Puck Soup - Trey Galyon

Episode Date: April 28, 2016

Greg and Dave welcome comedian and Flyers fanatic Trey Galyon to talk about Round 2 of the NHL Playoffs, arena food, maniacal Philly sports fans and ESPN hockey. Plus, an epic mailbag discussion on cereal and Dave's hate for American European soccer fans.

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In your in Puck Soup. Dave, what was your favorite part of Beyonce's Lemonade special on HBO? You know what? I thought the best part of Lemonade. was that it didn't have any pulp in it. Do you mean Jarvis Cocker's 90s Brit pop band? I also like that it was freshly squeezed.

Jay Z's in a bunker, right? Like, Jay Z is in a bunker right now? Here's what I don't get, though, is like, if he cheated on her and he's in the video and he's making money off of it, this really doesn't seem like he's being taught a lesson of any kind. You know, it's like if you're a kid and you push your little brother down the stairs

and your parents buy you like a bike for that. Like, that's kind of, I don't feel like Jay-Z is getting really anything but, like, Twitter jokes thrown out of. I think it's like, yeah, and I feel like it's cathartic. Like a lot of people were like, oh, this is the harbinger of doom. Well, still together. And I feel like this is the statement. She needed to get Becky with the good hair out in public. She needed to put this all out there.

She needed the bees to get all stirred up. The Queen Bee has stirred up the bees. Queen Bay. And so I think it may be all said and done now. She got out of her system. You think, like, so, like, she's forgiven him, and this is, like, her way of dealing with it, and now they're just going to move forward in their relationship? That's how you feel?

It reminded me of when I would, like, have lady troubles back when I was in college, and I would, you know, passively aggressively quote, smashing pumpkins lyrics to them in emails. Totally, same thing. A one-hour HBO visual album. Is that what it was called, by the way? It wasn't a music video. It was a visual album. Yeah, so instead of, like, coiled my tongue around a bubblebee mouth in an email,

signature file, this was an hour-long art film about infidelity. You were like, Becky, despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage that loves you. That's right. Fool enough to almost be it, cool enough to not quite see it. Shakedown, 1969. Hello. Is that nice? No one said nice back then.

No, that's not enough. That's not a thing. That's not a thing. People said. Well, welcome to the Taki podcast. Before we get to Trey Galleon, who was a wonderful guest, basically on trial as a Philly fan, as you'll hear, but we also

went to a lot of interesting places, and of course, previewed the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with Trey as well. Three losses, three eulogies written on Buck Daddy, amongst many eulogies, but we thought we should touch on the Blackhawks, the Kings, and the Rangers. Who Dave Loveso is the most fucked out of these three?

If I'm ranking the fuckedness of those three situations, kings are the least fucked. Really? Rangers are the most fucked. Let's pause on that. So the range. the kings are the least fuck, but the more so, less so than the Black. The Blackhawks

you're saying are more fucking than the Kings. No, no, no, no. Yes. Yes. Right. They're like the middle ground of the fucking Why? Because I feel like they're I feel like like the Kings are still a very good, it's like two years ago when San Jose lost to the Kings.

Okay. And they were like, wow, that San Jose's done and, you know, Doug Wilson tried to break up the team, but he couldn't, but somehow he's getting praised for the team that exists now, even though he wanted to blow it up, but that's a whole other conversation. Chicago, I think, is in less of a good... Like right now, I think the Kings can come back next year with the roster they have and still be a 105-point team or whatever.

Chicago is not that far below that, but I don't know. I feel like that team has been kind of slipping a little bit, not like slipping to the point that the Rangers are where I think they're probably going to miss the playoffs unless they do something drastic with the roster, whether it's trade Nash, find someone to take Gerardi.

I mean, they've got a mess on defense, and they don't really have Brady Shea, they have Dillam Acklerath, but they're not the answers to the problems. So I think the Rangers are the greatest degree of fucked, as an analyst's like to say. Plus, they also have an aging Henrik Lundquist, although that's great for the eyes of fans, but not so great necessarily in the race.

That man's got cliny jeans. That man's going to get more beautiful and beautiful as he gets older. He's going to be, like, 60 years old. They're going to bring him out of the garden in, like, 2040, whatever year that is, be like, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome. Former Ranger goaltender, Henrik Lunkwest, and there will people still be throwing, like, bras and underwear at him,

because he's just going to have, he's going to look exactly the same, but his hair will just be like a little gray. Yeah. Like, cluny-ish. Right. In a way. Except for that one Flyers fan of the crowd, he throws their space bracelet,

because it's the future. I would say, I would say the Rangers, I would agree, are the most fuck it because they have some intrinsic lineup problems. They've got some huge albatross contracts. In seeing Rick Nash yesterday at Breakup Day, for the Rangers, I felt like I was, I feel the same way

seeing Nash that I felt when I saw Mike Green in Washington. Like, I saw a guy where it's just, it's not worked. It's not worked for a while. And it'd be better off for everyone involved

if maybe you just went someplace else and did something else for a while. And like, I felt that same way watching Nash, not only for the benefit of him, but for the benefit of the team, if you take that money off the cap,

you could probably do something interesting with it. So I think I would agree with that. But I would, I think, I know what you're saying about the Kings, because I think the Kings are a team that could look at that San Jose series and say the better team won, that San Jose was so locked in and totally played their game and didn't break and go spineless like we thought they would at certain junctures of that series. I think you could look at that series and say, okay, the better team won, but we're still pretty damn good. And the Blackhawks, I think, have some real serious problems on the back end that they have to address. that said, I know a lot of people don't, but I've got the utmost confidence in Stan Bowman

to go out and fix those problems and remedy those problems. I know they're up against the cap, but they're wizards with the cap. I think they're going to be able... He had a bad year. Bowman had a bad year. The Trevor Daly to Rob Skidari

to Christian Earhoff, doci-doe, was atrocious. Losing O'Dooia, atrocious. They missed sod, but you couldn't do anything about that. So he had a bad year. But I think that he will bounce back, and I still think that the window is a bit more open for the Blackhawks to win another cup than so the Kings who also deal with some money issues, also deal with some issues in the back end. And overall, I think they're going to overpay Luchich and make a mistake there. And Jonathan Quick broke my heart, man.

Like, Jonathan Quick was his guy that I was preaching on the mountaintop about he was the best postseason goalie I've seen in 25 years, and then he got outplayed by his apprentice. Yeah, John Quick, I think, in seven post seasons, I think five of the seven, he's been like nine, 13 or worse. Like, he's, he had 2012. 2012 was something. He was only really okay when they won it in 2014, but Chicago's apparently only, I mean, they can't really do anything. I think Stan today said that they're going to pretty much look to within to fix the problems, which, I mean, they probably have those answers more than the Kings do. But the Kings, I just think if you, going into next year, I mean, Alec Martinez being hurt too. was an issue. I don't know if that's enough of an issue

to say they would have won the series with him. They still didn't look that great, but they're youngish still. And again, yeah, Milan Luchich, I don't know why in the world you would bring him back at this point. But for sure. I don't know.

It's like a toss-up. I don't think there's a big gap between those two teams, but the Rangers are clearly the team that is just completely effed at this point. And as our good friend, Ryan Lambert, wrote this week on Puck Daddy, the two teams that dabbled in Rob Skidari are out of the playoffs

and the one team that was smart enough to get rid of them the penguins advance the playoffs. So there you go. It is weird to not have the Kings or the Blackhawks in the second round, but we do have some very exciting teams in the second round which you'll hear about in our preview towards the end of our conversation with Trey.

But Trey Galleon, comedian extraordinaire, joins us. He's headed to D.C. for some stuff and heading to Austin, another place for some stuff. A real funny guy, did Doug Love's movies with him a couple times, and a huge affiliate fan and Flyers fan, as you'll see. And as you'll hear... He's got opinions.

He's got opinions. Oh, boy, does he? He's got things to say. This is the thing where we say... The opinions expressed by Trey Galleon on the show. We're not necessarily those of Dave Lowe's or Greg Wichinsky. But please do enjoy Trey Galleon, and we'll be back afterwards to do a couple of listener of mailbags.

All right, so Trey Galleon, please to be explaining the behavior of your fellow fellow Philadelphia Flyers fans. Right away. Right away. This is what we're going to do right away. There is no, you are in. You are on trial. This is a courtroom.

Okay, that's fine. It's probably better me defending the city than most of those yutzes. So let's just get into it. What do you want? Why is Philadelphia the worst? Very passionate. Very passionate and knowledgeable sports fans. I don't think anybody could deny that.

But I have a little bit. bit in common with, I think, a lot, this is the problem, classic overreactors, people that are in the heat of the moment and say and do whatever is on their mind at that moment, but then the next day you're like, maybe that wasn't such an awesome idea. What is it about Philadelphians and projectiles, though? Like, I know Ultimate Frisbee is really popular amongst Philadelphians. They play a lot of it at Temple and stuff. But what is it about projectiles in Philly fans?

You know, I don't know that that's exclusive just to Philly. This is the problem is they should know better than to hand out some of this shit. The snowballs, what are you going to do? That's like, I mean, that's just going to happen. But the other stuff, like, don't hand out a bunch of fucking bracelets that you can throw on the ice. No, I know. I understand what you're saying. And that was actually my take, too, was like, what did you expect would happen?

Right. Like, they stopped handing out bats to kids in the Bronx before the game. Right. Now that Yankee Bat Day is, here's your bat afterwards. Go hit each other at the subgo. Right. Go murder on the train. We're not liable at that point.

Exactly. And I know that a lot of other hockey fans have been like, well, you know, they handed out the same bracelets in L.A. And it was very beautiful, very picturesque, like a Prince concert, RIP. And, you know, but in, and no one threw anything. No one threw anything. And why can't it be the same way in Philly? Taylor Swift uses them at her concerts. Right. And no one would throw anything.

I would throw one at Taylor Swift's concert. I would. In celebration, because the music's so good. Right. Right. Yeah, I think it was just a combination of bad circumstances that, I mean, it does suck that it happened on Ed Snyder night. Like, I mean, but I'm sure Ed Snyder would have been a little bummed with how the Flyers played that night too. Right.

And may have thrown his old bracelet. Oh, yeah. You know, you don't know. That's, you see, but we talked about that, though. Like, I think it's wholly appropriate that the guy who stoke the flames of Broad Street bullism and created this fan, give us the greatest home ice advantage in the world, you heathens. And then they start heathen. And then you're like, oh, you created this monster.

Yeah. Yeah. No, yeah, totally. And then they're inconsistent, too. Like, the other night, I really thought that the roof was going to come off of that place when they killed the five-on-three penalty, killed it, and the crowd did nothing. They just sat there.

And it was like, what is wrong? Wait, so you're saying, like, if they would have had, like, say, pucks given to them on the way in, they would have thrown them onto the ice in celebration and fired up the team? Like, is that? No, they wouldn't have thrown that, no, but they're not, because they're not, no. And let's, again, when they threw the bracelets, the game was determined already. Right.

The Flyers weren't going to win that game. It's protest. Yeah. So it's not like they, and everybody was like, oh, they got a penalty. Yes, so what? It didn't mean anything at the game. But the conspiracy theorist says that it was Caps fans doing it. Caps fans wanted the power play, so it was only Caps fans doing the race.

I know, I know. The reason you're saying that is because the Florida Panthers and their fans have often made the accusation that visiting fans and the crowd are the ones that throw a rat occasionally to try to get a delay of game penalty against the Panthers. I wholly believe that to be true only because if you play the percentages how many Panthers fans are actually there versus how many like Devils fans or actually there are Rangers fans and I wouldn't think for a moment

that a Devils fan wouldn't try to throw a rat on the ice because they're so used to having to do it when they crawl past their legs in their seats and Nork that they what? What's wrong? That's a beautiful new building. How dare you insult the architectural structure? Can I say so I used to eat the popcorn at Verizon Center in their press box

because I'm fat, but also because it's there. And then somebody said, why would you eat the popcorn? I'm like, because it's in a popcorn machine. They're like, but have you ever seen it work? I'm like, no. They're like, that's because they take giant bags of popcorn that has served to the other people in the arena,

all the plebeians, and then they put it in the popcorn machine to dress it up to look fresh. Oh, I thought you were going to tell a story about how there were, like, rats crawling around and the popcorn seeds not the end. hold on a second. So then I said, well, what's the big deal there? And they're like, where do you think they store that popcorn? Oh, no. I'm like in the

popcorn silo. They're like, no. The Washington Monument's just filled with popcorn. No, it's like Scrooge McDuck's money bin. You could just dive in and swim, no. But they said, no, they said, it's, it's all in a room down in the bowels of the arena and what do you think is in the bowels of the arena? I don't trust

any food at an arena. Are you kidding me? But in they're like, oh, And they're like, oh, but I'm like, but they put it in plastic bags, which is something that someone who has never had to deal with rats says until you move to Manhattan and you realize they can chew through everything but steel. Yeah. So the idea that there is no contamination at arena, I'm not saying it happened at Verizon Center. If you love the popcorn at Verizon Center, go with God. Although I probably, you know, get a hot dog or something before the game, not buy pay arena prices for food. Hot dogs are totally clean food.

That's the cleanest food you can ever have. Hot dogs are on a thing that at least cooks it. It cooks it, and it not only cooks it, it cooks it evenly because the food rolls back and forth all day long, hypnotically. You've really thought about this. You really put a lot of thought of this here. I think a lot about food. But also, like, I also think, here's the greatest thing that's ever happened as a hockey fan or as an arena going fan is the fact that when I was a kid growing up in Jersey and going to the Meadowlands, your choices were shit-ass popcorn, shit-ass hot dog, shit-ass fries. And the fries chicken finger combo would always be the most disgusting thing in the history of mankind

because the chicken was cooked to the point where it was balsa would. And now that every arena is new and your entertainment dollar is stretched so far that you're not going, you're going to the game for like an experience. Now it's all gourmet shit. Like you go to Brooklyn or go to Newark and it's like the taste of Brooklyn, the taste of Newark. And I love that. Because baseball always had that shit. Baseball always had places inside the stadium where it's like,

you can get a cheesecake from Murray's Cheesecake and Boreen. And then they bought it to the arena. I'm like, this is beautiful now. It is. It is pretty great having Junior's Cheesecake at Barclays. Everything. Everything at Barclays. My dad got, his friend is a net season ticket holder

and thus probably the most miserable man on the planet. And we'll be for at least the next five years. But he has these tickets that allow you, it gets you into the game. Right. And then during the game, you have, it's not all free. You have 10 free items. Like items.

Yeah. And that I think includes beer. Like beer is an item. Okay. So I went to a game with my dad and I sat in pretty good seats and I'm like, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it like I'm like at a tasting. You know, I'm just going to get all these different things and then just take like a few bites of them and then just leave them on the ground and go get something else. Now this was.

Oh my God. What a American asshole. You are really Philly fans are bad? You're a dick. That's just a straight up dick. Dick move. Okay. So if there was a bin in front...

At least throw it at somebody. Don't just leave it there. There was no bin in front that was like, put your half-eaten sub-s sandwiches in here for kids in Ethiopia. If that had been the case, it would have done it. So instead you'd bit the cheeseburger and then, like, put it on the ground in front of a starving child and, like, gave the child the finger.

I don't have to finish eating this because I'm rich and I'm an American. And then I said, beer's an item, and I walked away and got another one. But here's my problem. Here's my problem. The problem is, and this is the only failure in this ingenious plan, to turn the Nets game into Costco, basically. The only problem was, I love food, and I ate the entirety of a Rubin, mac and cheese, the cheesecake, a burger, like, everything that I said,

I'll just sample it, hmm, that's pretty good. So it's to get another little bite on. And then it's like Fred Flintstone Mouth Bronto Burger-sized. Right. So that was the flaw in my plan. But it was a glorious night as I rolled home in the sea train. Philly would ever do that. Now, I think Philly fans are better than you at this point. They would never bite food to throw.

I think Philly fans, the thing that broke my heart... You would add some... Yeah, like, wing that thing at a rat or Beyonce. Oh, or fucking Brooks Lopat. Is he still on the team? I don't even know who's on the Nets anymore. Here's the problem with winging anything. Like, you go back to wings, and that puts Philly right back at the top of disgusting,

because you have the wing bowl. And anything that's, you know, it's like, what can, what can we do to make the Nathan's eating contest look quaint and appetizing by comparison is get every fat fucking Philly in the same room to get slobber sauce in their faces and suck bones dry? Yeah, you couldn't let Buffalo have that one. Like, gladly let Buffalo have that. Oh, yeah, do cheese. I would rather see a cheese steak eating contest. Oh, my God, that'd be a thing. Yeah, I mean, really.

Yeah, but then you get a bunch. Then you get a hundred people in a room while complaining. about, well, which cheese steak is he? Is it wit? That's true. Is it without wit? That's true. Shut the fuck. Yeah. There'd be way, there'd be way too many little rules and stuff.

Here's what broke my heart about the bracelet tossing. Yeah. I don't, I want to believe, because I have a lot of friends from Philly, and I got a lot of Flyers fans' friends, and I want to believe that they're good people. And I feel like... Look, deep down they are.

Deep down they are, but like, I feel like that the public perception of them will never be that they're good people as long as this shit goes on. And I really felt bad for Philly fans who contact me. you're like, it's not me. And I'm like, I know it's not you. But then they go, it's not diehard Flyers fans. I'm like, yes.

Yeah, no, it is. And the same thing with the Eagles and everything else, too. But this is part of the problem is Philadelphia, like I said, overreactors, and then the next day, they'll feel bad about it. And they are super nice people. People from Philly are great if you take the time to actually talk to them. They're super nice. The problem is, is the fucking media, you assholes perpetuating this shit. shit and you keep writing articles about how Philly fans are so horrible.

And so it's like any election thing. Like if you write Hillary's great enough times, people are actually going to believe, oh yeah, Hillary Clinton's great. She's not a total dickweed politician, you know, and then they'll be like, oh, okay, we'll vote for Hillary. So it's the media perpetuation of the Philadelphia media going in the opposite direction saying, no, look, man, we're just misunderstood. Right, right.

Like we love our teams as much as you guys. And we don't really hate that much. It's just we're really in the moment. And at the time, maybe we make some bad decisions. So you're a guy. You know, beat up a gay person or two. No, it's all stuff that can be forgiven the next day. Okay, so you're a comedian.

You've been around. Yeah. You've stood on stages in different cities. Yeah. Is the Philly comedy scene the same as a sports scene or no? The crowds in Philly are awesome. They're smart crowds. They love comedy.

And they're great to play around with. You'll have your occasional heckler. But my act tends, for whatever reason, bring a few of those out anyway, no matter where I am. But at least the one's in Philly will play along with you. And they don't, you know, it's not just some drunk dude shrieve for. I was going to say, is there. What's the worst city? The worst city?

What's the one city that's on your schedule? I like where you're going with this, Lozo, because I feel like it's like we're getting close to correlation between comedy crowds and sports fans. Right. Like, I want to get to the bottom. It's like a sociological study here. I like that a lot. Where he knows way more about comedy crowds. Florida crowds are probably really passive and a lot of out-of-towners show up.

Dude, the only times I've done Florida, this was, I opened for Larry the Cable guy back in the day in Tampa. Tomator from cars for you kids listening. Yeah. Now, this was right before. the blue collar tour hit, but he still had a huge following. Right. Because he'd call into radio shows, you know, across the country. And so, yeah, plus he's from Florida.

So it was packed. But the thing about his crowds, all the old people really dug me. And the young people were like, nah, not so much. What's that about? Because I think it was because I was going up there and not talking about redneck shit. Like I was doing my act Which is just stoner, dumb stuff But I'll proffer a theory on this

The older people are the expats From the north Their kids are the Florida people Yeah Right I mean that was that was kind of my theory Was that and that The older people are more open-minded

The younger people are a little closed-minded And they're like Well you don't drive a pickup truck And shit He's not talking like this So whatever I ain't listening to what he's got to say It's like man

I'm just, I'm from Austin originally. I'm from all over the place. Austin, Austin, 20 years, I lived there for 20 years. Were you, were you into hockey when you were in Texas? Yeah, yeah, because I grew up in Philly. Okay, then I moved to Austin. Right, so, yeah, I was in, and I was in Philly, like, right after the cup years, the two, the only cup.

Cup years. Did you, did you feel like an alien, though, being a hockey fan in Texas? Yeah, totally. Yeah. Oh, no, totally. Yeah. Totally. Because it was just like, there were, there were a few kids whose parents worked for 3M that were from Minnesota. And so, and when I say a few, I mean, aw few. And so we'd kind of talk hockey, but nobody was really super into it. So the only hockey I got to see was like whatever they played on ESPN. Right. Back in the day. Do you have an affinity for hockey on ESPN then? I mean, because the ESP, I just wrote about on Puck Daddy today, I wrote about how ESPN's got the World Cup of hockey this September. They got the rights to. the tournament. Oh, they do. Yeah, they're going to put it on.

So they've been making these commercials that are a little bit divisive for hockey fans, like they're... Which means bad. Yeah, which means bad. But again, in fairness, hockey fans hate anything new. We just, we just hate it. And no matter what you give us, we hate it right off the bat. I hate watching hockey players act. Yeah, and that's terrible. But like, but like, it's back. But even the worst of those commercials, and they're pretty bad, like, for the most part.

There's a couple that are kind of funny. But Trees Burjaroz Rang one was funny. There's a couple that are kind of funny. But at the end of the commercials. commercial. They play the ESPN hockey theme and I'm like, and my nipples got hard. Like I was like, hold on a second. This is like,

oh man, this is like Gary Thorne and John Davidson. This is the music they played on the video game. Right. And I was like, I'm into it now. There's a, there's a, I was pissed off at ESPN when they push hockey to the background in favor of poker. That sucked. But there is a certain something about hockey. and ESPN, maybe because I was of age when it was on ESPN, that still speaks to me. Totally.

Because they were, yeah. And like I said, when I moved to Texas, that's all we had. All I had was ESPN. So I grew to love those guys. And they did, they did a great job with it. And it was. It was great because it was on all the time. They didn't have anything else.

They didn't have the NBA contract or anything. So it was hockey, hockey. And then I was really bummed when they got rid of NHL tonight. Yeah. Because that was my show. Right. Every night I would watch NHL Tonight. And it was like, fuck, man, all right, don't show the games, but why are you guys going to get rid of NHL Tonight?

It was like an extra little... Sticking it and turn it, man. And again, like, we're such assholes because I remember when NHL Tonight was on, the reaction for a lot of hockey fans. It was on during a time when I was starting to get on the internet, like I was in college and I was going to like news groups and shit. And newsgroups. All to dot NHL Tonight dot... News groups. Yeah, news groups, man.

Exactly. in my computer lab where the greatest thing ever was walking into the computer labs at Maryland and every computer would be open except for the ones that were way in the back against the wall where all the guys would be sitting with their backs to you because it was the only place to the entire campus to get porn. Wait, it was like one row. You walk into the computer because there was a computer lab in the parking garage at Maryland. So you'd have all these open computers. What a CD school.

We had all these open computers and then you'd have a row of computers that were taken by guys, playing like Starcraft. Yeah. And then there'd be all these other open computers. And then the back would be completely full of guys that are on like dial up going, I think I see Tiffany Amberthea's nipple in that swimsuit. That was me, by the way. That was all classic.

The first sexual awakening I had a porn on the internet was. Just line by line. It's showing up. Exactly. But that was another thing. Like back in the day, how weird was that that the computer labs were always in the, like at A&M, it was in the basement of the library. And like not the good base.

The basement where you had to go, like, around back of the building. And it was like, is it this stairway that goes down? Are you sure? This is the computer lab. It's amazing to think about how careful we all are about putting people in bad situations and not having women walk out of their places two in the morning to try to. And yet, to print a fucking syllabus. Yeah.

You have to go to the parking garage. The creepiest spot in the whole campus. You're like Indiana Jones, like, cutting through the spider webs. Like, outrunning the people. behind you trying to kill you? It was super creepy. Oh,

news groups. Yeah. So, yes. Is that like journalism majors like getting together do slam poetry and shit? Is your news?

What is the, I don't know. No, the news groups were like message boards. Oh, okay. Except it was before message boards are really a thing.

So you'd go there and it would be people that would just go there and shoot the shit. Katie, Katie Baker, who's an awesome writer for Grantland and now

with the ringer, Bill Simmons's news site. She and I actually used to go to war with each other over the Rangers. And then we found out years later, like, that was you? And I was like, that was you? So it's like...

I'm so sorry about what I said about your dead parents. She's like, oh my God. Yeah, she's like, there's a video you need to watch about harassment. I'm like, that was well before there was online harassment. No, so anyways, that was just a joke. I didn't know. But we, but we, so I remember reading stuff about NHL tonight. And now we look back at it and we're like, wow, that was a corner of the universe that

ESPN carved out. They put Butchagrass in the show. We put Ray Ferrar on the show. Ray Ferraro now considered to be perhaps the best analyst in hockey. He does all the shit in Canada. Yeah. And, and like we look back on it, like, wow, this was like, it was like Wayne's World for hockey fans with highlights. But at the time it was like, they can't give us a highlight show on ESPN.

And that's being ESPN2. What is ESPN2? And that was the reaction to the show. I had, that was not a problem for me. So we were spoiled here. Like, he was in Austin, like, trying to see the Stars game through, like, like scrambled like television. Yeah, and I was like, yeah, give me, give me, whatever, give me, I'll take whatever and be so happy

for it. And it was great. And that was, because wasn't the other thing about the NHL tonight, too, like, the way they showed the highlights, like, they didn't talk over them a whole lot. Yeah. Or it was very sort of basic. It was a lot of the sound. It was, they took the audio from whatever feed they were using.

And it was, it was cool. Like, looking back on it, it was really cool that, because I, I like hockey mainstream in the sense that I want it to be. successful and people to come to the website and listen to the podcast and shit. Hell yeah. But I also like the fact that and I remember saying that at the time, like what back when Pearl Jam was

a thing and they were not making music videos and stuff and it was and it was, hold up. Is Pearl Jam not a thing now? Let me come with my thought. I believe they still sell out shows across the country dude. I'm not saying they don't. I'm saying this. Make your point. Yeah. Saying this. Foxy

Mock Pendle Mama and Vital Vitology is the one of the worst songs ever made. That's what I'm trying to tell you. It's a terrible song. I'm not going to argue. But also I'm going to say this, though. Like, when they were at their peak of popularity, they just stopped making music videos. And they stopped doing the ticket master thing.

Right. And they were applauded for it. And their popularity didn't exactly wane at that point. Wayne a little bit when their music got kind of wonky. But at that point, they were still huge. And I liked the idea of the NHL being popular to the point where it's sustainable. The buildings are full. People love it.

Right. also kind of having that outsider vibe. Totally. NHL Tonight was totally that. It was not your, you know, four white guys on a panel, you know, talking about hockey show or anything that you see on ESPN. It was like two guys in a basement. Yeah. And I love that about it.

And again, it wasn't like that it wasn't, it didn't have the popularity of a lot of shows. So again, it was like, you know, going to school and you couldn't, I couldn't talk to my friends about NHL tonight because they didn't watch it. You know. And that was. It was kind of punk rock. It's the, you know, I do. I like the punk rock vibe to it. And even though it had a Canadian on it, it felt American for some reason.

It felt it felt different than what Canada does to sell the game. What do you feel about the USA Canada vibe, the rivalry? You were talking about the commercials for the World Cup, and I mean, those Patrick Kane ones are horrible. Oh, man. Yeah, they are. And they're the Canadian ones. Yeah, they're the ones. Talk about how much you hate Canada.

I don't know. Like, there's never going to be a time where I'm not juiced by that rivalry. Like, I want to beat them. Yes. I want to destroy them. I want to destroy them as a hockey nation. Totally. And I think that's what this tournament has going for it.

But. I want to see them cry. I do. I want to see them cry. I want Vancouver all over again. Like for the entire country, though. Like, when the World Junior tournament happens. People kissing in the streets while riots are going on.

Yeah, people in Team Canada shirts, looting buildings, and then Canada says, but they're not really hockey fans. We're just anarchists. Yeah. That was the explanation. I want to, I love the World Junior Tournament now, for the most part, because Canada's not good at it anymore necessarily. Right. And we're better at it. And I love what I want to see from the World Cup and what I want to see from Olympic hockey, when I will know that the U.S. has arrived as a hockey nation, is when Canada loses on that level.

level on that platform and then starts questioning everything they do in the development of players in the building of teams. How crazy would that be? The management of the Olympic team is executed in public for their futility. Like, I want to see that level of destruction. But see, and I think that they've always had like the best, the best system, hockey system to bring up talent. You know, these kids basically go away from home with their teenagers and go start playing

for teams, you know? and it's a serious thing. Yeah, I always figured they were stolen from their cribs. Like Captain Hookwood children in Japan. But I'm still, and I don't know if you're like this. Like, it would be nice if the U.S. got more notoriety for hockey players. Because I'm still like, like Shane Gospherr. Yeah.

When he came up for the Flyers, I was playing a guy. I just assumed he was a Canadian. You know, you just assumed that he got right. Yeah. And then you're like, oh, wait, holy shit, he's from America? Oh, yeah, man. Let me go. order his jersey right now, you know?

It's like, holy shit. There is definitely a so good, he must be Canadian vibe whenever you see a rookie. That's not true. It's a kid Austin Matthews. He's an amazing player. He happens to be from Scottsdale, Arizona. I guarantee 90% of the people that watch this kid play next year are going to be like, oh, he must be from Belleville, Ontario.

Yeah. I just had a great idea. Arizona. What? The world junior championships in Philly. That would be beautiful. Philly fans taunting 17-year-old Canadian kids.

That's, oh my God. Philly would be like when they... Kids would quit hockey after that. Philly would be our greatest weapon. Philly would be like when they played the Canada Cup and had to go to Moscow and play the games. Like if we could get those international games in Philly, that's when the enemy of our enemy is our friend.

Right. I do, and this is the other thing. I do love how much people hate Philly. It is, like, I do take a small bit of pride in the fact that everybody has. I'll say this. Flyers fans are the only fans. that I'd want to hang out with, like, on a Friday night or something. Like, Eagles fans, forget it.

Yeah. I'll go to a game with them. How are they different, though? You guys, there's going to be overlap there. There is some, but, I mean, it's, you know, football is everybody. So it's every scumbag from every corner of Philly that can scrape together $30 is going to an Eagles game. And that's the thing about football fans now. Like, hockey fans still get a lot of grief for our behavior, right?

But, like, NFL fans have trumped it. NFL fans have surpassed hockey fans as far as... Every Sunday, there's a video of some naked guy in Buffalo trying to run through a car door because he sees a football on the other side of it. And, like, it's like spring break. It's like, it's anarchy. These tailgate parties now. And everybody in the stadium is, you know, taunted women and shows everything.

And so I feel like hockey. Foski fans are now quaint by comparison. And it's not just Eagles fans. It's Jets fans. I'll tell you. Went to the Eagles Redskins game last, no, season before. And with my friend Peggy, who's a comic,

and her family has season tickets. So me and her go out. Totally. Totally. And just outright. She yells horrible things. But that was, there was a Redskins, a lady wearing a Redskins shirt,

V-neck, showing her cleave. and there were Philly fans that were starting to get their picture with her. Right, because she was all proud of it, too. Peggy out of nowhere is like, hey, get your fucking fake tints and get the fuck out of here. And that's the kind of shit I love. Like, yeah, give them hell. Go ahead. Here's my theory.

Philly is so full of sports anger. Yeah. Because of they've only won the one world series since the last Stanley Cup. So it's like 40 years of not having good teams. Wait, what happened? Yeah, yeah, we won a World Series in 80. So it's been two. 80?

Two of them. Okay, so two. Yeah, Blake Schmidt, Steve Carlton. But it's actually only one because the Mitch Williams pitch kind of evens things out. Oh, geez. Why are you bringing up all these? Sorry. Oh, that's cool.

I just wanted to see if it was like frustration as a city. Like, is it just an overall, like, man. And that one was so, yeah, because it's like, For every good thing that happens, it's like 10 shitty things happen. Like that Mitch Williams thing, like, we beat Atlanta finally. Right. Right. And so exercise the demon.

Everybody's happy that we made it to the World Series, beat Atlanta, and then to lose like that. It's just like a total kick in the artist. But like Rocky beat Creed. That's going to make you guys feel good. Came back in that second fight, man. He beat Creed, lost to Creed, beat Creed, beat Clever Lang, beat the Russian. Yeah. What happened with Tom?

Did he fight in Rocky 5? Didn't he move out of Philly at some point? He was training Tommy Gunn in Rocky 5. Then he was back in Philly because he got poor. And then he fought again in Rocky Balboa. See, it is. It's like that general mind trick song. Get a little money and you move out of Philly.

That's how it is. Spoiler warning, he then trains Apollo Creed's son who doesn't win. I don't think. Oh, I didn't see. I think he performs admirably. I guess I won't see that movie. I don't remember the end of it. And we put a statue of him.

What changes? Location. It was that no, now it's next to the steps at the art museum. It was at the top of the steps at the art museum. Then it was in front of the spectrum. Then it was back at the art museum. Now it's on the side of the steps at the art museum. There's a grand tradition when the flyers play the Penguins,

which is one of the reasons why I was kind of rooting for Philly to knock off the capitals. I thought it was going to happen. That the Penguins fans vandalized the Balbo. statue by putting like penguin swag on it. And I always love that. I always love, I love anything that kind of gets you to that collegiate prank war that you'd see. That's exactly what it.

At A&M, you know, they have the 12th man statue out in front of the stadium. And Texas Tech has the worst fans. They're horrible. They come in and they're just rude and obnoxious. They throw tortillas for some dumb reason. So you're, yeah, so one whole end of your field ends up covered in tortillas.

But then they They lost, and they still painted our statue red and black. And it was just like, oh, you assholes. Wow. You can't do that if you lose. No. I mean, I get it, but you can't, not if you lose. How do you feel about Pittsburgh?

Because I want to talk about these second round games. It's the horrible side of the state. Philly, I know, is the city that doesn't win. Pittsburgh, by comparison, is the city that does. I don't understand how, I mean, I'm glad that they've let a women's professional hockey team play in the NHL, and it's amazing to me how well that they compete with the men. I never would have expected that. And then you throw a couple of Ice Dancers in there, too.

And it's like, who taught these ice dancers how to play hockey so well? You're going to get so much. You're going to get so much. Literally from Canada. It's not a safe thing to say anymore. I don't care. Now, listen. Look, I'm a comic.

I'm not used to, I can say whatever I want on stage. The Penguins. It's true. The Penguins are going to play the Capitals? Yes. Are you excited for Ovechkin Crosby? Do you have Ovechkin Crosby? Oven Chicken can suck a dick.

You know, I'm still a little bitter. I forgot the wounds were fresh for the capitals. I forgot that for a second. And I love oven chicken. I think he's a great player. And the amazing thing about him is the guy is humongous, and he moves. He's, what, 6, 3, 240, and he moves like he's 5-8-170. He's amazing.

But, yeah, I don't. This is, like, this series is one. one of those where it's like, I'm rooting for the state. I'm rooting for the guy in the stands. It's like, I'm going to set this place on fire. You're hoping a volcano opens up underneath the arena at some point. It just swells it into the earth. I'm rooting for whatever person has so much hate in their head that they want to commit some atrocity that affects both those teams.

Wow. Yeah. Not necessarily. In theory, the islanders or the lightning a buy. It's going to be a heck of a series, though, I think. I don't know. Because Pittsburgh's on fire right now. And Washington, you know that Washington fans' buttholes are still puckered slightly, like,

this could still fall totally apart on us. Well, what's funny about that is that, like, it is a common thread throughout the Capitol's playoffs that there's been Titanic disappointment. So when Neuvereth shut him out in game five, everybody's thinking, oh, this is how it's going to end. This is how it's going to be. They're going to now lose. Philly's going to do reverse sweep on them, and that's how they'll go out. Now they get past Philly. And they're like, in theory, then you should be like, like with the blues being the Blackhawks, you should be like, wow, this is an amazing learning experience.

They've exercised the demon. Now it's onward to the cup. But instead for the capitals, it's like, how is the power the penguin's going to fuck them? Well, because it's that doubt that creeps back into their mind. Like you said, when Noevers shut them out, you could. You could hear it just, right. All the buttholes puckered back up. And then you and then so then as a capitals fan, because I did it as a Flyers fan, I was like, okay, so what if noyverth from game one?

Right. Right. And then, okay, what if fucking Claude Giroux and Wayne Simmons actually score some points? That'd be nice fellas. Holy fucking shit. Way to lie a giant turd. Wayne Simmons screwed you guys so hard in game one when you were down a goal. And you're about to get a power play.

And he's like, now's a good time to fight somebody. Okay. But right. But at the same time, I like. I like that standing up for his guy, and then I think that was also bad on the refs. Like, you didn't have to call that roughing penalty on him either. You didn't have to do that. And because they knew what he was doing.

They knew he was standing up for his guy. Yeah. And they both drop him and throw. Old time, hockey. Yeah, man. So you give the original penalty, two fighting penalties. And that why you got to throw in the ruffing? There was no ruffing.

It was straight to, let's do this. All right. Trey, you're next on WIP. Yeah, man. Right. First time, long time. I only have one, I only have one affiliate impression. I don't know if I ever done on this show yet.

And it's a WIP caller. What I mean, don't you guys? It's this. It's, it's, it's, all right. Greg from Philly, you're on WIP. Yeah, you know, I can't help but think that if Tharovan was still here, we probably would have won that game. I'll hang up and listen.

And then on the other line, what you hear from the Philly Sports Radio Talker Show host is just here. Yeah. And then, all right, dog from Philly, you're up next. Why can't Claudeau come through in a big spot? I was going to point that out that you sing Claude Drew in the beautiful Philly dialect. It reminds me of hearing a Frenchman say souffle. It's like poetry. Thanks, man.

Listen to me for a second now. Capitals and Penguins. Here's my dagger scenario. for the capitals. Okay. It goes to seven, which the previous series between Crosby and Ovechkin did. Yeah. And the same thing plays out where Philly gets the lead.

Ovechkin has a chance to score on Matt Murray, the rookie goalie. He stops him on a break away like Flory Stothman in the other series. And the Penguins win in Washington in game seven again and Justin Williams, Mr. Game 7, no points minus two. X-Flyer. Wow. Wouldn't that be great? I mean, great in the sense that it would be a complete Jesus Christ taking his size 50 boot and shoving it down the Capitol fans' throats.

I wanted to go the way the Flyers series went, where the Caps get up 3-0 and the fans all feel great. We're finally going to get to the conference finals, and then it's like 3-1, 3-2. It's like, all right, we'll win game 6, and then they win game 6, and it's 3-3. Then I want to actually see video of Caps fans vomiting on the Internet. It's so nervous. It's just like YouTube testimonials. It's like, oh, I can't take it anymore. So I'm no physics major, but you're saying that the pressure built up by the puckering asshole

creates so much force inside the body that the vomit just spews out? Right, yeah. I mean, I saw that on the Internet. That's a thing. You can feel it. You can feel it as it goes up the intestine. Right, right. As a Philly fan, I'm familiar with these feelings.

What's your pick on that series, by the way? I had to make them yesterday so that's fresh on mine. You probably hadn't made yours yet. My brackets. My brackets toast, too. No, that's not true. As we do this, the duck is still alive. They're my cup winner, but I'm less, unless, we'll get to that in a second.

I have a duck's against the Flyers in the final. I'm out of applause. I'm a homer about that picture. I am a total homer. I really thought we were going to knock out Washington. All right. I'll say mine. I'm picking, my scenario is not a dream.

It's reality I am picking the Penguins and Seven against the Capitals. I think I took the caps before, so I'm going to just have to stick with it. Mm-hmm. I just. And, Trey, you're going with Volcano opens up. of the arena and both teams fall in. I mean, yeah, but I'll make a real pick. Oh, fuck.

It's so hard. It's cancer. It's so hard to say. For himself, everyone involved. Everybody dies. Pittsburgh and seven. There you go. Oh, wow.

Islanders and lightning. This is an interesting series for me because I feel like the Islanders did some amazing things previously. I'm really happy for the Islanders. I am too. Now, you did a video outside of Barclays Center. Yeah. Man, and I'm trying to get, we'll talk about that after.

All right. Yeah, I'm trying to do some more. I just, I haven't, my editor crapped out on me. No. And I have, you mean a person or the machine? Yeah, like, he died? Is that how you say died? He crapped out.

He finally crapped on it. He just found better stuff to do. What was it? But you learned, did you learn a thing or two about Brooklynite hockey fans during your time doing video? I did because I did the two of them, you know. I did the ones that you did where I tried to just get people to talk about hockey. Yeah.

And this was before the season, but it was in front of the Barclays Center. So people weren't there for the hockey game. I was just asking random people that walked high. Hardcore hockey fans, obviously. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, just like, nope. No, thanks. Hockey what?

And then, like, literally groups of people like, oh, they're going to play hockey here? Like that kind of stuff. Barclays, is that like a farm-to-table seafood place? Yeah, I don't know what that is. The building we're standing in front. And then at one point had Maggie Jillon Hall and Peter Sarsgaard just randomly walked by. And I was half into asking him if he wanted to talk about hockey when I noticed who it was, you know, and was like, Hey, you want to talk about hockey.

Holy. And he could have been, he couldn't have been any less interested. No. I loved you in Shattered Glass and I was sorry that you died in the dark night. I did. I was like, dude, you were the best part. of Green Lantern. And I was about to go,

you were the best part of a lot of shitty movies that I've seen. Like, SARS Guard has saved the day for me on more than one movie. SARS Guard and Green Lantern got progressively

more grotesque as the movie went on. It was awesome. And then, like, he wound up not being the big bad, the giant shit cloud that attacked

Parallax, attacked the world, wound up being the big bad and then he got eaten by the shit cloud. Yeah. It was weird. It's a metaphor for life that if you let the shit cloud envelop you, it will eventually consume you.

This is true. That's a deep, deep. By the way, he's in the dark night? No, no, Maggie Gyllenhaal was. Yeah, remember, remember. And Harvey, if there's only one more thing I can tell. Don't worry, someone's going to come from. Dude, I liked her when it was cool to like her.

And then this is what, anybody that you think is cool, follow them on Twitter. Oh, really? Yeah. And you will find out how. how uncool they are. Why? What does she tweet about it? The last one, I actually screenshot it and reposted somewhere because it was, she was tweeting at a food delivery service company like, hey, why don't you guys carry this?

And, you know, some fancy smancy organic ice cream company in Manhattan. We're dying for some whatever kind of ice cream over here and parked slope in our brownstone. It was like, you kidding me, you fucking bitch. walk down to the corner store, get some hog. Harvey, can you get seamless to start carrying caramel truffle? Yeah. And I'm sorry, Maggie Gillenhal for calling you

a fucking bitch. You're not a fucking bitch. That just came out. Again, that was a Philly fan thing. You know the moment, came out, and now I realized it. But please, Doc, there's a bracelet coming at you. I felt real happy for the Islanders because Tavares was in beast mode. That was really fun. Right. But I have a feeling, this is the feeling,

that now they're playing a team that knows how to do this in the playoffs. Now they're playing a team that won't lose two double overtime games and another overtime game to boot. Right. And I'm picking the Tandbea Lightning and six games, Steve Lozo. Isles in six. Isles and six. Wow.

The Miracle Run continues. The Brooklyn Magic. Stamco's isn't playing. Strongman isn't playing. Is there a little bit of your heart, though, saying that? Oh, I, I owner's Twitter got real mad at me because I picked the Panthers to win the series. I did too. And they were like, they like flipped their shit on me.

It's like some dude who had a Twitter name, his name is literally Fire Cappuano, was talking shit at me for not having faith in the team. I'm like, wait, is this like an ironic? Damn! But I don't know. I just think, I think they're going to go two rounds and then get waxed by big caps or the penguins. I got to take Tampa and...

I'll go Tampa in seven. Yeah. Yeah. What do you like about Tampa? I think the islanders would do well at home. Do you like Tampa just because they've been there? They did the last year? Yeah, yeah.

Even without Stamcoast and everything, yeah, it's just the experience on that team, I think. And, I mean, they did. They played really well in the first time. I don't know. Dude, that series with Detroit was pretty great. It was brutal. They hate each other.

Oh, my God. That was one that stuck up on you. There's a couple of series that haven't gotten a lot of acclaim in the first round, but that was one where I think people saw the result of it and didn't realize how tightly played it was and how brutal it was with those two teams. Yeah, and if you haven't seen the highlights of that series, go back and watch them somewhere on it. I'm sure you did probably a couple of things. I'm sure Yahoo has a highlighter too, if that's where you're going with that. Oh, my gosh, dude.

Yeah, there were some really brutal moments. I thought that was great. The fact that they have all these articles coming out about how fighting has gone down this year, but it seems like this year in the playoffs, there's been way more incidents like that. Fighting or at least flashpoints of violence, which is always a good thing to see. And the thing that you need in the place. Dude, Doyle going after once is nuts, though. With the chicken.

I was like, are you kidding me? You're going to give Abdelcator the chicken? How many fights does he have in his career? He's a sneaky, tough guy. Is it really a fight, though, when the guy's like on his belly? and you're just wailing on the back of his head. It's a fight for me. Right.

Fight all win. Wait, I'm usually the one on his belly, actually. I'm the toughest guy in the world. If you're face down, you can't get up, man. I've only actually been in one, I've only been in one real fight, and it was when I was a child. I was a child. I got in a fight with a kid named Jim. That was in my bus stop.

Yeah. And we got into a fight, and I, we threw some punches, and then he dropped on his belly, and then I became Ralphie from a Christmas story and just started doing the resafresa. double fisting on the back of his head and then we got pulled apart but that I've never I mean I'm a giant pussy but like I that's the only fight I've ever been in you've ever been in a legit fight? I've been in a few. A few? Any good scraps?

One time when I was like 12 there's an arcade in Harris in New Jersey I think that's now like a tax place. Oh and you had your quarter on Mortal Kombat and you're like no! No it was so like it was me and a buddy and there were these two kids and we like had our quarters up because like we were going to beat the X-Men game

or whatever the fuck we were to play in that day And like this kid was like sliding the quarter like to himself and like, buddy, buddy, what are you doing? Through telekinesis? He was like, oh. He was like, his finger up on. Yeah, yeah, I guess I guess in the pocket. Not being smooth about it at all. And we're like, we're like, dude, what the fuck are you doing?

And he just was just like, nothing. I'm not doing anything. So like eventually like we got done and we were like, all right, we're going to leave. So we get outside the arcade and these kids follow us outside. These two kids and they're like, you give us your money. I'm like, no, I'm bigger than you. I'm not going to give you my money. So like, you know, I took a source.

swing at the one kid, and my buddy ran, and his buddy ran, and then the kid I hit with the punch, he went back inside the arcade, and that was pretty much the end of it. So you one punched him, technically? It wasn't like a movie where, like, the kid was, like, unconscious on the ground, and I stood over him, and I was like, what? I was more, like, terrified, and I just threw a punch real quick. And, oh, so it was more like, oh, my God, punches hurt. Scamper, scamper, scamper, scamper, scammer, scammer, scammer.

And, like, one time, one time this kid, Mark, he beat my ass pretty good. I forget why, but, like, I do remember ending up face down in the snow. Yeah, I think I might have, I think I might have. I think I might have like talk some shit that I couldn't back up and then I got my ass. Trey, you're from Philly. We assume you've been in many fights. What's your favorite fight? Dude, Philly growing up, only a couple that weren't good for me.

Like I had one that I remember. It wasn't even a fight. But I had this kid that was a year older that picked on me all the time. And so one day I was finally like, that's it, man. I'm done with this kid. And we're getting on the bus and I was behind them. and I just shoved him. He's a little bigger than me, too.

He just turned around and went, boom! And socked me right in the nose, man. Ooh, yeah, yeah. That's the stinging, hurting, whole face explosion pain. Didn't bleed, though. Oh, wow. Yeah, for whatever reason, like, I'm not a big, I don't bruise very easily. I could take a pretty good punch.

And, like, my blood doesn't, I'm not a huge bleeder. So, I saw another, I saw a film once about a guy in Philadelphia who was a bit like you. called Unbreakable. There's something we should know. Superhero incognito. Let's just say I may be wearing a flare's uniform next year at some point. We'll see.

Talks are in the work. So, okay. Actually, more flights than Austin. Did you? Yeah, 6th Street. If you spend any time on 6th Street. 6th Street's where the Alamo is, the draft house? Yeah, and, you know, all the bars and stuff.

Especially back in the day, there were way more bars, less college bars, more like bar bars, and like old blues bars and rock clubs. So it was kind of a little different scene down there. But it was like... Walk outside and they'd be like, hey, comedy boy, come on over here. Well, especially with the college right there,

you get all these meatheads too. And so it was like meatheads and then you always end up and it was always group fights. Like you'd be with your buddies, somebody in another group that was passing by would say something to one of your friends. And the next thing you knew, new, like, group fight.

Yeah. I just assume that street was just like people constantly being thrown out the front windows of bars. At night, it's just some lonely guy pushing a broom down the, down the street, getting all the glass out. Maybe back in the day, not anymore, man. Oh, sorry. Jokes about Texas probably don't go over too well in the state of Texas. I feel like Texas has so much pride. Yeah, which region is the most hypersensitive about getting tweaked about themselves?

Oh, dude. I mean, really, the whole, St. Antonio is pretty laid back. Because it's pretty much Mexico. I mean, there's the real border, and then there's the real border. Oh, yeah. And it's right around St.A. I've been to a couple of Spurs games, and I have to agree with you. And I also have to say that the riverwalk is so overrated.

Oh, yeah. It's just a sidewalk next to some stinky water. And then a bunch of chain restaurants. Yeah, in a bunch of chain restaurants. You're like, ah, y'all got to go to the Riverwalk. I'm like, oh, yeah, do I? Because it's a mall with a stream through it. Yeah, a crappy stream that's like.

I'm like, y'all got a Chili's. Wow, we do. It's on the Riverwalk. Which one? Which one do you want to go to? We've got three of them. Let's figure you get your authentic San Antonio Chili. Oh, yeah.

Even the Texas Barbecue Place on the Riverwalk is a chain. Yeah. And then it's like, yeah, well, let's go to a bar. Let's go to Bulldogs, Irish pub. I'm sure that's legit. I went to the barbecue place in Austin when I was down there for South by Southwest at the one that's the truck. And everybody gets in line for. like really, really early.

It was the offshoot of that one of Franklin's. The guys who left Franklin's and started their own truck. Micklewit. Something like that. God, it was so good. Yeah, that's good. I've got my spots. I mean, well, nobody from Texas listens.

I'm sure they don't. Blues and the Blues will... Mueller Meat Company. The Blues are going to take on an opponent called the Dallas Stars. Texas hockey. We know who Trey's pegged. Now, I think, here's what I think about... The stars now have their affiliate in Cedar Park outside of Austin.

That's right. Yeah. See? I think that the blues... There's two ways you could look at it. Either they raise the banner after they beat the Blackhawks and they've got nothing left, or they've exercised the demon. They move on.

The weight has been lifted, and now they will just ascend to the heavens of Stanley Cup's success. And I believe... Those are my only two choices? Ascend to the heavens or... Or it was. I believe this. I believe this. Okay.

I believe that the goal-tending defense... deficiencies of the Dallas stars, the defensive deficiencies of the Dallas stars will be enough in this series for the Blues to succeed offensively. And I think defensively, they should be able to lock them down. They did pretty well against them in the regular season. I am picking the Blues in six games. Losing five for all that, plus the fact that Sagan's probably not playing. That's the whole Achilles thing. I think the blues are just, I don't think they're going to have a letdown.

I think Dallas, plus, there's this thing, too, in the playoffs where if you play like a really shitty team one round and then you got to play an awesome team the next round i feel like that's like a jarring because i mean you play you play the wild yeah really shouldn't have won twice they're not they're they're a bad team and now st louis is healthy and they're really good i think it's going to be short and quick now are you going to portray your former home and pick the blues or are you going to be texas boy no i don't look i told you i grew up in philly so that's where um my only texas allegiance it truly is the texas a and m okay i'll root for the spurs because I've been to a bunch of spurs games

and else you're a frontrunner. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm an underdog. Look, I've been behind the spurs for it. It does balance out the rest of it, doesn't it? It's like for basketball. It was really easy to ditch the Sixers. So easy to ditch the Sixers.

Like, the rest of my life is Philly Sports, and I could also root for this two-win team or I could root for Tim Duncan. Like, which way I'm going to go? I'm going to say the Blues in Five. Yeah, no, man, fuck the stars, man. They should have never left Minnesota. No.

I hated the fact that they moved to Texas. Plus, I was pissed off that I had to drive three hours to see Philadelphia if I wanted to. I had to drive all the way to fucking Dallas. To Dallas, no less. And then you got to go and then you got to go sit with all those retard fans who are just going there to be seen. They're not going there because they like hockey. They're going there because their buddy was like, yeah, let's go try out this hockey thing and be cool. Wait.

Wait, wait. Show up in a limo. No way. Yeah, dude. People in Dallas go to hockey games to be seen. Oh, Dallas. I thought we were talking about. LA for a second.

No, no. You mean Flyers West? Flyers West. Did you, that had to warm your heart to see them eliminated in the first round? It did. It did. I, you know. Luke Shen crying, Vinila Caldier crying.

It did. I was happy for Carter when they won the cup. It was still, but it was like, man, more Philly guys leave and then win shit. Right. I hate that. But I was happy for Carter, actually. Mike Richards, nah. He kind of, because like when he first started playing for Philly, it was like, oh, this is the second coming of Bobby Clark too, right, yeah.

And Bobby Clark was my hero growing up. Like, you know, school reports on him and everything, Flynn, Flawn, Manitoba in the house. In summary, Bobby Clark, all in all, Bobby Clark. Dude, I even called the Flynn Flon bombers and bought a T-shirt off the lady on the phone. Like, because they don't, on their website, they didn't, they may have now. But I wanted a T-shirt so bad. I called them up, and I was like, hey, can you send me a T-shirt and, like, got them to send a T-Hore. from the depths of Manitoba.

All right. So blues all around. So blues all around. As we do this podcast, unfortunately, the Anaheim Nashville series isn't done yet. We know that San Jose is going to be the opponent. Ducks won game seven already. I know it. It's over.

I don't care who wins the other series. Like, here's my problem. I pick the ducks to win the cup. I no longer think that's going to happen. I also have a problem in the sense that every time I pick the sharks, I get bent over. or I get a pie in the face. Now, or both. Thanks, Will Wheaton.

Now, that actually had, Will Wheaton threw a pie on my face in Center Ice. For real? For losing a bet to the L.A. King's mascot. Oh, wow. I know. To that dumb lion? That's what I thought exactly on that. I thought exactly on that.

So I'm picking the sharks. No matter who comes out of that other series, I'm picking the sharks. I'm going to pick them in seven against the ducks. I'm going to pick them in five against Nashville. No matter who comes out of that series. Oh, really? against Dux 5 against Nashville.

I think they are playing out of their minds good right now. Pavelsky is elevated. Thorntons elevated. Burns is elevated. Martin Jones is a playoff goalie. Pete DeBore gets the best out of his team in year one before he's gone in year three. Sharks, baby. The Sharks advance to the Western Conference final over either of those teams in the other series.

Your confidence makes me feel so good about them not winning them. Do you think they lose to either of those teams or just the Ducks? They're the Capitals of the West. So here's the thing. The Ducks won game seven last night, four to two. So I'm really, I don't know why you guys. I'm talking about contingencies. Oh, man.

If you nail that. Corey Perry scored twice. We're never going to hear the other. Freddie Anderson was solid. And I think that momentum from that game seven win is going to carry into the next series. And the sharks haven't played in forever at this point. Or did it happen this way? You know, the Predators?

So actually, you know what? The Predators were so good in Game 7. And they come away with that 5-1 win on the road. I think that, no, ducks. Ducks in. We really should have structured the podcast like the end of Clue where there's different endings, different predictions each time, or did it happen? It's communism or red herring. Do you like the sharks against?

I like how Nashville took out Anaheim. I really like how they came through and was clutch. And you know what? I like about that. I have a small Tennessee tie. That's where my dad grew up. And my folks live there in Knoxville now. But we were last Christmas, we were in Nashville.

Give you my. on a night when the Preds were playing the Blues. And I really dig the vibe and the fans in Nashville.

I agree. They are so into that team and they love them, man. And I think that the Predators are great for that town and I hope the Predators keep doing well, but I don't think that they're going to knock off the shark.

I don't think that there's anything wrong with making what's good for hockey picks in the playoffs and hoping for the best for markets and things like like like for example like i wouldn't mind if the islanders beat the lightning because lightning did quite well last year and i know if the islanders win then there now it's now it's a party now the bandwagon is open for the rest of new york yeah but that's the bandwagon i think it's just going to be the classic islanders bandwagon it's like a teeny wagon it's kind of shitty people kind of look at it like man I don't know if I want to get on that thing

I don't know how far it's going to go why are there only three wheels you know and you still like I was excited when they moved here and was like yeah people are going to jump on board but then you go and it's just like the Nassau Coliseum but nicer in that like you go to a Flyers Islanders game and it's still 50% Flyers fans yeah it's true and a lot of empty seats way more empty seats than you thought right what I did like I'll say about about that was we went to one of the preseason games and we were sitting up in the upper level and there were a lot of um legit there were a lot of black folk around us that were super into

the game you see that's it and we're asking us questions the entire time about hey what's this what's that why they do that what's going on here so into it like clearly going to come back did you see that guy on twitter from st louis who discovered hockey no just He was watching Blues Blackhawks game 7, and I think his first suite was like, man, I can't believe white people have been hiding hockey from us for all these years. We're not hiding it, man. It's there, dude. He was super pumped, and the Blues got him, like, two tickets or four tickets to game one against Dallas. So he's going to the game and, like, he gets the tweet, and his response was like, should I bring a coat?

Because, like, it's a giant room full of ice, right? Am I going to be cold? It was just so awesome watching the guy, Discover hockey for the first time. And now he's going to get free tickets to go see a Blue's freaking that is awesome. That is awesome. I was looking for his tweets. Talking. Okay.

Tony X. Hold on. They gave him tickets? You know, I've been to a Stanley Cup finals game. Yeah. I got tickets to

the Stars, Devils. Oh, wow. One of the Stars Devils games back in the day. What was that late 90s? It was early 2000. 2000?

Yeah. 2000. The headline on Deadspin was Man Discovers hockey loves it. Yeah, it's so good. And it's Tony X. And it says... Sounds like an onion headline.

Yo, Deadass. This is the first time I've watched and this shit has been lit for these first 45 seconds. What the fuck is the power play? So good. The quote, of course, white people have been hiding hockey from us for years, bro.

This shit is lit. And then, of course, the greatest thing ever, I think, is, honestly, why wouldn't the whole team just stand in front of the net for the last minute? Oh, that's brilliant. And then, of course, the best one is, he wrote, we did it! And then his next tweet was, we being used very loosely

Greatest thing ever Wait till he finds out all the other cool stuff Exactly You know like not shaking hands after games Until the end of a series And that's one thing I've always loved about hockey Oh wait Of course don't shake hands

Why would you shake hands with somebody that you Fucking hate? Wait, but you like it though That they do that Yeah I like that they wait till the playoffs And then just shake hands After the last week We don't have time to get into it

But like I will do this later in the playoffs I hate the handshake line I'll say it right now We'll talk about it later. Say that one for later. I don't mind it in the playoffs. Yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, I love the fact that they go shake hands after the game. When six year olds play youth soccer. I do mind it when it's professionals. That's my going back to it is like, like I love that part of hockey and I'm pissed that they made it. Like when I was growing up, that was the thing I always hated. Like, hey, now you got to go shake their hands. Yeah. Fuck them.

That's my point. Sportsmanship, guys. It's not, but it's friendship, but they're empty handshakes then at that point. Because I don't want it. like, yeah, nice game. I want to believe everything that I'm being sold. If you're selling me on hatred and rivalry and this is the most important thing in these guys' lives and they will be crushed if they don't win, then don't pull back the curtain and have there be bows afterwards. Don't show me a handshake.

And that's the last thing you do in the playoff series, you know, after you've been beaten, as much as it sings. I see it differently. You guys see it as good game, good game, good game. I see it as here, I'm taking this puppy's head and shoving it in its own shit because you guys are losers and now you must kneel before Zod and shake the hands of your victors. But that's the gentleman's part of the game, you know? It's like, you know, there's codes in hockey, you know, the fighter's code and all that kind of stuff. I don't like the fact that motherfuckers don't strip off their helmets. Because I go to somewhere else.

No, I'd be like, hey, man, you got to take off your helmets. We got to have people got to be square. You see Teresenko and Panarin hug after that, man. It was beautiful. I'm not down with the hugging. Yeah. I want to believe that. I don't like to know that.

The example I always give is how crushed I was as a child when Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheik were both arrested on the New Jersey Turnpike with weed in their car. And I said, and I tugged them my dad shirt. And I'm like, but why would Haxaw Jim Duggan and the Iron Sheep be in the same car? They hate each other. And it's like, son. Yeah, right. My head, it exploded.

And I'm like, no, it's not real. I want that. Do you file the Iron Sheek on Twitter? Yeah, but would you write for the Iron Sheik? Yeah, I should. Probably. It's obviously some Canadians. Yeah, but it's so good.

All right. Yeah. Trey, you've been a gentleman and a scholar. Where can people find your genius and where are you going to be soon? Okay. On Twitter at Trey sucks. And then I'm on Instagram, Facebook, all that too. Um, with this comes out, oh, I'll be in D.C. this Thursday, opening for Doug.

And then during game one of the first round. Yeah. And I'm debating on whether or not to wear my flyer shirt on stage. There's going to be a lot of people that aren't hockey fans there, I think. Because they'll have, the hockey fans will have sold their tickets. Well, it's a 10 o'clock show. Oh, good. So you can see the game and go see it afterwards. The improv is easy to get to, too, on the Metro.

And I'll probably just, you know what? I'll probably wear my flyer shirt at the Doug Love's movies. that I may or may not be doing that Saturday. You can never reveal that. And then May 13th, 14th, the Velvita Room in Austin. And then May 18th through 21st at Capsidian Austin. And then June 2nd through 4th at Loonies in Colorado Springs. Back to Colorado.

Nice. Yes. And then album on iTunes, Spotify, Rhapsody, all that shit. It's amazing. It's amazing. Like if you look up the Spenceries in Denver now, And they have like maps of them. Like there's so many.

It looks like Snoop Dog's boxer shorts. It's just like, it's just a picture of like a thousand leafs all around wherever you are in the city. It's pretty amazing. My favorite thing about our conversation with Trey was the fact that most of it was explaining why Philly fans aren't so bad. And then Trey going into fits of Philadelphia Sports Talk Radio Caller Rage about certain topics. About Sidney Crosby and, yeah. It's like, you know, Philly fans aren't so bad, but, you know, the Penguins are a bunch of women. I don't understand where this rap comes from.

I mean, I love Cindy Crosby. Oh, no. Yeah, that one was. We thank Trey for joining us. It was a really fun time, and he's a good dude and a good puckhead. And anytime we get a chance to wax nostalgic about NHL tonight and ESPN hockey in its prime. Because, again, like I said in our interview, like, I think the ESPN NHL connection has been so soured by how they treated the sport later in the run that people forget that they did okay by it for a while.

Like, Gary Thorne was great. John Davidson was great. Steve Levy? Steve Levy is still fine. Buccigrass does a good now. But the Bucigrass Ray Ferraro, NHEL Tonight era, was a good time for hockey. I'm terrified about John Bucigrass potentially calling games, though. I can't listen to like two hours of him referring to linesmen as Lines and passes his sauce

and shots to the top shelf going bar down. and snips and snipes. I don't know if I can do it. As Dave Mustaine is to Megadeth, so is John Tavares of the Islanders. So on and so forth. As Ben Fold is the Ben Folds Five. Ah.

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We've already Batman vied it. All right. So Justin Ross writes in, any idea why they scheduled Game 1 of the Islanders, Lightning series before round one finished. This is of course a podcast you're listening to after Wednesday night's action, but you've got

thoughts on the scheduling Brew Haha. So for years, like literal years, people would get super duper annoyed because there would be like two teams that could start their first round series because they ended their first round series so quickly. I think it started their second round series

before everyone else is done. And you're like, why would they make them sit around? Oh, another dead night of hockey. I don't get it. And I think this may be the first time the NHL's ever done it. They're like, you know what? We're going to get the second round going because of this Pred series. We started it two days late and it went seven, so why make everybody wait?

Let's just start the second round. And the NBA does it too. So, like, I don't understand why people are mad. It's a hockey game on TV. Like, is it like, oh, I can't possibly think about the second round until the first round's over. You're going to watch Islanders Tampa before game seven. Like, that seems like a, that seems all positive to me. It is.

And it's also, like, building availability and things like that to play into it. There's like a Bieber concert and there's like a lifehouse show in Tampa or some weird. Hang it by a moment? It's, I think so. Really? Or, who is it? It's so funny you should say that because, like, I remember driving, I remember being in Tampa years after Candlebox was popular and hearing an enormous amount of candlebox in the radio. And then I heard, like, one of the local jocks being like, yeah, so come out and see Candlebox at the Play-Dien.

Like, oh my God, that's where like Candlebox and Lifehouse And like all these bands could go to Tampa. It's some band. It's some band. I think it is like one of those tours, though. It's like a three band tour where like you wouldn't go see the one band by itself. But all three are there.

I think they're playing some sort of weird schedule on Tampa. So maybe that's, but even still just it's a hockey game. People complain all the time. Like, oh man, it's a dead night hockey. Here's twice as many games you're supposed to have. I was watching a quiet riot documentary on showtime a couple of nights ago. and it was something where they had to find a new singer for the band for somebody. I guess Kevin Dubrow left the band at some point.

And all these guys are like in their 60s now, basically. So they find some dude who looks like, pretty much looks like your grandpa. Like if your grandpa was a little bit younger and hipper, like it looks like your grandpa. And he's up there and he's just like, come on, feel the noise. And we're like, wow, this guy's got the voice of a metal angel. And what they did in the documentary was they said, okay, you're hired, but we got to make you look the part. And they took him to a place and they, like, dyed his hair black and they cleaned him up and put him in leather. And I'm like, wow, this is the single worst episode of The Swan I've ever seen.

It's like the opposite of Melisandria on Game of Thrones where they age them backwards by putting stuff on him while she turned out to be 400 years old. 400 years old. Yeah, you don't watch the episode. No, but I've seen that screencap so many times. And I'm like, oh, cool, Smeagle. I'm like, oh, wait, no, it's not. She's still beautiful on the inside. I love her.

So our next question comes from, uh, bb, but, comes from, uh, Mike. Hi, Mike.

Heart attack 12-11. Predictions for the draft lottery. Draft lottery is Saturday as we tape this podcast today. Toronto wins. Uh, you think Toronto wins? The NHL will, at this point,

don't you dare. At this point, they will, they will do, like, they're going to be in the back and it's going to be like, however they do it,

the numbers come out, and they're going to be like, it's Edmondson, do it again. Okay, we'll do it again. You don't think that they've already tried that, that to keep McDavid away from Edmonton?

I feel like that up until now, they were just like, we'll let the math decide. And now this year, they're like, we can't let Austin Matthews go to Edmonton. We can't let it happen. So, okay, so anybody but Edmonton, but who would you like to see win? Like, we talked with Trey about the idea of rooting for certain playoff teams about what that would do to the market, you know, if they won. Like, which one of these teams that's in the draft lottery do you most hope does win for the sake of the franchise? Obviously for me it's the Devils, but who is it for you? Columbus.

I think Columbus could do like a San Antonio Spurs type thing back in the day where like, I mean, it's not the exact same thing, but like the Spurs had that one super duper bad year, and they got Tim Duncan out of it, and they've been pretty much like a dynasty ever since. Like Columbus isn't terrible, and I think Austin Matthews could turn them into a playoff team in year one. So that's why I want it. Like I don't feel like the Canucks are a playoff team with them. I don't think Edmonton is. I don't think the flames are.

The Jets too would be kind of cool. But America. We'd never see Austin Matthews on television if the Jets get him. Because even Connor McDavid was on maybe once, and that was because he was playing Eichael. My choice obviously is the Devils. I like your Blue Jacket's choice only because it would reward Keckleinen for the gambit of trading Johansson, knowing they'd blow, knowing they'd get a high draft pick, hoping they'd get Matthews. So the grand plan would then come together. But my pick, other than my own selfish team and your brilliant choice, would be Vancouver.

Vancouver right now is two Hall of Fame Swedes standing on a giant pile of shit. Just swimming around. Just swimming around. Oh, how's this shit, Hendrick? Oh, it's so good, Daniel. What? You've got some shit in your eye. Oh, no, pink eye.

So my hope is that. Sorry. I'm just picturing Alex Burroughs making fun of them for their situation. Because that's what he did. Hey, you got some shit. and your dad abused you. Oh, well. Yeah, for those of these guys,

Patrick Osolvin reference. I hope that Vancouver wins because I like, I think hockey's more exciting when Vancouver is good, and I just feel so bad for the fans that franchise, because literally like, it's just a flat line. Like, what is, there's nothing going on there

right now. They've got some okay young players. Obviously, goalpending is going to be fine for them with Demco coming up, but like, they could use, that's the, that's the Genesis device. That's the, hurtling the Genesis device into a dead planet and watching the vegetation grow, and then hopefully it doesn't grow into tentacle creatures that tries to eat young Spock. But that's the thing that I want to see.

You put Austin Matthews in Vancouver, and that franchise will blossom again. See, the way I see it is it's more like the Star Trek where Kirk and Spock get banished to that snow place, and that's what Austin Matthews would be. He would just be dead in the snowy. So you're saying that Austin Matthews would be going to a Klingon Gulag. Don't send, yeah, right. and there would be the monster that had his balls on his knees. Remember that?

That's right. And, like, Kurt kicked him in the knees. Not everyone keeps their genitals in the same place or whatever the line is. Which is amazing because I believe that's a call-back to Monster Squad. When they defeated the Wolfman by kicking him in the Nards. Oh, yeah. That's right. So there's just...

Monster Squad and Star Trek, apparently, same universe. Same thing. The extended Star Trek Monster Squad universe. And then finally, on today's episode, we wanted to answer this question from Andrew Doss. As you know, we're always on Puck Soup. have an affinity for food questions, being that soup is in the title. By the way, Wolfgang Puck, it's time to change the last name, buddy. It's very hard to search for this podcast.

Whenever time we put Puck soup in there, it goes to some canned bullshit you made. Get it cans. Sandra Chas writes, top five cereals and which one is lit. Now, this is a question that Ruby and I, my fiancé, were debating the other day because we have very different cereal tastes. She is not a fan of all. there's a very, she's like specific. It's like some very specific type of

wheat and there might be chocolate or some shit. I, here's my Mount Rushmore. Honey Nut Cheerios. There for you? See, like, I like pretty much every cereal that's not grape nuts. So, like, pretty much whatever you list,

I will have, you in and enjoy it. But you have, like, some more than others. Like, if you get the vacation pack, if you're going with your family down to the shore and they get vacation pack, which one are you pulling out first? Getting the fruit loops out? You get in the... Oh, she said cinnamon toast crunch, by the way, is top three for her.

That's top five. I would say number one is fruity pebbles. No shit. Oh, it's just the best. Oh, I think that gets way too soggy, way too quick. Oh, man. Way too soggy, way too quick. Fruit Loops is actually a complete lie.

It's a garbage cereal. It doesn't taste good. It's colored, but, I mean, it's just... It's not like fruity pebbles. Yeah. Peebbles are colored and they're delicious. The best part of Fruit Loops is the sugar cocaine at the end, at the bottom of the bag that you can take out afterwards. Afterwards, after you're done with the whole box of cereal,

You just have like a powdered sugar cocaine at the end of it. If only that flavor was actually on any of the goddamn fruit loops in the box, and they would be a good cereal. I would say Cinnamon's Toes Crunch, I'd say Honey Nut Cheerios. Cookie Crisp. Cookie Crisp is okay. It's overrated, but it's good. Right.

I would say upset special corn pops. I'm a big fan of corn pops. And I would see any cereal that is short run tied to a summer movie and has marshmallows in it. Like any cereal that's got character. Like Batman cereal? Yeah, it really puts me in the adventure. Like, you know, oh my God, this is breakfast? Wait, no, I'm in, I'm on Pandora eating my Avatar cereal.

Mmm, the Navi marshmallows are quite blue. Here's one that no one will agree with. Raisin brand. Sugar-covered raisins in a bowl of milk with some flakes. I really, as far as, like, quote, it's not really a healthy cereal because it really is just like, wait, it's a vehicle to put your body. There's raisins in it, though, so it's really. I enjoy raisins. I enjoy the raisin brand.

I like special K. Captain Crunch is good, too. Like, cereal is awesome. Like, it's really hard to fuck up cereal, because it's just, like, sugary whatever's in a bowl of milk. Cookie Crisp is very close to being a fuck-up cereal for me. Right, because, like, it's not, it doesn't, like, in your head, you know what a cookie tastes like,

and that's not what the cereal tastes like, but it's still good. Right. It's, and it, I got to be honest with you, Listen, we just got a sponsor in the show. I don't want to chase away anybody else. But it kind of has like a dog food texture to it when I eat it. It's like, it reminds me of like the stuff you'd give a dog. And you're like, oh my God, come here, sneakers.

Here's Purina cookie bones or some shit. And like, it has that texture and quality to it. And I remember as a kid just trying to dunk the cookie crisps in the milk as best I, as quickly as I could, like a like a like a, like a, like a, like a, like a, a witch in Salem to try to get them all at least a little hydrated so it didn't have that quality to it. Yeah, I agree. That is kind of how you can't eat them dry out of the box.

It's not a good dry cereal. No. Checks is kind of weird. It doesn't really taste like anything and it just jacks up the roof of your mouth. I'm trying to picture the out. There's also like new cereals. Like, okay, Cookie Crisp is just chocolate, whatever. But like there's like, there's like chocolate crave, which is just pretty much like a

Yeah. It's like chunks of chocolate. It's just chunks of chocolate. Like, who's giving that to their kids? Like, oh, better have a healthy breakfast today, Timmy. What do you got? Oh, I got a bowl full of chocolate morsels. It's great.

It's like if you took frost and flakes and then dropped a fucking ring ding in it. That's all you're doing is like you're taking a box of yodels and just like tearing them up and dropping them in a bowl of milk. And like, here you go. I mean, I do gaze upon those boxes with some jealousy. Like, that wasn't a thing. And, you know, when I was a kid, I was like, no, you have to have your cereal. I'm like, well, there's cereal over here. has got giant

bricks of chocolate in it. That qualifies. And, like, you read, like, the nutrition thing on the side, and it's, like, oh, 130 calories per serving, so, 70 calories from fat, how much? Eighty-eight grams of sugar per serving. Oh. Cereals one of my favorite foods, because it's one of those

foods, it's like, you eat it as a kid, and then you get away from it. You're like, no, man, this is child's food. Like, I'm going to eat bagels. I'm going to have an omelet. I'm going to have an omelet. Like, that's the thing I'm going to do. Then you get into college, and it's just, like, Now you're right. It's no longer breakfast food. Now you're eating at 11 o'clock tonight.

Now it's like, oh, what I want to have for dinner? Do I want to actually prepare a meal as a young adult or I just want to pour cereal into a bowl and eating? You know, college is a very impressionable time. I mean, that's why a lot of those liberal professors are the demons. But, you know, the first time you see that stoner on your floor, walk into the common room, and he's wearing a Lubowski bathrobe and eating a bowl of fruit loops at 11 at night, you're like, holy shit, it's all come together right in front of my eyes. I understand life now.

That guy's got it figured out. That's who I want to be. All right. So there's a show. Thanks to Trey Galleon for joining us. Thanks to Seat Geek being our first sponsor here on the podcast. Only a scan four episodes in. Breaking the sponsor Landspeed record.

So thank you to those good people. And do download that app. And put soup in, God damn it. Because the more people that do it, the more things will be sent our way, probably. I think that's how it works, right? I don't know. We leave the advertising to the advertising. people. The Don Draper is of nerdist.

He was just like, I got it. Seat geek. Runs his fingers to his hair and smokes a cigarette. And then he pats his secretary on the butt. I don't know. I've never watched the show, but I think that's all that happens on there, right? Picture a man on a beach. Yeah. He's lonely. He's thinking about his life. He's thinking about his childhood. But he has nowhere to sit. What is he going to do? Where does he turn? He looks left. He looks right. There's no place to sit. He looks at his phone. Seat geeky. the place to find a seat. Okay, so now we have to get paid twice because we did the ad twice. Madman, madman, madman, madman.

Is that another song? We made, we made, we like to make lyrics to songs. Ruby has an entire law and order theme song for SVU. Really? But it's like with the character names. With Chris, Will Chris Maloney. Uh-da- dun dun dun dun dun dun. Richard Bellser.

Right. The best story about that I heard of, and it may have been on Nerdist, was David Dukovny talking about Mark Snow's X-Files theme. And DeCovny said that Mark Snow made up two lyrics for the X-Files theme song. And they were, The X-Files is a show with music by Mark Snow. That was it. It's like the Gary Shanley show. Oh, God. I went down the rap.

I was listening to Shandling, I guess it was on Merrin's podcast or something like that. Boy, man, that was the best.

Everything he touched was so ahead of his time. Yeah. Larry Sanders was the, oh my God. It was the greatest. Decoveny on Larry Sanders was the best.

Hey, hold on, hold on, I'm going to go in the other room. No, Tay is home. So I got to,

hold on. When he meets him the hotel room and he's wearing just a robe and he keeps on uncrossing his legs. Oh, God damn. That show is so funny. All right,

everybody. Thanks for, again, listening to the podcast, downloading the podcast, supporting the podcast. Yeah. Anyways, I'm Greg Wichenski of Yahoo Sports. You can find me on Puck Daddy on Yahoo Sports. You can find me at Wichenski on Twitter.

You can buy my book, take your eye off the puck. You can download this podcast in case you haven't already. And the other one I do, Merrick v. Wichenski. And you should definitely download Doug Love's Movies from the Gramercy Theater. The episode was, what was Monday, April, blah blah. 23? Okay, there's going to be two from Gramercy.

Download the first one. It's me, Julie Gold, Greg Opie Hughes, whose name I remembered, even though he didn't remember mine on his show, and then said I was a nerd for knowing too much about movies,

and a bunch of other really funny people. And it's always fun. I love doing Douglas movies, and this was actually my first proper one, not a 12 guests at Christmas show. So it was super honored to be part of it, and thanks to everybody who supported me on that stage.

And I'm Dave Lozo, and I have a turkey sandwich in my fridge. I'm going to eat when I get home. I haven't been on any other podcast recently. I don't have a book. I could probably use some new socks. I haven't really bought new socks in a while. I could probably use some new ankle socks.

They're kind of worn out. And, yeah, thanks for listening. Well, Dave, if you need new socks, maybe I should tell you about a little site called sock geek. You know, sock geek is a place. All right. Sock geek actually exists. That's what that'll be $1,000.

Yeah, just mail it to me. Melt, mail to me, quarterly payments, please. And now Dave Lozo, as is tradition on Puck Soup, will take you home. Oh, right. Wait, what did I want to... Oh, oh! All right, this is for people who, as adults, have decided... They want to start watching Premier League soccer in their 20s or their 30s or their 40s.

They're grown people who say, you know what? I want to set an alarm on the weekend so I can wake up and watch a team that I've decided to root for as an adult because I like their kids. And I love to say kits, because kids makes me sound like a soccer fan. There are so many better things to do during the course of your weekend. Then set an alarm on a Sunday so you can watch Tottenham v. Lychester City. And then you go on Twitter for two hours and tweet about how it's nil-nil in the 88th minute. Oh, a wicked cracker into the 18-yard box. Oh, my God, it's crazy.

I can't believe Hotspur's going to beat Man you. you are an adult. You should not be doing this. But David, David, if man you loses, do they get relegated? I don't bloody care. It's Sunday.

As people get older, they fall out of sports. They say, man, I don't watch basketball the way I used to. And yet some people are like, you know what,

I'm going to start rooting for Hopstriar. I love David Blagin's ability to play with his left foot. And then you're going to be tweeting about it. Oh, there are so many better things to do on Sunday. Like, lay in bed and do the crossword puzzle.

Go to brunch. You know what? Go outside. You do anything outside? It's more productive than tweeting about Premier League soccer. Stop it. Don't do it no more. David, David. What?

It's a beautiful game. It's a beautiful game. Also, why is my British impression basically just Edgar Wright? I don't quite know who that is. Oh, it's the guy who did the zombie movie, which is something else you could do. you on Sunday, that's better, is watch Sean of the Dead. Or eat your friends. You can

also eat your friends. Who are you bloody talking to about English Premier League soccer in the States? Is someone coming up to you on the train and going, hey, are you a Yankee fan? And you're like, oh, I love the Yankees, but you know what I watched yesterday? Hotspur played to a nil nil-nill draw with Tottenham.

Excuse me, sir, I couldn't help but notice your Tottenham's perhaps. Did you happen to catch a match last night? That's never going to happen. You wanted to, but it's not. No one's going to come up to you in Kansas City and talk to you about bloody Leicester City. Do something else with your time on the weekends. That's all I got

to say. Just, just, I watch a lot of baseball. I don't tweet about it every single night for five hours because it's my own thing. I don't think people care. No one cares if you're having a hard time winning with Liverpool. I don't know why you like Liverpool. Stop doing it.

Hashtag, please like my sport. Hashtag, please like my football with the you. Thanks, everybody. Goodbye. Now Leavingnerdist.com