Games with Names - Jarret Stoll on the LA Kings First Stanley Cup Championship

Episode Date: December 23, 2025

Jarret Stoll is in studio! The 2x Stanley Cup Champ and LA Kings legend is with us to relive LA's first Stanley Cup victory: Game 6 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals between the Kings and Devils.  (0:00) We kick things off. (1:00) Jarret joins us on the couch. (15:00) We go back to June 2012. (32:00) We dive into the rosters. (46:00) We get into the game. (1:10:00) We score it. (1:19:24) We hit The Chill Zone for another edition of Jack Asks. Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Welcome to games of names. I'm Julian Edelman. They're Jack and Kyler, and we are on a mission to find the greatest game of all time in any sport. And on today's episode, we are covering game six of the 2012 Stanley Cup finals with L.A. King's Great, Stanley Cup winner. One of the coolest guys I know, Jared Stoll. And we're talking what it's like to celebrate with the Stanley Cup. It was available on June 24th, my 30th birthday, so I went through a party in Manhattan Beach, at my house and that was awesome.

The toughness of hockey guys are so tough. He got hurt eating a pancake? He slipped and fell making a protein shade or something. And the greatness Jonathan Quick. Just having him back there knowing that he's going to be a while, he's in a battle, he's going to compete.

Oh man, he competed his ass off. And then we do a little Jack Asks. And this week's Chill Zone presented by Coorslight. You got to stick around to the end. Let's go. Games with names of production of IHeart Radio June 11th, 2012 Staples Center, Los Angeles, California.

The Los Angeles Kings lead the New Jersey Devils three games to two. The Cup is in the bill. Lord Stanley is coming to L.A. This is Game 6, 2012 Stanley Cup Finals. All right, welcome to games with names. Today we are looking at game six of the 2012 Stanley Cup finals. The Devils versus the Kings with Jared Stole. Welcome to the Nut House.

In one sentence, why did you pick this game? Well, obviously we won the cup that game. It was my first Stanley Cup. We also won in 14. But, yeah, your first Stanley Cup win. It's, it's cool. We'll talk about the run and stuff in this game. It was very interesting. But, you know, it's first Stanley Cup. You've got to pick it. First time, that first feeling, nothing like that. That's what I always say. It's hard to pick your favorite, but that first feeling of anything is magical. Is this the greatest game of all time? No. What is? game i was in or of all time all time oh that's that's hard any sport uh any sport anything your game i was there which one the 28 to 3

you think that's the greatest game of all time see that's an integrity type guy because every time we'll go you know there's so many sports so many games so many yeah it's tough that's what we're on a mission on this podcast. We're on a mission to finding the greatest game of all time. I just said that because I want to talk about your catch. So I'm being nice. You see Stoli? The hockey humor, he's just busting balls out here. I was there, man. I was like, yeah, it was, whof, that was special. Man. So that was a, that was a fun one.

Our actually, our series against Chicago in, in 14. I could have picked game seven in Chicago in 2014, but you pick game six is your first cup, like I said. But that series against Chicago, People say that was one of the best series in the NHL ever. It's tough to say that. But Kyler? Sorry, I was, I didn't hear it. Game seven. Game seven against Chicago Kings.

Chicago Kings. That was this 14, 2014. Yes, because the Blackhawks were doing their little dynasty thing too. We were back and forth. They won in, I think, 11 maybe. No, 11 was, was 11? Levin's Bruins. Right.

Because you guys beat the Canucks team that had Boston. to the brew as the year before. Tim Thomas. Yeah. My guy's in a bomb shelter right now. We wanted. It was, yeah. No one knows.

We love them, though. And the Wonko is with his, hopefully he's with that helmet and that mask of his. We won in 12, Chicago 13. We won 14. Chicago 15. Like, it was, they won three and we went two,

but it was great because they were defending champs. And we were, we were our team that we had to beat. And we were up 3-1 in the series. They tied it to go 3-3. Back in Chicago, game 7, we're down 2-0. It was like five minutes into the game.

Yeah. Like, holy shit. But we had Jonathan Quick. So he never, ever let in that third goal. We never were down 3-0 because that's down 2-0. You know, you can, you know. You can go back. Yeah, but that was epic.

Double overtime game 7. That's awesome. I mean, who, a lot of people, there's like clubs. You're in the, you got two championships, two Stanley Cups. That's such an exclusive club. Real quick, because you brought them up. And we'll talk about them later. But just, I've been waiting to talk about.

Jonathan Quick for like since you decided to come on the show because I'm from near UMass Samhurst um what's it like having him in net like is like a superpower when he's like on is there is there like do you guys just walk like skate with a different confidence is just like a little X factor just knowing that he can just take a game when you're actually playing with with Quick well you don't want to think that or even say that right but you know you just play the game but you also know that he's going to make big saves at key times like I talked about it's two nothing. And I remember the play. It was a two-on-one. He made a huge save on a two-on-one when they were up two in the second period. And that was kind of a game changer at that moment in time

to be like, okay, he's not, he's not letting an easy one. And he's making those tough saves and allowing us to come back in games. But he won the consummate that year. His numbers that year in 12 were ridiculous. 14 as well. But no, yeah, just having him back there knowing that he's going to be a wall, he's going to battle, he's going to compete. He was one of our leaders too. And A goal, he's never, you know, not really considered a leader on the team or part of the leadership group, which they should. And for him, he was, and he, oh, man, he competed his ass off. So the goalie, like, what position in the football locker room would he be like?

Like, as far as psychology, is he, he's not the kicker, is he? Where he's, like, in his own world and. Well, a goalie, some games can win or lose it on, you know, a bad couple back. So is he the kicker? In a way. Or is he the quarterback? He's the quarterback or the kicker. Quarterback or the kicker, that's a huge contrast.

It's a huge difference. It's a huge contrast. So you're either the leading goal score or you're the starting goaltender. But if you look at it like, you know, one player itself on the team can win or lose the game. So he's like a pitcher in baseball? Yeah.

Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Most expensive guy in the field is the most expensive guy in the ice? Are they expensive? Yeah. You're expensive. Yeah. them or like the top line guys top defensemen the goalie yeah so let's segue into that's perfect

to what you're doing these days you're working with the kings and you're knowing the value guys what are you doing with the kings right now so i do player development which means i'm not a coach but there's five of us on the development staff and guys that i've played with uh so that's fun but so we're not scouts but when we draft the kids then we kind of take over and we build the relationship with them, wherever they're playing. They're going back to the NCAA. They're going to junior hockey in Canada. Some of them are in Europe. So we just build a relationship, work on fundamentals, work on little details of the game that they need to work on. And I've learned so much in this job and this role because don't assume anything. Don't think they know. Yeah.

You know, he'll know this. He'll know this. No, they don't. You know, coaches don't teach them everything. Coaches in junior are going up. They just, they play them because they're the best players. and they play them a ton of minutes and they're just like, go score goals, go get points. But they don't know the defensive side of the game. They don't know how to protect the puck. They don't know how to get, take a, you know,

in the playoffs, wall plays along the wall. That's all it is. And can you win a battle along the wall? How do you get to puck out? You know, 20 seconds left in the third period, you're up by one, like getting that puck out in your zone. It's a huge play, especially in the playoffs.

Situational hockey. Situational hockey. Yeah, like puck management, game management, as you know. Right. So teaching these kids that and then how are you doing they make it? Like if they go back to school, are you guys having like Zoom calls each week? Are you going to go on ice with them? We go on the ice with them.

We go have calls. I'm going on, I'm going tomorrow to, um, I'm going to Detroit because we have a player that plays in Flint in junior. Good water. Then I'm going to win. Then I'm going to win. Maybe it got better. Then I'm going to Windsor the next day.

Then I'm going to Denver. We have three kids at D.U. that's just a big week for me because I can see seven of our prospects in four games. So, yeah, just build a relationship. And when they come here to the American Hockey League, our HL team is here, and they practice out of the same facility as the Kings in El Segundo. So then they're all under one roof so I can work with them even easier. Do you guys talk about, like, educating these kids on being a pro athlete, too, as well?

It's not just like, it's not just like X's and O's on the ice stuff. It's like, hey, don't gamble on the sport. Don't go buy a Bentley, your first contract. Don't gamble on the sport. Don't buy a Bentley. There's going to be people in your life. Like, you guys have that kind of shit too? A little bit.

Yeah. That's, that I would say more so as the agent and the parents, right? But no, how to become, like being a pro, being a good, good teammate, off the ice, you know, treat their organization, you know, like family, like be respectful, you know, represent the organization. in the city and your fans really well that kind of stuff but you're still talking them up though just being around guys that have been in it that's that's a good program like nutrition all that kind of stuff right the strength and you know fitness side of things strength and conditioning so don't assume they know anything everything don't assume they know anything do you see a big difference in players in your system that are playing NCAA versus playing in the you know the junior leagues that's a good question um

not a lot maybe the biggest difference is in college they play like what 34 or 38 games something like that Canadian junior leagues where it's a Quebec league the OHL the WHL I played in the WHL you're playing 68 72 games NHL is 82 so it's a big difference but and I just kind of learned this I thought of it as in a different way the there's a top pick this year that Gavin McKenna he went to Penn State and all the money now with goes to hockey players too not as much as football obviously but they still get something he went to pen state and i'm like why would he do that but then again he

plays less games more time in the gym more time to develop his body versus playing a lot more more games less time in the gym what's better where where where where where else would he play if at penn state or uh he played last year in the w hl with medicine hat tigers okay so he could either play in the juniors or he could go to college yeah because there's a new rule It's a really new program, and they're not like a division one powerhouse or a couple years old. They got a whole new set up there, which is amazing, I heard. And so he played in the Western Hockey League, which I played in Western Canada. Canadian Junior League is awesome.

So now the new rule, they switch the rule where you can now leave and you can go to U.S. colleges. So some players are leaving. It's a big deal. So he left. And he got some money, I'm sure. But that's the difference, right? I'm like, hey, well, what's more important for a player at that age? Time on ice or weight room?

weight room getting time on ice as well i don't know it's it's an interesting way to look at well there's going to be probably a social study in the next five six years 10 years for scouts organizations just like there's they're going to be doing that in football with with how to scout the new player with the new options yeah guys that are making five million bucks in college how to deal with them is going to be different than when you were dealing with tom brady who you know what i mean Just in general, like there's got to be a social study. And I guarantee all the organizations at the top of all the leagues, they're going to be doing a social study on this, like, this whole thing.

But it's going to take time. It will. Everybody that comes to our organization in there, they get drafted. You get drafted at 1718. So, you know, you always say when you're looking at young players, always got bigger, stronger, faster. He's got to get bigger, stronger, faster. Well, maybe this kid who went to Penn State, he's going to be pretty strong when he comes out

and play in the NHL, whoever drafts him, he'll be one of the top picks this. year. Do you guys talk about load at all? Load management? Yeah, load management in hockey. Not really, but Anaheim did it last year with this kid, Leo Carlson. They did load management with him, more practice time, less games than what he probably should have, could have played. Now he's like, this year he's like third or fourth in league and scoring. He's an awesome player. He's going to be really good. He's going to, he's going to be one of their main, you know, franchise players for the Anaheim duck. So maybe it worked, I don't know, but more practice time, more time in the gym. How's our Kings doing right now in L.A.? We're okay. We're still trying to find our way.

A couple games above 500, but a lot of teams are in the league right now. It's a weird, a lot of teams you think would be, you know, a lot better in art. And there's some teams that are, it's the opposite. But no, we're doing okay. Just we could be better. How different is the beginning of the season to like the middle part of the season and the end of this season like first maybe 20 games it's kind of feeling it out feeling everything out seeing who's and teams management are doing that too like there maybe you know are they going to be buyers or sellers at the trade deadline well they're going to find out maybe the first 20 games what kind of team they have um who's off to a good start who's not and then the middle part is just trying to you're you're

already looking at the schedule a little bit how many games are remaining where are you in the wildcard spot or you first you're leading your division and those last 20 20 probably ish you know it tightens up There's less scoring chances. There's less penalties. It's just harder, heavier hockey. Teams are trying to gear up for the playoffs that are going to be in the playoffs. And teams are trying to get in. But around the trade deadline, there's about a month left in the season with the trade deadline.

And then you, so teams will, you know, but that's too, a lot of teams will get a big player, big free agent at the time that teams are trying to sell off. And it works. Sometimes it doesn't, right? You get a guy coming to your team. It just, it kind of screws up your whole kind of chemistry. and dynamic of your team you know that like help who might not work might not i had we had it kind of worked when the keeb talib came over and then brad mershahn going to the panthers mid-season

joker gets another yeah another cupy yeah how's that going to work we were close to getting him he was close to coming here that would have been cool marsy jays right right choice right choice how do you did you do you try to recruit them are you part of the recruiting process uh no that would be more like the GM, assistant GM, stuff like that, but no. I got to send Stoli out there to get them bring the catch stay over here. We should have got you. Get out of here.

Jesus. Think about Big Z. Yeah, getting in the Hall fame, hey, bud? Big Z yesterday, Hallfamer. Who? Chara. Charo went to the, he got in. Yeah, man. Fucking Big Z. Yesterday was, uh, look up the, his speech. It was good, really good.

I got to look it up. Last night, they did it. The whole guy, Betty Betteman called Joe Thornton Dumbo. His nickname's Jumbo. His jumbbo. teleprompter, is somebody

I love Thorny He does have big ears He does have some big ears He's over He's in Florida Oh no You're thinking Sean Thornton Joe Thornton was a San Jose

Sharks grade Yes the guy That when they won the President's Cup And then they fucking lost In the first round Yeah Yeah I used to love

I'm kind of a Sharks guy I'm kind of a Sharks guy So my my fandom started in 94 When the team came to San Jose But we're playing In the Cal Palace

We missed the first two periods, but being football people, we thought we were going to catch a second half. So I went period and kind of hurt me. So I should have picked the game in 2014 when we, I don't know if you even know this, I hope you do, but they were up three nothing against us in 2014? Yes. I remember like the sharks have done that like five times, haven't they?

Where they've, they've really underperformed when they've had good teams. Good teams. They had a good stretch there. Like, well, Thornton won the Hart Trophy, MVP. like in 2006. So then, yeah, 14, they were up three nothing on us, and then we came back and won four straight, but, yeah, game seven in San Jose. Backdoor suite?

Yeah. Backdoor sweet. Three teams have done it, yeah. And you're one of them. And hockey, only three teams have done it. What are the other two? 2010 Flyers. Was it against the Bruins?

Yeah. It was against the Bruins. And then it was, like, back in the day. The Penguins is just doing really? recently? No. I think a team to win this down. The Cup did it. Back like in the... Wasn't that Easter Cup was finals? Fire. No. One win, win the cup and you lose four straight. That would be like some Buffalo Bill shit. Yeah, yeah. As a Buffalo Bill's going to the Super Bowl four years in a row. That's crazy. I, uh, the Dallas, did you watch that at all? The documentary?

Yeah, a little bit here and there. I didn't realize at the time. I grew up in Canada, too, so, you know, we were more CFL than NFL. Yeah, yeah. Who's your CFL team? going to the Great Cup on Sunday Saskatchewan Roughriders What do you think about the new rules Do you see that They're like changing a lot of the rules

It's gonna be more like American football There's not a fourth down They're changing the what are they called Alloettes It's making it harder They're bringing and they're bringing The ruse is harder And the field goal posts aren't gonna be

In the middle anymore We're moving the field goal post In the back In the back There's like getting knocked They'll run into those things They had the game the other day Like my parents were in town

and they just left but we're from Saskatchewan and they were first in the league all season and they were losing all game to the playoff game to go to the Great Cup and they came back and won but the start of the game I was like mom what's the score she goes it's one nothing

there's like a safety touchback rule thing it's a one you can get a single point so she's like yeah it's one nothing right now I looked at her like so you're really into the CFL your mom your mom follows it and everything in Saskatchew we're only a million people the whole province yeah

so yeah very they get great support and oh yeah i almost became a bc line seriously yeah out of college he's gonna play quarterback for them oh way yeah so how does that work like they bought my negotiation rights when i came out of college okay hoping and like you cross your fingers that you'll that i was gonna sign and then they said you can go try playing the NFL and i was like all right and we'll have it here so they basically just like that money's gone they bought money's gone yeah and it was like a super like incentive-based contract okay yeah like you start you get like a hundred grand

play a certain amount of games yeah whatever yeah it's like 260 was like my max was like 300 at the time I was like man I could be hell of rich yeah I'm Canada my parents are all pumped because the gray cup is in Winnipeg and it's not that far from Saskatchewan they're playing against Montreal

the Yellowettes so like oh I mean you know Montreal's far and Winnipeg's not so Saskatchewan should have some good good show up yep good show up yeah good show up So who's your NFL team? To be honest, I, right now I don't really, maybe the Rams, because Matthew, he's a great guy. We know him personally, but it was you guys when you guys were playing and winning because, you know, I knew you guys. But never really had a team because growing up in Canada, to be, yeah, to be honest, I never really followed it that much.

And then, you know, meeting Aaron and now with Aaron, it's just like it's, you know, it's always on. I'm around it. And I love it. It's great. I was explaining to my parents, the ratings you guys get and how big the NFL is. in the US and they don't really have a concept of that or idea of that and I I broke it down this way game seven against Dodgers jays I think the ratings were like 50 million I think ish and then like you guys get in the Super Bowl last Super Bowl which wasn't a very good game

obviously chief seagos got like 100 200 or 250 something like that 100 130 or 140 but that's the difference it's like game seven of the world series versus and don't get me wrong Baseball is awesome, and that series was great. That was an insane series, too. Oh, my God. 51 versus 111. Yeah. 51 to 111?

So you just Rob Lowe with the NFL shield hat and all the games. You ever see that? Rob Lowe wears the NFL Shield hat. It's like the red operating hat that they give to people he wears. It's just a regular, it's not like of a team, it's just of the NFL. I'll show you. So you're married to Aaron Andrews. Can she be biased about teams?

She, she, like, integrity. Not on air, but, oh, yeah, there it is. She grew up a Green Bay Packer fan. Her dad, you know, they watched the Packer games, and she was little, and that's basically why she got into sports because he was such a Boston Celtics and Green Bay Packers. So, yeah, deep down, she's a Packer fan. Yeah, so you guys have a two-year-old now.

How's that going? Two-year-old. Actually, there's months. We're doing 24, 25, 26, he's 27 and a half months. Please. When do you switch from months to you? I don't do that. I hate that.

We had a little thing before. I was like, bro, how old are your kids? He's two and a bit. Two and a bit. Perfect. Perfect. I love that. He goes, you know.

He's not 27 and a half months or whatever heck he is. When is the threshold to stop months? I hate when people 18 months. You got to be one and a half dog. Yeah, exactly. God. Now, you're married to Aaron, you guys got a kid. And what people don't know is I met you at the Yellowstone Club.

what is that in 2015 maybe somewhere yeah probably and uh we would go train out there and stole they used to cut out a field for us and they'd line it up a little 60 yard field at like 9,200 altitude

so you could feel it oh yeah and stole would be out there and Tom would run us through a set of drills and he'd make Stoli try to guard us and stuff as you and Danny right Danny would come I don't know if gronk came ever. Grunk, maybe.

Maybe once. But it was cool to not guard these guys or defend them, but just visually. Yeah. Right? And just be out there. And I could, this guy's coming at me. Danny's coming at me. And how hard, I remember to this day how hard you guys cut in your routes that you run.

And, you know, I've heard Tom say it that you're one of the best route runners that he's ever thrown to. And I saw it. I saw like the juke play, whatever you guys talk about. And I was just out there just visually. So hopefully he could, it might fuck him up a little bit. Never did. But I was impressed with you guys because you had your, I don't know if you had your pads on, he did.

But running. I wore my pads. Yeah, over and over again in that altitude and like, great training. But Tom would not let you guys take a break. Remember he's like, again, let's run it again. He's not running the route. He's dropping back three steps. Three steps.

And these guys are dying out there. And I felt bad, but. I mean, to put a perspective, when we first get there, like going upstairs, you feel it. And then we go to sleep. we wake up in the morning at the crack of dawn started getting worked on we gotta go run after like five routes

you're swamped but still like Tom would always like stole and Alex to just be in parts of the field and we would run our plays with unpredictable defenders we'd run like one route

that could change into like 10 different routes and it was good practice for us because sometimes it's harder to fool a dumb football player, meaning a guy can luck into something if he doesn't know the concept of the game. So you were getting, we would use anything like that. I'm the dumb football player that doesn't get it, but hopefully it helped you. It did. And Danny to like just figure it out, right? It did. Yeah. How impressive watching Tom throw though? That's pretty good. Who was harder

to defend against, Dola or Jules? Jules. Sorry, Danny, but I'm here at Jules's That was what I was insane. That's just Canadian politeness. Maybe if you have a podcast, I'd say you, Danny. That's just Canadian politeness right there. How come you guys are so goddamn polite? You say sorry about everything. Some are, some aren't.

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author and old west historian mark lee gardner whenever there was a posse formed doc holiday was always there to help out yeah he's like i'm sick i'm half dead like love I love to throw in. So he just gets excited when there's a possum. It's like your buddy drew a tag, you know. Listen to the Meat Eater podcast on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's jump back into time and go back to June 11th, 2012, where this game took place. And let's go over some of the pop culture, Stolley.

Did you ever see the number one movie in the country at the time or in the world? No. Madagascar 3? no Europe's most wanted well you've got a kid right now that's 27 months so I'm sure you'll be diving into these Disney movies here soon oh we are

he knows how to say Disney pretty good that's DreamWorks Jules huh that's DreamWorks you gotta get your student works yeah cartoon Ted yeah fucking cartoon Ted I love cartoon number one song somebody I used to know

Goate you remember this yeah Tom used to fucking love this song really in the locker room him and Hoyer I remember specifically would play this song over and over and mind you like no one on the other team no one else in the team locker room liked it i was hoping that would be one of those would up to be uh we were in this run i remember we were like a vici a vich yes swedish house mom like that kind of pregame list yeah oh yeah it was amazing yeah we then we you know go see their uh dj sets

wherever they were but yeah that was i remember vici was uh he was a shit now take us into the the the pregame of a hockey locker room are you guys just straight disco because you got the Eastern Europeans you got the Canadian are you guys just like that's a big job

it's a big job who's got the USB Jeff Carter had it for a bit Drew Doughty definitely not we'd be all over the place so it wouldn't it wouldn't be that not so much country I like country but you know it wouldn't be like that before

but it'd be DJ stuff it would be you know rock and roll it'd be freaking throw a couple nickelbacks in there you know nickel back so much in the hockey room rock star you know it would be all over the place but not much country but that was a big job whoever had that that that cord we only had white boy wednesdays where there'd be like oh yeah that kind of stuff every once in a while everything else was just straight yeah in your face um ted magic mic 21 jump street and the hunger games were all in the box office

you ever see you like any of these Ted for sure didn't remember Tom he had a little part of that too was that Ted 2 or Ted 1 I think it was Ted 1 I don't know it's funny The Breaking Bad Breaking Bad is great

Love it Are they making a new prequel or something No his the creator Vince Gillian has a new show on Apple It's pretty good it's called Pluribus He's to check it out Spotify anytime I see a house that's tented for termites What's going on there

genius smart NBA champion with the heat LeBron was the MVP the heart Memorial oh wow I didn't know this so this was Malkin like tore his knee up at the beginning of last year the year prior Adrian Peterson and he had the same surgery that Adrian Peterson had

came back they both came back really quick and had MVP seasons yeah I'm a Penguins fan yeah put Gino in there what were his numbers that year like pretty Pretty good. The Stanley Cup champions, L.A. Kings. And around this time in sports,

rookie of the years included Julio Jones, Cam Newton, J.J. Watt, Von Miller. Those were all rookies that were joining the NFL. That's a fucking, that's a rookie class. J.J. Watt was a monster. Von Miller, we had a change-up snap counts.

Yeah? And Julio Jones had, he was, Cam, this was, that, That's a legendary rookie class. And legendary owner, Al Davis, passes away at 82. You Raiders fan? Not really, but I know who Al Davis was, for sure. Yeah. Like, being from Canada, what is, what do you think of the Raiders?

Like, just, do you remember Al Davis and, like, his persona? A little bit, just because I, you know, I, you know, I was, I looked into stuff like that, but I knew he was an interesting cat that did things his way, a certain way. And that's pretty much all I knew, but I didn't know he passed away that that year. You know that he's the only person to have been a head coach in the National Football League, a GM in the National Football League, the commissioner of the National Football League, and an owner in the National Football League. He's like one of the founding fathers of the NFL sued the league.

like they're as he's a but once a commissioner and then he's sues elite yeah no that that's why it's even that's just show yeah hey Brady's halfway there Brady's halfway there yeah

what was life like for Stoli in 2012 it was fun it was fun we had a good team we had a good group of guys how old are you right now young group of guys

I'm 42 so in 2012 were you what was I young Stoli 29 so you're in the heat 29 actually I would no I just turned 29 when we won but at end of June I turned 30 so I had to cup my 30th birthday cup on your 30s I saw that video when you took it back home had the

parade oh that was in the summer yeah yeah but we had it I had it here which was a good thing about well good thing and about like you win the cut year it's in June right so everybody not many guys live in the where they play they have summer homes or whatever they're from so a lot of guys leave pretty quick after the parties after the parties after to parade and stuff, guys are gone. There's only two or three of us that were here, and I lived here. So I told the cup guys that, hey, whenever there's a night, it's quiet. Because it goes all over the city and they can take it everywhere.

So when it's quiet, let me know, bring it over. So it was available on June 24th, my 30th birthday. So I threw a party in Manhattan Beach and then at my house. And that was awesome. Phil hooked it up. That was cool. Shout to text to Phil. Richard?

Yeah, we're now friends. He was on our show. Yeah, he came on. Phil's great. He brought the cup. He brought the cup. Did he really? Sir Stanley was here.

We had Ray Bork on. He did the Avalance Championship. Oh, gee. With the cup. That's, what a story that is. Ray Borg. What a gem. They were down three, two in that series, too.

Yeah. So who were your favorite teams as a kid? As a kid, Philadelphia Flyers. Because growing up, our minor hockey, like, colors were white, orange, and black. And my dad grew up with Brian Prop. He was a really good player, played for Philly, played for Minnesota North Stars. Never won a cup.

But, yeah, we kind of followed him around. So it was Philly, and then it was Minnesota North Stars when he went there. That was about it. This King's team had that flyers kind of connective tissue with Jeff Carter and Mike Richards. It was a big trade that happened. And, you know, not a risky trade, but we gave up a lot and we got a lot back. But like I said, sometimes that doesn't work. Yeah.

But it did. Let's jump into this game. Let's let's want to hear us. Stoli has. So this devil squad went 48, 28, and 6. They were led by Peter DeBoer, GM Lou LaMerello, legend. They finished fourth in the Atlantic, made their first in the Cup appearance

since the 2002-2003 season. They put up 216 goals, led up 205. This is a good shout-out team as well with franchise 12 shout-out wins. Mark Timbreder, obviously there. Some other names, Elio Kovitch, Patrick Elias, Zach Preeze, Adam Henrique. Yeah, I remember that.

Peter Socorra. When you're looking at that, what are you thinking about? I'm just thinking about all the players. And you play against them, you think about plays. Like Ilya Kovalchuk, I'm just thinking right now because he just pounded one-timers all the time in the power play. And I penalty killed.

So I was always out on his side blocking his shot. That's what I remember and the pain that it went through. But Pryze, yeah, Elias taking faceoffs against him. And then Broder, yeah. I know a couple big saves he had against me in the finals. That's what I remember when I see his name. What made him so good, Bordeaux? because he's he was a monster anticipation his reads he was just and he was very athletic so he never

gave up on plays and if you think you maybe got it you don't yeah you know you got to make sure you bear down put it in the back of the net put it through the net because he's a pretty good chance that his second third efforts are what made him so great he makes crazy acrobatic saves because of his compete and his work ethic and it's probably also like they have a good vision of the game of like if there's something over here they probably see that guy they know the guy's there and they yeah you know if you know you know you know I'm sure yeah his his read and react right and vision but if you know a guy's a lefty over there and the puck's over here like you got to read and know that he's a one-timer one-timer one-timer so if that's the case if he's not a

one-timer then maybe a little bit more time but if he is he should one-time it if it's a good pass and those goals like that and know that I can I used to play the point in the power play so I was the one-timer guy how do you like doing that as an offensive player love it yeah because if you're the if you know you're one of the threats or you're one of the one of the first options for second option or whatever yeah you just your job is to pound it and you hope it's a good pass and you just one-timers are hard and we again it's development coaches and fundamentals we teach shooting and we teach one-timers and we tell guys if it's a good pass on your one-timer side shoot it goalies are so good now like they if you stop it stick handle goalies there you see how big the

goalies are you watch hockey games these goalies are six five now and their equipment is huge you don't see much net so if you're on the one-timer side shoot it a lot of the good players now like kutrov in tampa matthews uh dry saddle even five on five not just power play but five on five they try to get to their one-timer side and then they know it's a better opportunity to score because of the deflections and maybe but the goalie And you don't have to hit a perfect shot. Yeah. Right?

This far inside the post, whatever. The goalie comes across. It goes through him because he can't get set. So all those things. How many one-timers do you? You probably practice that all day. You just have a coach just sitting there. You're just,

you know, if you know, on the power play, yeah, I took one-timers a lot after practice. You just, you know, you got to know where that,

you know where that puck is when it's coming to you. And if it's, you know, a little bit off my front foot, I know that I could get it up easier and if you're always coming across you got to probably get it up a little bit you know to score but a lot of times too just hitting the net see these guys see that's all like golf shit

that's why you guys are all good at golf you know getting it through and fucking timing it up is that why you guys are good at golf yeah hand-eye hips and like baseball players are good at golf too right because they're maybe something like that hitting things hips hitting things yeah You hit the ball far hockey player probably can but it's you know how it is But you guys got good hands You know how to square shit up

It's the hand stuff Yeah true Now do you have any beef with any of these guys No Everyone likes to talk good beef Uh let's see here Not really you know This isn't that much of a dirtbag team

No they weren't really annoying They were just defensive Like you see there goals against They were eight They were just yeah they would win game They're kind of like us actually They win games 2-1, 3-2. They brought to her, we had Quick.

We had probably some more, no, no, I don't know. I think of high-end guys. Like, you know, we had Carter, Richards, Kopitar. We got Kovachuk, L.A. Ash, Prez. So, yeah. Let's check it out. Let's see the L.A. Kings. Where are we going to?

Oh, here we go. Guy, guy. Oh, yeah, three coaches that year. So the Kings team went 40, 27, and 15. Started a bit slow, 13, 12, and 4. And on December 4th, they decided to make a coaching change. They let Terry Murray go and brought in Daryl Sutter. They finished eighth in the Western Conference.

The offense struggled getting shut out ten times. Most of any team that year. But defensively, they were solid, and goalkeeper Jonathan Quick was unreal. They got hot at the right time, and we'll get into that in the lead-up. Some big names you mentioned, Enzi Kopitar who's having his final season this year. Incredible career, Dustin Brown, Captain, Drew Dottie, Jared Stoll, Jonathan Quick. the um yeah we were just got into the playoffs you see that eighth so we that's why the coaching change happened i remember we were kind of cool story we were flying to boston and terry murray was our coach and we were flying to

boston and we get to the hotel we check in we all go all over you know some guys went to a movie i remember we went to a bar on uh what's the main street there the nice street uh newberry you with daisy bekinnons yeah probably so there you shout out hey shout out hey it's not there anymore RRP RRP Your buddy The owner or some Nah

And we got there We were having lunch And a couple beers And then we all get a text Everybody Back to the hotel Team meeting You know

You know those Did you guys know Meadrooms Cascade room B or some shit Yeah we all had to go So when you get that text We kind of maybe

We kind of thought maybe Is this it But we just flew All the way across country With them with them. Are they going to do that? So yeah, we go to this meeting room and our GM comes in there and just, yeah, rips us. You know, yeah, it's our fault, right?

We're the way we play. We didn't play good and our coach lost his job. So that, that sucked for sure. We felt bad. We felt responsible. And so, yeah, they fired Terry Murray and John Stevens took over that road trip because we were on a road, road trip just starting it, right, for a couple weeks. And so John took over, Dean, Lombardi was our GM.

he had a relationship with Daryl Sutter in San Jose. And so he called Daryl on the farm in Viking Alberta. Daryl was on the farm, probably on the tractor. And give me a couple days. And he got back and he said, yeah, but I need two weeks. He needed two weeks on the farm to finish some stuff up. Wow. And then he joined the team.

And, yeah. How is that? How is that going? Now, do you guys? We knew what type of coach Dary was. He was a hard ass. That was his reputation. There was no bullshit, no.

If fans are butts, it's black and white with him. And yeah, when he came in, it just, you know, it changed. I don't know. Everyone, you work harder. You want to impress the coach. You want to get ice time. And he was a guy that if you didn't play, you, you, or you didn't, you weren't playing well, you didn't play.

Yeah. And there's one funny story with him, but all those guys on the list, Copatar, Williams, Brown, Carter, like, they were having a tough game one game. And for me, I wasn't a top line guy. So I was just like, you know, a penalty killer, checker. And so they were having a terrible game. the bench he put him all to the edge of the bench he goes get over there millionaires roll get over there called him you know he set up a little on the cycle millionaires row and uh so the

three or four of them got bench for the rest of game so i was happy i played a lot yeah you know so yeah he there's no pissing around with him no man that's crazy to have three different coaches but that was my favorite coach now because you know not just because we won but he put everybody in roles that he felt would give the team the best chance to win and you know what it's like to have roles and everybody accept them. Some people won't and then that's a problem but we all did. So it's fairly unusual. Jules

and I were talking earlier, it's fairly unusual for other sports to move on from a coach mid-season and then have success that season. However, in hockey it's not that unusual. It happened here, it happened with the penguins twice. What is it about hockey that you know, a coaching change can lead to successful where you can win a championship

in the same year? Yeah, just a different voice, a different mindset, attitude, everybody feels a little bit differently. Like I said, trying to impress. And, like, he came in day one. He was like, he met with all of us. He goes, hey, I want this is your role. I want you to play it.

I want you to, the matchup. And that was the playoffs, too. He was so prepared matchups. He goes, you got to beat him this series. Not just one game. You might have to beat him seven games in a row. You got to beat him. You got to beat him.

Like, that was it. That was our job. And everybody tried to do it and do it well. And very good motivator. You did not want to let him down. it was he was a good coach who who is the team jokester on this team uh well doy drew doughty he's always joking around he's not serious that often but that's what makes him so great um mac green awesome guy i get traded with him from edinson to la so we still work together in player development

so dry sense of humor just hilarious um what else we got in here Mitchie who's a team asshole nobody no assholes like you there's that That's why we won. But you got to have an asshole that keeps everyone accountable. Okay. Like, different way to put it. Who's the serious guy?

Any serious guy? Probably like, you know, Copey was pretty serious. Carts, Jeff Carter was pretty serious guy. Brownie. Brownie was a quiet leader, our captain. He was just, he did his job on the ice and wasn't a raw, raw guy in the locker. We had plenty of those, but that's probably why he wasn't. but yeah who was the rah-rah guy it was probably like greener i didn't i didn't i wasn't

quiet um rad richardson drew dowdy um and yeah that's a great uh i'm just thinking of all the names we had now calling fraser he was a great uh you know fourth-line guy but raw-rah guy kept everyone on their toes yeah you said something right there when you got traded to from emminton what was that like when you're a Canadian kid you're playing emington and then you get traded to la la land you're going to the kings you're going to LA you're going to the entertainment capital of the world it was bittersweet for me because I yeah I was the closest place I could have played from where I grew up was emminton so I had extra season tickets I buddies come all the time I

family came a lot so i had fun and we we had the year before two years before we had just almost won the stanly cup we lost game seven to carolina so we had a good team and i yeah i had a tough year that year i didn't have a very good year and i didn't expect it actually but i lived here in the summers i trained here and so i was already here oh so you're here and then i got the phone call and kevin low was the gm and edmonton he's like where are you right now and i said i'm in l.a he goes okay well you could you can stay there and i'm like what do you mean he goes well i just just just traded you and another one of your teammates to to LA and he couldn't tell me who because he didn't he couldn't get a hold of Greener was flying and he couldn't get a hold of

him yet and then I found out it was it was me and Greener coming this way so a little bittersweet but I know you get traded somewhere and you know that team wants you and they yeah basically they want you so man yeah bringing Jeff Carter in at the trade deadline that was probably big huge because we we struggled to score goals four, we were 194. We were always like a team that struggled to score, but we were really good defensively. Always like kind of tops in the league.

So that's why I said we win games 2-1, 3-2. So we needed him. He was a goal score. And perfect addition, he added so much, you know, offensively to our team that helped us win. How greater his hands when you see it in action day-to-day? Good hands, really good hands,

but better shot, accuracy, got it off quick. Quick, they said. He wouldn't get it, stick handle. that's something we teach in player to development. Like the game is too fast now. You can't get it. Dust it off and then put, shoot it. It's very rarely scored.

He was so good at boom, on and off his stick, accurate, hard. Wow. Now what's up with this pancakes that Dustin Penner used to make? He gets hurt, tearing his oblique, eating a pancake. What's the story behind this? He loved pancakes and he loved junk food in general. He'd be on the play and he'd have, those little Swedish fish and the uh what's the ones with the sugar on them and the sour patch kids

sour patch kids oh he would have them all over his chest and he was a disaster so he got hurt eating a pancake i don't like i don't exactly know the story so yeah maybe take this out because this is what he said he said i woke up fine sat down to eat and locked right up it never happened me before i couldn't stand up i was probably at the third stage of evolution my wife helped me get dressed and then I drove to the rink here. And that's it. What was the Lockwood's reaction to hearing that? Yeah, it was kind of a, he didn't say anything about the pancake.

I think he was sitting down to eat pancakes and he, his back seized up. Yeah, I guess so it's, but delicious pancakes quote. Yeah, he was a guy that, yeah, he, I'm sure if, if he were to talk to Tom and Alex, the reason why he got tight back was because the, he was lack of, you know, Lack of hydration because of all the sugar intake. He was, he slipped and fell, making a protein shake or something. Let's jump into this game.

So yeah, we beat Vancouver in the first round. The one seed? They were won. They'd won the President's Trophy. It was the best regular season team. So then we played St. Louis. So we beat the one seed, we beat the two seed, we beat the three seed.

And then we were the last seed. And we were the last seed. And this was one thing, too. like we just got into the playoffs so like as you know too if you're peeking at the right time giant so seven yeah and they're all of our games leading up to the playoffs were the playoffs and vancouver they'd won the present trophy so they rested some guys you're kind of not you're not playing your whole lineup right rest first rust yes then game one of the playoffs like so we we were up three nothing against them in the series and you know they made it three one

and then we won four games to one and the next round we swept st louis which was a hard series it wasn't a sweep but we swept them then the third round we beat phoenix but phoenix knocked off chicago that was huge we saw that happen we were like oh okay and then then phoenix knocks off nashville so we got phoenix in in the conference final and they were a good team they were third seed but we would rather play them than the black hawks yeah right that was when mike smith was kind of going crazy right mike smith and uh yeah they had a good team Shane Dohn. So we almost had the record for the in the playoff.

So we were record for what? Well, so we four games to one, four oh, so we're eight and one there. And then we're 12 and two. Then we go up three nothing in against Jersey. So we're 15 and two is our record. And we needed to win one more game. And we lost two in a row. So that we finished 16 and four.

So we would have had the record. So 15 and two. with a chance to win one more like that's that's how good that's all good we were we got three nothing three nothing three nothing the first three rounds so like you know adversity yes there's a lot of adversity but a lot less adversity when you're off three nothing in the series right defense wins championships yeah is it tough to lose that potential to sweep game in home at home yeah that game four like that one stings yeah yeah we got a chance to sweep jersey at home to win the cup and I remember like you know everyone has their pregame nap in the hotel and

like you do and we didn't me and my roommate brad richison we didn't sleep a second you were just we were actually listening to vici in the room hotel room because we stayed during the playoffs we stayed across the street at the at the ritz okay for playoff sure our coach darrell liked to what he wanted us downtown the night before playoff game so we slept there we had a pregame skate at that staple center at the time so yeah we all stayed there and then walked across and yeah we didn't sleep we're so excited we're like talking about what we're going to do with it where we're going to party where we're going to go tonight after we win where we're going to you know at home taking the cup home and we shouldn't have been talking about this stuff but how do you not and yeah we it was close

we tied it up in the third uh it was one one i think and they won uh right there yeah three one yeah yeah okay guy and then you lose again you go to new new jersey and drop another one so now it's three to two going into this game what's the that's starting to get like a little bit right because then if you drop game six, anything can happen in game seven. Yeah, you go back to Jersey across country for game seven.

Yeah, so this, heat was on us here in game six now to try to close this out at home, right? You know how it is. You don't want to go into... I don't, though. Because we don't play series.

True. It's completely, it's like quarters for us. You're going to game seven every time. And it's... The quarter is like a game. True. How is the energy different

when the cup is in the building for a game? you just yeah it definitely like you know the crowd you can feel the buzz um for us it's more nervous a little bit if you're not nervous you're probably lying um but yeah it's just that excitement you want you want to play well and not be the reason you lose but be the reason why you win and make a big play so did you guys throw the vichie on after the super duper power play that you guys scored three goals on i tell you what we probably listen to what do they call that i've never even so we watched this Five-in-major?

What is it, the major? A five-minute major penalty, they call it. Yeah. You guys scored the first one watching the game. Like, all right, the power play's over, and I'm like, what the fuck's going on? It's super-duper? I've never seen that.

Super-duper power play, five minutes? You can call it that if you want. It's a super duper. So Steve Brunier was ejected for a hit on Rob Skadari, and you guys made them pay for it. You never, I was telling Jules, how rare it is to AC a major penalty in, you know, playoffs, systemic up finals. and then to see a team actually execute at that level

to score three goals. So score three on it, yeah, it very rarely happens. You get one, maybe you should get one, five minutes straight power play, but two is tough, three is crazy tough. Now what makes you guys think, why are you in the zone to get, like you guys were just focused at this point?

Well, what was it? Yeah, we just, again, we had one of those games where we were just, we were on, we were playing well, you know, 15 and 2 and we lose 2, but we were back. We were our fans, we were jacked. this three nothing was was up here and that was one too like in 14 it was a totally different playoffs you know we're we're down three nothing we're down a bunch in the series and we won the

cup in double overtime at home here we won at six one so it's three nothing after the first we're in the locker room we're like oh jeez we're three nothing like okay let's keep going keep going like teams can come back from three nothing but then carts's goal at the start of the second period made it four nothing and we're like okay you know it's pretty good fans are going crazy because they're pretty sure we're going to win. It's 4-1. And then we got, yeah, the empty-netter to make it 5-1. I remember I was on the ice and Trevor Lewis, that was it. You know, we were probably going to win, right? Probably.

It's up 4-1. But that 5-1 goal, that set it off, you know, and for us on the bench. And Darrell was that hard-ass coach that he wanted us to play right to the whistle. So he was, he was, it's 5-1. And then Matt Green scored again. So it's 6-1 and kind of a cool story. like none of us wanted to go on the ice and play the game we wanted to stay on the bench because the party was on the bench and it's 6-1-5-1-6-1 and we're winning and it's like

it was the last like at least five minutes of third period my shift's never been so short I was like 20 seconds on the ice I changed yeah darrell's yelling at us all like keep playing the fucking game you know like it's not over yet it's over you know we're winning but that was him and then like our reunions afterwards we had our 14 reunion last year and our 12 and then we talk about that and he laughs and he goes what do you want me to do you know you know how I am and it's great it's fun

that's something that was so cool rewatching this game was that it was decided with like five minutes left and like being like not only decided with that much time left but also being in the home arena and just feeling that energy and like being able to like kind of celebrate while it's happening has got to be such a cool experience

because very rarely does that happen in the NHH. A lot of games, Stanley Cups are won on the road and they're one at the last second. They're won by a goal or two. And then, yeah, or an overtime like we did in 14, but we didn't want there to be any whistles. Like, put the whistle away. Let's keep it going here.

Oh, my God. I've never been, like, that, I've always been, like, in heart pulpitation. Your Super Bowl wins, though. What was the scores? Like, obviously the... 28 to 3 were down. 23, that was like...

But we were down 10 points to Seattle in 14. That's right. You got that little bit of the kneel down after the interception. You got a couple minutes for the Seahawks where you had that. But then maybe in Los Angeles or we beat L.A. Rams, we won by 10. That was 10.3, right? Was it 133? 133?

Steve kicked that field goal. Steve kicked the field goal that's when we kind of felt. But still it's. Yeah, still you don't, yeah. You never know. There wasn't like a blowout where you guys were like, okay, we're winning. Not like this. No, yeah, not like this.

You guys, you guys have. to like you had to like play the don't let the complacency card kick in yeah yeah card that's you can't play that's that's crazy and then for 2014 was complete opposite like like I said we're down instead of being up three oh in every series here we started off down three oh to san Jose then we're down three two to anaheim yeah then we were down two nothing in game seven to chicago and it's just yeah I'm curious how long is the break in between periods 20 so what do you guys do for do you guys take your pads off I always took my my shoulder pads elbow pads off

a lot of guys take a lot of guys do that or untie their skates are you guys sweaty oh yeah like your jersey sweaty do you do you do you get a dry jersey do they dry them or something no not the jerseys some guys maybe have to second will take put a different undershirt on yeah nobody or some guys do from that I played with but not really many guys get fully undressed that's a little much I think

yeah swap gloves because at a half time no one it's rarely at our half time guys take off shoulder pads really yeah because it's so hard to put them back on huh we got trainers that throw yeah but the jerseys are so tight

yeah yeah yeah it's like a fucking task to put them it takes energy a lot do you guys change how often do you change shoes cleats. You don't take them off. You don't take them off. Unless it was like,

unless you change in game from molded to studded, which is for the grass. Because of the field. Because of the field. So I had new pair of skates every month. Once a month. Oh, gloves you change.

I would change gloves. I would change gloves a lot. I like stickies. Yeah. Which I found were very, very good when I was catching for you guys and stuff. What, um, yeah, gloves?

You said skates. Once a month, I would like new skates. and so when we won these years like I put a lot of skates for the year but I just liked them like once they started bending and giving I didn't like that I wanted them hard and I didn't want them to give so yeah that gloves we have glove dryers

next to the bench I always like my gloves dry not soggy and wet and stuff so 10 minute every 10 minute every TV time out we'd throw him to the trainer and he would dry him get my other ones but how often we change gloves in a game just twice? Depended if I have like if I started out hot with like a maybe like a four or five catch drive yeah I'm keeping those

bad boys on but weather though right if it's a hot humid no and then at half time to if it was really hot I would sweat through my gloves yeah so like in Miami a lot I'd always I'd wear a new glove in the second half yeah because like you it gets so hot you're I thought I would in your it would slide on me yeah yeah yeah I don't like that I like my shit tight like I wore my cleats tight again you don't want give if you're like you know yeah I would think. But I would think you would change your gloves more often. No, and then in the rain games,

you'd wear a leather glove. So you really didn't have that much grip with them. Okay. So you just kept those ones on. You know, you would feel it out. Yeah. I found that you guys were such good hands.

Like, when I was catching for Tom and with you guys, like I would always catch with my body. Yeah. And then, but then two days later, and I showed Tom pictures and stuff, my bruise is everywhere.

I'm here, even here. that all the way down my arm, all the way down my arm. Because I didn't want to let him down and drop a ball. And then he's probably like, I don't know, I could just mentally, that wouldn't be good. I know if I'm throwing to you and you get dropping balls, I'd be like, come on, dude.

Like, you're out here for me, like, to catch them. Yeah. So that was how I thought. And, uh, that's why you're a champion. Just, it's beat up, man. Now, take us to the L.A. fan. Okay. What's the L.A. King fan like? Like the fans out here? Because I, I think there's a lot of fans out here that love the Kings.

very loyal very passionate they love hockey they love hockey they love the dodgers the lakers the clippers you know you got to you got to win you got to be a good team right everybody wants a good team to go watch um no we got good fans we had in this uh around these years we had a sellout record it was like almost 200 games in a row sellouts is will pharaoh as big as a fan as he says he is yeah fucking sick of that shit yeah he is snoop dog too yeah snoop snoop yeah it annoys me though if they go to another they go to another game for something they wear in another team's jersey and like come on although as a penguins fan snoop dog in the 90s penguins Pittsburgh down the thing in gin and juice come on because we went to the the fire

can't beat that the LA fire on ice what was it yeah so I saw a little feral there is L.A. fire on ice no it was a charitable evening for the fires in Los Angeles yeah yeah I had a name yeah it did have a name yeah Thank you for coming, by the way. Oh, that was awesome. My daughter loved it. Yeah, we got to skate. We had the ice, right?

Mad Mac out there and you had your daughter out there? I mean, how, I was so impressed with all, like, you guys and your, your kids. You watched the little, the kids of the pros. Yeah, yeah. You see that. His kids are insane. Oh, they fly. Well, you see the little boys.

Yacob, he's like, they all got the little crazy haircuts and they're flying around, being little assholes. And then the girls are all, like, doing, like, ballerina, like, shit. They're all nice. It was so. fun. Anjay and Enis there's Yaakov, her son, a really good hockey player, and then Nays of the

daughter, she's a really good figure skater. Yeah. Yeah, like, unreal. And then your little boy was like, not even I think 13 months at the time. He was 14 months at the time. He was freaking skating. I was dragging him around, yeah. He's got little skates. Yeah, Bauer hooked him up with skates.

It was like Matt Leinert out there. Matt Leinert was playing too. Yeah, he was out there. Yeah. He was out there. Yeah. He was he played in the game yeah he did yeah yeah that's pretty ballsy so did beber it was a little rough out there but he's got some game give him a games played i mean to get on the ice i'm not going out there i'm not going out there i don't know you did you were out there i think we had a pick i think you're your daughter and uh mac and i yeah that was it was awesome that was a fun day take us inside this locker room after the wind ovecce's blaring yeah before that before that let's stay on the ice

real quick. You're up 6-1, clock's going down to zero. Take us through that moment, winning your first Stanley Cup, the energy, all that, chat. Let's hear that. It was cool, like, not only being on the bench and, like, hugging and celebrating, and, like, you're not really even watching the games going on out there. You're not really watching the game.

I remember that, and you look around in the crowd, too. You see fans, and so many fans have come up to me, and they're season ticket holders from 1967 when they came in and at the form, and they never seen the team win, first championships. So you hear stories like that and you see how emotional fans are. And, you know, fans are, they're passionate. They care about their teams.

And so like I said, we have great fans. So I remember looking around the crowd and just seeing how people reacting to. Who's the first person you thought of? I knew where my parents, my family were sitting. So I kind of looked up there and, you know, they're all, you know, hugging. And my mom was emotional. And yeah, my sister and my nephew and my buddies were up there too. And so it was cool after the, like on the ice after, like your whole family.

and it comes on the ice, right? And I made sure my buddies had got their passes to come on the ice with me. That had to be, I mean, that's got to be surreal. The Canadian, like, all your boys and your mom, like, I saw the story where your mom's, like, watching the games, your grandma's watching,

you got grandma garden and shit. Oh, yeah. Like, people up in Canada love this stuff, and, like, you're, all your family must have been so proud. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's, it's great. It's, you know, you celebrate,

with your guys your team on the ice and you lift the hoist of Stanley Cup and you take the team picture on the ice and all that and then you then you skate away from the team picture and you look over and it's your family and everybody's family's on the ice takes them while to get down there right and get organized so while we're celebrating with the team and our coaches and trainers you know then all of a sudden you see your family and that's the second part of it right and then you get pictures with your family and your my buddies who I played minor hockey with since I was six years old and you know we did you know that's all you know that's all you're awesome man they wanted to be there to see see me win and it's special it's a great feeling and then to finally hoist the trophy yeah 35 pounds i think heavier heavy 35 pounds actually heavy awkward just you're tired and you're exhausted and Simone ganier almost ate shit he almost yeah toe-picked a little bit yeah it'd have been well this cup's been through some stuff it's been it's been indented and oh yeah did you touch you didn't touch it oh i touched it you touched it no i'm never gonna win yeah you're never gonna play hockey yeah i'm never playing but i never touched it yeah it's kind of the thing you just don't you never touch you can do what you want it's kind of a but you

you touched it but after you never touch yeah i never touched it until i never until you want it yeah yeah that's the thing right you don't really like i knew it's like tin and like it's it's cold right and especially when you drink out of it when your when your lips just touch it you know it's just it's cold he's tan you know it's sorry that was a little beef no i was just thinking of like the blunt rotation if you're like if you're after the wrong person when you're oh oh you don't get a shit about that i did not even think about that i think they're on a different level they're not doing they're not giving it a white before the next guy here's a question did you touch the campbell trophy with the western carpers final you never did no okay no you don't touch that

no our cat dusson brown he just took the picture with it and then skate off and What's up with the superstitions? What other superstitions are there? You always end up getting dressed kind of the same way, right? You put your, I tied up my left skate first, and not for any reason. Just it's comfortable and you do it. Yeah.

You know, I'm sure it's the same, but no. I mean, some guys, but I feel like every hockey guy has a little. Yeah. And then also, like, you guys got, what's the hockey slang? Like a lot of, you put a Y at the end of something. What's this, what's a hockey slang? That guy's a beauty. He's a beauty.

That guy's a beauty. You tire pumping over there, bro? You tire pumping over there? Now these guys have, there's a lot of different stuff. Well, bar down's one, you know. Bar down top shelf or you go five hole or you go now these kids are, you know, just signed a sick Connie contract, you know, like getting to Connie this year, dog. Sick Connie, yeah.

There's a lot out there that I'm like, what does that mean? All right, all right, let's grade this game. Let's get into it. Let's do the aftermath first. L.A. would win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history. That's crazy. Jonathan Quick, as we mentioned, won the Kahn-Smith. L.A. went 16 and 4, like you mentioned,

on this playoff for an unbelievable run. This would be Martin Burtur's last playoff game. And then in 2014, L.A. would win their second Stanley Cup. And then something I want to just say too, because the goaltending, this whole playoffs, was incredible between Martin Breder and Jonathan Quick. Berder had 2.12 goals against average, a 917, say, percentage,

on a 14-9 record, and then Quick had a 1.41 goals against average and a save percentage of 9-4-6 with three shutouts. That's insane. Yeah. And to beat first seat, second, seed, third team. Yeah. That's a hell of... That's big boy.

That's big boys. That's Hall of Fame stuff. That's far right picture. That was a Beecher's Madhouse one night. You see Big Bird in the background? Beecher's Madhouse. And then Elmo on the top left, yeah. So you guys, I mean, getting to party in L.A.

See? My son now, Mac loves, uh, I should show him this picture later. He's only, you know, 18 months. All right, let's go to the, let's grade this game. The name of this game, these are some names that we came up with. If you have a name that you want to call it, let us know what it is. But we came up with the game six. The first one's the sweetest.

This one's for John. quick the Stanley on the sunset strip game or anything I wouldn't say sunset strip because yeah

I love games just game six I like that game six the first one let's go with game six I like game six game six

score the game is this the greatest game of all time let's score it decimals encouraged Stoli the stakes of this game six

match between you and these freaking devils? steaks? What do you mean? Like what? The stakes. So a game seven Stanley Cup finals, you can't get higher stakes than that. Ten being the highest stakes of all time. But we've done like preseason games. Stakes are nothing. These stakes were fairly high because we don't want to lose and go back to Jersey for game seven.

This is, that's tough. It's not an elimination game for you guys now. No, but if we're saying out of ten, I would say eight that's that's an integrity type score I'll go at the 7.9 yeah Jack had a 9.1 I had an 8.7 wow this is like

price is right deal yeah price is right the price is right bitch let's go star power of this game the star power of this game zero to 10 decimals encouraged Stoli Star power and players that kind of deal yeah I mean you were in L.A Will Ferrell was at the fucking game I saw

yeah yeah everyone we got to go we're going to go 9.5. I think it's tough to get. A lot of Hall of Famers and future Hall of Famers in this matchup. I'm going to go with a 8.8. I still don't think all the Hollywood people that come to the games

are fans of the Kings. I think it's just political. Jack had a 7.1 at 8.2. Okay. You get gameplay of the game. 6-1 beat down. 6-1 beat down. The gameplay like you understand that is a close.

Game winning goals in the first period. is not great for gameplay 10. 10? For me, I'm going to go with a 7.1. Look. You can do your perspective from a King's perspective. That is a 10 all the way through you. I see

you guys' reasoning. And then the name of the game, the game six game. It's where this game stands in the Parthiana sports too. Like the cultural impact of this game. Right. So you talk about like 20 to 3 is one of those games that people think about it's in the hockey world

is probably not merely let us don't let us persuade you I'd say uh this is your score it's totally probably an eight I like that yeah we go a 7.5 you're a point guy is that got a 3.0 out of 6. Did you not hear decimals encouraged yeah yeah they're encouraged yeah I can't read red I can't read it all okay so it is a 7.5 What does that land on our list? Oh, it puts us at 7.5.4. Okay, it's our new, new 75th game just ahead of, this is, I'm embarrassed to say this,

just ahead of the 2019 Week 13 Saints v. Falcons game, and just behind the 2002. What was that Saints Falcons game? We did it with Cam Jordan, where he, like, sacked Matt Ryan a bunch. And just behind the 2002 Western Conference Finals, game five, Lakers versus Kings. Game 7, Chicago Kings would have been

Pretty high. Would have been, let's see our hockey, our top hockey. We've got some notorious hockey haters in the scoring. Or is our top hockey hater, or top hockey. Miracle on ice is fourth. Fourth all time, Miracle on Ice. Well, fourth game seven, that's, Oh, that's what we do with Ray Bork.

Ray Bork, yeah. Miracle on Ice is fifth. Miracle on Ice, yes. Cubs, India. Four nation square off. That was, yeah, that was good. That one's way too high. I think that's high, though, because it was recent.

bias to the greater who was here yeah yeah yeah oh yeah Wayne he's great beauty we also did the Bruins Canucks Stanley Cup game seven the year before also way too low way too low yeah that's okay that's cool great list wow we got a list Jared we miss anything from this game we got to talk about some Stanley Cup celebration right um yeah there's too many people in the locker room after too many people in the locker room Too many... Randoms. Too many randoms.

Too many random. People sneaking in. Because then you can't do what you really want to do. Too many pigeons. 2014 was a lot different. You guys kept it closed? Close the door. These are who we want in there.

Yeah, it was just like... I don't know, there was... A couple of people had their, like, friends in there, and there were, you know, girls in there. Like, not a lot, but there was just... I don't know. It wasn't... Should be for the boys.

Yeah, we were looking around. You know, we're just like, who is this guy? Who is this guy? Whatever. And you just, it is what it is. You just let it slide. because you know whatever celebrating but um the second one 14 yeah we we closed it off pretty good it was just players trainers coaches and i found like the second one i was just sitting back

for the guys that have won now twice i remember just sitting back and watching first one you're doing your thing and you're going crazy second time here and we won both at home which was cool so it was so felt so deja vu because it was two within the three years i remember just sitting around just watching especially watching the guys that had won their first And you're like watching how he's reacting. And there was five or six of us just sitting there. And we're just like, quiet, not even really saying much, right? Yeah.

So I remember that. I remember that really well. And I have a cool picture of there's four of us in the locker room. Somebody took it of us doing exactly that. Yeah, I think like to double back off what you just said, piggyback, when you're there in the locker room after, ours were always kind of pretty much our team, trainers, coaches, and then there'd be a couple. But, like, it was pretty secluded.

Yeah, like, families are on the field, but they're not going back. They're not going there. Yeah. Unless you're, like, Tom's kid or something. You know, I think Brady's kid was in there. No, but, like, that's the time for, like, I think, for everyone to show the gratitude to the trainers. Yeah.

Because the, like, there's a thousand, like, go take pictures with all them and, and help their experience of the Super Bowl. I remember taking pictures with all the doctors and, you take pitchers with all your boys, all the younger guys that never, you know, like that's the time where you get to really spend it with the team that got you there. And you never get that and you'll never be with that same group ever again. No, ever. That's the last time you were with that group. Yeah, in one room and with the ultimate goal of why we all started playing hockey. And you didn't realize that your first one, but your second one you did. And that's how I felt like that

too. It was like the second one. You realize how hard it was to get there. And yeah. I got chills just thinking about it because you're like. And right away, we're like, okay, we're not doing that again. We're locking this place down. And there was some, like, I remember my sister and my nephew came in for like two, three minutes. We got a picture by my locker. And then we kind of made sure everybody got out of there. But, yeah, that was great.

That was what I remember. Best story from this year. From 2012? 2012. Off the dome. Something that just popped in right there. it's kind of an off the ice thing but it was

in second round because we were we were 15 and 2 right so we had so much time in between series so the second round we swept St. Louis and I remember we had

before we were to play Arizona, Phoenix, Coyotes we had like nine days or something so like we were like going out in Hollywood going out to beach we were like we got maybe two days off and then but still nine days

that's a long time and then And you're also worried about rust and stuff. But I remember after that series, we were like, I think after game four, after the win, we were, you know, we had sprinter bus outside, we changed into our clothes and we're gone to Hollywood. But we had a fun group.

We were on the ice, off the ice. We were super tight. We all lived down at the beach together within five minutes of each other. We'd have our north end bar. We'd all, be our kind of our local bar down in Hermosa Beach. And we'd all, after games, meet in the back alley. and it's a two-beer walk and

a two-beer walk I love it man it's all thanks for coming on bro love it you got anything to plug from this game no for you

for me you're promoting anything well not really watch the kings watch the kings yes watch the kings on fan dual sports

watch the kings on is it on fan dual sports Fandul now, yeah. You got a channel? It's on Fox. It's on 692, direct TV. 692. Fandle bought all the regional sports networks.

Yeah, a lot of them. But a lot of went to streaming, so Fandul only has seven NHL teams. Really? Yeah. Wow. And then, so whatever the game time is, if the game time's at seven,

tune in at 630 because I do the pregame show with Patrick O'Neill. So yeah, whatever. Pre-game show? Yeah, pre-game show, intermissions, and then please stick around for the post-game show, 30 minutes. I know it's a long time,

but. No, you guys, you got to get all the data after the game. Right, we have fun. Me and Patrick. From the experts. Yeah, we have a good time. So, yeah, Fandoo Sports. Or else, go to the, go to the freaking game, right?

Go to the game. Crypto, go to the game. It's fun. If you've never been to a game live, it's amazing. It's a great stadium to go watch hockey. There's like the pageancy, but it's still like you can tell there's real hockey fans. There's a real good energy there. Awesome.

Everyone go check out the LA Kings. Stolley, thanks for coming up. And I guess if you want Kings gear for your lady or, you know, your daughter or whatever, you got to wear by EA you know i got to plug the wife let's what wait wait what she what's what's a clothing line wear clothing line yeah it's uh all all sports for all girls women's yeah women's apparel it's actually good stuff i got to get some i got to get lily some gear from that for sure because i'll tell yeah i'll tell her yeah she'll hook her up one thousand but you go to like you go to target or cosc whatever like the merchandise aisle it's i think it's terrible for women for girls

They don't got much. But her stuff's good. Yeah. Go check it out. Where.com. Wear by EA. Where by EA? On Fanatics.

You can get all of it on fanatics. Where by EA on fanatics. There you go. Hold on real quick. I totally forgot. I want to ask you, the harmonica ladies last year. What's your take?

I don't know. They just, they booked them. They got them. It was kind of the weirdest thing. And all my buddies in Canada were like, what is going on? you guys do you usually get a little bit of a different feel but they were great and we won so yeah

they were riding that juice you got harmonica ladies yeah they were great they got jerseys then made up they had them all in a box and yeah they were tough negotiators too i heard it was a bit of a challenge to get them in like oh was it yeah after that first match they're like yeah the price goes up the price goes up baby demand right hey they're savvy thanks for coming on bro it's great love it we'll be right back after this quick break i'm step and curry, and this is Gentleman's Cut. I think what makes Gentleman's Cut different is me being a part of developing the profile

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It's always nice having a hockey guy. They all are great. They're just like team guys. Amen. Foxhole doads. Foxhole dolds. Good dude. Good dude.

then Jack's here Hey I bet you I bet you him and Aaron's kid's gonna be elite athlete oh my god

no chance no choice but to be because EA is EA I think played a lot she played volleyball or something I mean she's tall and hooved Florida

yeah Florida right or they could be like the next generation like sports media person because Jared does some sports media for the Kings yeah I mean

regardless it's gonna be a great looking athletic talking kid great hang great hang Great hang. Great camera presents.

Man, little dude's gonna be awesome. Could rip a sideline hitting his sleep. Yeah. Man, that would be crazy, bro. So what do we got today?

Let's do a little addition. Oh, the holidays are coming. I got to bring it in. It's time for this. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You didn't have a nice segue today. I know.

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Visit Coorslight.com slash GwN Hey Oh, I jumped on there and started celebrating Should we rip a little edition of Jack Asks In the chills out?

Let's hear a little I'll put you on the lukewarm seat, brother. Let's go, let's go. You've never put Jules on any sort of heat. I think you have, Jack. You make me hot every time I see you. Oh, baby!

The feeling is mutual. Oh, baby. With that, Let's get into some questions. Because Christmas and Hanukkah, we're in the thick of it right now. Hanukkah's over. We've just finished her from Hanukkah. Oh, yeah, and yesterday, happy Hanukkah.

We all have a great Hanukkah. It's been on my mind. We're still in it. Holiday season. It's in. Just that. Hanukkah Miracle. That's right, baby.

Hanukkah Miracle team. Who's going to be the Hanukkah Miracle team this year? Didn't I do that a few years ago? Yeah. The Hanukah Miracle team? Yes. We got to bring that back. We've got to bring it back.

I'm trying to think who that could be, maybe. You know? How about the Houston Texans? We only had oil for one night. But it lasted for eight. That's right. It lasted for eight. Who's going to be that Hanukkah Miracle team?

We don't know. But back to Jacks asks. Let's go, baby. How about this one? It's Christmas Eve Eve right now. Christmas Eve Eve. It's like a Friday. Good vibes.

Great vibes. With the fan. Cozy. Christmas. The trees are under the tree, all that presents under the Christmas tree. Vives. with that being said

best Christmas or holiday movie of all time give it to me brother home alone I love the home alone and I only wet manned and that's just because

you know like my lily's like nine now yes so she's in prime age for these

movies I love like Christmas vacation I love the although I love but the home alone like we recently watched that this year for the first time this year

and she's laughed harder at all the little booby traps when the guy gets kicked in the nuts and she just starts giggling so loud because she understands it now so I would say the home alone's are awesome because I always thought I was that kid yeah yeah this is my house

must protect it you know what I mean yeah bro on your under arm what are yours is she well hold on before we move on from home alone was she scared by the shovel guy remember that guy being so scary uh i saw her processing that you shouldn't judge a book by the cover after it wow wow wow and she doesn't say that you know you that you shouldn't you shouldn't judge a you shouldn't judge the the cover of a book or she messes it up still hits still hits but it still hits but like i can see her like oh, he's not that bad.

But then you also have to go into parent mode, like, well, you still don't become friends with some old-ass, sketchy guy with the shovel. But, you judge a little bit. Or the bird lady in the number two, you know. That's got to be the best feeling as a pop, like when you know something's fire,

and then you show it to your kid, they're like, yes, this is fire. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's some proud pop a moment. What's another good holiday? Home Alone, Elf. The other thing on Home Alone, all-time movie house.

Oh, yeah. It's like a top. Oh, yeah. If we're doing, like, Mount Rushmore movie houses, that's one there. Right up there, brother. Also, Father the Bride, too. But anyway. Right up there with Jackie Treehorn's crib.

Man. Like, there with the Twilight Cribs. Oh, yeah. The Twilight Cribs, they were in Seattle. And so they have these, like, crazy modern homes, like, beautiful trees and stuff. Oh, my God. Take a look at the Twilight House. They even got named, they're, like, named houses.

Wow, that's a deep cut, bro. I really liked that idea. I just was always fascinating. I was watching that with like my sister or something. Remember what's a good Hollywood? Remember when Vince Wilfork was on here talking about Twilight? Yeah, he was Team Jacob about that enough. Is that it?

That's one of them. Yeah, look at that. That's a sick out of his goaded. Teenage wolves. I don't know, bro. Pays to be pale. Die hard. Die hard.

You live in, or you work at, what's it, Naga, Naga. Tower, Plaza. What do you mean I at work there? Yeah, the tower? the, someone give it to me. Who, what is it? What's it called? Narayuki Tower.

When did I work there? Nakatomi Plaza. Nakatomi Plaza. That's the Fox. That's the Fox lot. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Yeah, that plaza in real life

is called Fox Plaza. I didn't know. Yeah. So every day you go to work. Every Sunday you go to Diehardt's set. Wow. No, it's not the actual one. I thought that's in like Century City or something.

No? No, that's where Fox lot's in Century City, no? I don't know. I'm going to look this up. Hold on. Oh, wow. Die hard. Time to go, John McCleman.

It's so much more developed now, I guess. Nakatomi, yeah. Whoa. Nakatomi. 201 Avenue of the Stars? Yeah. Oh, it is. 2121.

Yeah, it is. Damn. Sorry, I just docks. It just was so underdeveloped. I just docks. Huh? I just doxed. That's all right.

That's crazy. I never knew that. A crazy nice is fun. A crazy nights all day. Adam Sandler all day. Can I say a wildly on brand one? Yeah. That one scene in Miracle when they're like doing Christmas and they play football in the snow.

Wow. So it was Miracle a Christmas movie? I mean if Die Hard is. I like that a lot out of you. I really like just friends, not really a Christmas movie, but it's kind of Christmas movie. Ryan Reynolds, old school. It's an old Ryan Reynolds joint. I like it a lot.

Four Christmases with Vince Vaughn. Oh, classic. And what's your name? Drew Barrymore? No. Hold on. That one's escaping me. No.

Not a big Christmas one. That's a Reese. That's Rees with this one. Oh man. I love Christmas movies. I even like, you know what I like is good background filler? It's like,

I go to the Hallmark Channel, bro. During the holidays, just in the background. It's trash. Oh, that's trash. What's the Bill Murray? It's great background stuff. Scrooge is,

I try to watch Scrooge every once in a while. Yeah, I'm en goaded, but like. The Grinch movie, the first Grinch movie is great, Jim Carrey. Jim Carry Grinch. Yeah. We watched all,

we were forgetting some. We were, Lily likes the Rudolph with Hermie, the little elf. Always great. I used to call one of our ball boys, Hermie. Bumble. Bumble and Yukon Cornelis are the two of my

favorite characters. Everyone used to think I was Yukon Corleelis with the red hat and the red beanie and the beard. Bro, we're forgetting bad Santa here. Didn't I ever tell you? Bernie, Billy Bob? It's good. Didn't love it as much as everyone else.

All right. What's the, um... Jingle all the way? Love jingle all the way. All in all the... I like Santa Claus. I like Tim Allen movies. Tim Allen's last week is when I found out

it was the Santa like claws. Yeah, like the claws has an E. I think you told me that. I was like, oh, I didn't know that. They knew what they're doing. Mind blower. What's the classic Frank Capra, old school? Oh, wonderful life.

It's a wonderful life. It's a wonderful life. Miracle on 34th Street. I'll give you the moon, Mary. I'll give you the moon. I'm a 50-year-old high school student and I'll give you the moon. What is this?

Miracle on 34th Street? Isn't that one, too? Old school one. Yeah. On 34th. 1947. Dang, brother. That's when that old

tinsel town was really working in there, hey. The talkies. You know what bugs me out the Christmas story? Oh, that's great.

But like, I thought that movie was... Two place in Cleveland. I thought that movie was shot in the era that it was made in. But it was like shot in like late 80s early 90s.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a little bit of a it's like stranger things now. Yeah. yeah honestly that's i didn't realize it was like retro way yeah it took place in the yeah well that guy's an actor is in like vince vaughn movies the kid yeah he's in uh the breakup with

as the friend that asked for the shirt back on the bowling team from vince von when they get broken broken up yeah he's like you gotta be off the team this is a couple's over speaking of vin's one it's kind of like dazed and confused like a 90s movie but they're in high school and like that's that you know i mean kind of uh by the way scut farcass all-time movie villain with his like weird yeah with his like weird teeth and it's like oh ralph what a name bro what a name what was the brother ralphi no the little brother randy randy yeah he'd be all like pillowed up you'll shoot you try i can't put my arms down we used to i think uh on my visit to kent state they showed me that house oh no way you went by it it's like a cool nancy wolf did somewhere

Landmark you. Dude, this kid, this guy, this kid giving me the hebe-jeeves. Remember they go to the Chinese food? That's so good. They cut the duck's head off. After the dogs came in and ransack the old rips. Oh my gosh.

I got to do, have you done Chris or Chinese on Christmas Day? Oh, we do it now. I like that. It's a great move. I like that a lot. I think I got to start doing that. The Jews really have Christmas figured out.

We used to dialed in, baby. Or a prime rib. Prime rib is always good, too. Man, put Brian Rib on there, boy. What was the word that he said? What? Oh, fuck.

That's fuck, right? Yeah, fuck. She put that big red bar. The soap? Yeah. Did you ever get your mouthwash out with soap? Yeah. Really?

Really? Yeah. Once? My mom, I didn't, the bar soap didn't really do anything. So she would get the liquid soap. I just squirt it in my mouth. Oh, God.

Oh, no, no. That liquid dial. I never. It's probably, I probably I'm sick because of that I have high cholesterol because of that because of the soap in 19th My crack legal team on the dial

on that one gosh Oh my gosh Oh man that was I mean we got some good movies in there Should we move on to another one here? It's going another one What is keeping it in the holiday tradition Best gift you ever received You can go back to when you were five years old

10 years old recently I think I've said this but like my dad got me some three-piece cranks and I was like 13 oh bike I remember this bike and they're still on that bike he did a Christmas story didn't he where like all the gifts had been opened yeah yes I remember this move by Frank he took me on the wash

yeah go get the laundry out or something like that what a great move that's a good papa right there you guys like wake up with the ass crack a don't or VCR we got a VCR you're up yeah never that early you what about you guys oh yeah my parents would have to put me back down

we would because our our Santa would bring unwrapped presents so we could go early I like that Santa and then we would have wrapped presents from my parents that we would do later on yeah that was kind of like that I like that that's cool a little bifurcation

the bigger stuff was never wrapped right yes you come down like holy shit there's a bike he's like bro just admire me in all my glory I don't need rapping place caption too that's so goaded I got that I remember my grandma got me a dream cast once fully not expecting it either didn't even ask

My grandma got me the Aladdin video game that I asked for Yeah I remember that Sega in my stocking That's a stocking Wow

That's a good stocking How would you guys But then stockings Stockings were always like Gum toiletries It's like gun toiletries All like CVS type John Yeah

Maybe a little cash rolled up in there Would you ever get like Miscellaneous nuts Yeah like the There's like a walnut In my stocking That's probably still from 1996 I do like some nuts

We would get lottery tickets In there too Oh That's good stuff. My older brother would get that out because he was always older, older. Shut up Jason. But we never got the lot of use.

I love stockings are under. A lot of like the cheap candy. A lot of Toblerons in there too. Little Santa Claus like marshmallow guy candy. Yeah. We get Linder balls. Linder balls always. Some alttoids in there.

I don't have got to wrap some alttoids. Sometimes socks would be in the stock box. Just like a underwear. Yep. Maybe some cards. Is that a thing? That's a thing. Everyone. It's crazy, right?

The traditions are we all share. Do you remember the first Christmas you got socks and you actually won't like it. Yeah, that's when you When I was like 13 and stuff When I was like 12 When I was like 11, 12, 13

And like Nike socks I wanted black Nike socks And shit with the check Yeah, baby Yeah, yeah The calf eyes that were like that were like that. Yeah. Like I always like appreciate

I loved socks Okay Like new socks Because it's a sport shit And we didn't get them off And be going in with holes in the socks and shit Did you get up from the feet up baby If I had unlimited money, I would never wear a same pair of socks twice.

I don't think I wear a same pair of socks twice for like 10 years. You haven't? Yeah. Whoa. Cushing it. Popping tags? I knew you were a big shot, but I didn't know how much. But it wasn't like I had a own hand at my house.

It's because anytime I went to the locker room, there's just millions of Nike socks. Like Rob was grabbing Gatorade. You're grabbing socks. I'm grabbing socks. I have so many, like, the underwear, like the tub shorts. You can't be just a good old-fashioned Nike Cruzoc. You really can't. When you just take them out.

Great sound, great feeling. Put it back on. You get the little plastic thing that gets caught up in there that holds it. Sometimes it tickles here. Little elasticity. Get all of it. Hey, that's good stuff. Let's do two more.

All right, two more here. All right, I like this. Oh, how about these? I had a lot of, like, money-related ones over here today. A lot of challenges that relate to you suffering for monetary outcome. How about this one? I asked Kyler this earlier.

This is a real question. It was going viral a little bit. Could you disappear 30 days you're taking to a safe house? You have all the food you need, entertainment, TV, all the stuff. No communication, no cell phone. But at the end of the 30 days, you get a million bucks. Maybe for... Where's that?

Yeah, I mean, that's easy. Yeah, but no one can know where you're like, you can't tell anyone anything. I got kids and shit. That's what I'm saying. It's just tough. That's what me and Jack Krasa said earlier, which is like, if you have like kids or like a wife or like a long-time girlfriend, you can't. But if you're a single guy, fuck yeah. 30 days.

Nothing. Be a dude. Big house. That's like his dream. Honestly. It's kind of my dream. Yeah. Lokey.

And then, see, then when you return after the news is like, you get the most fire Instagram pay. Is it a million cash or is it a million? No, it's cash. It's cash. Straight up. So you don't get it to tax it? Yes, no tax.

No, no tax. But is it only cash? It's clean. It's clean. It's clean. It's straight up. It's straight up. I can up it if you want me to.

No, but if it's a mill, like, then you got, if it's cash, then you know, you got to like report that. In this fantasy, you don't. So you get like checking and no one asks any questions. It's tax free. It's clean money. It's putting your bank.

account, you're good. Straight up. Honestly, I might go for 30. You can never have you never have too many extra bills. Wise words. Jesus. A million dollars for 30 days? I know, but like, imagine like Lily just not knowing where you went for 30

days. Is that worth a million? I mean, we can go take a private jet to Disney World. That's right. She'll know. I think I would do it for 10. Daddy's out there grounding for the paper? No. I think I would do it for 10. Probably not a million. 10 million? My marriage is worth more than a million dollars. What about two million? Well, I mean, I don't want to have you put a

10 million dollars. It's worth 10 million. That is my rock bottom number. I'm not getting in that one. Because I can come back after 30 days with 10 and being like, okay, a million is it's like, it's like a two-bedroom house in L.A. It's not that, not even that much. You guys still have to do some repairs too. Cool condo. Cool condo. Oh, those eight hours living out here is expensive. It's crazy. It's crazy. Man, I don't know. I'm struggling, bro. I might do it, though.

I might do it. If it was seven years ago, I would do it indefinitely. 60 days? No, I just do it forever. See, for seven years ago, I wouldn't. I was playing. And I was making money. Honestly.

Yeah, it's kind of what you did. It's kind of what I did for 10 years. Yes. But you could communicate with the world. Man. Yeah, I mean, I don't, I think that would be kind of nice, but it would only responsibilities that you have with family. Yeah. I wonder how that would be when you come back? Like, would people be mad at you?

It's happy for you? Depends on the level. Yeah. Yeah. Depends on how much they worried about you when you were gone. That's true. And also it depends on how many, how much responsibility you have. Honestly. It depends on how much you're giving them or how much it affects them, right? Yeah. Man. I see one more. That's crazy. Did you just write a letter though? I write a letter to them before. I wonder, yeah. That's easy then. If you just, say hey i'm going away for three days i'm getting a million i don't i think the kidnappers wouldn't let it that's tight i would concoct a story when i got out of there too they kidnapped me bro i got oh yeah you go for sure oh bro i thought my way out of there they tried to hold me down i broke

out what are you doing i'm kicking my ass liar liar shout out jim carry go oh my gosh do we get one more here yeah yeah do one more um oh here's another good one jules i got a lot of good money joints 10 mili 10 bro but you have to raise your best friend from birth to their 18 I mean what's different who comes up with you lose your best friend bro oh you get to raise them yeah you have to raise them what if your best friend's already kind of a child now am I the same age that I am now yep it's you and then hey buddy little baby just popped down on his front step this is yours to raise yeah that's easy You would do it, though?

But then Kurti or whoever your best friend is, gone. 18 years, man, with my high cholesterol, I think I might be good. She got one of you 18 years, 18 years, and on an 18th birthday, he found out it wasn't his. Who knows? Would you do it, though? But then you could raise them and mold them to be even cooler, maybe. I would do it, and then just fucking, in six years, use Tom Brady's cloning shit and just clone his ass. Honestly, bro.

Gertie. That'd be fire. Just clone them. I would. I think I'd do it. Kyler, would you do it? No, my best friend's a huge pain in the ass.

But you could maybe, I don't want to do it. You could shape him, though. I don't want to be responsible. I already knew that version of him. I don't want to have to be responsible. That would be tough. Oh, the $10 million, just put them someplace.

And maybe with your boarding school. Yeah, it's like, I don't care. He's in boarding school forever. Just indefinitely. You see him once, you're like a rich parent. Like one of those rich international parents. Yeah. Like a deadbeat parent.

You just drive by way from the back of the limo. keep it up son work on those studies oh my gosh hope the kids are being nice 10 mili and then you got the and then you got your one from your 30 day disappearance 11 mili let's go we're caking right now disappear like during his graduation then i used my disappearance time jack would you do this oh man dude i can barely take care of myself bro i don't even know the rules of like the microwave much less like raising a kid I don't even know how to operate like I man

Nah I probably would do it I need the bread Plus maybe I could get like some like Some like single dad pity type points from the ladies That'd be kind of tight Yeah I'll treat the kid like a dog at the dog park To like like Riz the chicks

It's like I was like that's my 10 millie My little 10 millie baby Oh yeah but that ain't It's cool That wouldn't be breaded, though. All right. All right. Well, that was good jackass.

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