Shaun Newman Podcast - Ep. #162 - Roundtable: King, Soups & Tomayer

Episode Date: March 29, 2021

Chris King (Hoop Factory, Golden Ticket Sports) Tyler Campbell (Soups on Sports) & Shane Tomayer (Bobcats Play by Play) hopped on to discuss ... well a bunch of different topics. Brady, LeBron (who King has a hate on for), Oilers, Yellowstone, how much COVID weight we've gained (I lose), best wedding gift and a whole bunch more.  Let me know what you think Text me! 587-217-8500

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along with the play-by-play team for the Lloydminster Bobcats. I'm talking about Chris King, Shane Tamer, and Tyler Campbell. So buckle up, because here we go. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. Tonight, I'm joined in studio by three Yahoo, Shane Tamer, Tyler Campbell, Chris King. Thanks for hopping in.

Before we start, I say this off here all the time, but I'm going to say it right on the air, is the way the roundtable works is feel free to jump in at any time, feel free to ask questions, because it's a shit show, and I like it to be that way. And I've been waiting to get around with a group of guys and have a bullshit for a while. So by all means, let's not sit and act like we don't want to talk over each other and everything else. Okay. How old the deal? Done.

Now, we were all joking around. Well, first off, it's been a year and two days, boys. I got a little three trees growler, selfless plug. But cheers for coming in, boys. Cheers to us, buddy. Yeah, yeah. And a heck of a pandemic. It's been a year in two days.

A year and two days since we sat around. I was saying this before we came in. Year in two days since we sat around and we're all. staring at each other like, I don't know if we should be here, right? Like maybe we should all go home and kiss or ask a back. There's a vat of hand sanitizer on the table. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was weird.

There's hand sanitizer behind you. Soups was pumping that thing, like it was going out of style. He was picking up germs in the room. He was pretty sure. I got a new job, so I'm not allowed to make a dirty comment right now. I don't want to piss off my employers tonight. Thank you very much. Maybe I should start.

How's everybody doing? How's Tomair doing? I'm great. You don't want to regale us with a tail? I know we were talking about the last time we were on. You had the popcorn tail that had everybody in stitches. I've been missing popcorn because we've been to the theater particularly once since the last time the four of us were together.

So it was one time that's not a lot of theater popcorn. Now, when they had the festival of lights just before Christmas, and there's a great big long lineup down 49th to have, I did get out of my vehicle, walking to the theater and buy a $15 five-pound bag of popcorn and ate most of it that night. But did you leave your kids in the vehicle? With my wife.

Okay. Did any, what was the way you went to festival? Sups doesn't have kids. No, he didn't go. King or did you take your kids to festival? Yeah, I did. We drove through. Did you get stuck in traffic and did you try and like sneak around that sucker?

It was brutal. Stuck around. Stuck around. We got through on the, where did we turn off? But yeah, we jumped the line for sure. I felt real bad about it. No, you didn't. Until I realized those suckers are going to be.

here forever yeah yeah no we uh we did not sneak around we came in off of highway 16 straight up 49th and it was a long haul i saw the lights it was a we waited in line i think it was two hours and 20 minutes for seven minutes driving through the x grounds looking at lights and leaving she was she goes fast once you get in there like that was a quick it was seven i swear god it was seven minutes it was good lots of waving my daughter's arm was tired but like holy moly i broke we came in from the east on the, I don't know, what's that, refinery road? Yeah. And we were stuck at the tracks, and I'm just sitting there.

And we got a hot tip to go to the north Saddaloid. I'm like, Don, I'm out of here. Kids are crying and losing their shit. And I'm like, I can't take it anymore. We had Christmas music on. We were jamming. Well, at that point, six-year-old, he's a world-class entertainer. So we just sat back and let CJ entertain for two hours and seven minutes.

at least you were entertained not so fun in our vehicle I'd say yeah it was amped up and then a little bit of crying it I myself not a Christmas person so I can only take so much Christmas music before I snap

you're screwed yeah for sure of all the holidays not to like why Christmas I'm just not a holiday person in general he's also the guy who's a Lakers fan but he doesn't like LeBron but I don't even get it

that wind doesn't even count guys it doesn't like it'd be like the oilers getting i don't know who do you hate taylor hall taylor hall and we we we're us winning for pursuits it's tyson berry we win it still counts i asked you not to mention his name he's getting brought up a lot well there's going to be some screaming into the night mike tonight is it is it a commercialism thing for christmas or just you don't like family and gifts and love and happiness well it's a little post-traumatic uh if you want to get into it my mom shoves holidays down my throat like over the top way beforehand because your mom's a saint

yeah go ahead because she's the nicest and it just made me hate all holidays the deck because your mom is so nice because she's so nice you got to hate that and it just turned me into an awful human about holidays i can't i can't stand the decorating christmas music i hope my daughter never listens to this but like i go along for them but it really grinds me wow kinger let's move on from this topic guys Wow. You learn a little bit about somebody every day, don't you? We do. And we were staring at the cups, and since we're talking festivities, why not useful wedding gifts?

We got these, I got. We're talking gifts the wedding party is giving to their guests. Correct. All guests, not to the wedding party. Yeah, yeah. To like every guest that shows up. Because I got these beer mugs that are fantastic that we're using tonight. Shout out to Joe Belondre out in Wisconsin.

And Brian and Melissa. That's right. Brian's a while. Yeah, fire away. Now, have you gone to a wedding with a useful wedding gift? No. I can't think of one. I can only think of in the party.

Yeah, and the best thing I ever got in a wedding party was a hunting knife. It was the best thing I got. For a guy that's never hunted in his life. Interesting. But I use it for fishing. Works very well. John B. Spigot, as I said before, gave out a deck of playing cards, and on the backside of the card, it's a picture of him and his,

wonderful wife, Jess, in their wedding regalia. That was for a select guess, I assumed, because I was at that wedding. I didn't get that. I'm pretty sure they were at every table and you just had to put one in your hand and walk. Maybe I stole something, but I believe it was a gift. What about you? I'm using. Yeah, this is a great idea.

Cups are solid. And these are the cups that last for 15 years. You can't break these cups. Good beer glasses. I would get rid of the cups we got for our wedding. They were like gifts to us for these ones. You feel bad about using. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, normally when somebody puts their logo or what have you on a glass, I'm like, ah, yeah, like it goes to the back and you don't want to bring it out, but I got no problem. Giving a little Brian Melissa love. Absolutely. They look sharp. They do.

They're nice mugs. I don't know what the Buffalo has to do with anything on them, but. They got married in Buffalo. He's from Buffalo. Well, it makes sense then. Yeah, absolutely. You're a tall fan. Probably.

What about Open Bar as a gift to everyone? Does that count? Because I'm a big fan of that gift Yeah, but you can't take that home with you Oh, you can take the memories home Well, no, you can't A little fozzy No, yeah, that's true. Yep, nope, memories stay there too

Jombie's bigot's brother Bobby at his wedding, they had a candy bar Yeah, I thought Candy bar was great Jason Clark had one of those too Yeah, we also have those. Those are always good I got to tell a wedding story here quickly

Yeah, bar. My wedding. You know, they were given Tomair shit for stealing the mic I know, but it's going to be the king's show Don't worry. I'm going to drop off. He figures. Welcome to the Christine podcast, everybody.

Yeah, he figures by being on here now so many times that he can just take over. But hey, take over. Do it you will. Can I? Okay. I'm the most handsome guy in the room. Listen to me to talk. This will be the last story for the next hour.

My wedding, my dad, he's going to buy everyone drinks, right, buying town of kids, got he drinks. Which is rare for a teacher. Rare. Also, not shocking. He forgot his wallet at my wedding. That makes sense. So he's giving my girls, we're working the. you know, the bar and stuff.

So he's giving him IOUs. So like I owe you $20. I owe you $50. So the next day, when Cort and I go to check the cash box, it's just full of paper. And it's like IOU $5 TK. And it's just my dad's dumb and dumber.

It's like literally. That'd be a great spot to drop that sound bite in right there, Sean. Yeah. So the next day, that's what we found is a bunch of pieces of paper. And I asked dad, what the heck happened? He's like,

oh yeah, I forgot money. I'll pay you back. Did you get paid back? I'm sure he did, but like that thing was stuck. We'll call it a wash. I'd avoid TK. Speaking of weddings, what's the best thing you've seen happen at a wedding? At my wedding, we had a justice of the piece who was going on about 107 years of age.

And she had our wedding and then another wedding out in Maidstone afterwards. And she got the paperwork mixed up. so doing the vows and everything it was Jeffrey and Diane and during your wedding you don't feel right correcting somebody so after we just let it go and you can hear all the people behind us

muttering like they say Jeffrey and Diane so we just went through it and afterwards we signed stuff off and then a week later we were still laughing about us are we legally married I don't know and then and Jeffrey and Diana are

And then I get a call from her a week later. We didn't have, I think, I don't remember if it was just the best man or the best man and the maid of order didn't sign to make things official. So I don't know if we got married July 22nd or July 29th. That's one of the two. Escape, escape class. That's unreal. I looked at Jack. I got the phone call.

I looked at Jackie. I'm like, this is your last out. We got a chance to nullify this. Oh, you're asking. I got one that sticks in my head, and I'll be very vague about it, and you'll see why here in a second. I don't know if it's a good thing, but I went to a wedding one time where people were literally, like, in the lobby kind of saying, so how long do you give this one? Yeah. It's a tough one.

And it was funny, to me, I'm not a nice person. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, I, you know, it was cool with me, but yeah. And I would like to say that that marriage is still going. But yeah, I've never been to a wedding where we're all kind of going. So like, yeah, like probably November, eh? Like, yeah, that made Christmas. I'd like to buy us.

No, that made Christmas? I don't know. I don't know. He's kind of with Christmas the same way King or is. I don't know. Okay. Get off of Christmas. Live chicken.

Live chicken. My brother-in-law's wedding. The dance starts. Hockey player. So classic. All the guys got their shirts off, ties around the head. The classic look.

All of a sudden there's a live chicken on the dance floor he's running around with. And he's just running around. Of course, he's not an actual farm kid, so it's on the ground. Then all of a sudden there's a rooster in there. Where the hell was his wedding?

This is out in Cranbrook in BC. Yeah. They did it on like an estate and there was a farm in the back. So the guys went outside, probably like cigar or something. And then they decided to bring in rooster and chicken and run around the dance floor with it.

So that's my crazy. I feel like that would be something that happens in rural Saskatchew. Yeah. Farm animals are on the dance park. Wow. There you go. At one of the halls that's in the middle of nowhere. Like, that could be an Elker thing.

Yeah. It could be an Elker thing. It's going to say it's got to get it. Either way. Oh, no, no. We got you beat with Elgr. I don't know. I enjoy a good wedding.

I've done a lot of stupid things at weddings. You know, get a few drinks in me around college friends, high school friends, friends, people I don't know. People you just matter. Like, there's just something in the air in a wedding that is so intoxicating. So it's something in the air. It's something in your liver. True, true. But that air leads to what's in my liver because you're like, you're like, wow, this is like.

Start feeling it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, it's exactly what happens in this room. You start feeling. And all of a sudden you're like, all right, pour me another. Away we go. The brothers and I started doing renditions of top guns. you'll never close your eyes.

What's the song called? Why am I forgetting? It lost that love and feeling. Yeah. Everly Brothers? Is it Everly Brothers? You're looking at the wrong guy. It's brothers.

I want to say it's brothers. Google search. Me and a, you know, groomsman at one of my buddies's weddings, we sang that as part of the make them kiss thing. It was terrible. Righteous brothers. Righteous brothers. Well, anyway, so we started serenating everybody.

everybody's wife with that song. So I've been very drunk and sang to people's wives in the family with that song. So that's always a... That's nice. Yeah, I assume it's hilarious. Yeah, seems funny. One time at, actually, former guest here last week, or this week, I had Curtis Clark on. He used to be from Lloyd.

And when he got married, the only way you could get them to kiss was if you sang a song with love in it. And my eyes lit up and I was like, oh, I know a song. And I had the entire crowd singing it. So I feel like I have a little bit of a talent for it, eh? Yeah, something. Can hold a tune. And attention, I would say.

If you're going that long, you're holding attention. How much weight have you gained since in the last year in two days? I actually, maybe five, maybe, ish. Are you lying? No, I'm dead serious. This is not standard, but. The last year's been fantastic for me. Shut his mic,

I have excelled in 2020. Sorry, I just, Camer has left the studio. He will no longer be allowed to talk. We're all joking around before we come in here. Oh, yeah, we're all heavy.

We're all heavy. Actually, I know, I have a six-pack, and I've been working out every night, and I'm feeling great. I definitely have not been doing that. What a dick.

I just, personally, I have done really, really well. Good for you. We're happy from. Oh, absolutely. I'm thriving. It's happy the word. I'm happy. I'm just not giving them any airtime anymore, King. Let's go back to Christmas. Yeah. I can go next. I'm 12 up. I didn't fill your beer cup anymore because I figured you were. I don't know. I'll move on to, and it's not because I don't love the beer. I do. But I'm a whiskey man.

Well, I guess I'm the one hurting then. I'm up 17. Oh, I probably can do that. That's all muscle weight. Because you got the new home gym I tell you what I was you want to talk about home gyms for a second If you would have a year ago If you would have been like hey man Home gym or the actual gym I hated home gyms

Now with three children Yeah And mass and everything at the gym I'm just kind of like And feeling out Just like It is nice to walk out to the garage And work out

It's way easier alone too Like just to do your thing And not have to worry about other people and sanitizing and all that's crap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you got a cool setup. I went and I looked at the website that you posted on your IG.

That is cool stuff. Yeah, I don't know. It's a great set. I mean, not terrible pricing. They're not a sponsor, so we're not going to drop names, but the back of a get up. I tell you what, I'll drop on their name.

Old Hyper Fitness, the only thing I'll knock them on, and I don't know if they can really, is it took six and a half months. I ordered it in October. Yeah, they're sold out right now again. Yeah, and the ship, container got held at the border for three months. Right?

It's like, by the time of the game, I was just like, what do I do? Now I really need it. Yeah, absolutely. Apparently everyone had the same idea in the pandemic. Oh, yeah. Home gym. So I was, I was blowing up when I was here last. Well, not in this spot, but with you boys.

And I probably dropped 30 pounds. And I'm pretty sure I put it all back on. Which is pathetic. You do that all in the. the year you dropped 30 I bet I haven't I haven't I'm at that stage right now where I actually just started working on her last week again but I'm still like I'm not ready for the scale it's just I'm not scared yeah don't go to it I just said yeah I don't need I don't need more depression I love to see the scale oh I see you old

friend I step on the scale and then I look sideways and see how just all belly all belly yeah you guys ribs and nuts yeah and belly it's a bad setup you know we started this out i got to mayor talking about how the covid year was and i didn't really finish that train of thought how how has the covid year been dee supes move on chris it's been that right it hasn't been good i'm good like i'm good but it hasn't been a good right no well how so i i got to be honest boys we haven't like how much of we all really talked since the last time we were in here and actually well you you talk to all your friends all the time except for us well i'm once okay feel left out i see kinder on the weekend the basketball thing last time oh boy oh boy that's why it was a

rough year for soups yeah yeah just refresh refresh refresh shan's gone ought to be asking me. Where is his text? He's texting. Hey, you get my new number? I got a new number. It's the same number you've had for 10 years. Has it been a rough year?

Yeah. It's been a rough year. Yeah. Like, terrible. But I don't want to talk about it here. If you want to do an in-depth conversation, I won't even say it. Chris, how's your year been? How was Christmas?

Christmas was the worst. You know what? It's interesting. Didn't really get to do my job for most of the year, coaching. So I'm trying to navigate through that. And I think I got to think just like everyone else. At one point I'm like, oh, this is this is depression. Like in terms of like not doing everything I'm normally doing.

I'm a social person. You guys are all social people. Like just without that interaction, I realize like, okay, I'm not doing great. And then I reached out to my players probably too late, and I realized like they're all in the same phase. At least they're doing school. So I would say, you know, creatively, me personally, it's been like a really fun year because I've got to try some things

and plan a lot for coaching and do some other things business-wise. But it's interesting when you look back on it and see just kind of how it goes up and down. It's almost now it feels like the light at the end of the tunnel. Kind of thing. You can go outside. I'm outside with the kids. We talked about it. We can go play.

I can go fishing soon. Like it feels, even though we're not out of the pandemic, it feels like, okay, we're through like a long, long winter that was miserable because you couldn't see people. But that was, that's me. What about you? Well, I identified when we did this, what, last March? So by April, end of April, I realized what it was going on with me.

Because if I don't talk to people, I start to go a little squirrely. And then I drive the wife nuts, probably drive the kids nuts. and I'm just a I'm not a great human being and so it was pretty much right after we did this that I bumped it to two episodes a week I just started going and like I'm going to talk

to more people and now I you know I don't know if I tell everybody this but with the archives on Sundays I pretty much sit down and do four podcasts a week and so I've identified very early I'm a social we're all social beings but I am

I'm an extrovert I'm like talking and seeing people. And so I've been doing it four days a week or four times a week for most of the, for most of COVID. No, that's not all in person by any stretch of imagination, lots of Zoom and whatever else, which isn't exactly this. But I don't know. Like I think I think everybody felt what you were talking about, King or what you're alluding to soups, right? Everybody went through that low spot where it's like. Well, that's kind of why I don't want to talk about it is because whatever I went through,

There's a lot of people out there that have gone through way worse, right? And I don't mean to get all serious on everybody, but I mean, it's just the fact of the matter, right? Well, we're talking about the last year, right? You can get as serious as you want in here and don't matter me. I'm never comfortable doing that. I don't think the last year's supposed to be ha ha, ha, funny. No. No?

No. It wasn't ha ha funny for me. I just, contrary to popular belief, I am not an extroverted person. I am very content at home. We talked about myself. I remember not interacting. That's where I thrive. So I was,

you're killing it, you're killing it. I was content with staying home. Right. And hanging out with my kids and, and that sort of thing. I mean, from a, from a professional standpoint, it was the worst year I've ever had,

which would normally put me into a pretty hard spiral, but I was content. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting. And content's big for me. Yeah, but it's interesting on like how you perceive things. right I think like I think everyone comes out of this knowing a lot more about themselves like I have the same talk with my wife my wife's an introvert her her staying at home reading a book

is her greatness right like she's she's totally chill with that but me I get to coach my kids till November and then I don't basically see them again that was my only interaction right you take out all the other social things playing hockey and all the things that you can do and I didn't realize how much I need that for my normalcy whereas heard not so much kind of like your story for sure yeah well if you think back to when we were last all in here essentially everything had just gotten shut down I think the shock was still set in right like well we were all the mindset and we should have all listened back and then our homework but we were of the mindset that this is going to last for six weeks it's not going to be a thing

we'll just turn a page and move on little did we know yeah we're a little wrong last last march was the easy part of it. Really? Yeah. Well, right now the frustrating thing is, and I know we were saying this, you know, we got a whole swath of questions about COVID and, you know, what we think and we're all joked around in here before we start. Like, none of us really, we have our opinions, but we're not experts on it. But the frustrating thing right now is that it feels like the light of the end of the tunnel is like right around the corner, except then you hear of third wave variation you just not enough vaccines oh my god you just start listening all the the stuff the verbiage that's coming down and you're better off just to turn off social media

which i did this year did you yeah yeah out the window don't know i have it but i find a lot more happiness not checking so much more i bet i look at it twice a day maybe do do you oh so you still got i still have it but it you won't find the apps on my phone i i i don't find the apps on my phone i I either have to... Doing it on your desktop? I either... I go to the website, so it's a task to do it. Oh, my gosh.

It's effort. You're like a married man with Tinder. I am not like that. So I've got it set, so it has to be an effort to go and look at it. So if you get a like for me on social media, you've done well. So I'm doing well. You're doing well. I got a couple legs.

Sorry, that Tinder thing really... I just tried to move past. it. Jackie, just so, you know, he doesn't have it. You have to make an effort. Same thing. Exactly.

It's like the guy that keeps all of his beer in the fridge downstairs to limit his drinking. Yeah. That doesn't fight me as much. Yeah, I wouldn't ever do that, but some people do that. But it's such a,

and we all know social media is a gratification thing. And that's one of the things that when I spoke with my players through the pandemic is now they're on it way more. And they're seeing, Sean's doing all this cool stuff. My life sucks. And it sucks even more because I can't do what he's doing. And it just, it's really spiraled.

It's really spiraled. It's so political and so COVID-based. It's depressing. No, that's all that is. I had to get away from it. COVID and politics. Yeah, 100%. Politics is COVID.

It used to be poop jokes and that was fun. SMP every once in a while. Maybe, maybe, I don't know, basketball academy, something like that. Maybe sliding in there. Might be a couple of those. Some. videos or something. It has been a weird year, though.

Oh, yeah. Like, yeah. I mean, we live in, we live in rural Canada where we're not even in the worst of it, right? And we're in Lloyd, which has been bad enough. But I mean, you only had to go 10 minutes into Alberta and no restaurants, no, like, oh, man. No junior hockey stuff like that. Oh, that sounds like you want to pivot. Sure.

We can talk about... Getting screwed? Well, I don't know. Where do we want to start? How about the Bobcats not being... How about the Bobcats? The AGHL firing back up. Bobcats.

I don't know. I talked to... Nigel. Nigel, thank you, about it. And, like, it kind of hurts my brain. I get it as... It's higher power than... And they've got to draw a line somewhere and whatever.

But, I mean, if you're going to jump through all the hoops and you're the only one that get, you know, It's like you can make an exception. That's okay. Especially if they're going to abide by the rules. Especially when we're already abort. It's not like our team is based in Battleford and we play in the H.L. That's right.

We play in the border city where most of our populations on the Alberta side. Most of our businesses are on the Alberta side. But the Saskatchewan government gets to dictate what we do. And then they get to dictate. Here's what you've got to do to be able to play. You lay a plan as to how you're going to do that. And then they say, okay, well, we'd like to. to see this as well. You go, well, that wasn't in the list. And they say, oh, yeah, but we want it

anyway. So you provide that and they go, yeah, that's still really not going to cut it. We need this as well. And it's, it's like when you're a kid and you want to go to Chris King's house to play baseball and your dad says, you got to cut the lawn first. So you cut the lawn. You come back and said, okay, I'm going to Chris says, now you've got to put away clothes first. But you just said I had to cut the grass. Yeah, but now you got to put away the clothes. So you put away the clothes. Okay, dad, I'm going over to Chris King's house Now you're not because you've got to do this And before that, it's supper time

You can't go anyway It's proven We ran into the same thing At Lakeland It's the downfall of being in the border city, right? And I would say it was kind of a pro In September Because that side was a little bit looser

So you guys benefited a little You guys have to do the kids' gutty thing And all that Yeah, we had some opportunities Yeah, we benefited a little And then the flip side is As SAS tightened up Alberta schools start to get going

we're not allowed to do anything. You guys aren't allowed to join your league. It's just like, oh my goodness. And all of us that live here know the benefits of living in Lloyd. 90% of the time, huge benefit on the border city. And this time, not so much because SAS government was so set on no exceptions.

No exceptions. I would have slept much easier on it if they just would have said no off the hop. Yeah, don't do the work. It's like, well, we don't want to say no, so we're just going to make it really difficult for them and make them bow out. Well, Nigel's a pit bull

wouldn't bow out, fought to make things happen and gets let down by the whole thing. If we had it just gotten a no off the hop, a number of things would have happened. A, we wouldn't have wasted a bunch of time trying to make it happen. B, we found out on deadline day that it was just going to be a no-go.

And as a result, we have players who, through the system, if you backed out of play this year, your players could go on loan to other organizations, I'm not laughing at the situation. I'm laughing at this issue. I wish there's a nice issue right now. I wish there was video right now and working on it,

getting there, getting closer, just not tonight. But if we could have just saw Sue, soup's trying to mix a drink and not make noise with ice. But serious topic, and you hear it crinkle, crinkle,

crinkle. But you know what the problem is. But so I just to finish my point, so we find out on deadline day that it's not going to happen. our players don't even have time to go on loan to other organizations to 20-year-olds to play out their season. We have one guy who was able to go to Drumheller and Max Stewart and everybody else was stuck.

And that sucks. Don't you think it's a product? I'm sure this will get me in trouble. I have no one really knowing what the heck they're doing. Like it just always seems when you're dealing, like no one really knows what's supposed to happen. Like with all the phone calls I had with like SaaSK health and everything about like our business.

It's a different thing depending on who you talk to. Well, no, it's this. Actually, no, if you do this, you're good, but this. And it's just like, how am I having seven different phone calls in the course of a month? And we haven't changed anything. Like, it's just, and it has to, and I sympathize because it has to be really hard to... Oh, they don't have an easy job. Get stuff from the Canadian government and then down to the provincial government.

It's like, I'm not saying it's easy, but it just seems like no one knows what the hell is going on from top to bottom. And then it makes it more difficult on sports. Even on local. Businesses, everything, right? Without throwing anybody under the bus. You can go on a local level, not businesses, but like health. And you can get one person tell you one thing with close contact or testing positive or whatever. And then you can get another person in the exact same position tell you something completely different.

100%. It still affects you. And you go, listen, we can sit here and debate why they can't filter that down. But at the end of the day, when it gets down to that level of what you should do if you've been in a close contact or whatever it is, Shouldn't it just be like if you have been infected with it, if you've been close contact, here's what has to happen. I don't get why it's so left for debate. Yeah. We early on, I want to say November, we had a few of those with kids that were in our programming.

And it was like a kid A, they're seven days or whatever it is, but kid B, now I'm good to go. A couple hockey teams got it in town and kids were doing some of our camps and one kid can't come to anything. the other kids get to go. I'm like, how is this? Well, it doesn't make sense. And that's what's been, that's, that's part of the struggle of the year we've had is there's a lot of things that just don't make sense. And you're trying to, you want, you want to make sense. If the rules were hard and fast and the timeline was solid, it'd be much easier.

Well, and if the, come on, if a couple things happen, if the verbiage stayed the same, we were, we were flatten the curve, then we were end the curve, right? Right. Like that happened right in front of our eyes and everybody went, what the hell was that? Yeah, it went for a lot. What did I do? Yeah. The next is like, no matter what we do, the goalposts always move, you know?

And so it's like, I don't know. Just tell me when this is going to end. I know they can't. At least if this, give the what you want with the bobcats. Give the people, listen, guys, if we get here, we're going to open things up. But instead of doing that, when it gets there, then they go, well, we better wait because we don't want it to jump back up. And it's like, we just got here. Yeah.

What are we doing? You set the goal, we got to it, and now the finish line's not where it's supposed to be. That's right. It's another 100, and that irritates everyone. And you know what happens when that happens? People stop following rules, because nobody gives shit. Because it's like, what the fuck are the rules anyways at this point? Yeah.

So what's going to happen this summer? Is it not? Oh, fuck, it's going to be a matter. It's going to be done by summer, no? Well, yeah, in theory. In reality, though, like talking about blogcast and I can speak from our side. What's the level of worry for next season? Because I can tell you right now from what I'm hearing on next season, it's not.

It's not so hot right now. Yeah. What's coming down the pipe, at least in post-secondary? I have no idea. I stopped even trying to think about it. Yeah. Really? Like, it's like everything else.

It's just out of control and there's no certainty. So from a guy who generally worries about everything, and maybe that's why the year went better for me is I just stopped. I can't control it. Screw it. I'll just live. Yeah. Does it just come to a point where,

somebody at the top has to be like, listen, we're going to let them play again and like take the heat for that? Because I mean, you got places, or is it just vaccinations as soon as that gets close? So liability. I know. Well, that's what everybody hides behind those kingers. The liability. The problem, and I read a very good article about it, is that you have. I did.

On your desktop, on your desktop, on my desktop. And the article was, I can't think of the fellow's name, but he was involved in. the Canadian military for a lot of years. And his, his specialty is basically, um, crisis management, right? So he was, he was called in on 9-11 to help deal with that and plan out next steps and that sort of thing. Right. He said the, the biggest mistake that Canadian governments have made is, is putting the, the welfare of the country as a whole in the hands of, of health care. you wouldn't let business dictate what health care is going to do. You shouldn't let health care dictate what business is going to do.

And health care should certainly be at the table. Should have a voice that's an important part of it. But health care is obviously going to err 100% on the side of the caution to make sure that people live and they're healthy and they're healthy and they're safe. Happy is maybe a question mark in this one, obviously. But it handcuffs. us everything because healthcare doesn't care about what the bill is. They don't care about what the business impact is. Their job is strictly health. And as a result, we have what we got.

I should find that article. I'll send you. It's good read. Yeah. I got to admit something. I thought you said you wrote it, not that you read it. That was the reason for my, yeah, ho ho, ho, like an idiot. No. I write poop jokes on Twitter. That's it. What was the last two of? time you two actually were on the mic together this like last year yeah because i last year in march i won't yeah because i won't go into the whole story but i told chain at the start of the year because of work he was tired of my shit that yeah well that's fair yeah i i think we go that but no yeah it's uh i it was looking like i was going to have to take or not have to take but i was going to take a job in emminton and uh so i was going up there during the week uh for work uh for work

and it was right when they were starting up, and then, of course, everything got shut down before I could say, hey, I'm back. Which, to be fair, since then, I've broadcasted two games, so he didn't miss much. Yeah, well, there hasn't been a whole lot of a lot of anything going on. No, it was two games that started November and have you been watching, you know, have you been watching the NBA Kinger?

Have you been watching it? Have you been watching your team with the guy you don't like? Well, he's out right now, so that makes me happy. I've been watching, listen, I've been watching a lot of NCAA. Here's what I want to know from listeners, okay? You all got a team. Somebody's got, whether it's hockey, baseball, I don't know, not golf because of that. Cricket.

Sure. Baseball, football, soccer, et cetera. If your team gets any player, do you stop cheering for your team? Does that make any sense to anyone on this table? Other than King. Not when the player is the best one in the game. The best in the game. And they argue the best of all time.

You think there's a lot of LA Kings fans? Oh, shit, we got Gretzky. I hate hockey now. First off, you can't compare the LA Kings to the LA Lakers because the Kings were terrible. So we're the Lakers. All through the 80s and the 90s and 2000. I mean when they got LeBron. No, but the Lakers have been good.

They're a storied franchise. They're like, they are. the NBA, right? It's just, well, LeBron is, we don't need to revisit this. You know my thoughts. I hate LeBron. He's, ah, it just, he's awful. Okay. And yes, it's a hair is, I might be the only one. I want, Tomair, who's your favorite team? Leaves. Okay. So if the Toronto Maple Leafs got, Claude Lemieux, I don't know. I'm throwing out a heel. Is there somebody out there that you just detest? Who's the guy in the NHL right now you detest? Marchand. Maybe, yeah, yeah.

If the Leafs got Mershan tomorrow and he was doing the, licking the whatever and all that. No, because now he's an asshole from my team. Right. Okay. Soups? Um, there was times in the last 10 years where it's not so much a player, but I started to have to love hate for the Oilers.

That's because they were terrible. If they got Alexander Ovechkin tomorrow, who's one of the best the game? It wasn't just because they were terrible. I can't say Sidney Crosby because I don't know if that's fair, but maybe there's, well, there is people that hate them. Sure. But who's the best in the game? in the NHL.

I mean, we got a McDadev. McKinnon maybe? I guess McDavid. That's a heel. That's a heel. That's Marcian. Macchuk.

Yeah, Kichuk's in there. Sure. Why is it by looking at me? I would take, because if Matthew Kachuk came to the oilers tomorrow, I fucking have a parade in line for it. Oh, yeah.

And as good as Pollyarvey's playing, I still wish they would have taken Kachuk at four. Absolutely. Yeah, but I don't hate Matt Kachukchuk. It's just, he's probably one of the same thing. Is there no guy you can think of? that if he came to your team, you would stop cheering for him. No, because that's not logical.

Ryan Castler would have been a close one for me. And there were rumors at one time when Castler was getting out of Vancouver that he was, that the others were interested. And, like, it would have made it tough. Remember those Canucks teams in 2011? I kind of always asked myself, like, oh, I kind of asked myself, like, how can the Connx fans seriously cheer for this team? And it's not so much, like, at 2011, hey, they were great.

you know, once the final, everything was awesome. Don't make any noise while you're pouring, please. I'm trying to talk. Who would do such a thing? See how silent I know? It's not my studio. I don't know how to be quiet. So, anyway, you know, when those connects teams, when they started to fall off, man,

that fan base really hated them. And you're seeing that right now in Calgary. Like, they had a core. that was okay. I felt overrated and I don't say that as a hateful oiler fan. It's just I I suppose if your team was bad and you

signed a guy that and your team signed, I said you and I can't believe that, and your team signed a guy that was a cancer. So you're Buffalo and you just signed Taylor Hall. Taylor Hall. Yeah. Could you, maybe I should be calling it Brian and see if he's

not a Buffalo fan right now. that would be a tough one but i mean any time i suppose as a fan you you ultimately question any signing that your team makes as to the value and that sort of thing i i questioned joe thornton joining the leaps your wife didn't my wife my wife did because my wife hates the leifes but loves joe thornt reference i'm not questioning lebron's skill that's not i'm not questioning that part but but lebron as a human is my issue lebron is it is it's a The school for troubled youth that bothers you so much? No, just a human.

Him is a human. LeBron as a player gave your team an instant chance to win. Oh, wait, they did win. Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis. Oh, man, that guy's got one set of brows. One set of brow. You pluralized it.

There's a reason why it's trademarked. Just saying, when you imagine making money off of being ugly? In college. What a gig. He trademarked that in college. What a good agent he had, which he shouldn't have had. So, advisor. Am I making a dumb move,

getting my teeth fixed, boys? Yeah, you should be selling us. Yeah, that should be the logo. Add surgery up here already. Have you not been on social media? No, I haven't. This guy's got poles in his teeth all the time. He's coming out of there, smiling.

And they do good work there. They do good work. They do. Shout out to Wayside Dental. Another selfless plug. That sounds like one of our broadcasts. That's right. So far, I used to just make companies up. Yeah.

Can we, I just want to back put it on the Pooley-R-R-R-B for a second. why can't they get a helmet to fit this guy is he got size 10 melon like what is going on with him it's where he wears it is it not it's just the way he wears it knee lander's another one yeah that kid's got a garbage pan for it he's got money pounds of hair

yeah well jarvie just looks like he's jamming every time I see him I'm like oh my god that doesn't look comfortable fit his gear does not fit he has I do actually like him I do like him My God, how can anyone dislike that guy? He just kidding. He hasn't fit into his body yet. You know what I mean?

No, he's still growing into his body. Yeah, that's for sure. When you watch him, isn't that what you see? You're like, God, that's like a 13-year-old kid and a 20-year-old body. That's why he's got that shit-eating grin on his face all the time when he scores. He just got the, oh, my God. I get a kick at him. Sorry, that dome is massive, though.

What happens to 10? Wait, do we finish that? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we wrapped it up. We wrapped it up. What happens to Taylor Hall after this year? Works at a golf course? You think it's going to be that big of a drop for him?

We do have to talk about the, the, okay, we've discussed this year ago. We know he's not good for a team. But we also, the analytics guys know that his analytics look good on. Terrific. Puck possession, right? He looks good on analytics. So someone, his possession numbers is expected goals for all that. If the oilers sign on tomorrow for a million bucks, would you take?

Yes. Stop sharing for the Oilers. If the Toronto Maple Leafs could sign him tomorrow for a million dollars, would you take him? Okay. See, there we go. Here we go. I wouldn't stop liking. I wouldn't stop liking the Leafs, but I wouldn't be happy.

Would you feel like if they won there was a little bit like, yeah, didn't love that? You can sign back Jason Spatso for a million bucks. or Taylor Hall for Jason Spetsa. Not a chance. Get out of here. Yes. What is Taylor Hall going to do in a room

absolutely destroy it? He's not going to do anything in the room. You do not need him to do anything in your room. You need to go sit on your power playing scores. But as soon as his big fucking Ken doll head walks into that room, there's a problem. And he's going to walk into that room. There's no room he can walk into and be like just brought under the fold.

How many rooms has he been in so far? It hasn't worked so far. Sydney Crosby can't. Sidney Crosby can't bring Taylor. Taylor hauling and be like listen, haul, you're nothing. I don't think Sid's that kind of leader,

is he? I think he is too. He's that verbal, you think? I think he's got a good big of fuck you and him. Awesome. So your mother's listening and I just use the F word again.

I'm sorry. Earmuffs, mom. She'll call him in my own. Stop having that tow mired guy on. Just one dude in here. One dude. We'll get him off for you.

No worries. I feel like there's a leader out there that can get them. Like, they can rain him in. Frick, Michael Jordan handled Dennis Rodman for Pete's sake. Okay, but that's not a good comparison, Matt. Michael Jordan avoided Dennis Rodman. And Dennis Rodman was the best player in the NBA at a specific skill.

He was world-class rebounder, the best rebounder in the league, and Jordan, and let's give Phil credit, handle his personality. If you're telling me Taylor Hall is the best in the league is something right now. Is the hard trophy winner? Is he the best in the league of something? No, he's not that he's, but he's very talented. So let's not compare him to Rodman. That disrespects Rodman.

Let's compare him to like. God, sorry Rodman. Someday I hope to have you in here. Steve Kerr, maybe. He's a Steve Kerr-ish. Oh, kind of has a little bit of game. By the way, I'm now done eight times through that now. You've watched it eight times?

Eight times. Have you read, since we talked about it? Well, yeah, it didn't come out until three months after. Bill Jackson's book before? Yeah. Is it good? The Six Rings? No, no, no, no, the one before that.

He's one of the right. He's got three. He's got three books. Yeah, no, his first one. The one they talk about in it. Is that the one where he talks about doing acid? Yeah. Yeah, I've read that one.

Is it good? Yeah. All this stuff's good. I think all his books are good, yeah. This last one is. He'd be, he's on my list of like, man, I'd love to sit in a room with that guy. The Lakers book that just came out on the championship years talks about Phil handling Kobe and how much of an A-hole Kobe was. And it's basically behind.

the scenes for the first three years before Shaq left and it is unbelievable like the stories that they tell in there like shack dumbing him shack slapping players from the opposite team and shoot arounds like it is awesome it's really good and talks a lot about Phil Jackson handling these personalities big personnel and then Phil's personality becoming too big to handle right yeah it's pretty cool I'll uh yeah I'll get that for you for a read but yeah I don't remember that first one but I just remember that was the one that Phil talks about it okay so I'll rewind this nobody can hold you're telling me nobody can handle Taylor Hall I'm not saying well I don't know but let's do his track record oilers nope well but they were young the Oilers can because he's got a relationship

with McDavid the dates back to when McDavid obviously first came in the league I think he would fall in line that's my opinion maybe that's me you don't think he's gonna walk in there and say I've got the heart trophy I should be leading wasn't the problem the first time that he thought he was as good as McDavid don't you think that was some of the problem no I think some of the problem in the beginning is they had a bunch of 20-year-olds trying to, they had no leadership. They had nothing. Like, look at what they did with, I know, I bring up Crosby because I just like what they did. They insulated them. They brought in all these veteran guys to kind of show them the ropes.

Now, it still takes a guy to be willing to learn from guys and everything else, and Crosby is a special breed. No different than McDavid's probably a special breed. So Taylor Hall isn't exactly that, but I look at Phil Kessel. And Phil Kessel, to me, went to Pittsburgh, and everybody said he can't. lead and he's getting bad to be to be and then they win cups and he doesn't have to be the guy kessel scores goals there's another aspect to that too and that's the comparison i use for hall all the time too phil kessel there's certain wingers in the n hl who need certain types of centers to work with them you saw kessel in toronto who was the center he worked best with in

toronto you bounce around like a bubble in pispot though tyler bozac sure jvr tyler bozac phil kessel great line not a champion you know they're not leading the least anywhere, but that was a great line. Phil goes to Pittsburgh. People forget this. He did not work with Sid at all. He was terrible with Sid. In 2016, they won the Cup because they had the HBK line,

which was the third line with him, Benino, and who am I forgetting? HBK. Hegel. Hagelin. Carl Heglin. So that was their third line getting soft minutes. Phil Kessel thrived in that role. Taylor Hall, the reason why I think he'd work in Edmonton more than anything,

yeah, I don't know if he's a cancer or not. but he worked with Drysidal in that 2016 season. He worked with Nuge for a lot of seasons. There's guys there who know how to play with him. And I think that's key. I heard a lot at the start of the year. Taylor Hall, Jack Eichol, look out. Their games don't fit together.

And I mean, they really don't fit together right now because Jack Eichel's not playing. But doesn't Hall bring some of the problems that the Oilers have in terms of turning the puck over? Yep. That's why it scares me for the Oilers, because they need more 200-foot players up front. Right.

Not to sacrifice the offense, but. But you don't want to get, and this is just me personally, I don't want to give up a two, I don't want to give up a nudge for a haul that can maybe score two more goals, but give up three, you know. No, I don't need it. The other thing is I don't think haul,

okay, now this is what is third stop now? Oh, fourth. Four. Four stop. Nothing has said he's really fallen in line to any organization. No. Right.

So one thing he's good at is he is good at making the team he plays on get a high lottery pick. He is good at that. That's a fact. You don't want the other draft Owen power or Kent Johnson? Then I'll ask the next question. Is there a guy like Taylor Hall that bounced around when he was young, didn't fit in anywhere, was high talent, and then became something.

Well, does Castle count? Well, I think Castle counts. He was a little, nah, he was very similar to Taylor Hall, just different body shape. I mean. Rounder. P.K. Sue Bands, another one that comes in mind, but he ain't exactly blown up the world, is he? No, no, he's another guy that he questioned how much of a problem might he be. I wonder if P.K., if that was more to do with him falling head over heels for Lindsay Vaughn,

because there's a direct correlation with when he started up with Lindsey Vaughn, and then his game fell off. You know, obviously they split up. But it looked to me, like social media speaking. They split up? Yeah. Right before the season. Check your Instagram.

Yeah, Mr. I don't go on Instagram. Well, that's why I don't know. Didn't she have a relationship? She had a relationship with Tiger, too, didn't she? And his career wasn't going great at that time. Maybe Lindsay Vaughn's a problem. Who knows their oiler history get? Relatively.

What was the bad, the guy who came to Glenn Sather and the Oilers? Was it Clema or was it McTavish that had the rough streak? Well, probably Clema, if you're talking about, like, cancers. in the room, right? Yeah. Is that him? McTagnes also had a rough streak and that he killed somebody.

And that was pre-oilers. That was where, that was before. Weren't one of them pretty rough around the edges? Is that McTavish? Kleema did not fit in. No, McTavish was their captain and he was kind of respected. Like if you put Taylor Hall back in the dressing room

with the Gretzkeys, the Messiers, the lows. Well, there's a famous story with Kent Nielsen that apparently Messier threw him up against the wall. And I'm not sure exactly how the story goes. But when he went there in 87, because Kent Nielsen, and he's before all our time, but Kent Nielsen had a rep of being like an amazing player, but just was lazy. Who's the, God, my mind isn't working tonight.

Who's the Winnipeg Jet, who's now San Jose Shark? Evander King. Evander King. There's a third one. Yeah. Right? Is he, I mean, he's kind of found some footing in San Jose actually. Yeah.

But he still has some issues. Financial problems. Yeah, absolutely. There's no way that Taylor Hall can just slide into. I wouldn't say there's no way. I just, I don't see, like you ask specifically about the Leafs. I don't see a need for Taylor Hall in that environment. It's a common theme with the players your name in here.

What do they all have in common, what we say? Choose your words carefully. Choose my word. Words carefully. I know exactly what you're thinking. They're all lazy. Craig Metavish? No, no.

But like the last, the last guys, your name of guys that come off as aloof, like don't really care, right? Oh, I don't think they call it lazy, though, king. Sometimes they're not engaged. Defensively, maybe, but I don't think he's lazy. Selfish might be a better word. Okay.

Maybe not lazy, but selfish. I don't know. If he's down to a million more, bucks I'd take a flyer on them in a heartbeat. What would you trade? Because that's the one I'm thinking about right now because I don't want the others to buy right now. I think their window starts

this summer. I don't think Buffalo is interested in anything other than picks. Yeah, but with his no trade, they're going to be really limited on what they can get and it's highly unlikely. What does he get? What does all get in the future? No, no, I know, but when he gets a free agent, he gets a chance

wherever he goes in a couple weeks' time here to actually do something. He just got that this year. He just got that this year. He just bet on himself this year. He bet on himself this year. Yeah, but he's getting another chance. How many years?

Yeah. Because people have... No, no, no, no. But how many years... Like, give me a year... But to this point, though, is what I'm saying. You can't sign up for more than two. No, no, no, no, no.

But he's going to get traded here in two weeks time. Right, so he's got a last chance. And then he's going to get another little chance. Because if all of a sudden, he blows it up, that's exactly what teams are looking for. Look at Van der Kaine. Van der Kaine. Van der Kain was exactly.

won. He went to Buffalo and sucked. Goes to San Jose has a great time and all of a sudden they sign him long term. So then are we talking about a Vince Carter James Hardin issue here where he's just given up? No. Not him. Not that deal. Okay. So Hall's still playing hard. We obviously know Soups is a Hall fan. No, I'm really, I'm not that big of a Hall fan. But you know, what happened the other night? What happened last week in Buffalo? He, uh, when he got hit in the face with a puck, came back and finished the game. Why would you finish the game if you're healthy playing for Buffalo right now?

Just trying to get that next contract. Exactly. No, not Hall. Like, I mean, any of their players. Taylor Hall's getting the next. Let's not go over. No, he's going to get another contract. He's going to get many.

But he's, his dollar value is not great right now. But I think of a guy like Jay Bowmeister. And Jay Bowmeister had all this hype, all this hype, all this hype. And he never became that number one defenseman. And then when he went to St. Louis and he was able to just be paired with Petter Angeles, and kind of be forgotten, then all of a sudden, Jay Bowmeister.

He's played 31 games this year. Two goals. Two goals, 15 assists, 17 points, minus 19. Now, the minus 19 on Buffalo. Okay, whatever. It's pretty good. Buffalo still gets to go on the power play, right? You know what?

I retract my state, you know, like, I didn't realize he only had two goals. Yeah. Like Taylor. No, but he's 0.5 points per game. I was, listen, Taylor Hall is an elite talent, but what that shows me is he is,

He is, I mean, you shouldn't be, you shouldn't be paying high to get Taylor Hall right now. No, but that's, to me, that's what we're talking about. Especially on a rental basis. If he's dirt cheap, would you, like you said a million bucks. Like 100% you pick. Well, what's, what's Buffalo going to give him up for? Come to Emmett. What do you think?

Well, Friedman said today that, as we're recording this today, that he, that Buffalo won't get a first round pick for him. No. I think they should. I would say Buffalo gets to the no. gets a second or a third and a B to C level prospect. Like if you're the Oilers, if you're the Oilers and Kevin Adams says to Ken Holland, look,

you can have them for a third round pick and Tyler Benson. Why Benson? 22 third round pick. What do you got to get sent in? Say because they don't have. You sound of a bitch. Leading score in the H.L. right now or second.

He's up there. Him and Cooper-Mrody. Would you give up Benson? I would because I'm not seeing the spot for him anymore. Holloway, Ryan McLeod, I think they're better prospects. And I love Tyler Benson,

I really do. Not like, just as a hockey player, I should say, not like, yeah, but when you, when you love a guy like that,

soups, you follow the oilers probably closer than any of us for. Yeah, it's unhelp. You got a guy in Benson that I know you look at it

and go, there's no room for him, but if you love a guy that much, meaning, you make room. You make room. No, no, but I'm saying like there's no,

like, there's no direct path. There's 12 spots. You can't have 15 spots up front. You know, you can't have... Stop worrying so much about defense. Well, they don't already with the forward they got back there. Are we really going to do this right now?

Sure, can we talk about Tyson-Berry? I think he's a fantastic defenseman for the Oilers. I think he moves the puck well, skates well. He's a right-hand shot, man. Right hand of D-Man. They don't exist. Yeah. I mean, what are we going to do?

Sign them up. We're trolling me. Eight years max contract. I think so. Yeah. That's best. All right, next topic. That was a big sip.

We got one. Hoodies coming off right away. This is not funny. It's kind of funny. This is a lot of money. This is why you get YouTube in here, I guess. Yeah. In, maybe like, what?

July 3. 31st when Tyson Barry is suiting up for, say, the Los Angeles Kings. Well, he won't be suiting up for them. But when he's, you know, signing their contract, I can take a deep breath, listen to this back and say, oh, that was hilarious. Right now, I'm a little tweaked about it. So is it that you dislike Tyson Barry or you dislike the idea of signing? You know what?

I actually really like Tyson Barry. It's I dislike the idea of them signing him long term. I wasn't even on board for the initial signing because, Why not? It's a one year. Not that it was a bad value, but up against the cap as much as they were, I felt they needed a top six winger,

or, and this is where I was very wrong, they needed to invest that money into goaltending. Mike Smith, you know, what's this the best year in like the last eight as a 39-year-old? Who saw that coming? But that's, you know, they've got Ethan Bear, they got Evan Bouchard,

who, you know, I keep up with the process, I have a Bouchard is an elite prospect and You know obviously Adam Larson is your stay-at-home horse right? I did not see the big need to spend that money on Tyson Barry Evan Bouchard I think he's second in defensive scores There's talent there yep and then if you look at the primary even strength points which is not analytics He is at an 82 game pace. He's at 15 points Tyson Barry is Evan Bush. This is that last shot.

But they still get power play opportunities all right? Yeah. Is the power play better this season? He seems to be doing well enough. It's doing very well. It's not better than it was with Oscar Kleppon. Yeah, but you don't have Oscar Klauspom. You got Darnel Nurse, and it cooks pretty well with Darnel Nurse, too.

Don't get me starting on fucking Darnel Nurse. Do you hate Darnel Nurse? I don't hate Darnel Nurse. And I'm eating my words right now because he had the fucking snipe like a week ago. And I was like, oh, damn. That was a nice thing. And I know he's a big play both ways. right

Barry? No, Nurse is like a big play offensive I like the other team A tonne I just don't like them As our go-to offensive defense See and I don't either I'm with you like

And I'm a big Darnell nurse fan But Darnell Nurse's points this year This has been a fluky season As far as like his goals Have you seen his goals Yeah, he's had a few But I literally just bashed him Saying like

Have you seen his goals Fucking terrible And then he walked in and I don't even know if that one was a good one for Hellebuck to give up though, do you? Listen, you score that goal soups, you pumped? Oh, well, yeah. I'm looking up the clock going, yeah. If I raised the puck, if I raised the puck, I'm telling you what? Ask your brother.

I could barely do that. Screw the goalie. That was a nice goal. He put it, he took a walked in and all the time. Goalie comes out, he puts a top chatter. You're like, oh, God. I love this an oiler fan. I just kind of thought, oh, the five before that were like,

banked off this guy's footman banked off that guy oh flutter screen yeah shea Weber is gonna smack it in the net for me it's like what is going on here the guy has horseshoes up you know what and we're you know what I'm worried about we're gonna sign him for eight million dollars for the next 10 years and you tell me what's worse nurse for eight years at this ungodly contract or tyson berry for another three Tyson berry for another three why yeah no need Shane we got to pick up our level here Because there's no need for Tyson Bear. I wasn't allowed to talk this episode. No, I like, I am fired up, but I like this.

Because I do agree. And I'm a big nurse fan. And I have been for a long time. And I've been saying that the kid's going to be coming. He's not going to take the same development path as most defensemen. Because I mean, look at his skill set. Look at his work ethics legendary. He's six foot four.

He skates incredibly well. Like he had all the tools. In my opinion, when he was coming up, he never had to think the game because he was so gifted as a player. And it took him a while to figure it out in the league because he never had to think the game. Now he's getting to that point where he's able to think the game.

You're not seeing, I'm still not saying that he's a shutdown defenseman by any means, or at least a high-end one. But I think with Nurse, he's cut out the big mistakes. I remember a goal, you guys remember the Havs game last year? No, Max Doe. You remember?

You're a Domi fan. He was still making mistakes. Max Domey made... It was November 22nd. It was a Saturday night. It was a... Snow was flying. It was a Saturday night in December, but who's counted?

I'm a geek. Did I mention that I had a bad year? Anyway. But no, Domi walked him in a way, like, that as a peewee, you would be ashamed to get walked the way the nurse got walked. You don't see those mistakes with Darnel Nurse. It's not to say he's air. free by any means. But it's just

you see him just going to another level. He does have more tools in the old toolbox in Tyson Barry does. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. That's not. Yeah. That's not comparable. But I also think that the Oilers now don't have the type of, well,

I mean, Broberg. Browberg is a lot like nurse. He doesn't have that physical edge like nurse, but he's he's a lot like nurse. What do you think of Brady winning? Again. It's awesome.

It's absolutely fantastic. I don't know who is the better athlete right now. LeBron or Brady? That's easy. It's LeBron. You can cut off a leg. LeBron's a better athlete. LeBron and Brady are each playing games on Christmas Day.

Hey, just when's the last time Brady had to play on the defensive end of the ball? Never. He's a quarterback, Chris. That's not how football works. Only when he threw that pick against San Diego. Yeah, yeah. Oh, man.

Why do you hate Brady so much? Why do you not like other people having success? The guy, the guy literally, he doesn't, in football, no player plays every single position, has to play every single. I had this huge argument. Someone was telling me that Brady's the greatest of all time. Well, you can argue. You can argue that. You can't argue it.

You can't argue it. You can't argue it because he doesn't play both sides of his game. Like, you can say he's the best quarterback. We all agree. I think we all agree, right? Best quarterback? Yeah. But you can't say he's the best athlete of all time

because he doesn't have to play both sides. Well, yeah, that's when you get into an athlete. Yeah, now we're just getting into semantics. You know, it's like what Derrudea retired. People are asking if he was one of the grades. So take all the- Deion Sanders could play both sides. Sure.

Come on. He could have. But would he have won 37 Super Bowls? Maybe. Listen, okay, here's my thing with Brady is. No, no, no, no. Stop that bullshit right there. No.

He could have played. No. But he didn't. Okay, so what you're saying is we can't classify, we can't classify any football player in the greatest athletes. Why have this guy been on? Hold on. Hold on.

Did we say Dion couldn't play both sides? No, no, no. Okay. Sorry. Did he play both sides? Yeah, like he didn't play. He didn't play a lot of receivers. Back here it up.

No, no, no. Back it up. Back it up. No, listen. Let's pull it back in. Sorry, Sean. I didn't mean to throw it into the bicycle. You're saying he did play both sides.

He played a little wide receiver. Very, very, very little. So fuck off. He played baseball too. Could by that argument, then a baseball player, a pitcher can't be the greatest baseball player of all time. Yeah,

I struggle with pitchers, goalies, Qis. I struggle with that. Because if you're just saying like the greatest athletes, like I struggle, I like the athletes that can affect both sides of the ball or whatever. Doesn't a quarterback affect both sides of the ball?

No, he doesn't. Why not? He doesn't do anything on defense. He doesn't play defense, but he puts his team into a position. to make the other team react. So how should we phrase this?

If you are not on the ice, are you affecting the game? Yes. Taylor Hall apparently does. Actually? Absolutely you are. Leaders can. So Brady's off the field for half the game. Yeah.

Well, not in the Super Bowl. He was on the field for more than half the game. Well, Braun, basketball is an interesting one because it's one of the very few sports where the superstar plays almost a whole game. Almost a home game. Right. Right. And you still hate LeBron and you're a weird man.

To be fair, Hardin doesn't play a lot of defense. Yeah. He's on the floor, but no one's classifying Hardin is. Let's be honest. In the NBA, does anyone play a lot of defense? Once again, hockey players, is there a difference between a guy that plays two-way or just four? But like hockey player, what, McDavid is going to play, what, 22 to 25? Yeah, he's going to play a third of the game.

Yeah. So I just think it's easier when you're saying like all-time great. guys that affect everything personally as an athlete so you're saying there can't be an all-time great football player then because they don't play both sides i think there can be per position if you're saying the greatest athletes all time you can't put a football player in so who do you think is the greatest athlete of all time michael jordan michael jordan i thought he was going to say coby no i wondered if you're going to say bow bow bow is like up there because he potentially excelled at both well before his hip went out he would have continued to excel at both which is

pretty incredible and bow was excelling on offense and defense in baseball and football dominating but i i just in terms of dominating a sport both sides jordan was the best that i've ever seen now future generations are going to say someone else but for me they're going to say lebron talk about brady it is amazing i know that really pisses you off but that's exactly what they're going to say is not like the long the longevity of lebron is is did he not return your letters What? Listen. I hit it.

That's it. Look at him. I had to watch LeBron go through his quitting and pouting in Cleveland and then I Who wouldn't quit and pout and cleveland? I struggle for the way he made the decision on national TV. And then he had to bring dudes with him in Miami to win. And then I just don't get. Okay.

That one I agree with. Not one, not two. That was an overstatement. And I would bring back the decision. I sometimes wonder if it wasn't, there was way more money involved. Well, we already know there was money involved. Like, you can't even fathom the pressure on him to do something like that. I don't think he had any pressure.

Bullshit. I bet you he had pressure. He's getting his 25 million endorsements no matter what. Like, if he plays in Cleveland or Miami, that doesn't matter. You don't think he got money to do the decision? He gave that money to the Boys and Girls Club. I think it was like $3 million or something. He gave it to the Boys and Girls Club.

Sure. What an asshole. Well, okay, so he's making $25 million a year. He's making $25 million off NBA endorsements. And then whatever else, do you think he really cares about $3,000 million? I guess I'm going to have to, I guess I'm going to have to get him on and ask. Because I would love to hear about the decision. Yeah.

Do you remember before the decision, game five against Boston in the 2010 playoffs and he quit? Yeah, he straight up quit. Yeah. He just gave up. And that's, those are things. You can't erase out of your memory, right? Yeah, but I mean, shit, look at Scotty old Pippin. No Tipping Pippin.

We're not calling Pippin the best of all time, are we? No, that's true. We're also not saying LeBron was the best of all time. Yeah, I agree with that too. Okay. We're just... Glad we're all agreeing here. We're just pointing out the fact that you can't cheer for your team while LeBron's there.

It's really messed up. Winning on championships? What a jerk. Giving a kids? You put an asterisk beside it that it goes up. and there's an ad what's the ask you for the problem on the team okay I do have a problem that he tried to make it

the narrative from his PR camp about how hard it was to win the COVID year let's be honest I really struggle with that that wasn't the hardest championship of all time in NBA if you want to say beating golden state sure that was really impressive that was really impressive but don't

give me that was the hardest championship that Miami team was not good yeah like anyway it was an underwhelming final you got to get me off of this Let's get on to Brady. Well, I thought Brady was fucking kick ass. Absolutely. I think how many people had started that season thought he was going to fall flat on his face.

And I tell you what, yeah, Kingers got his hand raised. There was more than that. You're like, oh, he's going to be fucking terrible. On the flip side, I would say for a chunk of the season, he was average. He was an average. The first four or five games. They might go deeper than that. No, no, through the middle of the season, he was.

The only reason everybody knew around start of December they're going to make the playoffs is because their schedule got so soft. Yeah. Going into the playoffs, you know, and then they got Washington, like, that was ridiculous. And that defense is unbelievable. That defense was so impressive through the playoffs. Like, Brady, was it the first playoff game? Like, Brady was not great. Probably.

Especially, like, he played better a little bit later on. He was not great that game, but the defense was just unbelievable. I think it's one of those things. Am I happy Brady one? No But that team No listen listen listen that was the best team That was the best team

They deserved to win And he did a good job managing clock I thought he managed the game well He's a veteran QB He did what he He's probably the only guy They can do that at that age Did I think he was the best QB in the league?

No But you know You got a tip your hat to him You know The MVP of that Super Bowl Might have been the injury situation On the Chiefs O line because they were decimated

The fact that he was making some of those shows And even getting him off He is special The whole game I'm like How is this happening? I thought the same thing A is gonna die tonight And every throw

I should have followed in father's footsteps As a picture Every throw was like finger tip away from a completion Like yeah His receivers did him no favors My takeaway from the Super Bowl is Mahomes is unbelievable That's my takeaway

And yet Brady In his 40s Brady in his 40s Whether you like how he does it or not Whether he's playing the defense or not Right Whether he has Whether he's throwing these crazy throws or not

Wins another Super Bowl Chris King big George Blanda fan Both quarterback and kicker Just wins another Super Bowl Kinger What did Tampa do I thought Tampa did a really good job Throughout the year

And they didn't do it early Well one he was out of shape two he was just blocking but they did what made brady successful in new england six yard dump off to the tight end six yard like up the middle short throws that he can complete you can't really don't fix it yeah and but they they didn't start the year like that they were trying to get him to throw down the field and that's why it looked pretty bad to start and then once he got comfortable and obviously tom having the respect he did probably help them change the playbook yeah and and and it was almost like watching the patriots like it felt like i was watching the patriots again double

tight end dump off you're wrong there too. Cronks getting six touchdowns in the Super Bowl, of course. That might have bothered me just as much. That bothered me just as much. Anybody watch any movies over the COVID year? I had the short story of we got talking about the popcorn. I went and saw a tenant.

Anybody seen tenant yet? I still haven't seen it. You told me to watch it. I haven't watched it. Didn't do the homework. I got a tenant for my condo. All right. Well, not the same type of tenant.

Oh, okay. One's Tenant. Oh. Yeah. I'm sorry. Anyways, Christopher Nolan, favorite director, fantastic. Did Tenet. And I watched it back to back nights in the theater.

Okay? Went with my wife. She fell asleep. And when she woke up, she's like, that was terrible. Thanks for bringing me this to it. I was like, that was fantastic. I still don't know what happened because it's the first movie I've ever watched going back to like Momento. Remember Memento where it takes you three-quarters of movie to finally pick up a little bit, yeah.

To finally go like, oh, this makes sense. Like, Tennant, up until the last like five minutes, you're kind of like, I can't even get my brain to think fast enough for this movie. So then the next night I went with my brother Dustin. I was like, we'll see if maybe it was just me and I was slow. Dustin is a smart guy. Yeah, that's right. And I watched his second time, and I was still trying to keep up with it.

And Dust comes out of there, and he's like, I still don't know it. just happened. I'm like, thank God it just doesn't mean. It was fantastic. If I've watched it twice now, back to back, I thought it was great. I've meant to watch it, but I haven't watched it. Yeah, it's saved on my list. Anybody, anybody gone to the movie theater since? We went

and watched Raya. Was it ain't good? Yeah, the Disney one? Yeah, it's like $34 on Disney right now. Yeah, for it to come down. Yeah, good call. It was, uh, I wanted free. It was 20, 23. The kids liked it. there's dad-daughter stuff so you'll get the little tear coming out of the side of your eye and that sort of thing but it was good we went and saw something awful one night and i can't remember what it was it was a new movie i've been probably

five times really uh you've been five time probably something like that but i think only i think only one movie was new like remember when at first oh they were showing like star wars and stuff yeah yeah yeah and it was just an excuse to have a date night but uh you know we we went to some i can't remember what it was but it was terrible. Stuck with you then. It didn't even until we started talking about it. It was about three months ago. Awful. Just awful.

I wish I could remember what it was just so I could catch it. It was about being awful. Oh, interesting. I'm sorry, I know that's not a good story, but it was terrible. And I wish, and it's going to be one of those things. We're going to get on something else, and then I'm going to say, hey, I remember it. Well, we talked about the last dance. Did we bring up what?

is a show you've watched that isn't the last dance in the COVID world? What is something you've been digging? I watched The Defiant On Netflix. It's Dr. Dre and Jimmy Levine. Don't know that is his producer. It's a medical show? Yeah. It's basically about how Jimmy started off producing and how we kind of jumped from like place to place

and how Dre came up in it. It was pretty cool how they came together and made beats and stuff like that. It was, I think it's like six or seven parts. I ended up watching one whole. night and I don't get to binge watch ever. So that was one of those shows that I watched and I crushed it. Says the guy who's watched the last dance ten times. That I do.

Never binge watch. I never watch. I don't binge watch anything except for everything. Except for one show. All the time. And last chance you. There you go. Everyone around here seems to be watching Yellowstone. I couldn't get into it. It's amazing. I couldn't get into it. That was my show. I got a New Yellowstone hard.

I was on that train before the COVID hit. Sure you were. early adopter, proud to say. Happened to be because I bought it on iTunes to distract my wife

so I could play golf and video games. And then I came home one night and she was watching an episode and by this time I'd already had to buy the second season because she went through the first season way too damn fast and then I found myself into it

and fantastic. We live in a very similar situation, at least those of us who grew up north of Lloyd Minster, right, Sean? We grew up in a very similar setting to Yellowstone, in a sense. Without the gangs or just?

The murders don't really happen around here. Maybe it's different in Montana, right? I keep telling the wife, she's like, this isn't the way cowboys and blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, it's a cowboy. Cowboy mob show. Gang show. God, like, what is up with my brain tonight?

What's the biker show that was huge? It's terrible show. Yellowstone. But I kind of believe that the biker gang is shooting and killing everyone. I don't really believe. I don't believe that my neighbor Ron Noble is shooting and killing. I tell you what. That's where you're wrong.

Sons or anarchy is horseshit in a bunch of different ways. That's a terrible show. Oh, course. You can say about every show. No, it's fine. No, Sons of Anarchy is one of the worst shows that I've ever watched. Sun's Anarchy. Yellowstone. the same fucking thing, just different setting.

Right? Different main characters. I'm not... Cowboys, bikers. I'm not trying. We're going to kill people in the open and we're never going to get caught. And it's never an eyebrow raised ever. No.

Yellowstone's eyebrows raised. They just get past it. I watched... Both are still good though. A new show. I don't know if anybody's seen it yet. But I watched Breaking Bad. It's a new show.

What's this now? It's about a guy who's a teacher. What's the... What's the... guy's name. His name is Walter White. Oh. Yeah.

He's a high school chemistry teacher. Mm-hmm. Runs into some, I don't want to spoil anything. No. Because like I said, I'm probably the first person watch it. I've never run. It runs into some health issues. Hmm.

That doesn't sound good. Has to make some hard, hard decisions. Did you watch all the seasons? I've watched the whole thing, yeah. Well, there's more than one season? Did you watch them all, like, during COVID? That's what I'm saying. That's correct.

You started and crushed the whole thing. I actually remember you. I remember that you still hadn't watched it when we were doing the games last. It's good. Like, that's my favorite. You guys have seen it? Once. Oh,

interesting. Like one episode. Interesting. I gave up on it though. I said, this show was terrible and everyone will agree. When I, when I, I tried watching it when it first came out and I didn't like it. It does take like four episodes. It didn't catch me.

And then I, I pounded it. Like, I watched, there's eight seasons, I think. Five kind of six. There's a movie. Whatever the hell there is. And there's a movie Al Camino, I haven't watched it yet. It's coming up. Yeah, it's okay.

Yeah. But I watched the entire. thing in a month. Yeah, I bet you. That's a lot of episodes. I'm not necessarily proud of it. I gotta be honest. That show is awful. Well, not awful.

Boring. And then you hit that one scene and you're like, oh my God. She goes, oh, yeah. So then you watch four more of like dragging through. And then you hit the one scene again. You're like, wow. And that's the entire thing. Yeah. It just, it just, it's good.

but there's like these 30 second scenes spaced out that are unbelievable. I felt it just built the whole way. Like maybe we're talking about it in a different sense, but I just felt it just built and built and built to where, you know, our good friend Chris Roberts, I remember he was watching it along before anyone. And he said, oh, that shit's not going to end well. When it was about the start of the fifth season.

I have to say, though, like I struggled without live sports, like for the big chunk like because I'm not a heavy heavy Netflix guy so I really struggled with that I found myself getting deep down the comedian wormholes oh yeah so I've now watched every Chappelle episode like since he came back I didn't realize how good that stuff was since he came back and every night I'm like honey you got to come watch this she's like I can't watch an hour stand up again of Chappelle I'm like no it's better than last one it's better than Who specials I watched on loop almost? And then my 13-year-old is talking to me about him the other day

is John Mulaney. That is one funny son of a bitch. Oh, man, he's good. Beer? No, skinny guy. Where's a suit and tie? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's hilarious.

Okay. We know Kingers you've got to get out of here at some point. He's got other things. He scheduled things for after this, which was a bad life plan. A bad life plan. Coaching? Planning Christmas? We'll go to the Kurdmaster Final Five.

All right. All right. Here we go. Can I part another whiskey? Yeah, absolutely. A whole bunch of people have been asking our COVID thoughts on, I don't know, thoughts on the United States opening up. Texas has been a big one.

Thoughts on COVID vaccinations, whether kids need to get it, because they're not, you know, they're not in the area of susceptibility per se. Does anyone care to have any thoughts on this or are you all just skipping by it? It's fine either way. But does anyone have any strong thoughts or thoughts on it? Not strong.

No strong thoughts. If you want it, get it. If you don't, don't. What happens if they put in passport thing? I don't get it. I'm getting it for sure. sure there's there's no question about it but yeah you're in you're in the education system yeah i think my i think i'll probably need it to coach to be honest well my my wife's a teacher and

we have family in the states it's like just give it to us already so we can go that's my biggest thing i have customers in the states that i can't see or service or properly work with um so yeah If that was a matter of get it and go, I'd get it. What if it meant you don't have to go back to St. Louis? Do you want to tell that story? I think I'll make the conscious decision never to go back to St. Louis. I'm guessing you've never told King or Sean that one.

I'm curious. Buckle up. Is it a one to two minute or? None of my stories are one to two minutes. Caneringering you know that? So we go to... Welcome to the shame. to mayor show.

Yeah. We go to, it's not so much funny, it's terrifying. We go to, we go to St. Louis for work.

We decided to head downtown one night. Get the, the Uber, head downtown, have some supper, have some drinks. This is actually

my last work business trip before the world closed. And this week was my first one since. But anyway, we go down there.

and have a great time. We've had a couple pops. We call another Uber to head back to the hotel and guys driving us heading back towards where our places. We're chatting and having a good time and I'm sure inappropriate things are said. But the car pulls over at this gas station that is clearly not on the interstate

because it's a gas station and not where we should be. And as we pull into it, I look, and there's, like, row housing behind it, not a light to be seen. There's not a street light to be seen. There's the dim light coming out of the convenience store at the gas station. There's a light of the pumps. And other than that, there is nothing. I went, what do we, I said, you're grabbing some darts, or what are we doing? He's like, get out.

And the four or five of us look at each other and like, well, we don't need anything. I didn't ask you to stop at the store's like, no, I'm not taking guys any farther. Get out. And went, well, that doesn't seem like a good plan. Like, just take us to our hotel. He's like, no, get out. So we get out, no, fine. One of us will use their own, a different Uber account, we'll get another car.

So we got out. He squeals out of there. Like, he's on a racetrack. Off he goes. We go into the convenience store. This is a great time to get an ice cream sandwich, maybe some gum, chocolate bar. chips, the things you need after several drinks. And we go into the gas station.

First time I've seen this, one, there is inch thick plexy glass in front of the cashier. All the way, he's in a bubble. And not in today's sense of a bubble. But there's a guy right inside the door, a rather large human being, I might add, like, shockingly large. Like, are we talking large in the sense of height? or like with like I am I am saying that he is he is a six foot four can of coke

just a tube top to bottom he's a large human being so I thought well I'll chat that's what I do after a couple of drinks how's it going? Is he? Is that what happens? No doubt no way. You don't say how's it going how's the night and he he looked through me like I was a ghost

didn't respond didn't blink didn't tell me to piss off my my own business just looked right through me and I went cool so I go and I grabbed myself a Klondike bar out of the freezer you would be a Klondike bar not a pizza sub no no wasn't a pizza sub kind of night um the weedy so we uh we uh we pay for our stuff the other uber is now already texting us and saying I'm leaving in 30 seconds. Like, this is odd. And he has parked out away from the building in what we now realize, or we realize later, is a strategic position where he can leave quickly.

We get out of the store. We hustle across because he's like honking his horn, as if he's picking us up to go to the party, and we've been waiting inside for 15 minutes. So we get up to the car. As I get my hand to the door, he unlocks it. Get in, all of us pile in, and he is gone. Like the doors aren't closed,

and he's driving. I went, what's the rush, bud? He's like, what are you doing here? I might say that it is, we are all very Caucasian and we are not in a Caucasian neighborhood,

which is fine. I got no problem with it. He's like, what are you doing here? He said, well, another Uber driver kicked us out. And the look on this guy's face is like, holy crap.

So he's like, yeah, you shouldn't be here. you're lucky you got into the car. If you were seconds longer, I was driving away without you. So the fact that you even got an Uber in this neighborhood is shocking. I just happened to be a mile away. And so I took the call. Interesting.

So get back to the hotel. The other guys, they're a little freaked out by it. I was intoxicated, as I mentioned. So they go back to the rooms and I'm like, the hotel that were staying at has a casino in it. I'm going to go down. maybe play a game or two, have a drink in the lounge, whatever. Black check. Yeah.

Rulette, whichever. So I'm heading down there. And our bartender, who was serving us earlier and had recommended some spots downtown for us to go, sees me walking by, weighs me in. So I go in and I sit down and we're having a chat. He's like, how was the night? I was like, that was really good. It ended odd.

And he says, oh, so I regale what I've just regaled for you. And he's like, oh, you almost died. What do you mean we almost died? He said, one, fun fact, St. Louis is the murder capital for tourists in the United States. Interesting. Didn't tell you that before. No, they don't have that on the sign when you come into town. Not per capita, though.

I have no idea. But he says, you got set up to get robbed and probably killed. simple as that. I went, huh, interesting. He's like as soon as as you left that interstate,

you were in trouble. Good, good to know. So, fun fact. Go to St. Louis. Lovely city. The brewery tour is fantastic. Maybe you have a designated driver. The tour of East St. Louis isn't quite the same. It's not as nice.

Can't remember how we got there. So, but that is a good story. Yeah So get your vaccines We started all this That's vaccine

That was vaccine Yeah Okay Soup brought it up And I'm like a dancing monkey Monkey told me a tall story Tell a story Like

Hey can we get some thoughts Our kids getting vaccinated And opening up And what's going on Let's talk about Almost dying in St. Louis I might have to send them up For another one

This whiskey is just delicious Shall we? We re-sign Tyson Barry. Next. I think we settled on a yes on that. Is that right? That came in. That's a real question.

No. In all seriousness, no. One year? No. Even not a good deal? Come on. Well, it's like Taylor Hall. What's the deal?

You just said you would sign Taylor Hall for the deal. No, no, no, no. I said I would if it's cheap enough, right? So what are we talking? Five mil for a year. No. Five mil for a year? No.

Interesting. love. What's you making out? Four and change? 3.75. Are you sure? Yeah. I'm a geek. This is all I have. That sounds dark, doesn't it?

Tell us more about how you nearly got killed. How does your girlfriend and your dog feel about that? Can we just shine some light on how Kinger has, has to sign in to something, and he's busy, and he probably needs to leave. Are we Zoom coaching tonight? There, King? Yep. No comment.

Who would win? My mic doesn't work. Who would win in a Newman brother, Royal Rumble? Who would win in a Newman brother, Royal Rumble? That comes in from Vic. Oh, Vic.

Man, the way my night has been going. Nick Von, holy man, Nick Vaughn-Dubbs. Like, just stop laughing at me, Karen, leave me on. I want to come back on the show. Who do I say, Jane? I'll start this one off.

I'm going to go with Sean because he for sure. Hey, that's a guy who's been on the show a few times. Hear me out on this. No, he doesn't get him up, guys. Easily the dirtiest one. Easily. And we'll do anything to win.

Second point I'll take. I will take the second point. Those are bad qualities. I'm going to go a little outside the box, and this is not going to be the popular answer. This is not going to be where everybody else is thinking. I'm going with Dustin Newman. And here's why.

Tomay are not coming back on anytime soon. You'll appreciate this, though, I think. Dustin Newman is cerebral. So there's what, nine of you brothers? Four brothers. Okay. So while three of you are throwing haymakers at each other, and it's a brawl,

Dustin's going to sneak around the outside. He's going to let you guys tire yourselves out. He's probably learned jujitsu while you guys are fighting, and he's going to come in and snap something on, and you're done for. that is a fair point I will address that after I hear Soup's comment

and I think as nice and mild mannered as Dustin is I think there's some darkness in there and he's going to snap Darkness in all of us isn't there Soops what do you think I'm going to go with you because

Harley used to kick my ass playing hockey just like King or did and you know I just I just want to be conferring to Shane So I'll say this.

Okay, I'll answer you two points. I like, I like, I like, I like Kinger's answer because I will do anything to win. Sure. That means being dirty. Dustin has been taking jiu-jitsu. No shit. That was just a random statement. Yeah, yeah.

So Dustin, right? Last year. All year, yeah. Wow. So Dustin is probably the most lethal, but he used to take karate and he used to do this funny thing where you show you these kicks. And then I just piled him into the ground. I'd be like, oh, yeah, what are your kicks? on in this, yes.

There's a lot of anger in that. Yeah, there is. Because he thought he was so fucking suave with his kicks. Anyways, jujitsu's a different... It's a different beast. Yeah, it is. And saying that, I still think I could beat him. The one that scares me is Supps''s answer.

Harley is a guy who is a big guy. Right? Like, he's got the build of an athlete. He's a big, lanky son of a gun. And he catches on things quick. and if I learned anything about Haralds, when you get him mad, he is meaner and dirtier than me.

And that is saying something for a guy who outweighs me is bigger than me and yeah, he's knocked the wind out of me several times. We were talking about this before we went to air. Like when I was growing up playing against Harley, the one thing I remember is he always had a smile on his face and you couldn't do anything to him.

You can't trust a guy like that. You know, like it's almost like he had that confidence that like, yeah, I know I'm, I know you can't do anything to me, right? And that confidence is... But he wasn't mean. No, no, no. He was never a fighter, right? Like, guys would want him to fight because he's big.

I don't want to fight. But if you picked at him, which I did, and you picked at him long enough, which I did, he would knock the wind out of you and it hurt. And when he lost his temper, he is the scariest Newman. Which I do find funny here, though. Four guys did not bring up the eldest, Jay. Sorry, Jay.

You're on the bottom of the toll, buddy. And I guess you're losing. I brought him off last time. Remember? I know you did, yeah? Just so we're clear. Moving on. Oilers D is the young guys are coming up,

meaning we got lots of depth. We've talked about a little bit about this. This is Nick Von Dubbs again. He said, when is it time to make a deal to allow those guys to come up? Would you be trained in Tyson-Berry that? I would. I know they won't, but I would be comfortable rolling

with Evan Bouchard, not necessarily in the berry spot right now. I'd probably bump Bear back up to that top pair with Nurse and then Bouchard slides into Bear's spot. But, I mean, I've said a lot of both the others tonight, so I want to give you a boys of... I've got no comment. I don't follow the Oilers at all.

I don't have... I think if this is the Oilers year to win, you keep... I keep everything that's going on. And that's fair. And try and bring in instead of subtracting. That's a smart management. I don't know.

You only got them for this year. You have no, what I love to both the deal, honestly. 3.75 for one year. Oh, I never, I never argued with anyone over the contract. And then if he asked for $6 million for six years, you go, well, that's nice. We'll see you later. And if he comes back and says four mil for three, you go, I don't mind that.

You still say no. I mind that. Four year for three mill or three years for four mil. You wouldn't do that. No. Open market. You know, I don't know. I know, not, though.

Oh, yeah. But you're the goal, so you're going to have first crack, which usually means you can kind of work the deal. Yeah, and if you feel that there's some potential there for a championship, why wouldn't you? That's right. I mean, you've already made 20 whatever in your career. God. Here's your final one, okay? Final one of the night.

Who is the most famous? I was in an argument about this a couple days ago. Who is the most famous, like, Minster person ever? Come out of the town. So to come out of town, not necessarily in town. Are we talking Lloydminster proper? Or do we include the Hill Mons, the Kitts, Guy's and Moniz? I will give it.

The GLA. Yeah, I'll give the GLA. Yeah, absolutely. I would say Vermilion is too far. Mainstone's too far. Yeah. Half an hour radius. Kid Scotty, Lashburn.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what? P.V. Yeah, Marwain, maybe. Right? Like that kind of circle. and my stipulation probably is is you know Keith Keith Morrison came up in the conversation

Keith Morrison was born here but I don't think Keith Morrison He doesn't say he's from Lloydman's right It's like Colby too right Right so it's like who is Who's the guy who is from Lloyd Talks of Lloyd represents Lloyd who's the most famous you got Or girl for that matter

Huh Wade's the first one that comes to my mind I'm not sure if it is Wade and Scott jumped to my brain quickly But I'm trying to think of someone who's not an athlete. Scott for me. I would say.

Artnil? Yeah. He is an accomplished author. I just think he did really well with the media, I think. Yeah. Like for all the guys to come out of here that play in the NHL, I think he did well with the media. He got in some movies. It branded well.

Flow, like the whole thing. I would say Scott probably, yeah. I still read his book to my kid. Yeah. I don't know. I can't believe nobody said Braden Holpey. Oh, yeah. Well, currently he would be.

But not all time. Stanley Cup winner. Vezna? Yeah? I think Scott was a bigger name. This is once again one of those things that goalies don't get the glamour that sometimes players get, I don't think. I see Holby around all the time. I give him a little head nod when you see him.

And he's always like, why does that guy have a Twitch? What's wrong with that guy? Why does he keep nodding at me? So after Braden's rookie year when he had that run in 2012 with the caps. and they got knocked out by the Rangers in seven, and I had a Triton Rangers hat on in booster juice one day, and he was just staring daggers at me, and hold on, Kinger's got to take that.

And it's his mom. They're doing the Chinese Christmas exchange job. Oh, man. We didn't even get to... Is he coming back? He's locked out. Oh, he's locked out. So do we say bye?

Is he gone for good? I don't know. We don't know what Chris is doing. He's left us, folks. When you're that handsome, you make the rules yourself. Yeah, he's left us for a time. He's a mystery wrapped up in an innanagan. Is there somebody that isn't a hockey player that's come out of Lloyd that you can think of?

I know we're all hockey guys in here, so that's a tough place. I know, that's where we go automatically, right? I don't know. I've broadcast a few hundred hockey games in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. I think I have a lot of notoriety. Yep. A couple hundred Twitter followers. Sean Newman's up there.

No, I'm not. No, I'm not. You are. You absolutely are. That actually, that's what he was aiming for with this question. He was aiming for. Hey, guys, have I become the most famous person? Fuck you.

Have you guys noticed my bike sitting a little low? I can use a tire pump over here. But think about who you've talked to in the last time. Yeah. We should talk about that. We talk about how everybody's year went. Yeah, that's a little. Yeah, we were like the biggest guess you had on last time around.

You blew us out of the water after that. Just to make us feel bad. I'm cutting this off. This is not where I meant this to go. That's Sean Newman. What a guy. Tim McAuliffe, no media prior to Tim and Friends, but he does one show. Yeah, I was pretty cool about that.

I'm not going to lie. Yeah, that was. Yeah. You should be pumped about that, that was awesome. I really like Tim. Yeah. You know the thing that scares me. He's one of my favorite.

I couldn't stand him and Sid. No, you couldn't stand Sid. You couldn't, I couldn't stand Sid, but I still like the show because I really like Tim. Never watched it. I couldn't do it. You know the thing that troubles me about Tim? I actually about even on right is,

and this goes back to when I interviewed Reed Wilkins. Is it like, we all look at them and I don't know. I look at him. I'm like, oh, you're doing so well. Maybe you talk to him. They're fucking depressed. And I'm like, how does that make any sense? sense. You're doing what I want to do. What am I missing? And

Tim McAuliffe goes, looks like you're doing really good. You've been doing well for yourself. I'm like, I don't know. Big fish, small pond, maybe. I need to find a small pond. Is exactly what he says. I'm like, it beats it down. I think, okay? It must. That's how I felt on the H.L. Circuit. You know, it's a lot. It's a lot. Damn, that, not a king. But I mean,

That is not what I was searching for. Actually, I always give lots of credit to Brandy Hofer because she's like a very successful artist. And you know what? I had to have, and Chuck, he's a very good friend of mine. But I kind of had to have that brought to my attention. I hate to say, sorry, Brandy. It's that how famous she was. Super, super successful.

Yeah. Is this the better work. Sorry, yes. Yeah. What's that whiskey? Let's have another couple of those. I tell you what, uh, uh, white buffalo. I'm supposed to get on in May, Cal Nichols.

He's another guy from the area who's super... Pea Hill, right? Pea Hill, St. Walberg. He's the guy who saved the Oilers, right? Yeah. And nobody really knows that story, and I'm really hoping... SOS, 1998. That's right.

Yep. Right? Like, I still... You know, as a kid, things that are imprinted on my mind is church, the world's ending, Armagedon's coming. And two, the Oilers are moving, and we're losing the team, and I must have bald and had that... SOS fucking thing on my wall and was like,

you had that too. We can't lose the oilers. And then we got them saved and everybody loved them. And there was such like, uh, camaraderie. Les Alexander from Houston trying to buy them. That's right. The biggest heel of all time. He was our,

he was the Vince McMahon, which ironically at that time Vince McMahon. Whoa. Bonus question. CFL XFL, XFL merger. Yeah, that's great. Yeah.

If the rock became part of the CFL again, is that not the greatest thing that has ever happened in the CFL? Your purists would say absolutely not. Who gives a shit with the purest sink? I don't really give a fuck. Unfortunately, that's most of what the CFL has that. Maybe that's her problem. But this is what turns that, though.

You know, the NFL has the glitz and the glamour and the splash. And that's what the CFL. The CFL is the prairie equivalent of professional football. Yeah. That you're small town. You're not worried about the. big lights. You've got a product. You know it's great. And you live and die by it because you know it's the best in your mind and in your heart, right? But Duane Johnson will take that league

and blow it up, right? They've done the U.S. thing before. It didn't fly very far. But if they get some U.S. expansion again and Dwayne Johnson on his Instagram or whatever the hell it is every day talking about the CFL XFL, XFL, holy crap, that can be huge for the league. You want to look at it. That makes me a fan again.

That, like, I'm a, it's intriguing for sure. Dwayne's, Dwayne, and let me be very clear. Go,

riders, go. Like, I'm all over. Well said. Good. But overall in the league, I'm kind of like fair weather. I'm the same way.

I love the playoffs, just like any other sport. Yeah. I love the rough riders. If the rough riders are in, Lloyd I go to more games but they're in Regina which means it's a long ass trip and how many now that you have kids how many times you go in there not very often a couple times a year that's right well for you it's a couple times a year I'm like once every five years one of us got back for

vagina sure did she's anyways all I'm saying is the rock comes into there it's all of a sudden instant credibility and the doors that guy opens up and now instead of having I don't know Oh, fuck. Like BTO playing your halftime show. Now you got like some names coming in and it is just instinct credibility. Everything changes. Because he, that guy just, oh, that is a name. If it was Vince McMahon, I'd be like, yeah, that feels cheesy.

That's Hokie and I'm not interested. Yeah. Instead of the rock. And I'm like, I can get behind that. I can really get behind that. It's interesting. if he does it the right way. Like, you know what I mean?

Like, I think there is, and I don't know what the way is exactly, but, you know, I think it just depends on what he's going to do with it. Like, I think the way you're envisioning it is like, yeah, 100%. I agree. But I assume he doesn't want to come in. Is he blowing up the tradition and all that stuff?

Like, that's, you know, the great unknown, right? But in fairness, to the Rock, I just assume he thinks, like, I think, Do you ever want to blow up the tradition of any league, especially that it's gone as long as a great cup? You should embrace them. Well, did you see his Instagram post when it first came out? Yeah, and that gave me hope.

And to me, that said, we're going to embrace what's going on here. Because it has a long tradition. You want to suck that in every drop of it because that's what makes a sport of sport. You start up some great sport tomorrow. You've got to wait 50 years for it to have all that, like, you know, the passion of the fans, the, the rivalry, the everything. It's all sitting there.

It's all sitting there waiting for you. And if you add it in 10 U.S. teams, so be it. I don't think it would be that big a deal. To me, that's, to me, has been the biggest problem with the CFL is the size of it. It's too small, right? So you play the 16 game season, I think. 18 game season. But it's just so much repetition.

And it's, and I've always said the CFL season doesn't start until Labor Day. Oh, you're going to lose your first six games, seven games. It doesn't matter. Teams can make the playoffs. Exactly. Five and 13 records, right? Yeah. So it's not uncommon.

It's one of those things. You add some depth, you add some extra teams. You still have your 18-game season, but each game matters a little bit more. Right. That's what the NFL has is that you lose five games. Well, you know you're watching come December. Right. You just know.

And NFL is a spectacle, man. It is. Every last little, you know, I didn't believe in the little things at all, you know, every little thing matters until I was like second year of college and we started doing these little things and they added up. Yeah. And when you watch the NFL, every little thing matters. Yeah. Like they don't, they don't skip out on anything. No.

Think about how many changes they've made to the extra point. Like, you know, when they were doing that, I remember thinking like, this is so pointless. Like, no pun intended, but like this is just like, this is ridiculous that they're. obsessing over this. But here we are. Yeah, exactly. Well, boys, it's been a year and two days. Thanks for helping back on. So see you in a year in four days. Well, I don't know. Maybe we'll see each other in two and a half months. Nothing, Chris? All right. So quiet. Humble. Thanks for having us, buddy. Yeah, it's fun. Anytime you want us, which means I'd like to come back twice a week. Co-host. Co-host. All right.

You could fit and soups under your sign there. I probably could. Actually, we could probably draw that in. Maybe we'll do that for this one. Thanks, boys. Thank you. Thank you, bud. Hey, folks, thanks for joining us today.

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Hey, Keeners. Hope you enjoyed us three knuckleheads, or us four knuckleheads, I should say, rambling on and having a good time. Hopefully brightening up your Monday. I got to give a shout-out today to Jonas Hagel. He gave me a call yesterday and just had listened to, once again,

the Vance Crow episode, and Tom Hoffman, actually, and Tom Hoffman. He had been, listen to a few and just said he really enjoys what's going on here and just wanted to thank me for doing it and to keep doing it and keep pushing through so thanks jonas for reaching out i do appreciate the texts and the phone calls it's always great hearing from you guys and and you know it just it's a it's a it's a cool feeling to know you guys are listening and and and falling along with what

i'm doing and enjoying it so i'll ramble no more get back to work if you're if you're larry and the snowstorm hit, he's probably hibernating with his feet up on the desk. Maybe, maybe go to work, all right? All right. To the rest of you, we'll catch up to you on Hump Day.