's one. A goalie fight is, I mean, I think I think a lot of the highest ones here are going to be goally related.

Starting point is 01:19:42 But a goalie fight, like, I think a goalie fight's better than a goalie goalie goal. Dan, a fight gets people, like, when there's a fight in an HAL game, the crowd rises like, it's one. Crazy. Yeah. And a goalie fight is insane. Yeah, we got to go. one. We got to go one. Tying goal with the goal he pulled.

Starting point is 01:19:57 Damn. Dude, I'm... When this happens against you, it's the worst thing in the world. But think about the home crowd. The home crowd, down a goal. Yeah. And it's like, you're zinging around and that goes in. I think I actually think that's a comfortable two here

Starting point is 01:20:17 considering what we have left. Because that is such... Your high-fiving strangers when that happens. I know I'm terrified now, though, that something electric is about to get the five spot. But this, but this is something electric. Like, I don't think that is an elect, that is an awesome moment.

Starting point is 01:20:36 Evan, you, you, you better have your five locked. Don't you dare change it? No, he's, yeah. As in like, as in your next one, you better have it locked. You can't change it no matter what we do. Okay, so here's the thing. Either, because personally, Chris, if we go to here, I think we currently have a perfect list. And then I kind of agree.

Starting point is 01:20:57 And we might get fucked. We are hoping something not that great comes up. Or we play it safe and put this five. We sewer this. Awesome is coming up. So do we sewer this or do we take the bird in hand, perfect list and hope things go well? I think we take the bird in hand, dude. This is such a fun moment.

Starting point is 01:21:11 When you tie that game, you were like, yes. Because you know you're going to win in overtime, which you often don't. But in that moment, I know I will. I'll let you make the decision. I just think about some of the game tying ones I've had as a fan and they're fucking all time. I'm going to. I'm going to. Okay.

Starting point is 01:21:28 So our five is... Our five is... Fuck. Overtime winner. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know what, though? You know what?

Starting point is 01:21:45 If this is like regular season O.T. winner, it's not guaranteed to be crazy electric. Yeah. But like a mid-game penalty shot is better than that. It's better than that. Yeah. And... O.T. winner. And like I just said the OT winner is worse than the game tying goal.

Starting point is 01:22:03 Like the next goal, like you'd think the OT winner that comes after would be better. Actually, you know what? The game time goal is pretty exciting. I truly, honestly, I actually think goalie-pulled game tying goal and like the waiting seconds is more exciting than an OT winner. Sometimes the OT winners are just like, oh, something happened. It's a three on O and, you know, game over. Yeah. Fuck.

Starting point is 01:22:25 Not horrible. Not the worst. Not horrible. Not the best. If you're on the East Coast and the game is a West Coast game and it's midnight, the OT goal is like, fuck finally. And then you just go. Yeah. True.

Starting point is 01:22:36 Yeah. So think of it that way. It's relieving. Yeah. Right. Right. Not the worst. Not the worst.

Starting point is 01:22:41 Decent little list there. All right. That wraps it up. Great episode. Evan. So pumped to have you on the show officially. This is great, great stuff. Folks, we've got some fun guests coming in our Thursday episode.

Starting point is 01:22:54 We're going to be getting some really exciting things ramping up to the Olympics here. C. P and I are headed out to Italy next week. Also, if you were in the LA area, live show, this Saturday, 6 p.m., C.P., tell them where it is. Westside Comedy Club, 5 p.m. Meet and greet. You come early. You get some merch. You meet the boys. Everybody's hanging out. We'll have a few pops. And then we'll put on a show for the ages with a lot of laughs, a lot of hockey nonsense. So, folks, if you're in the L.A. area, you got some free time on Saturday. Come, grab some drinks, get a little pregame with us, meet and greet. fun little episode. We're going to have a ton of fun segments. Then we'll take it off to the night and have a great time.

Starting point is 01:23:31 We would love to see you there. And until we see you there, until the rest of the chaos of this week, there's one thing to do. Skate hard.

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