This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Explaining the Habs

Episode Date: September 8, 2025

When your discussion turns to hockey and you're wondering if someone who grew up in a Toronto Maple Leafs house could support their biggest rival, the Montreal Canadiens - or, as hockey fans know them, the Habs. From our episode with Brody Otway

I grew up in a Maple Leafs fan family, so constant disappointment. Yeah, my, when my dad passed away, we wrote a letter to the Leafs being like, okay, he supported you guys his whole life. You guys got to pull your socks up this season and do this. and they they made it to the playoffs for like and we were all hyped because they did real good in their first game and then game two they tanked and we were like really like you gave us you gave us that little bit of hope like you couldn't have just you couldn't have just had a normal season for you guys you guys had to had to tease us because they'd been doing garbage at that point I can't remember what year it was exactly,

but they had been playing like trash. My dad, who was like a diehard was like the year before he passed away. He was on the fence about switching teams. And we were all shocked because he was a diehard Leafs guy. And we were like, come on, come on. You got to win it for him this year. And they let us down. So I don't know about my brothers,

but I've been shopping around for new teams ever since. Wow. So I'm guessing the HABs are out for a new team. They tend to be who I root for now. Like I'm not huge into hockey, but my best friend is a HABs guy. So I kind of just fell into supporting them for now. And for our non-hockey fans, so it's into Montreal Canadiens. They're also called the HABS.

so oh yes i i actually as a canadian i didn't know that for the longest time growing up and i didn't realize they were the anytime my buddy was talking about the habs i had no idea what the hell he was talking about and uh it it was finally one day i just outright asked i was like kay like what the hell are you talking about he's like the canadians like why didn't you just say that yeah no it was it made it just as soon that you know right so yeah Listen to this and much more on this podcast is Uncalled for. Available now wherever you podcast.