Spittin' Chiclets Episode 662: Featuring Matty Beniers & The Yak

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Shout out, Pink Whitney. Shout out. The dog days of summer, boys, especially in hockey. We got a couple things. We got a couple things to talk about, but it's more just Pink Whitney season out on the lake, at the beach, on the course. Doesn't really matter. They're everywhere. So double pinkies up for everyone out there. And maybe a pinkies down for me on Family Feud. We'll get into that in a second. Just another tough season for your boy. What a year. On the internet. What a year is right. Holy shit. There's some incredible years people have had. And then you just go to the exact opposite in the world of the internet and you see your guy. I'm speaking right now. Hey, we still love you. I know. I still love myself. Thank God I have confidence in myself and believe in myself in the face of just adversity and embarrassment. Might be time to look in the mirror. Shout out to your psychiatrist. Re-instilling that. Yeah. Best moment of the world. Hey, look in the mirror. You're cool. You're good. You're a nice guy. People like you. The mirror even says back, what are you talking about? It's like the guy who hangs out with East Point. Bounding down. Yeah. Yeah. That one guy. His little guy. Yeah. Oh, he just glazes them nonstop. The fixtures. I might need to hire someone like that. The fixtures. Seems like you already have. Yeah. Yeah. Myself. Kenny didn't hire him. He was just obsessed with him. I don't have anyone obsessed with me. I wouldn't even rely on one of the kids for that, I don't think. Even my kids. I haven't been on Nantucket since July 8th, as you know. Just been running around with the lacrosse schedule. As I'm getting on the ferry. Yesterday, I get a Jens. Okay. Pinkies up. And it just made my day. I'm like, I'm going over to the island. I got my pinkies up, ready to roll. I thought you were going to say he said, oh, Witt's so stupid. What an idiot. Well, he did, but I didn't want to bring that up. Okay. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Thanks a lot. Biz. I've gotten a few in Canada, too. I was at Cactus Club. Super Cactus. The one that Drake talked about when he zoomed in on it. One of his Instagram videos. He likes getting one of the fancy drinks. Wait, all the Cactus Clubs that I enjoy, there's actually one that's called Super Cactus Club? Yeah, it's right where the pack rim in Vancouver is on the corner where that whale is. Like a fake whale. The all glass one. Where you look out to North Vancouver. And it's huge. It's like a fucking size of a Costco. They could probably seat 400 people in there. And there was a couple guys in there. And one of them on the way down told me he was from Thunder Bay. One other guy threw the glass near the kitchen. I ended up going later on in the week. To a restaurant called Nightingale that my buddy David Hawksworth owns. That Kevin BX had put me in touch with. And sure enough, I walked in. Those two guys from Thunder Bay were there again. Same two guys sitting right there as soon as I walked in. So, we've been getting the pinkies up attacks going quite a bit through North America. What province are we in or not in? Because I get messages, I wish we could still be here. But where is it in Canada? I think maybe it's in Quebec right now. And then maybe one of the other places. Maybe it's in another province because the tariffs took it away. Yeah, the big guy in the U.S. here, he really fucked us with those. I'm not going to lie. Oh, yeah. He really fucking hosed us with those. We're going to have to get that figured out. I mean, there's plenty of people in Alberta and British Columbia and Ontario and all over the country. Manitoba that would love some Pink Whitney. Are we still talking about Pink Whitney because it's an ad? No, it's because people are asking and people are begging. And also, the big guy put tariffs on Hawkins. hockey sticks as well recently really that's kind of i feel like that's like a direct shot at canada if you're doing that like pink whitney and hockey sticks that's a direct shot wow for sure okay so uh biz jeff's birthday party for everyone doesn't know the man who runs biz's life without him he'd be you'd be a nobody you'd be a right and um he turned 40 and it was a banger so did memes go out memes flew out to him and him and oldie have been on this tour for the last three weeks like shout out to canadian oldie's wife yeah wow he's married yeah married with kids kids and this guy went from i think he started he had something going on in toronto then he flew out to stampede he was at stampede for like nine days by the way if you're at stampede for nine days you need a liver transplant you need a brain transplant like you're that's fucked that's like you don't that could be a two-night stay like a vegas type oh it's like going to vegas two nights see you later like don't want to see you for another year so he goes there for like eight nine days i don't even think they had a ticket or anything planned and sure enough they end up getting like brought around they're in this box that box tickets to this they're at ella langley all of a sudden he's meeting her backstage meeting this guy backstage then he flies all the way um i think he went back to toronto he was there less than 24 hours and then off to pei prince edward island go to see your kids he's like no i just had to do some laundry didn't even talk he just had to do no his wife had to do it imagine doing his laundry oh just g strings and fucking half half crop tops and then off the pi and then he went from pi right over to to bc and he i think he was sleeping on memes his buddy's couch for a few days and then of course over to jeff's birthday uh which was a riot obviously a lot of people like there was like 140 people that ended up showing up he did it at a um he been to a concert before the arkells big canadian band i think they got like 220 people in for the arkells um uh concert and he went and saw it so he's like oh this is a cool venue it's an old strip club it used to be a supper club turned into strip club it's a pretty clean strip club on the inside surprisingly and then he got a dj and then like i said it was just booked out for all of us and our friends 140 of us so everybody showed up it was a great time and uh celebrated uh celebrated him in style man well well deserved did you give a speech kind of just like describing how good of a guy no jeff jeff wrote the speech jeff gave it to himself no so we had so you got to keep in mind like all the people there like jeff went to like high school with so they know jeff even more so than i do uh so i like i'm not a big speech guy i called jeff obviously beforehand like and and always tell him how appreciative i am of him and like how much i love him um obviously like took care of the dj like helped him out and said hey happy birthday i don't know do you think that's weird that i didn't give him a speech no no i i was gonna be surprised if you did but i thought the moment might have just kind of overtaken you and you're like i just want to address everyone i thought your i thought your only involvement was the sign the sign just said if you know jeff come in yeah that was well actually no so he thought of that himself or something and so they put that up on the billboard out front and they put that up on the billboard out front and they then my idea was to put come as in cum because it was a strip club there you go boys oh that's biz right there guys and then he he was like no i'm not gonna do that i was like okay well that was my contribution he's like i'm 40 he said but let's make it dirty let's make it nasty it's a strip club he's like i don't know man he's like biz it was a strip club no it still is oh it still is yeah so like the the strippers came out after everything was said and done wrapped up around one so they got to do a quick they gave the speech they gave a speech they the ping pong ball the mic they were just doing queefs to the mic can't say that sorry um but it was great man it was it was like a i'm now in victoria but it was a good little what was it a nine-day rip i got to go see like some of my uh my friends have had kids over the last couple years i got to hang out with them and see like how much they've grown and and how much they've come along and just to kind of you know fill the love tang up with the with the people that i know uh north of the border so now i'm in victoria for the basically the rest of summer and uh yeah i'm excited to just kind of get some downtime here yans i got to ship your golf clubs back to you that'll happen at some point that might take a couple what do you mean why do you have his golf clubs well i took his golf clubs when we landed in boston so that he didn't have to then bring him to baltimore where he was going so you don't have to lug him around baltimore you know so i was like i'll take him home now part of that was shipping it to him that was that was that was eight days ago it's one of those things where you just got to do it right like i you have a problem of like i gotta do this well why haven't i done it call jeff no reason you just have to bring them to wallaston which is 200 yards from your backyard no yeah i can pull that off today right when oh they they'll do it for you there at the wall golf clubs will now pretty much everywhere do ship sticks where this is a total free advertisement and i think there's different companies but you go and you tell them where it needs to be sent and boom it's gone you don't need the box you don't need anything just found out that yes yes you're 100 right but just found out one of the girls on mila on lola's team her dad started ship sticks okay so that family's doing okay they're doing great all right they're in the hamptons what a simple idea like just like hey just figure out a way to just ship golf clubs around nobody wants to drag golf clubs to the airport so i was just yeah i was a good friend and i did that for feet now i haven't finished the job completely so am i a good friend i don't know i can't even great friend family feud uh to the family feud episode that aired speak speaking i got a surprise guest i got a surprise guest already family feud yeah okay okay we want to if we're gonna chat family feud yeah we need to i would ideally there's somebody who's wow okay okay is this the whole yak that's currently yeah hey what's up okay so we're recording you're live this is great what's going on neither one of these guys i don't think one person i could see right now was on the show with me though no but they watched thanks a lot yeah what a crew of people i get to talk to now what's up big cat what's up dude uh you we got a special guest though that really was disappointed in your family feud uh performance who's that for a family god i feel like that was a pretty shitty family feud oh shit dude he's having a tough week man minty i've been i've been battling ankle injuries for 20 years and you'd think with what you're going through we'd be lockstep together i've never done a thing to you but support you i've been by your what man see your shit on you what are you talking about mints we're fucking bad ankle guys together now i told people in that office that you're sitting in be easy on them ankles are tough ankles crush your ankles can wear you down and what do i what do i get i sign on here and get ambushed by ben mints about my family feud debacle and somebody who knows a lot about debacles and really crumbling under pressure is yourself but i wouldn't have brought that up if you hadn't come on here and given me shit like this what are you gonna do i mean you gotta thanks ben thanks ben no you didn't we're ankle guys buddy we're bad pussy band don't fall for my family call him a moron pussy i can't believe we're ankle guys worked he said you're the worst of the war you know you know one else there thinks that's pretty legit when you're battling ankle injuries together there's only one other guy sitting in that office with you right now that knows what i've been through and he's going through the same so all you motherfuckers that tried to put this together it backfired on you because we're ankle guys terrible you got me mincy wit thanks mincy buddy feel better that walking boot sucks i had one on for basically a year dude this blows you where you used to play in one of those how do you do that the easton's and that's how he finished his career in modal stuff with uh were you guys all that we did was it that embarrassing what i did was it no i actually had your back wit i thought steve harvey cut you off what i agree i think i said it was two seconds it's supposed to be three now i can admit because we haven't this is this is a live chicklets yak so i can kind of go into this if you guys have two minutes yeah why i aggressively press the button without an answer is a question i'll ask myself to the end of time i just wanted to win that race and then kind of thought i'd have more than you know two seconds to have an answer i didn't have an answer immediately knew that i'd be the storyline in dickhead dave portnoy's world and unfortunately it's turned into that now the problem with me doing that game is i'm not that quick on my feet in terms of like when the lights are at their brightest you've seen double overtime hockey's championship game put it in my own net to lose um stanley cup played great olympic gold medal game minus one didn't see another shift when the lights are the brightest do i show up not necessarily family feud wasn't for me but i still just don't know why i wanted to win that race against ace flag talk about the wrong name he should have been named cooper and i think cooper should have been named ace because he got crushed in the department of being born second and then looking like that oh that wasn't even the guy who played in the nba no it was aces aces the worst player oh you think ace they should have switched names when they realized what was happening but yeah i don't really have much else to say besides it was a disaster and and the fact that i had to wait and wait and wait for it to be aired made me even more sick yeah yeah i got a question if you could scrub one moment off the internet would it have been the beer chug or would have been the the family feud great question i would pick the beer chug 100 times out of 100 yeah i'm blowing a saber sword tickling its balls and it's like in the middle of a playoff game against the bruins so everyone i know in boston's watching the game not that they wouldn't have seen it on the internet but the family feud just looking dumb without saying anything that is small potatoes compared to blowing a saber sword on tnt you also yack agree yeah well the the the one saving grace for you wit was that your whole team sucked so it's not like you blew it like if you had blown that if you guys had won a round and then it was like the whole thing you guys weren't winning you could have played a hundred times you were you were losing that day i i consider myself good friends with everyone on the show with me that day but as feidelberg texted me not one of them could even ride a roller coaster they're all five four so the fact i'm standing up there and i'm like looking down at all these midgets i was mogging the shit out of them now when it came to brain power i wasn't exactly there i just don't get how quick it can go like that is quick i'm telling you you stopped and thought about it as if you had like five minutes to think about the question you were like uh let me think and then it's like wait no it looks like i was go ahead was there anything even on the tip of your tongue because i i watched it slow down i didn't see anything forming okay can we inform people what the question was that's what i was just going to go into this because nick that's a great question and my answer is there was nothing here's the problem here's the problem here's the problem and and i a pft had my back he sent me a nice text he's one of the good guys at the company the question itself like what does a player have that a regular guy doesn't like i'm like i'm like i like yeah i don't know why i pressed it but i like i still don't even really get the question i get the question but at the time i'm like wait what like player sports girls and and boom the portnoy look so no nick yeah long long answer nothing i had nothing i had your back wit i sent you the the jared allen text and it's happened before well funny enough and i'm glad that we're bringing this up now with all you yak guys keith yandel received a text from wayne gretzky oh wayne fucking gretzky has ever heard of him you know who wayne gretzky is the great one he's the great one and what he said was feel bad for wit what a great guy he is love the time i get to spend with him that's why i've never gone on family feud oh i would never put myself in that situation i know how he feels so if i'm in the same boat as wayne gretzky unfortunately i went on the show and he knew never to do it to look the way i did yep i'll take that text and ride it all the way into the sunset knowing that number 99 and me are like this i say you i say you had the jared allen when he in the playoffs he said the the quote was the lights were brighter than expected that's exactly what happened to you i thought that was an nba guy yeah it's nba guy yeah oh i thought jared allen was the guy from the vikings that you there is jared allen oh i thought you were talking about josh allen no jared is this what you get this is what you get with these guys sorry before we go we biz we actually brought up something earlier on the show that maybe this is a chicklets yak crossover thing we can figure out we gotta find a home for the wheeling nailers they don't have a uh i saw whoa whoa whoa whoa we own another team boy yeah this is a conflict of interest but i know that so so uh nick and kb were were you guys there like helping try to like save the team i saw you guys like in a photo there like last week i was there this past week i'm trying to save the team how'd that go i'd still not i did more damage than good yeah i saw you guys were playing like bocce ball yeah yeah to save the team no no that was for the italian festival biz you you you've been to the italian festival oh the uncooked pizza that was a buffet for you biz you anything what's moondog gonna do biz i don't i think moondog is he's he's dead the city's devastated though we gotta find can we do something so wait you guys own a compete who do you guys own we're with the greensboro gargoyles and who affiliate of the stanley cup champion uh we we we got it we would have had our name on the cup but dundon put 15 kids on there yeah yeah he's got his masseuse he's got everybody on there all right what do we do we gotta save the nailers so what can we do is it can you buy it can somebody i'm getting i'm getting more here it's funny because you're in the echl because it's the third league down you're actually allowed to own up to three teams in the league so like that's kind of how well wait with the the guys that own the everblades said that it was like a conflict of interest they already own i think five or six don't they own yeah they probably already isn't that our group isn't that the zoyer group they might own them too yeah well boys a g saying in the chat the yak should buy the wheeling yeah why don't you guys dan your fucking money bags over there this is nothing to you i can do it well i just did buy the taylor swift chair you guys should see this chair it's fucking unreal what what's the taylor she sat in a chair for a calves game and i bought it see it what'd you put that run you i'm not gonna i will not say why is no one sitting in it well because it's taylor swift taylor swift chair hands oh or mincy when he needs to get his ankle up you should give him that chair sounds like a shot what do you mean a shot i'm saying when he needs to get his ankle up there are no shots at minty we are now connected forever you've done nothing to take shots at mincy get his ass mincy listen to you brandon you fucking dummy you're the meanest guy in that office you prick what if um what if we did a 50 50 considering uh big cat loves the 50 50 draw so much like all the funds yeah would go to buying the wheeling nailers what's like a ballpark cost do you think that's a great question i i would assume i don't know it's got a lot of history there yes you your history's there that's why we gotta like they own the ring right i i used to have typically around 10 million for the cost that's a three-month paycheck for dan i'm out and go to the atm yeah they're gone i'm out they're done all right um okay well that's an auto deposit r.i.p the wheeling nailers and the whole city of wheeling yeah it's done it's sad because they're probably going to lose their team and when we were there doing that uh that echl documentary when i ended up getting the key to the city uh i lost the key to the city i never even i lost it i lost it jeff's birthday party oh no that was before you guys all right well thank you thank you boys for having us on wit stay strong the whitney freeze to forever edge flag i said it right what when dave told me what happened dave is the worst teammate he's such a fucking bad teammate such a bad guy like to if that happened to somebody else right away and even jersey jerry came up it's all right it's all right we were he's just a fucking asshole he's the worst teammate in the world so the fact that i had to play with him i knew i knew if something went wrong it's all you're gonna get support from the guy he's a complete dickhead when they were running the credits at the end you could just see you and dave like this okay funny enough funny enough jumping i was we were we were arguing i was dead wrong in that argument as well because i kept saying it didn't matter the guy across the bad flag he didn't get it either went back rico got something so i was like we got it but he's like no dummy you need the top answer notice how they get to go after us and rico's answer i don't know what's going on what was rico's answer it was something kind of brutal but he had one at least um and then i think the next the next answer from the flags probably pop a flag that old grandfather said like broads and boom it was like he was unbelievable that guy yeah he was unbelievable awesome all right electric well thank you boys everyone tune into chicklets the full show okay see yeah guys very good surprise guest there um me and mincy yeah boys we are now like i got i got nothing but love that he should have done in in your house what he did in the one room with his bathing suit all over the house i would have loved it like it it really does add a lot to that room i'm with you should never paint over it it's still not painted it's still not painted no he can be a guest any time so how how are you feeling now that you're like almost a week removed from that yeah how many were you getting a lot of texts and phone calls like were people worried about you i was getting texts from i got a text from brooks or pick about it or texting me right away but it was before that that happened so i think right when it started he's like this is unbelievable he happened to be watching family feud i'm like just wait a couple seconds buddy you're about to see a complete standoff a person that can't speak and i don't know how many seconds i would have needed i would have loved to have unlimited time it could have i might have not thought something for 45 seconds so wait were you picked if you guys were to win to go in the fast money no that was going to be uh i think that was kirk and dave i know kirk was one of the fast money guys i think that was people and i'm guessing dave would have been as well i think the um the first ever family feud aired july 12th of 1976 so what what are we is that 50 years now 50 years ago what now steve harvey's in control of it like what's it like showing up there and like the like the whole process like are you there the whole day like is it drag on like you get to meet him like first thing when you first get there like no you don't meet him till the show um you don't meet him till the show at least we didn't but they had this back room it was like incredible buffet they got a ping pong table they got a monster flat screen connected to playstation or xbox whatever is jerry of course immediately started playing like nba 2025 or whatever the game's called they have like a old like a trailer with that's like a coffee shop they it was that every person had their own trailer right so i went in and boy did i go i went in there after the disaster brie and her mom were there she walked back to the backstage you were like you were like she goes what the fuck was that last movie he did i i'll say if you're saying i'm like leo you know what i'm talking about no i don't there's a scene in uh what uh what's the last movie he did once upon a time in hollywood once upon a time in hollywood he goes to the trailer that was wit going into his trailer that was me i'm never gonna do that again smash then he's yeah that that tech no it wasn't he was angry i was sitting there like god damn like i got months and months and months until i realized that this is on and then people realize how foolish i look the other part was that just like two weeks ago we were driving into the city and somehow the saber chug came up and i was like you know what that was crazy that was a tough week for me on the internet like but it all blows over that's what these young kids need to need to realize it ends there's always a next story next story next loser next joke and and i was like wow you know that's good to remember and then brie said has family feud been it's not even on and i had forgotten i was like oh my god i got another one coming i have another one of these things coming so you know what people don't boo nobodies that's one thing i've said in the mirror over and over the man in the arena i don't know if you guys know that poem that's a hell hell of a message i'm can you read it in the arena can i read it it's pretty long but it's amazing it's amazing if you want me to google this this is a little message and by the way summer episode city right here if you had the opportunity to go back on family feud would you take it so that's the thing minahan's like we have to get back on i i don't yes i would go back on but then it's like dude if this happens again and it's funny because going in the night before we had a great team dinner and i kind of i'm not great at this game boys like i my but it was i was manifesting the wrong thing manifestation i can't even say it it's a true thing if you truly believe what's going to happen to you it ends up happening a lot of times you can will yourself to playing in the nhl i sat around what are you doing you go up and play in the nhl you need something else no i don't and i manifested it but i also manifested looking like an idiot in front of steve harvey man in the arena who's got who's got brighter whiter teeth steve harvey or sean avery steve harvey by a mile those jibs are incredible he did say quickly he'd come on chicklets that could have been like yeah shut the fuck up buddy yeah i'll come on your show you could never get in touch with me though um but yeah man in the arena it is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose His face is marred. by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs who comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy case cause who is this is so little this writing i'm really struggling who at the best knows in the end the triumph or high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat if that doesn't get you going in terms of ryan you gave it your best you were on in the bright lights and you failed but all these you gave it your best you were on in the bright lights and you failed but all these little motherfuckers on the internet chirping me telling me how dumb i look and stupid i am you weren't on the show you didn't get to experience the failure i did and that makes my life worth living so there's my statement um love it once again normally they do like the like the all-time like the great guests and great teams versus great teams they should do like biggest losers versus biggest losers yeah that'd be real yeah they definitely should i just think we should get a look back basically we didn't get a point that's what i'm saying i don't think i don't think that's ever happened right there cannot be largest it was the largest defeat in celebrity family feud history and the second largest if you take the real family feud into play as well i think another team lost 581 to nothing and what were we 43 543 to nothing so yeah i mean dude it's been a tough been a tough go but you know what the sun always comes up and next season boys i could be on fire i could be chugging beers to perfection with a beer and i could be chugging beers to perfection with a beer and i could be out a drop i could end up on jeopardy and win it unless i'm playing against ra who after he beats elon so um g just put oilers going on a run next year could happen we got babcock we got babs and today just today the oilers are at a golf tournament and zach hyman's saying he's an incredible coach i have nothing but amazing things to say about him and conor mcdavid says the guys want every single thing in hockey you can win i'm excited for the season i love the new guys we brought in even though i'm very upset darnell's gone because they're so good so close to the yeah things i'm due as g just said i'm very due um maybe the internet invitational shows me some love this year oh yeah i'm getting good vibes for you there for sure that would be nice last year we got knocked out first day so i mean it's got to get better than last year i don't know yeah we almost should not be on the same team so that one of us doesn't get knocked out yeah at least one of us stays alive um but you know you know who else is very excited right now is the city of chicago boys and and i and this was something that i'm gonna be honest i i kind of wanted pk and 88 in buffalo i was like buffalo is a really good team he's from buffalo the the magic of him going back to his hometown but once it came down and the news broke that he signed back with the chicago blackhawks i i totally kind of switched my stance in terms of like this guy is a chicago blackhawk he's a hall of famer he's the greatest american hockey player ever and he's going back to one of the best markets we have in i will say this didn't see him make an eight million a year bravo to him and his agent but he's back on the hawks biz do you think that's like a cross a crosby thing he just wanted the 88 because uh because of his jersey number like merle's text in the group chat was it is it 8.8 a year i thought it was eight a year no but he got two years so 88 right like eight both years kind of that was a merle okay in the group chat i can see it i could see it and they selfishly i wanted him going to buffalo because like obviously hometown um you know they lost tuck so like hopefully you know he can go there and they can make playoffs again i want to see showtime come playoffs but i think now that he ends up shining in chicago he keeps the streak of only playing for original six franchises and just for them to kind of get like another boost they sign bedard they get him back like i know bedard's gonna miss the start of the season but maybe like from a group collectively like they can wrap up the season and they're gonna be like rally around like imagine getting patty kane back in playoffs in chicago so they got two years to do it he doesn't seem like the type of guy where like at the deadline he's gonna be like hey ship me to a winner i feel like he's just gonna be like i'm home i want to play play at home i'm gonna see this through so we kind of talked last podcast after bedard signed like ah we don't really see playoffs the next two years i'm not saying like he's the patty kane of old but he was almost at a point per game if he can stay healthy he's hungry i'm not saying like he's the patty kane with the amount of power plays that happen in the league now i you know i would like to see him back at a point per game player and and them making playoffs and getting showtime back in the mix yeah that's what i'm hoping for i think too like anybody who's you know pissy mouth about him signing this much money in two-year deal like the guy takes care of him takes care of his body he's ready to go every year and he's also like people like sid and ovi carried the league like bird magic did forever right but he they also had a guy like dr uh you know dr j julius ervin that's kind of like my patty kane you look at every guy on that american every guy on that american team their favorite player growing up patrick kane he brought the swag he brought the clutchness he was just like that guy that usa needed and i'm pumped that he got the money that he deserved like he this guy for what he's done for the league i think he deserves every single penny of it he still takes care of his body unbelievable he's ready to go and so his son can watch him wanting to produce so he's in the he's in the gym every day he's skating every day i think he's going to bring a lot more amp is like you're telling me a guy like dylan larkin sees him go there he'd be like ah maybe i'll add them to my no trade list like i think guys will want to go there too that he's there just to have a chance to play with a legend like patty kane yeah and g just mentioned this in in the chat like the the the undervalue of leadership too and like how much money did chicago have and or as far as times just there's no more free agents like you should be fucking grateful that he's even willing to go there fuck the eight million dollars so um yeah no you so you wow you think that maybe larkin would consider them as a as a landing destination i think more guys would right like where the year if he wasn't there guys probably wouldn't have had them on their on their no trade list but yeah i mean larkin played with him too right in detroit i think he would i think he'd add a team like that i do want to get ahead of something here so there's like these parody accounts on on on twitter and there's an NHL rumor report one. I think there's a legit one, but this one has like 100 followers. I think there's even reports spelt with like a Q instead of a P. So you'd think people would know. They said that I said Dylan Larkin at Family Feud was saying that the American national team from the Olympics treated him more like a family member than the Detroit Red Wings ever did. It has like thousands of likes. Now, maybe people know it's parody. I never, I never said that. I didn't see Dylan Larkin there. He never said that. It was saying that he said it to you? Yeah, yes, yes, yes. I don't think you would even be able to retain something from that night. Your head was in such a blender. See, okay, so look at rumor report and it says parody account, but I don't know. And then there's retweets of this that have thousands of likes. So people like this fucking guy, it's like, boys, that's fake. He never said that. I never said that. Come on, guys. We're better than that on the internet. You gotta, you gotta see the parody. Account up top. Luckily, they make them put that nowadays so they can't get away with just making things up. Dylan Larkin never said that. Do I think Dylan Larkin would now say, I'll go to Chicago? Not a chance in hell. I still think that they're not going to be very good. Maybe I'm completely wrong, but G's point is legit where now Bedard is getting to really learn from a guy who has done everything and had the exact same, not the same pressure. I wouldn't say Kane's pressure coming into the league was like Bedard's is. In terms of expectations and everything. No. You don't think Kane's was? No. No. No. Internet wasn't what it was back then. No, exactly. If anything, people thought Kane wasn't going to be as good because he was small. Like people were kind of like down on him. Yeah. And it was before, you know, Kane had lit up London and all that, but it was like, oh, is he even going to play his rookie year? And Bedard was like, oh, he's going to get 50 goals as an 18 year old. So it was the pressure going in. So he gets to lean on him in terms of like what, what it took to win, how long it takes to be patient and still grind. Now, granted, like it happened pretty quick for that Blackhawks team. Third year. They won his third year. His third year they won. Yeah. Yeah. Those guys were still on entry level. And they were in the depths of hell too. Remember how bad that arena was and stuff? Like they, they turned that entire franchise around. So he should get ownership of the team. Nevermind fucking 8 million a year for two years. Very true. Very true. And I think it's pretty cool too. I think Taves had a quote that he talked to him. He's like, I'm jealous or something like that. Like in a, in a joking way. It's so cool. What if they announced Taves is coming back? He comes out of retirement again. Double unretirement. Buffs on the lake. He's like, gets a phone call. He comes back. Who else? Jarmelson. I don't know if Seabrook could. I think he'd be, I think he'd be wearing two of Mincy's boots. You know, that freak Duncan Keith, he could hop on. He could play 16 minutes a game. No problem. That's what they should do. At least. Just bring them back to the room. Just have them all in the room constantly. Hire them to medical staff. Just like a fake medical staff job. they just get to hang out pretend to tape ankles talk to the boys about sharpie could probably still lace him up sharpie forgot about him hosa what a fucking team they had back then holy shit i mean bowling they just had gamers the fact that the coyotes i remember like six games it took you guys and i mean you were on the team i know but you played a second i played one second that that's that uh series which is kind of sick to be able to say i actually hey man in the mirror or man in the arena in the arena i still can't believe like of all the games like were you just so fired up that you were in a playoff game that you didn't put your tie down on you didn't do your like how do you forget your tie down i think because when they told me i was in like i fucking i was like wit on family feud i was like and then and then i remember stan wilson feeling bad because i think he always used to go by and like check everyone's and i'm like no man they're not gonna do that to me and i'm like no man they're not gonna do that to me and i'm like that one's on me and to be fair like i don't know if you've seen the rockets on the concourse i'd rather be up there than down here yeah i'm good anyways i got on the stat sheet yeah if you know tony the hawk come inside how did you know his name yeah i think it's tony spent so much time yeah um yeah oh that's funny shit we share the same locker room what once i put on his hair off after after warm up they'd be like yeah go down the hall and get unchanged in his room yeah and we're the ice girls we don't need you in the room between periods i love the way that they're they're ice girls they had the socks but they would put them the other way so the elastic part would be like above their knees so it would be and then the bottom part would go below this like the like below the skate you know what i'm saying the little things huh biz it's the little things it's the little things i mean they yeah you're saying that they put the sock on opposite and then the big open opening for where you usually put on the you know the garter belt that's at the bottom so it's like bell bottoms on the skates tightness around the around the thigh yeah that around the knee yeah you're like twitching right now as i say that no i'm just i think that it was just like a very subtle move by them and like it distinguished their ice girls more so than any other team's ice girls yeah along with like you'd go to dallas and they'd have the ones up top kind of like they are there they are right there like that is just come on boys i mean that's that's something the going to be a ton of complaints um i i don't know are they anywhere anymore does dallas still have them dallas still has it yeah well dallas also still has jason robertson how about that yes they do yes they do i am back that was just such a a smooth a smooth transition over to jason robertson signing signing a one-year deal segue that's the word i guess i'm not that smooth jason robertson i i gotta be honest guys i saw you signed a one-year deal i'm like i don't understand how this guy's on a one-year contract all the deals we've seen given out and he's playing again for everything on the table now he's a ufa after the season so that's what makes a lot of sense but 12 million bucks was the number okay i i just can't believe this guy and he was also offered an eight-year deal for around 120 million did not want to be on the seattle kraken i get that but he's back in dallas and let's see what happens now biz because the rumors aren't going anywhere it's not going to change now it's going to get worse so my understanding is he was offered jack eichel's contract so i don't know for a guy who's had as much much success as he's had in dallas a place where you're playing with no state tax a team that's going to be good like who whoever leaves dallas nobody really leaves dallas no that people don't want to leave there they love playing there and eichel's deal if you're not it's eight years 108 million so like 13 and i really want if you really wanted to be there he was offered that deal i don't get that and no no problem and he was offered a deal for 15 million from seattle okay well you don't want to go there and you don't want to play there and now you're being offered essentially with when that that tax implication comes in at 2028 in seattle your base you would be making around the same amount of money as you would signing an eight times 13 and a half in dallas so i don't know if this guy just wants to hit the absolute top spot of the market but how oftentimes do you get paid like the top of the market and get to decide where you're going to get the play as far as one of the best locations in the nhl like you're also trying to win so you're trying to maybe leave a little bit more on the table for other guys on the team or for more signings to come i think it's fucking crazy if he was offered that deal and he didn't sign it for for for for what for what are we talking here and now he signs a one-year deal he becomes an unrestricted free agent at the end of the year if i'm not mistaken correct so yeah all the control back to him on where he can go my understanding also is they had a few uh one or two other trades for him to even go places but he's not willing to go and sign there either so it seems like he's a pretty it's not very easy to keep him happy right now i think basically what he's telling them is he wants essentially what he was offered in seattle but when you when you're playing on a team like dallas in a market like that you're not going to be able to sign a free agent at the end of the year if i'm not mistaken correct i don't think you i don't think he should be getting paid 15 fucking million dollars did you guys see jeff merrick's report too he reported that uh he knows for a fact that some stars players are pretty pissed about the whole thing how this whole thing was handled by by robertson yeah they should go too well well for this year he kind of like saved them money a little bit he's only making 12 okay now the noise doesn't go away of like is robertson getting traded robertson getting traded i i just think i don't think he could do that he could do that he could come out and be like i really want to play in dallas anymore if that deal was offered to him i i just can't buy you saying i really want to be a dallas star buddy you just got offered 108 million dollars by them for eight years and and you're saying no now my thought is there's got to be one team he wants to play for right and by going to ufa then it's his decision also with the way the market's gone this summer we've talked endlessly about these numbers being it seems like he's got plenty of confidence in himself why wouldn't he with the numbers he puts up he's like i'm gonna go score 40 get 98 points again and i'm probably gonna get an eight-year deal for what 18 seven-year deal for 18 as ufa like if you're looking to get every single cent out of this thing i could never chirp somebody for that but you can't say you you really want to be in dallas that bad but like biz said like he you could do that in a seattle you could do that in a you know winnipeg or something like that but the teams that he's gonna want to go to are they gonna be able to pay him that money that's yes without knowing where he really wants to be i don't know but dude he is one of the guys that actually has the numbers come to be a ufa to be able to be like i'm getting max payment from someone yeah is it going to be a good team i don't know what great teams out there will have that money i mean i guess the cap is going up so everyone has a little bit more i could see a guy playing on a team that's kind of like you know middle pack maybe missing playoffs who's lighting it up like that wanting to eventually play it out like this where he can go to a good team and maybe even in some case take a discount but to be on a team who i would say that over the last like three four years every dallas has probably been in everybody's top six top seven teams right so if you're looking to win so you're essentially if jack eichel just signed that deal you're looking at top market money and you get to play in dallas where obviously he's comfortable and loves because he's had that much success he's gotten to play with unreal guys by the way which if you look across their team like like hay skin and fucking what's he making like eight eight million right so if you're hay skin and you're saying fuck buddy like i'm making eight and you won't even take like close to double what i'm making here like what the fuck's going on or at least one and a half and then you got you i mean what's rupe hints make he makes fucking peanuts too you got miko rontan who i i think everybody could agree stanley cup champion probably a better body of work than what he has eight times 12 so he's going to be paid a million and a half dollars more than ratan and then all of a sudden man they're pretty locked up on the wings man that's a pretty strong strong group and if you're on that team and g said that merrick said a few guys aren't happy about it like maverick bork is this up-and-coming player for their team and you know he's he's he's done a lot for their group like obviously he was due to get a raise but he's not going to be able to but with the uncertainty of what's going on with robertson all of a sudden like they can't commit to him to wait to see what goes on with him and then all of a sudden finally they signed a deal and he gets he's like i'll commit to you guys for one year it's like we just lost a valuable player that could have helped us win here because like not only are you being greedy about it but you don't even want to lock in long term so it's the thing is that so hints um heskin and wyatt johnson all make 8.4 and then rontan and 12 it's like dude you did 13 and a half like we're all kind of like if they're all pulling on the same rope here which by the way like this this is how it goes some guys are are more into just earning every single dollar they can but if you look at it from robertson's side okay like you see all right well look at my numbers compared to conor bedard's yes he's younger he just got 15 a year like i'm not taking less than that okay then you might have to play in a place like you might have to play on a team that would do anything for a stud and pay whatever you want but you're not going to be on a very good team whereas dallas I think everyone would be shocked if they weren't in the mix again come come the playoffs this year like they just have a great roster they got a great goalie they have an awesome thing there it's a great city to play in so yeah it's surprising just odd if he did get offered that that's crazy and like from what I've heard is like he got they played hardball with him on his contract last time he was trying to get everything trying to get back at them maybe a little bit but it's like dude at what point or both sides have to win unless you want to go somewhere else he should just say okay just trade me it doesn't matter where but like you have to either play ball with the team if you really want to be there or fucking leave yep um another signing this one happy for this guy Massachusetts guy John Marino the Utah the Utah Mammoth boom 6.75 a year for an eight-year deal so what was that over 50 million dollars million I was like do you guys know him I don't know him personally but I've heard amazing things about him I guess he's hilarious hell of a player too now that's a that's a great payday for him Keith said they might have thought it was Dan Marino but but I mean John Marino I think Pasha raved about him with his after his days with the devils too Pasha was a big fan well he was a pit first was he there first and then he was a big fan of John Marino and then he was a big fan of John Marino and then he was a big fan of John Marino and then they kind of I thought he actually was pretty decent there and then they they had that off season where they ended up getting rid of Matheson and Marino and then they kind of went to the shitter and then he went over to to New Jersey and I mean I don't know what happened after that yep three years in Pittsburgh two years in Jersey and then last year with Utah 35 games one goal 13 assists 14 points fucking beautiful what a league 5 unbelievable now I know he can defend he could skate right like he's a hell of a player bravo bravo to him because that's absolutely beautiful and that's the timing aspect that biz is mentioning about just hitting the market at the right time you hit that market and there's a bunch of UFA great defensive which doesn't seem to really happen anymore and that number is probably different but the cap's going up and there's no UFAs and you get 50 million dollars so I'm so happy for that guy and I never met him leave it leave it at that leave it at that um also interestingly enough uh torts came out torts came out I think torts was bummed he wanted he wanted he wanted to go back with that Vegas team and I I totally get where he's coming from he comes in there they don't lose a game for what was it like 11 games in a row they go on this run they're dominating they just run into a juggernaut in Carolina in in one of the best Stanley Cup finals I'll ever I'll ever see and he's told the next day apparently right when he sat down the next day yeah you're done so this this but once again I'm not going to lie to you I'm not going to lie to you I'm not Gary they're not cutthroat they are not cutthroat by the way Gary texted me Gary texted me he wants to do with us a sandbagger fishing a fishing style sandbagger so I said okay Gary biz actually uh he's in love with fly fishing he's obsessed with expert fly fishermen expert fly fishermen um but but I I just I I kind of lost lost my train of thought there speaking of Gary saying that they're cutthroat because they told torts see you later you're done do you think if they won the cup this year they would have kept them they said they already had it made up in their mind that they were going to that to their AHL coach and that they thought it would be unfair to just throw him in the mix like that uh going into playoffs because all of a sudden then like the fans are judging him by his first playoff performance and I think they obviously made the right call with with what strings that torts were was able to pull but I was kind of surprised after he came in there worked his magic that maybe that wouldn't have altered their decision to maybe say hey let's run with him for a one-year deal and see how he does and maybe it didn't even work out halfway through the year and then boom you're off to the new AHL coach like that I was pretty shocked especially the next day and then I don't want to call it uh I guess I can't call it cutthroat because if that's the plan they had in mind and what they told the the AHL coach I guess they would have been gutless towards him but but my opinion is that they're going to have to do it my god to go on a run like that and then get shown the door the next day that's that's tough that's tough but he even said it like when he came over he was like oh I'm not even really doing anything I'm just kind of letting them do their thing I'm not even really coaching it's like oh yeah maybe you should have been like actually I changed everything this team was brutal I'm the reason why they went on an 11 game heater so maybe he kind of screwed himself a little bit I put a new curve on Eichel's stick I changed a few guys tape jobs made Hurdle get new skates yeah he's like I fucking did it all he said I took the cement off his boots he said oh I want to coach I want to coach now I'm not sure if that happens and that's where I am in my career but I wanted to coach that Vegas team and I told Kelly McCrimmon that um I think we were I think we were joking about this when this all went down he realistically every year now should just go to an underperforming team in December January Mariano Rivera and and and that might be a new thing maybe it is I have no idea it's like Ovi Ovi only playing power play and like I would give him the extra player as the DH it's like we can let torts do steroids too if he was just like oh for sure well he is he's doing those uh he's doing the tan peptides the one that make your skin darker but I for sure agree I think he's opened up a whole new category of just like a guy coming in the last month of the season and let's see what we can do only to a team though that was like supposed to be a team that was to be really good that isn't good like it can't be like a brutal team that's not going to get in the playoffs you got to go in when you're like fighting for that eighth spot seventh spot and you were supposed to be maybe leading your division boom coach gets gas February torts comes in as he says doesn't really coach just pumps their tires he's like me looking at myself in the mirror you look great you look awesome don't worry about not having a goal in 39 games you're the best player we got he just rolls in the tv with the with the VHS and he puts your poem up there your man in the mirror poem look at this guys if this guy could host a podcast we can win the Stanley Cup he can't even speak look at him uh tell me your top three teams that you would like to see him coach like let's just assume it was next year at the end of the year like who are some groups that you would like to see him go to I could see him in Jersey I was I was gonna say they need a little bit of a I think some of these guys may that's a good maybe he could actually get the the Hughes brothers into a club in New York City oh my god he's that good of a coach that was crazy I don't think that's part of this game oh what what who is in charge of that club like how are you making Jack Hughes and Quinn Hughes wait outside that let's we got to give the back story in context if people didn't see the clip or or I'd never seen it either well I mean I think uh was it you sent it Yance no I think I might have sent it I just saw it and I well I said I'd rather you put a bullet in my head than than stand and be Jack Hughes and standing outside like with people videoing you you can't get and the bouncers like move over move over it was just like this this is not a guy that has to be standing outside waiting to get into a club with his other brother who's like the best defenseman in the world you know him and and they're standing there these gold medal heroes uh because don't don't forget Quinn Hughes scored that OT winner against Sweden they both were heroes for our country and they're standing outside this club like pigeons it's like that can't happen like the minute you can't walk into that club you got to get out you got to get out to a cab and go hide and then come back when you can literally walk in you're too you're too famous too successful too handsome of a guy at this point to be standing outside a club waiting like a pigeon so I but at the same time whoever's running the club it's on him buddy you need to get that guy in immediately and not have an enormous bouncer saying move over little boy get out of the way we have a tiktok uh influencer coming in before you that's what I just found unacceptable 22 nightclub in New York City needs to have its its head examined whoever's running the show there I don't know if he can continue to do the job like is he gonna have is he gonna have like a New York Yankee player standing didn't look like the type of guy that would be dialed into hockey um and but like you said though when you do what you've done for your country like the Hughes did and and uh over in Italy and bring home a gold I think you got to have a guest list and be prepared you can't be pigeon toss them into the GA line although although respect to those guys for the way that they handled it that's what I was gonna say they weren't they weren't barking back at them they they stood there like gentlemen they waited their turn I don't know if they ended up even going in the nightclub but they just texted Jeff they just they got they got some help from Jeff come inside and uh finally they did they're still waiting at the bar line they didn't even get a table they're waiting for a drink yeah now the other news that Devils fans were I'd say disagreeing a little bit with was that Jack and Quinn Hughes also walked out Morgan Wallen at his concert he does those walkouts with famous people from the from the area or whatever well at the same time Jesper Bratt's wedding was going on so I think Devils haters uh maybe fans were in disagreement like why is he doing this and not at Jesper Bratt's wedding I don't know I I that's kind of a tough one you're trying to figure out why he's doing this and not at Jesper you're doing all this stuff no yes granted you're at a concert but is he not did he not want to fly over to sweden and go to the wedding i guess it doesn't look great but that's not something that anyone knows anything about right like i i don't know was your opinion that he should have been at his teammates wedding no it's like i know you got to remember like my last few years it was like you were going to a wedding every other weekend every weekend so he could have been like i was at a wedding the weekend before i need a weekend off i'm sure he already already said no it's not like he told yes we're brad he was coming and then they see him on tv walking out morgan wallen so it's like it's one of those things you can't go to every single wedding you're traveling all that stuff like you said they're skating working out so i would never blame a guy for not going to the wedding and not to mention like when i got married i was hoping people said no to come to the wedding because it saves you a couple bucks a biz yeah yeah well i don't know that yet but yeah it won't be an open bar at my wedding it'll be cash only oh god no god no god just only pink windy available still charging people for it i i do i do uh i do remain steadfast though that that my guy jack hughes right here i'm blocking his jersey is going to have a season for the record books this year i'm talking 115 points dominant i i think we're about to see some really really scary things for him and we know what quinn hughes does if he's healthy both of them they'll be i think quinn hughes gets 100 points as well that's the hundred is the hundred point bet with posher is that over it's over okay yeah and yeah that that's like it was it's gonna happen and it's gonna be way over 100 this year mark it down i've been hot this year with my take so i'm telling you take that bet to the bank i wonder what his over under on points is on the drafting sports book what did what did you think of it i also think like you only get so much time in the summer and these guys have been kind of on a like a whirlwind trip uh like oh they they had to play in the olympics well not they don't all get to play with each other either so when you get to experience like a morgan wallen concert and they're asking you to walk out with them too it's a pretty fucking special moment and it's at uh so i know jack played the university of michigan no he went right to the nhl from the national program wow but but quinn did and luke and luke okay did luke get to walk out with him or no i don't know this also this summer with the two hughes brothers jack and quinn everywhere which they should be if this could be lighting a fire under luke right like i i i have to get to this level so this could be a great thing for him devil's fans to be happy well and simone nembeck got moved to calgary right so it opens things up a little bit more like sometimes you just you're in between like okay do we give him the reps or do we give him the reps it's like okay well now it's like you got the one option right so yeah a little bit more pressure on luke this year coming in i think but uh i think he'll rise to the occasion i just find it funny people were like upset he's not at jesper bratt's wedding like jesper bratt might have been like no worries but i get it like see it see it camp and people are fuming over it on the internet so that cracked me up but i think it's time to throw it over to maddie benears we sat and we haven't spoken great about the crack in this episode i guess but this guy's awesome and he came on with us at the draft in nashville years back and it's crazy how many years he's played and he was way more open with us great conversation over an hour he's an awesome guy so he came and sat down with us during the finals when we were all in boston so let's throw it over to him now this episode of spit and chickles is brought to you by body armor flash iv an official partner of the national hockey league flash iv is packed with 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were on the sauce i was that's when i'm back when i was getting after it nashville i was even worse that was even worse i was getting after it i was my fucking national vendera is the cowboy interviewing like but it was up that was when you didn't sleep before the um gets left bx uh oh that's right yeah slept for 30 minutes on the ride to the course yeah hitting the old work bench hey maddie oh man but maddie buddy it's crazy because you played 10 games after your second year in michigan left and then four full years in the nhl you've only missed five games in four years which is very impressive so how are you feeling right now how's the summer going good good yeah summer's good summer's nice to be nice to be home um i mean i love it i you know love being in seattle but i love being home with my buddies my friends my family you know just getting a nice routine at home you know i used to work out with yans and i was just a pup too um where do you train now i would train at bu now we used to be at eps and now we're all a lot of the guys have migrated over to bu because we're all kind of living in the city so skate there after we'll skate there a little bit of warrior with some of the bees guys or you know go down to there you go to up to wuber and you kind of go like a little bit outside the city okay it's crazy how many guys like when we started there was what five of maybe some ahl guys but not the ton of guys now well like your group there's so many boston guys around your skates and workouts must be unreal yeah so will smith said they live together in the summer center of the sharks what and i go what do you got he's like well he's like we are um defending champs of a co-ed softball league hell yeah we are the south one the champs of the south of course it's co-ed too i'm like oh shocker yeah shocker they got old who's pitching team bonding it is it is actually a blast because i'm in i'm in another one i'm actually double co-defending i'm in one and hang a mass where our name's bank street um and we play with like it's like let's say 15 teams all like kids from hang them or like outside of hang them every like different year like this is the last year we can do this we're aging out yeah yeah so we won it last year and then smitty heard that he was like we got to do one in south dean it actually has been a blast we won it last year it was pretty pretty fun and we're back again this year we're one and one we lost our first game so i know um why are you aging out i don't know the other of the other one there's just younger yeah it's just my high school kid it's like all right i'm the nhl now yeah planning it's a hang them high freshman that played for the football team mcconaughey and uh and uh dazed and confused but spinny said you gotta ask him about our pickleball battle so you two are just like head to head i know he said that he was gonna bring this up i'll get i'll give him his you're getting drummed by him aren't you i got demolished like and i would say i'm pretty athletic guy like i'm you know i grew up playing every sport and like that's what we do in our free time it's like all right you want to go play hoops perfect you want to go play softball pickleball pickleball he shelled me like i didn't get a point the first game we played and then i was like all right now i'm like sweating out there i'm running back and forth and you're rattled yeah i was rattled he's a great small area game buddy i love i love i absolutely love it and i suck at tennis like i can't i can't get the top spin on it so my ball goes into two or two isn't a workout no one-on-one you're not always a bagging yeah at one point keith's brother brian and i i think we went like 15 days in a row like three out of five sets games to 11 like good workouts your heart rate gets going too nice because you're doing the quick feet yeah it's like you're doing the ladder drill but you're not having to think about it why are you laughing you don't do the ladder anymore no is that not one of the workouts but i don't know if i would say pickleball is like the ladder well because you're because you're kind of like going like this the whole time yeah yeah quick feet quick feet quick feet quick feet exactly i used to love the ladder drill i used to have quick feet surprisingly i bet you did i was a d-man work in the corners mostly and then they switched me to forward and then i had to go all up and then you had to get on the ladder a lot smitty drives me nuts though because he is one of those kids that's just very good at everything oh no you're playing golf with them he's smack i'm like okay enough i did dust him in golf last week you got him all right good good you guys uh like do you guys have a group text going where when he's walking in with these like these outfits and all these girls are commenting all the time you guys just give it to him not really like i don't give it to him much i mean he's got his he's got his stuff figured out a little bit well you know what happened that woman who did the video of him in celebrini yeah he's like yeah after that it got a little insane oh and then he was like now practices at san jose there's like hundreds of girls with their practices they call it the aquarium because of that show no i'm fucking serious man really well not because of the shark that would make sense too but that because of that show yeah fucking all the birds it is insane and it's it's constant it's constant are you guys the same age i'm uh two years old um um god i don't even know when we got tight it was just one summer and he was we were skating together and came buddies yeah became but not at not at ntdp together either no he was the year i left so he was actually no yeah i was in michigan by the time he was there um my family kind of knew his parents because his mom went out with him to michigan and my mom did the same uh and i kind of like knew of him and then probably like two three years ago we started like skating together in the summers working out kind of had a good time together um and then i think i started i used to live with berard in the summers uh the guys with the rangers i kind of got down and then he went back to i like living with someone and smitty kind of needed someone to live with in boston so it worked out well what is the routine like in the summer because we talk a lot how guys are on their skates all all summer we never did that are you skating now pretty constantly or no not yet no okay more like my biggest thing is you know getting bigger and so for me like going on the ice at this point probably wouldn't be the smartest thing for me at least but it's different for every guy like uh for me it's like all weight room until probably next week and then i'll get back on the ice and start doing like two three times a week okay um yeah if you're getting on like like july's early oh for sure we were i just said that was one of the things i regretted the most is i wish i would have just not even to like bag myself and conditioning it was more about just staying on your edges less ladder more skates that's the problem man i was going too hard on the ladder drill man yeah well i did that last summer too we're like i went to worlds and then by the time i was back everyone's already skating and i was like oh fuck i gotta yeah i gotta skate now because everyone everyone in the gym skating so i didn't really have that much time off last summer but you won the gold but we won yeah so that was sweet so yeah i was giving take but then this summer i was like all right i'm gonna take some time off who were you playing with over there i played with smitty a little bit uh i was i was with smitty and gautier a little bit and then i was with thommer and frankie nazar so you got to win it yeah i was on the ice though when we won it but yeah we won though right yeah that must have been such a cool experience first time in like 80 years we also had a great squad like yeah that team was loaded fun it looked fun group going out yeah that's where was that we were in denmark herning denmark in the middle of nowhere there was like one bar i should have a funny one from that um but one of the most like demoralizing moments of all time we just are in the round of the world and we're like oh my god we're in the round of the world and we're like oh robin we were playing pretty well too and we got shelled by switzerland on a back-to-back we played them you would have thought these guys were wayne gretzky out there skating around it was like the russians in a switzerland jersey unbelievable i was like what is we were all like what is going on and so we finished the game and like you know i don't think we had anything the next day so we were like all right we're gonna go center of town and eat some food and have a couple beers i don't know what we're going to do we're going to eat dinner we're going to eat dinner i don't know what we're going to do we're going to eat dinner we're going to eat dinner we're going to eat dinner every single switzerland fan that was in denmark was in on this street and they started they all stood up we walked right through the middle all of them they all stood up and started like doing this chant it was like we had basically laughing at you it was so embarrassing oh i think i went home after that they sent me home i was like i gotta go to bed yeah then we played them in the finals okay all right so yeah payback yeah we got a little payback there but yeah it was it was a great time i've got a little payback there but yeah it was it was a great time i've got a little i would definitely go back yeah this year just kind of didn't feel it yeah this year just wasn't yeah i just wanted to get home and train yeah that was kind of the biggest thing for me this summer was like i gotta get bigger you know you look at a lot of you know sentiment around the league you know something they're they're bigger they're stronger guys that helps them with you know in the corners and draws you know just like shutting down other guys as well so that was for me that's kind of like my next it's it's a fine line though because you're trying to like gain weight and gain size but yet the game it seems like year over year it just keeps getting faster and faster so how do you kind of find that balance like what do you do for workouts and how are you uh how do you how do you feel that you're like kind of retaining the weight yeah it's just like putting on more muscle it's not really like i don't want like a belly you know no not like no but yeah it's just like putting on more muscle and i do think that for myself as well like putting on more muscle yeah it's going to give me more weight but also it's going to make me faster right we're having more muscle in my legs and my butt like those areas are just they're going to help my skating as well so for me it's kind of which is your strength already which is one of my strengths so kind of a double-edged sword that's why i was like i can't i can't go this year and kind of just went right back home and just got in the weight room so what do you like what are you up like five ten pounds already i lose a lot during the year so i'm probably up like eight to ten already wow another like eight to ten after that like over the course of a game like you weigh yourself before and after usually before and after a game not necessarily but i'll lose like after a practice like probably three or four pounds okay and mostly water weight but you just gotta like pound water and get it back i remember playing with guys where they would lose 10 pounds over the course of the game because they just leak so oh yeah especially our goalies i think had that issue for a while um but yeah it is so annoying i would rather have probably have in my situation than the other way of not being able to lose it yeah that's the tough what is how has it been as far as coming in where an organization is pretty much new to like the changes over the past like four years since you've been there like is it is it you know they obviously getting used to a new city but like they're getting used to having an nhl team and maybe changing things and doing things differently yeah well we're pretty fortunate like they love sports in seattle love it great fan base there for unreal you guys are all there for the outdoor game yeah it was awesome yeah they love sports regardless of what sport it is seahawk they don't necessarily they're starting to understand it now but there were definitely some times like the first year the second year like a goal gets called back and they're like still going nuts you're like oh that's off by four feet that one didn't count uh but no they've that's been great the organization is unbelievable like the okay holy cow uh rank you like the rank the rank is sweet like there's some really they they the owners really did it up right you know they were i think they were telling us about like they were pretty over budget when they first built the rank and built all the stuff because they were like all right well if we're gonna do this we got to do it right do it the right way so they're they're pretty awesome about that and the way they they the way they treat us out there is pretty second i mean i haven't played on other teams but i would say like it's pretty unreal well even from i'm sure you guys talk and summer workouts yeah you guys got like yeah we were talking about it yesterday when we were in with phoenix like the league owned us it was we were buying our own lunches like now everything is there for you guys yeah and yeah the utah guys talking about how great it is over there for sure yeah compared compared to phoenix yeah it's funny because your rookie year you guys you made the you know you make the playoffs you go to win didn't they upset colorado yeah game seven and then went to game seven the second round with dallas yeah yeah so and then all of a sudden it's been you know more difficult right for sure like it part of it probably is like it was great making the playoffs and the fans love it but you didn't end up getting like another high pick with yourself right you know like that's probably something where you look at both sides it was great to get in but oh we we almost maybe might have been better off being like worse that yeah yeah i don't know i don't know it's not that's a goal no it's not you're you're right i mean it's tough regardless like you look at yeah gosh you look at this year like we were we were in a spot for so long yeah you started off good started off great you know we went to second half of the year after the break and just couldn't couldn't really get that mojo going again get that confidence the team you know we got really hot right before the break um so you know sometimes it's just a little bit of that it's like are you hot at the right time the right time in the year you know you look at god you look at detroit too like obviously there's all that stuff going on right now but you know it's just a little bit of but like they were in a playoff spot for almost the entire year yeah mean so and i think we got enough veteran presence to like you know get us over that edge of like okay we put ourselves in a great spot this year to make it now the last 20 games you gotta just like make sure you're you're winning you're just playing winning hockey like that's all that matters at that point and for you it's your fourth year i think you've had three coaches already right like is that coach killer no not like you're talking about no bringing in veteran guys like brandon montour comes over guys like that who have won like if you're not used to a coach like you got to have the guys in the locker room who are helping out and i know you've been around four years i'm sure you're earlier too but having those veteran guys must be huge yeah and being in seattle getting those guys to come there is huge as well yeah no having those guys are is huge you know guys that have been in playoffs you know won cups you know we have you know schwarzy in there we had montour you know vince thom we got a lot of guys that have uh stevenson we got a bunch of guys that have won it that have done it that know how to do it um you know i think the organization also i think part of the reason why we've had different coaches is like they want to win now and that's pretty important to them i think our you know our ownership group and you know management group is trying to be as aggressive as possible and like get new people get new guys so i think that could be a potential reason for the turnover as well as you know the lack of success um throughout the throughout the team or the team you know not doing as well as we should have so yeah it's tough it's tough year to year but you know it was pretty promising last year i i think we we had a really good team we we did a good enough job to hopefully make it in we didn't make it in and you know hopefully next year we do i was out there for that winter classic game and uh we we ended up meeting you guys at that bar we saw you at the one where yeah queen and beer hall yeah that was a fun time is that where you guys were at that bar yeah we saw you at the one where yeah queen and beer hall yeah that was a fun time where they were watching the is that where you guys were at that bar yeah we saw you at the one where yeah queen and beer hall yeah that was a fun time where you guys were watching the is that where you guys your local watering hole guys were watching the is that where you guys your local watering hole around you just trying to get some action yeah around you just trying to get some action yeah yeah you're saying i was yeah oh i got some oh you're saying i was yeah oh i got some oh yeah yeah i think he didn't i think i did yeah i think he didn't i think i did but uh it seemed like you guys like but uh it seemed like you guys like basically every guy was out yamamoto was basically every guy was out yamamoto was out his old man oh my god it was that guy out his old man oh my god it was that guy out his old man oh my god it was that guy funny hey oh yeah he was yeah everyone funny hey oh yeah he was yeah everyone funny hey oh yeah he was yeah everyone was just in one oh he was in one but it was just in one oh he was in one but it was just in one oh he was in one but it seemed like you guys had a very tight seemed like you guys had a very tight seemed like you guys had a very tight group no we do we do we have a great group no we do we do we have a great group no we do we do we have a great group yeah that group of guys is unreal group yeah that group of guys is unreal group yeah that group of guys is unreal but but but i was with ebbs when he was a rookie i was with ebbs when he was a rookie i was with ebbs when he was a rookie living he tells me so many stories about you yeah we're gonna leave those on it was a frat house we used to go there and hang we played it was a legitimate frat house but now he's what do they have three kids oh yeah one on the way too oh shit oh yeah they're gonna keep wow yeah he's such a good guy man he's captain right yeah yeah what's he like in the room is he loud in the room is he more kind of example i think he's a little bit of both like he doesn't like i don't think he's talking when he doesn't feel like he needs to but he'll always jump in if you know if he needs to i think it's fiery too he gets when he gets a little fiery but he doesn't he try he's pretty good at staying pretty calm in the room and you know being somewhat collected and but yeah he just like love i mean he loves the game oh yeah love you got you got if you're playing that long he loves hockey more than maybe any guy i've ever met and as he wants to watching it consuming it like watching the league all the time about it it's yep it's his life i mean it's all of our lives right but like that guy like he wants to win so badly like it's it's his everything so that's pretty cool to have a guy like that on your team and also like watch that he's kind of hockey's uh version of michael strahan he's got that little gap in his teeth hey he likes like his signature yeah he does he loves yeah we used to chirp that he's like yeah this is me though you're right he knows what if you ever ended up taking a puck in the mall he'd make him he'd make him put a gap in no way for sure that's his look the first ever canada's hero we're talking about yeah the world junior legend ebbs himself does he still talk about that all the time yeah oh he loves world juniors how about his didn't he have the greatest first nhl goal of all time oh yeah i think he talks about that too no he doesn't bring that one up as much but we bring it up because it was like it was unbelievable on the kill what was the first one was it pretty cutthroat i know it was on our podcast uh for the olympics this year like in in your guys locker room who you know like rooting for rooting for the americans oh yeah yeah that's great there was no like i mean i was fully on the americans obviously but yeah the boys were they were it was a split love actually no it wasn't a split locker room there's i was just two americans i was just gonna say me and joey and then i think johnny hayden might have been might have been up with us at that point and i was so yeah there was a split locker room no it was all canadians all euros i'm looking through the roster though that berkeley catten's pretty good huh yeah that kid looks like he's gonna be a player pretty high pick really good you think you got something going there with him yeah i love his game he's good guy great guy you know really really skilled smart pretty pretty dang funny off the ice too like he's just a he's just an all-around character the boys just ask it to boys love him he's a saski guys man and we that's three too many we got we need a couple we need a couple americans is what we need but no uh no burke's the man i really like him we might be we might be bunking up next year we'll see he lived with stevenson this year but you're the veteran now that you have the younger i'm just the solo guy yeah he's the single young guy yeah he wants a buddy to live with him just like you yeah exactly but i was 10 years old of them though you see me as their parents yeah who's like an under cover guy on that team that no one would know but just an absolute beaut off the ice on my team yeah uh mahera really great didn't he play in florida yeah he did yeah in florida he's he's the man i think he's just an undercut like you said undercover yeah he's got a cup but he goes to arizona um but yeah he's a he's a beauty great great guy we got a lot of really really great guys on our team so i could kind of go down the list but that's the first one that kind of comes to mind that matters yeah i saw were you golfing in like some video content recently like i saw you yeah that's when i took smitty down that was oh that was getting him on you gotta ask him about that because he where was that oh where was this what you sit and was this what was this for i don't know it was something like he was doing like a day in the life of him first of all he's like hey you want to play golf tomorrow i'm like yeah absolutely doesn't tell you there's cameras doesn't tell us any of us hung so now i'm like crap like i gotta have my game today i wasn't feeling good this week probably better you didn't know probably i saw and i came out and i was striping the ball beautiful oh what a feeling really nice and i just he did not stripe the ball at all he was kind of shit i i uh not not to humble brag here watch your toes about the name drop here noah khan dm'd me so i i've been well this is podcast talk i've mentioned to my wife about that like i'm gonna need to get in touch with him to get tickets to the show yeah me too i think i'm going already i'm okay okay i love this guy's music and he's documentary so i heard his documentary is one of the the cool what that's bergeron's documentary so you're doing uh patrice you're doing a documentary he's like i don't think so like oh sorry we just have patrice bergeron doc for the notes we had shut up you guys are fucking brutal here i didn't say i didn't say um here i'm gonna pull up exactly what he said no so then i dm'd him but i don't have a public instagram and i'm sure he gets a million i'm like i'm gonna need biz to set me up with this guy i think he basically messaged me to get you to come to the concert he goes um truth man i love this guy he goes he goes i don't know if uh if wit has an ig but i heard you boys missed the last fenway well i mentioned on one of the shows i was like i i missed his show in boston last okay well maybe got back to him yeah and it was a big show yeah the best concert of the summer last year it was so i moved back to boston like i can't miss this that's my top my top spotify thing is that concert on spotify at fenway yeah family come on this summer did his family come on yeah like on stage yeah they did the last show yeah and his dad was like a professor at mit but in the this year i think he announced two shows at fenway ended up doing he's doing four now because they were selling out so quick right so he goes i don't know i don't know if wit has an ig which he does but he keeps it under wraps but i heard you boys missed the last fenway show and wanted to offer up some tickets for this summer and if you guys are interested no pressure haha just wanted to offer him up love you guys he's love you guys he's trying to get in don't read the message you're not in i go i go i go holy fuck noel khan what's going on so i said back i go what's shaking bud we love you come on chicklets he goes you guys are great let's play some golf yeah he's a golf junkie i think so i go sandbagger ha ha ha question mark absolutely send him my number i go where do you live full time then he goes uh he goes i'm so ass i'm in nashville and vermont he goes i'll shoot you a text don't know if he ever did and or maybe he didn't i thought it was someone fucking with me and i said i'm gonna fucking get security on you and and there's a chance you you let noah khan sleep on a text he probably texted definitely now that he's 5 000 unread he's dm'd you now you can just dm him back yeah just facetime him right yeah just oh he just hit me back right now thursday at nine o'clock i missed it i go do you have a manager's contact he goes i don't know him uh oh i asked if you wanted to golf with celebrini and smith yeah and he goes i don't know him personally but i know the guys i'm a hockey fan but not a super locked into it that would be hilarious yeah hit up such and such okay so we got him locked okay i think that we need to get you celebrini and smith on stage chugging a beer singing a song with him yeah indeed that'd be big and then maybe witness wife and he'll be in that grace getting back rubs for the next six years well she said to me like 10 times since i showed her that message she's like have you like checked up on this like what's the deal i'm like no no i'll get in touch with biz little do i know he's messaging you're not even responding so that's maybe the issue here we got the manager's contact so maybe you haven't followed up what no no i dm'd him though and i you know it's just a pigeon like no it's not an official account or anything but it would be cool if i know that you You're a good golfer uh i would assume smitty's great and then celebrini's man i don't know celebrating his game but i'm assuming he'd be pretty good yeah and then maybe maybe noah khan could be your like extra shot we'll bring him in considering he's ass like maybe as you're like you're mulling we just have him sing have him caddy and sing because we can't play music during the sandbaggers but he's a big golf guy he doesn't want to be on the sidelines yeah he's got to be playing he's watching yeah i know imagine we're like hey we know you love golf but sorry we're just gonna have you sing for the skull cars here's your karaoke machine we got you in your own car this is your golf partner ra rear admiral we drive around him all day uh enjoy the ceviche and egg sandwich oh i just fucking broke my nut i mean the way that legs are the nhl boys are buzzing like getting them on stage to chug a beer would be incredible oh yeah so that's that's one of your top artists oh yeah oh yeah he's the man yeah i love listening to him any trips this summer for you or anything like that yeah i love listening to him i love listening to him i love listening to anything i got a golf trip okay where are you going we're staying at actually the fantilly adam fantilly his parents have a place there oh they must have been good two places and they like rented out through the whole summer and so it's we're doing like a michigan yeah michigan golf trip is the brother going to oh yeah yeah because the man oh he's awesome oh what a guy he's a wrecking ball where's he playing there he's just graduated oh he graduated yeah we actually just had a trip we did another little like michigan getaway weekend on for the memorial day went up to the dylan duke's kid uh dylan duke and tyler duke their house and there was like 40 guys it was unbelievable i'll say when i went to michigan i've never seen a team as close as those guys like the crew that you guys had in it was like the truscott's like that the fantilly's like i think that was the class you came in with right yep those guys the hockey house there like you guys talk about your time at michigan man like that that culture that they have there is it's unlike anything i've seen and before you go sorry like a mass guy going to michigan that's kind of traitor out of nowhere coach killer and traitor those are my two subtitles uh no i mean i wasn't supposed to go you kind of told that last time like i was supposed to go to harvard then that all kind of went into the wind when covid happened so i ended up going to michigan because i knew truscott and bordolo those are guys that i like they had power they had johnson they had we were we were stacked and so we got there and it was just an unreal mix of like we had older guys that you know loved hockey took it super seriously also love to get after it and go have a great time and then we had a lot of young guys coming in like my class was a lot of young guys that like probably took hockey a little bit more on the serious side and like didn't love going out but it was a great mesh of like the older guys kind of forced us all out the young guys all listened and went out like we didn't have one one post game where like we didn't have everybody there ever not once not once regardless of if you drank if you didn't drink at all like you just had to be there and we were all there all the time and we had a blast doing it oh my gosh was it fun rex the gato shots rex oh yeah oh yeah gato shots of rex uh skeeps was a blast even my freshman year i don't know i don't know if i can say this but in covid we were having a ton of parties it was the best i was partying it was the best no such thing there you guys are the super spreaders oh yeah we were it was like the frats got canceled the frats all got canceled and the bars were closed so the hockey team was like prime location now everybody came to our parties it was unreal it's never been it was never like that ever and it never will be again everything else is open exactly it was oh my god upstairs and down you should have seen yeah oh boy you should have seen uh monday mornings like we would monday mornings we never wore masks ever no monday morning every guy had a mask just to clean every guy every guy to mask out we all had to get tested on mondays and it was like a pretty scary morning we were all like fuck like oh no one of us has it for sure one of us has it never never anyone got it or like not until we got it which is the craziest coincidence of all time the weekend before the tournament we were going to the national tournament we were like we're not going out so everyone stayed in we were like we can't risk this after we just did it all year all year we can't risk it this i'm smart up here boys so no one went out not one guy went out we were like all right we're gonna do this we're we're all gonna do this together and fucking a guy got it right right when we got there and then we got kicked out of the tournament and then we got back back on the horse but it was you guys you couldn't even play in the tournament we didn't one guy had it yeah one guy one guy had it and then based on like the rules at that point in time it was like one guy had it and then other guys had to quarantine for like two weeks because they were around that that was the fake that was the fake world we all lived in when i got yelled at and we're not carrying down the groceries and they're not in the garage well enough i'm like ah we have to kill you oh wait hey golf's open again but you can't have breakers uh rakes in the bunkers i'm like looking back now you couldn't play in the ncaa tournament because the guy had the cold i was just drilling putts just to hit the flag yep that birdie that's right oh yeah the cup around yeah the cup yeah then they had the little handle to lift the ball in a cup but nobody used it i kind of wish they still had yeah it was kind of nice butter i didn't use it though um what do you use it for i don't know i don't know i don't what do you what do you make of how like the college hockey rise and how popular it is and just like the growth of it in general and guys playing in the ahl and then going back to college now yeah you see some of that it's crazy i love i mean it's great for college hockey i think it's rightfully so like i think college we would always have these debates like canadian junior league versus college i don't even think it's close to me but it does suck now and i went on when they and i was like this is amazing for college hockey it is and it's made it you know it's definitely above that now but as an american kid it is like wow american kids are are kind of getting gonna get crushed here a little bit because every good canadian player is going with chl and then ncaa yeah they'll get maybe they'll get pushed out a little they need more teams it's gonna be more appropriate yeah they need more teams more teams would be great that's some south teams yeah there's all these club teams you probably see oh yeah it's not what about out in seattle there must be university of washington let's get them a program they have a good club program yeah they should i mean why not i think they have a oregon oregon has a really good club really i mean they have like they take their jersey there i see all the videos like the montages of all these teams but oklahoma state yeah they're coming like they have 10 d1 transfers that club team i saw that 10 division one transfer to a club team how fucked is that yeah they're gonna be low and those kids were getting money and they have a jet there's no regulation it's called the hockey they had a private jet and they were getting cash and they're like yeah this is unbelievable this is oh yeah oh yeah no i think it's good i mean i think it's good i think it'll even out regardless like there's gonna be a lot of canadian guys that stay in canada um but it's definitely gonna up the competition what would be your pitch to go to michigan because i norado i mean that guy is impressive you sit down with him he looks at your coach he was my assistant when i was there okay and then he got the head job and he got the head job when i left what was it mel mel is mel is my first and second year mel pearson okay yeah yeah what's my pitch to go to me i mean it's unbelievable heaven on earth yeah really kidding me yeah we talk about it all the time it's like a different like being from boston you know bcbu and harvard and northeastern right like it's just a different echelon of school like it's so saturday game day the football everyone's marching over this is we've never experienced anything like that no we i i would have never known at all unless i went there so it was unbelievable but the hockey's unbelievable the way you get treated like you get treated just as good as you are in the nhl at michigan they give you meals you know you get game day meal game day meals chef the night before you know you get the money you get for your rent and food is is like a party yeah but you you just get treated so well um and you're going you're getting a great education too you're going to michigan university great education and just so much fun so like you kind of have it's like the trifecta and all the sports are good yeah so like it's not just hockey you got basketball doing well you got football doing well like so it's fun you get to go like see these guys and watch them play and now you're watching them in the nfl or in the nba like that's pretty sweet the big 10 is in a great spot for hockey they just got the dough yeah they got the dough now i don't think you're everyone's making the decision based on just the money for college hockey were you getting dough very little like like nil money a little bit i was around point yeah right my first year just kind of started getting going could you transfer and not have to sit out when you were there or was that more new than that might have been my last year i don't love that role personally i don't mind one change i don't mind one either i'm with you i don't mind the coach leaves you should get one if even if the coach stays i don't mind one because if you're in a really going into your junior year and you're you've got a big recruiting class you didn't play sophomore year it's like all right i want but the the every year thing is the every year thing just takes all like the the culture out of yeah agreed it's like it needs to i agree with you one's fine like yeah okay you're in a bad situation like you we don't want or you don't want your career to get screwed over because maybe you don't like the coach doesn't like you or you know maybe it's just you're not getting the opportunity at the school you are now you go to a lesser school and now you're doing great and now you have a chance to make sure right that's great but the moving every year is just way too much yeah in my opinion yeah was it just going back to like your first year and being in college and i remember i i was with hazy after his first year yeah like was it a tough transition for you because it seems like in college like you guys are always with each other 24 7 right and i remember hazy always having to have someone around him just like a guy was tough for you going into the nhl like that yeah that was a little tough for sure um that's why i love being home so much just you got people around all the time right just to text play golf do whatever um but i had a roommate my first two and a half years there's will borg and he got traded to the rangers so that was tough right that's a good dose of like what the pros is like all right this is my best buddy gone gone yeah the next day just don't even get to say goodbye friend killer yeah um but yeah no i like having i like having people around it's night it helps so much and you're right it's so different like after practice at michigan we'd all get in the same room and you know go to the hockey house and we go watch tv or we all go play xbox or like do nothing just together right now you're in pro you live thousands of miles away from your family and it's like you got they uh all your buddies got families all your buddies got wives and girlfriends and you're kind of like all right what am i what am i doing now so you kind of got to figure out what you find some things you like to do outside the rink you know keep yourself busy i got a house in st louis i got a house in st louis in seattle now so that kind of keeps me busy i like take care of that yeah make sure everything's okay um and you know do a little like cooking on the side when it's when i'm home alone or i'll go out to dinners i'll try new restaurants like just like you got to find something to do because otherwise if you're there alone it's just what's that city like like compared to austin is it like like good restaurants good restaurants fun little pockets right there are fun pockets yeah it's good really good restaurants it's definitely bigger than here is okay it's a little bit more spread out there's a lot going on yeah like bellevue like yeah there's i i live on like on vancouver island yep so like they got the gulf islands and then you guys have like the roche harbor and all those little islands and then you can go in that little pocket there's a bunch of national i don't know if you're into hiking but there's a bunch of national forests and beautiful mountains there the outdoor stuff is awesome it's just we haven't gotten to do a ton of it yeah because i'm not there in the summers but like they have a lot of stuff to do when it gets a little bit nicer out it's it's a little rainy sometimes but the gulf there's great so that's that's awesome golf's great the restaurants are really awesome there's like some nightlife um not a ton but there's some it's a bit of a sleepy town vancouver doesn't have great nightlife either um but yeah i mean you're on the road so much like it doesn't totally matter do any guys stay in seattle for the summer uh right now i think schwartz is staying there he's having a kid a little bit alexiak used to stay and grubauer used to stay a little bit but there's not like that's what they're trying to build up there is it's not like boston rare the boston guy the bees guys who stay have they have players everywhere 15 more players probably more 20 25 players around that are just like boston guys yeah so they can skate with us they can skate with oh it's more of like a resources and having guys yeah you want to you need people to skate with and train with them if you're in seattle you're kind of all alone like there's not yeah there's not that big hockey community there they're just like they're just like they're just like they're just like they're just like just starting it okay good to know you guys have to do a lot of stuff with the youth because i remember talking with like donor when the team first went to phoenix like they had basically had to start the youth programs and show up and be at the you guys do a lot of that a lot of it a lot they would do a lot of like community stuff that's a big you know importance of our ownership group and and the guys in the team are great about it like everyone wants to be involved and like you said like there's just not that much hockey around so it's fine ways to like get people into it and you know you get kids more excited we go to schools all the time um you know we do hospital visits all these different things to just to show your support and then also show them your sport a little bit because it's like not even been there'll be there'll be you know 15 years from now there'll be some players coming yeah yeah hopefully i mean look at look at matthews after coyotes come i know it's years later but when you look back on like your year this year and then you look back on like your year this year and then you look back on like the past couple years what what is like uh lane lambert tell you like this needs to be better obviously you talk about like just getting like stronger like is there anything else that you're really focused on yeah i think you have the skill and you have the speed right so it's like what's next i think i think it's just like a little bit more like taking some more offensive risks like i definitely am you know i try to be a two-way player that's always been kind of my game playing the game the right way but i think there's some more areas for me to grow on like the offensive side of the puck maybe take as much as i can and i think it's just like a little bit more of a more chances um you know trying to take guys a little bit more one-on-one um taking guys wide a little bit more just being you know maybe a little bit more selfish with the puck sometimes shooting shooting the puck a little bit more so it's kind of the offensive side of things and i think i'm you know i think i i liked my year this year i thought i thought as a team it was you know we didn't finish where we wanted to but as the first three-fourths of it was pretty good and for myself i liked i liked my game throughout and so it's just like continuing to build in those areas whether it's like my face-offs my you know defensive play do you pk a little bit not not was that something you'd like something i'd love to do yeah i don't do it fucking i block a bunch of shots so i have to i'd love to pk um but yeah no pk and then like getting more productive on the power play too like that's you know you see so many guys we have they get to the 80 the 90 the 100 points yeah that's where that comes from yeah for sure is the power play points that extra 20 yeah because you're at you had 57 and then 50 this year and like so it's like getting to 70 ish right and like just 65 70 75 like that's where that growth comes i think is the power play and you know maybe sneak in a couple more empty netters for myself i don't know but i don't think i had any this year i had zero my whole career it's a thing if you look a lot of guys they probably get i don't know six to ten points a year empty net goals you got to win i ate the minuses trying to tie it up oh yeah and never got any pluses or points i think i have a hundred empty yeah we did is he's a hundred empty minuses in my career we looked it up at one point you got to look up actually when you're when we're done with this look up how many abs had their first year i think it was an outrageous amount of minuses minuses on empty like the kraken's very first year yeah he was minus 28 and i bet he tells when you get two in one game when you get two when they score and the coach empties the net again you're like no no but but for you like with like you're a defensive minded like you you play a 200 foot game yeah so now like we talked to bergeron early and he he was talking about just the little things in his game not worrying about the point just taking care of the minor details but coming in as a young guy being good in the defensive zone now you can probably focus more on the offensive side yeah you're gonna you definitely get a little bit more of that and then you're gonna get a little bit more of a rope a little bit more leeway you gain confidence like the you know the mental side of the game is just as important so that's that part of the game you start to get more comfortable in the nhl you still get to get more comfortable going against you know harder matchups and yeah you're 23 dude yeah you get you find ways to like produce in those in those areas while also still trying to like shut guys down so yeah no it's been good i mean i really like you know really liked lane and the staff there's a lot of good stuff going on but i think it's been good i think you know i think they're very intelligent and do a really good job and you know it'll be nice like you said we've had different coaches every year that can be good but also can be tough because you're kind of trying to get the lay of the land with your new coaches so it'll be nice this year coming in and we kind of already have a plan in place and now it's like building instead of like restarting for sure yeah yeah what what about uh hardest hit you've taken four years in now oh on it it might be this year barbashev - Oh, that's not the guy you want. - And Chandler Stevenson is sitting the bench and he's laughing at me i was like worse what are you what are we doing here he was like he hits it pretty hard i was like yeah he does i can't breathe dude um what about like mentally from the grind perspective of the 82 now going to 84 game schedule like especially when you come from college and you're not playing as many games throughout a season like i mean describe that to a young guy maybe coming up like how how much harder it is and like it's not even like you can escape it where you're like oh we got like a you know a couple couple easy ones coming up like the league it's like there's so much parody especially being in the pacific division like you might have mcdavin and dry sidle one night and then going in to fucking play against like vegas where you have jack eichel pretty fucking hard man yeah no it's tough i mean it's a lot of games this year was crazy to be completely every other night with the break yeah playing 17 games in a month was outrageous and i know a lot of teams did it i don't know if everyone did it but i know that month was just like that's like two or three back-to-backs and other than that every other night every other night there's no two in between a game oh like you're on the road like you said like you're gonna say travel like for our travel is the worst gotta be it had to be a night you get on in warm-ups and you know the legs you're like no yeah i got nothing oh yeah you get out of you get off and warm-ups you go in there and you just put all of the icy hot take about two suit of stretcher a bottle and you're like please all right we gotta get going you have to get going you have to get going you have to get going find a way to get the icy hot please the old stretcher the bottle uh raw remember robert nielsen uh was oh there was a couple guys atomic bomb guy oh yes no no no i'm talking he would go like this wake up please please wake up he hammered his son was he the guy who played with sid and junior no i miss he's in edmonton with me so not the icy hot but they had this other stuff salt was another one but then they had this other stuff in that white jar yeah and then there was a like a like a low a medium or a mild a medium and then a hot yeah and gordo used to put the gloves on and just cake his back and legs and quads i tried to put a thin layer of the hot stuff on one game and in warm-up i was i might have to leave the ice here yeah i was fucking grabbing the water bottle squirting them on my leg baby powder yeah the baby powder gets up and if it you gotta go home dude and gordo would just bathe in it he'd smell like icy hot for like three days and that's how much he put on three days he was gonna put paint thinner on him to get it off he also slept on the ground because his back was so bad so he would sleep on the mattress boy gordon at home slept on the ground on the road slept on the ground never used his mattress he come to his room i didn't even get a mattress no mattress oh yeah that's dragon bill oh my god but even this year you guys got no testing in camp like what's that feel going you don't need that shit dude these guys are fucking buzzing they're gonna know the minute you step on the ice if you didn't do the work yeah no no one needs it it'll be it'll be nice not to have to because you basically like the last three years you basically just bike so that you're ready for that test and then you're like you're skating four times like by the time august hits guys are skating four times a week anyways like you're ready to go for camp and then you're on the side on wednesday grinding a two mile bike or a mile bike you know three times whatever your testing is just so you can like pass the test yeah that's all that's literally all it is you're training for that test so i think it's great no testing and i also like how we're doing just we're kind of just getting right into it this year i think it's our game is immediately almost yeah it's like we play i think more than 100 games you play two you can only play two games max and so we're gonna play two games and then it's gonna be like right into it might hurt way better it will be way better it might hurt the young guys like trying to make a team though yeah welcome but yeah i mean you just get your team ready to go and you're like all right this is the squad and if there's 84 regular season we'll see him at some point yeah we will i gotta ask you so this is so you signed a seven year deal um 50 million which is great now this is the first year of getting the 7.1 salary the first two years was a five on one day july one uh first one did she says five million on it i don't know what do you mean financial advisor he takes it he doesn't let you have it what's he doing with it like just invest in everything uh no not maybe some s&p i don't know it's i try to let him trust him just hedge funds and and uh etfs he's big into this stuff he might he might have you giving him some money soon i don't really i don't i don't know totally every s&p over the last like if you go last four years you're gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh my god i'm gonna be like oh it's basically you just doubled your money yeah that'd be nice just straight up s&p you don't even need an advisor just put it in the fucking fidelity account trying to save you a couple bucks don't do it yourself be coming don't do it yourself i'm not just don't get bernie made off yeah no it's i got that check that was nice i'm not a big spender nice watch i see the watch what's your whip this is actually not this is funny so i did buy a nice nice car what'd you get uh i got a smitty got it the exact same car as i did who was first mine yeah smith dog crazy you just switched the color of it no i switched the color of it but it's the same exact thing the watch came from one of the guys in my team i won't or was on my team he was down in the casino and i was up a little bit and he was like give me their chips and i gave it to him and he took the watch off his hand and gave it to me i'm all right that's it you didn't pay for it i didn't pay instead of losing the chips you were going to lose the chips you were going to lose the chips you were going to lose the chips you were going to lose the chips you were going to lose the chips you were up yep you're up yep you're up yep you're like i just gotta watch from where that like i just gotta watch from where that like i just gotta watch from where that house is house is house is in st louis actually that's his new name in st louis actually that's his new name in st louis actually that's his new name right off my that's st louis right off my that's st louis right off my that's st louis casinos awesome hits too yeah who was casinos awesome hits too yeah who was casinos awesome hits too yeah who was it uh berkey berkovsky oh he's a great it uh berkey berkovsky oh he's a great it uh berkey berkovsky oh he's a great thing with him at uh the starbucks oh thing with him at uh the starbucks oh he's a handsome bastard he was a good he's a handsome bastard he was a good he's a handsome bastard he was a good dude he's like i got six rolexes dude he's like i got six rolexes dude he's like i got six rolexes capitals yeah he was on he was on the capitals yeah he was on he was on the capitals yeah he was on he was on the king was that he was on us or sorry king was that he was on us or sorry king was that he was on us or sorry colorado us and now he's in chicago colorado us and now he's in chicago colorado us and now he's in chicago just an absolute suitcase like good just an absolute suitcase like good just an absolute suitcase like good english members oh yeah handsome fella english members oh yeah handsome fella english members oh yeah handsome fella yeah oh he's the best who else did we do yeah oh he's the best who else did we do yeah oh he's the best who else did we do it was uh turbo oh yeah yeah tan of it was uh turbo oh yeah yeah tan of it was uh turbo oh yeah yeah tan of tan all those pictures i can't wait for his tan all those pictures i can't wait for his tan all those pictures i can't wait for his picture this year picture this year picture this year he always does that have you have you he always does that have you have you he always does that have you have you been watching playoffs at all and been watching playoffs at all and been watching playoffs at all and keeping tabs yeah a good amount i'll keeping tabs yeah a good amount i'll keeping tabs yeah a good amount i'll watch um watch um watch um i won't watch every game honestly right i won't watch every game honestly right at the start of it i didn't watch any at the start of it i didn't watch any at the start of it i didn't watch any because i was so pissed yeah yeah that's because i was so pissed yeah yeah that's because i was so pissed yeah yeah that's hard i hate watching the worst when i hard i hate watching the worst when i hard i hate watching the worst when i was a player the worst day of my year was a player the worst day of my year was a player the worst day of my year was watching somebody else raise the was watching somebody else raise the was watching somebody else raise the stamina yeah not to say i would have stamina yeah not to say i would have stamina yeah not to say i would have ever first year you experienced two game ever first year you experienced two game ever first year you experienced two game seven so it was like it was so awesome seven so it was like it was so awesome yeah i mean playoffs is the the best the yeah i mean playoffs is the the best the yeah i mean playoffs is the the best the drug best man it's a drug it actually drug best man it's a drug it actually drug best man it's a drug it actually is like it's is like it's is like it's you work all year once you see it once you work all year once you see it once you work all year once you see it once you feel like playing in those games you feel like playing in those games you feel like playing in those games like how loud those buildings were holy like how loud those buildings were holy like how loud those buildings were holy crap yeah um crap yeah um crap yeah um so yeah i don't watch much and now i'm so yeah i don't watch much and now i'm so yeah i don't watch much and now i'm watching because i like watching like watching because i like watching like watching because i like watching like like i watched the last two series i like i watched the last two series i like i watched the last two series i watched a lot of the mini watched a lot of the mini watched a lot of the mini series because just wanted to watch like series because just wanted to watch like series because just wanted to watch like quinn and and bolds and those guys and quinn and and bolds and those guys and quinn and and bolds and those guys and then then then uh i've been watching vegas and just uh i've been watching vegas and just uh i've been watching vegas and just you know jack's been lighting it up you know jack's been lighting it up marner's and marner's unbelievable yeah it's a joke i love watching him oh he's so so so playing against him you're like fuck this guy i like playing against him he's funny too he talks to me on the draws the centerman always kind of chatting jack well jack's a little bit because mars was playing center this mars is a funny guy so like the whole time i think the first game i kind of roasted him in draws and then the next game he was killing me and he was like chirp me after everybody was like i got you i got you and i was like the hell's going on this guy's not even playing tummy sticks let me win this one i need one yeah yeah yeah guys do do that oh yeah yeah they do all the time and it's like what no i need i need this one do you have like an ongoing rivalry where like maybe you hit a guy like like dirty or vice versa and it's kind of like like escalated where you're like i fucking hate this guy i got this date circled on my calendar those are good to have it's good it gets you all healthy no i don't think so no i'm not a big like i try to stay out of it as i just try not to pull any extra attention to myself what about fights have you been in a fight yet been in a fight yeah i fought baron on nashville um but like i'm not a big chirper like i'll play my game and i'll like guys come at me and i won't say anything back and just kind of let it happen i just think like what am i gonna chirp like if yans is a d back there what am i gonna chirp you next time i'm coming through the middle like you're lining me up right why do i you know you're not bringing why do i need some guys some guys like they they would bring it on themselves like they like they almost needed it to get their juices yeah like i don't need i don't need anyone else running around trying to get me i'm yeah good enough guys trying to get you i don't need to add anything they're focused already so i'm i'm fine without them trying to kill me yeah i got a question too when barakovsky uh got the extra chips did he do anything with them he lost he lost i walked straight out of the casino and he was the next day you're like hey time to go he's like it's all right i got six other watches oh no worries so funny it was like it was a fifth of what he bought the watch for what i gave he just wanted he just wanted more chips gonna take any more out yeah i was like sure wait till you find out it's a fake yeah it probably is just the canal he doesn't right he likes to like suspend it no yeah this has been awesome catching up with you i mean no it's we caught you at the draft we caught you with owen power which you know he i mean i thought he took a major major step this year like he like watching him like you know obviously coming in as a young d-man especially in that team was struggling but good for him and are you are you close to them yeah well we'll catch dinner when we play on the road um i don't think we did this year but i think it was because we were back-to-backs like the schedule was so yeah it's hard when you're trying to catch dinners with guys it was like but we we usually always will or he'll just come over to my place and no it was great to see like he played awesome and i think even the first part of the year like maybe the points weren't coming as much and but like watching him in playoffs like he i thought he was awesome and like you said like coming into that game i was like oh my god i'm gonna win this game i'm gonna win this game i'm gonna win this game that situation where like he is in my opinion a number one guy but you obviously have daline there so now it's like okay where do you you know kind of fit in if he's up there if he's pp1 are you now pp2 are you running a flank and you know i think he's done a great job in that situation and he's he's a very good player he's a huge man yeah huge man he's kind of got that need a mire uh seems quiet calmness calmness yeah right not a door open just calm he's not a no he's he's you're right he's so calm like he doesn't nothing rattles nothing okay that's good and he's a little quieter but he's hilarious like he's very witty once you get to know usually those guys are yeah he's like a little like i wouldn't say he's yeah maybe not quiet though he's witty he's very calm though i will say yeah always was even at michigan like we were down he was like who cares yeah they're gonna score we'll come back we'll we'll i was i was positive for covid yeah i was he was the swabber uh but uh no i was i was interested to see where he would go but i was like excited for him and that he took that step this year because you know first overall pick a lot of pressure you get that contract you get the 50 or over 50 sheets for him and and he's he's done great with it that was the last time we had you on as a duo so still pretty cool that first and second overall pick from michigan that you guys must have won it all fifth too yeah fantilly right uh luke no that was the next year that was two years later luke hughes and 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big things out of him he looked phenomenal he flies let's see if he can make that next step this year and a guy who's who's he's taking the next step over and over the rear admiral bring him in right now oh no he's muted big sometimes he misses a step one step forward and one step back he takes steps sometimes he misses oh he just left and he just left that was saying they were smooth steps that was absolutely perfect oh no you know like sometimes i i miss steps once in a while cal missed a step just the other day fell down the stairs 10 steps did a somersault at the end boom he's you know everyone misses steps he's two so there is a difference there yeah he is a child the mute button can get they i can i got it today this episode as well yeah i've had it many times now wasn't on your intro though it was at the beginning of my segment no um but we'll see when he comes back what do you think he's doing right now panicking sweating oh he's combing his mullet beats per minute it's over 200 you think oh yeah that's a big number though that's the dangerous territory he's probably lost a few more hairs up top like homer i'm gonna take two here boys sorry about that all right hello everybody welcome to our raised world here on the spitting chicklets podcast wit we got to go into the family feud uh hashtag wit missed the sequel uh i i couldn't believe me when there's eight answers up on that board you get a pass like when you're on family food because there's no way all right hey that's a good thing you brought up you uh you're not allowed to pass in celebrity family feud oh okay all right i did not know that but passing is it passing is the play when there's that many answers they'll never fill the board we were told specifically you're not allowed to pass in family in regular regular family feud you're allowed to pass and i think that's the play most of the time actually what brie said we should have done is never press the buzzer let them get it and then steal it i think they did clear the board on one of them maybe two of them so that might not have worked but overall you're probably better off with the eight one of just letting them have it and knowing they won't they won't fill it and then you can steal it with one and those scoreboards are way more easier than like the richard dawson or the one i grew up but you know the guy who kissed kissed every dame who came on the show like it just seems like they're a little more like uh like uh a lot more flex there you could say a word that might not have meant the same like you know we come up like bread dough crust water was like i know i know i thought the same thing i thought the same thing we got hosed on that still didn't help them we said big dick that was the answer big dick um and that that didn't fly that didn't count and std was something that a player would have like i kind of minahan was screaming that's how you you get it that's how you get it std is a big dick which cracked me up um but yeah yeah all right we're not allowed to pass we were not were you a big family feud guy growing up all right i mean it started in 76 what year were you born uh uh 84 no i was born in the 80s went 72 like family feud this is of course because when there were three channels abc nbc cbs everybody in america was watching the same like shows all the time and that was just a staple uh family feud richard dawson he was a tv star on hogan's heroes before that he's actually british or english like a lot of people don't know that because he doesn't have a like a very pronounced british accent is he used to like kiss the chicks on them on the lips and stuff he was a sad it was on their lips yeah well everybody oh yeah and you watch you know of course the world's a different place now and everybody wants to cancel the guy even though he's been gone for fucking 20 years or whatever but like the thing was like that was i think you you never saw one woman like shy away like it was like oh i'm going on a family feud i'm gonna get to kiss richard dawson it was again a different era he was everyone's hall pass but he was and if you actually watch his last like episode last episode he actually was like a pretty good guy like he you know he just was like a youtube link of all the times that he was like like groping guys wives and shit no he didn't it's great it's kissing richard dawson the one i'm watching and one of them he leans in and then the girl grabs him and won't stop kissing him. Remember, who was on The Price is Right before Bob Barker? No, it was Bob Barker. When he was young, the chicks used to run up to him. They'd be kissing him. Those talk show hosts or whatever game show host guys were legends. Oh, yeah. Shout out to the Mullen twins from Celtia. They won the double showcase showdown way, way back in the day. All right, G's asking here to ask you if you could select anyone at Barstool to join you in playing Family Feud, who would it be? Oh, I don't want people because the thing is you've got to put yourself in the mind of 100 people surveyed because I tend to think out of the box on certain things that you guys know sometimes, so you don't want to go with your gut. But I would probably take Nick Tarani there. Although he kind of thinks out of the box a little. Nick, I'd say Clem. I love Clem. Okay. He's good at all the games, I feel. He watches everything. Jeff D'Lo. You've got to have Jeff D'Lo in there. I don't know if I'd take Jeff. I'd definitely take Nick. What about Brandon Walker? Well, I mean, he didn't pick me to be on The Latest Survivor, so I guess whatever goes around comes around. Eddie and one more I'd take. Who else would I take? Probably KFC, man. He kind of, he could put himself in those. So I'd say KFC, Eddie, Clem, and Nick. So those guys. There's a squad. Wait, I know you were talking back to you again about Michelin-starred restaurants and how they're kind of foo-foo and not your thing. Well, I saw a story in South Korea, a Michelin chef, Michelin chef was accused of serving ants on his desserts. And ants are not one of the 10 insect species that are approved for human consumption in South Korea, which is where it happened. It was a two-starred Michelin restaurant. So I guess he had served over like almost close to 50,000 ants on desserts. The people knew they were getting ants on their desserts, which is kind of whatever floats your boat. But I thought it was interesting given that we talked about it. Yeah, you can go to one of those and they'll serve you anything. And all the people, they're such fluffers of Michelin. Michelin-starred restaurants that they're like, yeah, yeah, I'll eat it. It's like, buddy, this guy's giving you a fucking ant. Wait, we forgot to mention, there was one thing that came out. It looked like a little, it almost looked like a Kit Kat bar. And I went to the bathroom. I came back and put a Lucy on top of it. Actually, wait, back to Steve Favre real quick. Javi, did you ever see that original Kings of Comedy? Especially he did years ago. D.L. Hewley, Bernie Mac. They had your draft suit on. Yeah. Yeah, when I was like 26 years old, yeah. Also, there's apparently Steve Harvey's story is incredible. I think he was like homeless, down and out. I think he got stabbed in his car. He had nothing going and ended up, I assume he's making like $20 million a year. Oh, God, yeah. Probably more. He's cleaning up. Going back to that. How were his teeth up close? Incredible. The whitest, brightest, big old jibs you've ever seen. Like, I'm telling you, they must have cost bank to get them looking that good. They are the whitest teeth I've ever seen. And then his mustache, too. His mustache is absolutely beautiful. How was that in person? Magnificent. Magnificent. The guy looks phenomenal. I know. And then he does like a comedy show in between. Like, after, like, in between, the next, the next group going on, like, he's out there and he's given like a 10 to 12 minute comedy show that Bree said was hilarious. So, the guy's just, he's a master. I think his daughter is married to like an NFL player or an NBA player. Right? I think she used to be with Michael B. Jordan. And I think she, I think she gassed him. Oh, I was thinking Michael Jordan. No, yeah, it's the other one, the actor. That's why he put the B in there. I had a step away. To like, not create the confusion. For a sec. I don't know if you guys talked about LeBron going to Philly. I had a run to the hotel. No, we saved it for you. Yeah, it's, I guess he's, of course, the reports are he's going to live in New York City. I mean, I know it's somewhat of a close commute, but I don't know, man. Like, would you want to commute every day? Whether, I mean, someone worries the prospect of a helicopter, which, of course, got the appropriate reaction on Twitter of an NBA superstar taking a helicopter to work, not to go dark on us. But like, I don't know. I was kind of surprised. I mean, if you're playing in the city, why wouldn't you want to live there? I mean, Philly's not New York, but it doesn't lack the amenities of a major Northeast city, no? I don't know. Does it seem like kind of wild? I just think it's crazy he has to live there. Yeah. No, Philly, I mean, great restaurants. I mean, you're on the road so much, too. I don't understand why you wouldn't live in that city. Like, I'd almost be pissed if I was a fan of that team. It's like, oh, you think you're too good to live in our city, but you can play for us? I'd be a little upset about that. I was just actually in Philly, and there was a ton of signs I kept seeing. King Charles gone, King James in. Do you think that was a shot at Charles Barkley? I don't know. There's so much history there. You go around, they got like the Liberty Bell and everything. Maybe it was like an old king. I don't think it has anything to do with Charles. Charles Barkley. Because he's Sir Charles, isn't he? Yeah, he was Sir Charles, and King Charles is the current king. But yeah, maybe, I don't know, some weird revolutionary deal. If you sign with a team, you got to live in the city. You got to live where you're playing. Like, that is a tough look. I think Keith's right. As a fan, I'd be like, wait a minute, you're not even living here? And they, like, don't like New York City. That's a big rivalry, you know, the Knicks and the 76ers. Yeah, they played last year in playoffs. I think they overtook their building. Yeah, I feel like 70% Knicks fans. My dad was mentioning something about, like, how much percentage of the game guys hold the ball. And I think if you take, like, all of the guys now on the 76ers, it's well over 100%. So the old one ball theory. I know nothing about basketball, but we'll see how this goes. Personally, I'd love to see it crash and burn. I mean, I can't stand the city of Philadelphia. And just to know that they were going that crazy, that they got LeBron. I mean, this is not 28-year-old LeBron. Is he still really good? He had a decent year last year in L.A. Okay, well, he doesn't live in the city, and they got all these guys who want the ball. Let's see how it goes. Keith, how far is the drive in a car from New York to Philly? I don't know. We used to take the train to play New York. The train wasn't bad. It was like an hour. I mean, the drive's probably, but you got to, you know, take in traffic. And honestly, I would imagine two hours. Okay. Hour 45 to drive from New York to Philly. All right. Hey, actually, G, jump back on while we have you here. I don't know if any of you guys saw the Odyssey. We got great feedback off the Avery. We interviewed last week. But, G, I know you saw it. We'll go to the other guys after. You said you actually went to the show by yourself. Was that the first time ever? Yeah, first time ever I went to a movie alone, and it was incredible. Incredible experience. I didn't do IMAX. I was up in Guilford, New Hampshire, this small little theater right on Winnipesaukee. And, yeah, I caught the 6.30 Odyssey showing. Unequivocally, the best movie I've ever seen in my life. Wow. It's three hours. I got a pretty quick attention span, boys, attention span. And, I mean, at no point. At no point did I think about anything other than the movie and what was happening. And I think maybe it's because I don't want to give too much away, but there's different storylines, little different stories throughout the whole thing. But unbelievable. So cool seeing Aves in it, too. He's in there way more than you think. I know he doesn't have a ton of lines, but it was so sick seeing him in there. Matt Damon, incredible. I thought Robert Pattinson, incredible villain. He was such a good fucking villain. But, yeah, I mean, I just thought it was best. Best movie I've ever seen. And going to the movies alone, I can't suggest it enough. I don't know if you guys have ever done it, but it's fucking. I've done it many times. It makes total sense. You don't speak at the movies anyways. I know R.A. is a big person in terms of going to movies alone. Why wouldn't you? Yeah, absolutely. Like you just said, it's supposed to be quiet. You're not supposed to talk anyways. Obviously, you know, it's one of those great, I mean, you just go. Who gives a shit? You're going to be solo anyways, unless you're like one of those asshole boomers that I sat next to. But I go to the show all the time by myself. I go on vacation by myself. Of course, circumstances have changed the last couple of years, so I do a lot more things by myself. But actually, you just mentioned Pattinson. Gee, you know, he actually modeled his performance after James Woods in Casino. Lester Diamond, he played that scumbag pimp that was. Yeah. What's her name? Sharon Stone's like scumbag old boyfriend pimp. Yeah, he said basically he modeled his performance after James Woods. Is he the guy from Twilight? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He did a smart thing, man. He made tons and tons of dough off those movies, and then that gave him like the financial freedom and creative freedom to like sort of pick all his like roles out. He does like a lot of obscure things. I'm not sure if you ever saw The Lighthouse with him and Willem Dafoe, The Black and White movie, just two nuts trapped in a lighthouse for a little while. They both kind of go crazy. He's just sort of like been able to pick and choose his role. So yeah, shout out to Robert Pattinson. Great stuff there. So none of you other guys have got to see it. No, I have to. I got to go this week. I've been traveling and moving around too much. It's going to be up for a while. And it may have made a bunch more dough this week. I forget what the exact drop off was, but this thing's, you know, it might make, you know, $2 million, $2 billion by the time all is said and done. Jeez. Which will then lead him to have a complete blank check on his next movie, right? I mean, I pretty much think Oppenheimer did that for the Odyssey. I mean, you know what I mean? I think he said he's going to take a little time off and rest. He did say he wants to get into the horror genre, which I was surprised to read. I hate horror movies. Let me say, once you guys watch the Odyssey, I think you'll understand why he wants to do that. The way the story kind of unfolds, you'll see like there is an element of like, like they're trying to scare you a bit. And it's, I can see why he would want to go down that road. Yeah. Are there any, are there any jump in your seat moments? I hate those. Jump scare. Jump scares. No, no, no. You can't, they kind of build it up. I'll still see the movie now. Yeah. There's a couple of chance pit. Yeah. Pants shitting, maybe scenes, but not like I wouldn't necessarily call it like a jump scare. Just kind of like a, a slow build to like, okay, I might chip my pants a little bit. My parents went, my parents went. I asked a zero to 10 and, And my dad said 11. So he's in the same camp as you, G. I was talking about it with Jeff Jacobson yesterday, and he mentioned this as well. The scene where Avery kind of talks about, they turn him to pigs. He mentioned that already. They turn Avery to pigs, all those guys. The woman that does that scene, she's going to win every award there is. She was fucking incredible. Who is it? Samantha Morton. I mean, she had me freaked out. The second they got up the hill, and then when Odysseus comes up, you're like, and he's talking. Okay, okay, okay, okay. It's scary, man. It's scary. Come on. I've never seen this woman. She's an actress and a musician, it says. Unbelievable. I've never seen her. Yeah, more known for her acting. But hey, how about Freddie Anderson? His day with the cup, he took it to Legoland. He's obviously from Denmark. Saw that, yeah. Yeah, a little something different. I know you equate it as like, well, if you're a kid, I play with those all the time. As a kid or if you're a parent, there's probably nothing worse to step on the bottom of your foot in the middle of the night if you're walking around than a Lego. But I thought that was unique. Did he always have a Lego? Did he always have a Lego guy on his helmet, or am I thinking of somebody else? You know what? That's a great question, Keith. Because I know what you're talking about. I'm guessing it was him if he went to Legoland with the cup. I would assume it's him. Also, did you see Ajo at that concert? The video came up. Was it Ajo yesterday? Okay. Oh, yeah. He's a Lego guy on his head. He's a Lego guy. Big Lego guy. Good for him. What was Ajo doing with? I think it was Ajo. He had the cup on stage at a concert. The place was going bonkers. It's an incredible clip. I don't remember. Back home. You might be thinking of Deloria. I know you guys saw. I'm talking about the Noah Kahn show a few weeks ago, though, you guys that went. I checked out that documentary on Netflix, Out of Body. Like, his music, I get it. I get the appeal, and it's just not necessarily my cup of tea, but the documentary was great, man. It did, like, kind of a deep dive in, you know, basically his family history and why he's been depressed and writes the songs he does and, you know, like, sort of, like, issues he's gone through, like, you know, body type and all that stuff I can kind of relate to. I definitely relate it to the guy a lot more than I thought, not necessarily musically, but it was a great documentary. If you haven't seen it, check it out. Also, too, remember that Costa Concordia boat that ran aground in Italy a few years ago? Like, it just basically gets stuck on the rocks and just, like, slowly tilted. It was probably, I thought it was five years ago. It was, like, 10, 12 years ago. It's called Shipwrecked Nightmare at Sea. It's unbelievable, man. It just, it does remind you of the Titanic. Now, granted, they weren't in the North Atlantic, like, hundreds of miles from civilization. They were, like, basically two miles from the Italian coast, but it was just sort of about, like, how some people rise to the occasion and some men are just cowards. Like, it was, like, the Titanic. All right, it's so good. I watched it the other night. It's so good. This is not the one about the poop. No. No, not the poop one. That's the worst. What's the poop cruise? The poop cruise I never watched. It popped up on my Netflix. It's, like, basically, like, the toilet stopped working, everything stopped working, and it was a poop cruise. There was poop everywhere. They, like, backflowed. They were stranded. It was awful. They couldn't leave the boat. Why could they leave the boat? They were stuck in the middle of the ocean. They couldn't. And the poop was stuck also. And all the electricity died. And the poop was everywhere, Biz. Everywhere. Come on. I'm not kidding you. So talk about, talk about if you're a man who steps up in the face of danger. I would have never have gone on one to begin with, but. Hey, we got the Ajo video here if you guys want to see it. Yeah, let's check it out. Look at this scene. Look at this scene. Oh, my God. And it gets even crazier. Hold on. Hold on. I know you've got to kind of bear with it as we can't hear anything. Look at the guy dancing. It looked like G. And then at some point here, the crowd, I don't know what was said to make the crowd go bananas. And how cool does Ajo look? He's got a little move going, his little dance. Look at that jacket. One of the singers dancing. His jacket's phenomenal. The Stanley Cup, you know it's getting heavy at this moment. 35 pounds only. He lifts it up and boom, fire. Look at that. Look at that. Wow. That's hype. Look at the place. He's going nuts. Is this like a famous DJ singer guy? Like. I don't know. But it was not me at Family Feud. Family Feud is the exact opposite of that. Yeah. I retired from cruises like 22 years ago. My buddy did that Boston to Bermuda one to get married on that. But I did one, done one, probably 93. What are you laughing at? It was called Boston to Bermuda? Yeah. Yeah. It was a pretty common. No, it was a pretty common run from like the Port of Boston to Bermuda. And then you just kind of stop along the way. Balls goes on it every year. No, it's straight. No, he doesn't. It's a straight shot. Straight shot to Bermuda. That's not too, too far. And then the wedding was there. Then we come back. But I actually went on one in 93. And we were leaving it. And it was the storm of the century. We left Boston at six in the morning. We had to be in either Miami or Fort Lauderdale. Some of, there were eight of us. Some were flying it to one city or the other. And we're like, oh, the boat doesn't leave till five. Well, literally it was the storm of the century that they, we got rerouted to Memphis. Cause I bought a Tennessee t-shirt. I'm like, oh, when am I ever going to be back here? A little bit. I know 20 something years later with Grinnelly, I'd be there. And we ended up missing our boat. Like, because like we couldn't fly into Atlanta. We, it was like the weather like delayed everything. So we get there and like, listen, you already missed it. It was the carnival cruise, the carnival celebration. Like it already left, but we can put you on the holiday because, because the currents, they have to leave and catch the currents to make all the ports of call. And we get there, but only two of us had our luggage. And I'm like, buddy, I just took out a student loan ago on this fucking cruise. You, I don't care about clothes. You guys want to get on, I'll see you as there. So we all ended up getting on the boat, but we got to like, it wasn't like the gangway, like the love boat where everyone's waving to you. They had like sneakers in a side door. So basically there were eight of us in each port of call. One of my buddies would get his luggage. So like over the course of like the, where you can see, we all have each other's clothes on. If you look at all the pitches, but. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You took out a loan to go on a cruise? Oh, actually, you know what? That might've been my, the Jamaica trip. I'm sorry. That was another spring break. I took out, yeah. To hedonism? Yeah, actually, yeah, it was hedonism. Bumping in a grind. Yeah. Bumping in a grind. Yeah, I took out, it was like a $1,100 loan. Ripping in a tear and ripping in it. Extremely overrated too, hedonism. Yeah, I fucking flew 3,000 miles to fucking, take out a girl from Hyde Park. Well, don't you have to have a woman with you to then trade off with everyone in hedonism? You can't show up solo to those, I thought. That's what we are. That's, that's why a few of us, a handful of guys went down. We thought it was just this effing. That's why I had to take out the loan. He paid for his girlfriend's ticket and then she got sick. Yeah. On the poop cruise. No, one of my buddies actually, he did it. He was in a, like, you know, in the hot tub and one of his, the guest did share his wife with my buddy in the, in the hot tub. I don't know, you know, he was big. Cut guy, whatever. But no, it was like I said, it was, it was not worth the loan. It was fun. But anyways, cruises, all done. I, every, you just see too many disasters. I feel like they're like, like roller coasters, right? Like growing up, I love roller coasters. I would go to Busch Gardens with a pass, you know, get back a line, get back a line until you'd get sick from the adrenaline. Now you couldn't pay me $10,000 to go on a roller coaster, man. Okay, so, so, so, so my friend recently said he's been sending all, they're, they're breaking everywhere. Insane. People are getting dragged off these things. I, I agree. I agree with you. It's kind of bizarre that. It's because Benson's not working them. There's five. Zach Benson would never let that happen. There has been five or six in the past, like couple months, instances. Are you talking like five flag style or like the greasy style? Six, six, six flags. They're the AHL version of six flags. Five flags breaks all the time. Yeah, five flags, four and a half flags is even worse. No, they're good. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we, I mean, you're done. You're done forever with them. Yeah, a hundred percent. Like, I, I mean, I think I mentioned a few weeks back, the, the, the poor high school girls, they were, they got stuck at the top of the one. I think it was in Texas and the firefighters, God bless them, had to take that giant ladder, unlatch each of them, you know, individually and take them all down. But in, you got to think it's, it's got to be the computer technology or something. Cause these things always kind of ran on, you know, nuts and bolts for years. And then it just seems like every time you turn around, like there's some sort of disaster. But I mean, I, I got a fair heights anyways, even though I still would go on these things, but yeah, I'm all set with the roller coasters going forward. What's more dangerous getting behind the wheel with RA or going on a, on a five flags roller coaster? Depends on how long the ride is with RA. If you're going like three hour ride, I think that that's probably more dangerous than, than a five and a half flags roller coaster. What's the bet that where G has to get in a car with you and drive to a university of Michigan. If they don't make the final four. Yeah. Oh yeah. They don't make the frozen four. I mean, RA got to drive to, I believe Ohio state. And then just like walk around campus in Michigan, I mean, that's a big year. Yeah. Okay. No, that's like no 50 year old should be on a roller coaster. Yeah. I don't know, man. I think roller coasters is for all ages. All ages. All ages. Yeah. Especially the loop, the loop ones. I mean, there are some great ones out there. Like I said, I, I think you get older, you get like, your balls shrink a little, you're less likely to do that type of stuff. Especially when you see the highlights every week on the news of, of these things getting, you know, firefighters rescuing people. But yeah, my, my days on cruises, roller coasters. I dragged a rider on the top. Tower of terror one time. Oh, that's fun. And I was like, come on, you gotta be tough. He's tall enough, buddy. He was like three and a half years old. The pictures came up the other day and I was like, what? And Bree's like, what are you doing? What do you mean? He's not tough enough. He's three and a half. I was like, no, he's fine. And now I'm like, what was I thinking? He was like, he was like screaming. I think we got off before it started. I don't know what I was thinking. That child services show up quite the run for let's go toughen up. Your cousin's doing it. His cousin's doing it. He's like 20. Sorry. Witt's got his newborn on the ride. He's fucking hanging onto it. His baby Bjorn. They got, what'd she say? His baby Bjorn. Yeah. He's like Dr. Evil. The picture's coming. Witt's like got the baby in his hand with the pinkies up. He's screaming. Since we're on the ride topic, Merle's did send out a tweet that he had to deny his kid that he was a baby. the teacups at one of the, those suck the spinning. sucks yeah yeah people were pretty hard on him saying you can never deny your kid and like a ride with your kid on the teacups that's like a monumental moment in the fatherhood invented the ride if you made the if it's your ride true yeah then you invent puking because the turkish twist up canopy lake do you remember that yeah it was it was just this big thing you would stand there and the thing would just literally go in circles as fast as you could and because you weren't even like strapped in yeah you know you couldn't move you would like you would be literally you would try to get like horizontal before you know and then you would just get stuck to the wall that and if someone puked forget about it everybody got puked that's also called the gravitron i did it when i won the banana man that same night i went on that thing it's brutal it's and then you think you're done and then it just it slows down a little bit and then boom it picks back up and you're like oh god even i always get a little weak to my stomach but the other thing too is we should start posting um the pictures that we're getting from merles with the meals that this guy has to eat over in sweden no he doesn't have to eat them he's choosing i don't know if they have normal food over there yeah i don't know either i to them it's normal so we may sound a little uneducated to those swedish people it's normal to us the picture some of the meals are i'd rather go on a carnival cruise with rides from five flags on the cruise but merles seems to enjoy it i it's it's like the mail is it mayo everywhere sauces creamy sauces yeah mayo and shrimp that's all it is and herring too right a lot of isn't herring a big fish i don't know i just keep seeing a lot of shrimp and a lot of like pink pink and white cream sauces and just i i'm sure we'll be able to throw up a couple photos here on the netflix while uh while we're talking about it but it should almost become its own segment yeah it's joe rogan fear factor yeah yeah exactly boys it's been uh kind of a word of a chill summer i don't do my family trip for another couple weeks so i just been kind of uh wait counting the minutes to go up to vermont for my like i said my annual trip he goes by himself calls it a family trip on a cruise what how many people are going on this family trip uh me my mother my brother though we go up for the whole duration then my niece her boyfriend come up um my a couple of my uncles are gonna come up so you know like we we used to only do it for a week but we're doing two weeks this year because last year we were like i could easily do another week here so yeah this is where i saw you in saratoga years before the show even began yeah yeah we yeah we shared the money on the way out yeah i think that was the second time we met yeah we did we did good good call what we take a day trip over from uh where we stay in vermont and it's about an 80 minute trip what's great about it's all the back roads so you don't even have to get on any highways at all it's just a beautiful scenic ride through all this sort of upstate new york farmland and uh yeah we make a day trip there and maybe try to hit a few breweries this year because we're staying for a little bit longer but yeah basically just waiting for that to happen and then we're going to be back in vermont for the jeopardy's in repeats now so that was my one show i pretty much watch every night is uh repeat time so yeah i just kind of called the minutes to get up to vermont and enjoy a little vacay with the fam what do you guys do rent a house uh we had a house for years it was uh not like a winterized house but obviously we're in the summer so it didn't matter but it was uh the guy ended up selling it so we get it like an old-fashioned cabin now which is actually like what you call rustic which i actually like more than the house it's just you feel like you're in vermont more it's like right on a lake keith and it's not like over developed it's not even really developed at all it's a lot of year year rounders and a few people go up for the summer so it's very quiet we just sort of go up and honestly it's just the ultimate decompression it's just like there's not even a tv in the house this kid there's internet and stuff but just kind of go up unwind you know eat drink and be merry basically will you will you put the phone away because if there's no tv but you have internet in your phone that isn't really there's no like difference will you put the phone down or i try i try i i try with i bring books up and it's been a struggle man it's like these these ms man they're so goddamn addicted it's just i i try to check it i've been trying to read even like recently just try to focus on just recalibrate my brain a little bit just to like read books again because i used to be a voracious reader so yeah i'll bring a handful of books up and hopefully just throw the phone in the lake for a little bit see what happens okay and now who's and you're on the grill here you're on the no no no um my paulie walnuts does pretty pretty good job of the grill my dukes as well so i mean yeah whatever if they needed i'll take all the trash to all the other shit but yeah they don't really i don't think anyone's going to be able to do that i don't think anyone's going to but it's clamoring for me to get on on the drill on the grill rather sorry these fucking spam calls man remember oh i've got cell phones like if someone nobody had your number unless they were in your like circle now every day man these fucking spam calls brutal bro oh sorry just popped up while i was sitting here talking i could see you answering them and flipping out on people or talking to them and stuff being like who's your favorite team hey come up to vermont for the weekend the guy in india he's like talking about fucking cricket no it's always like it's for me give me a little cricket action and one thing too i know it's like on jeopardy i don't i don't know if any of you guys watch watch it or have ever watched it but they they used to be like in the first round if if you have to say you know the phrase in the form of question and historically if you didn't they would like they would like give you a pause like like wait for you to say it now they in the first round if you don't say it they still give you the fucking clue which is like sorry to me is like you know everyone gets a trophy stuff like the whole point of jeopardy is to answer in the form of a question so they're giving people hey grind my gears jeopardy style absolute jeopardy grind my gears no doubt about it so anyways uh classic recommendation this one back in the 90s the commitments it's about an irish r&b group they basically like kind of sing all their soul music they're looking to make their big break uh you know wherever fine movies are streaming give it a look see i think it was 1991 but uh the commitments one of my listeners recommended it as a classic record so i got that this week but boys uh anything else we got going on or what kind of a lull in the summer yeah this is this is summertime buddy this is just uh i can't believe it's it's almost august this year god we got about what a month and a half till camp starts when does camp start yeah mid-september now and then they play two or three exhibition games and they're off and running late september i think the first game is like the 28th or 29th of september earlier this year because we're going back to 84 games like they had about 30 something years ago so you know crazy times absolutely times 84 games money everywhere patrick came back on the blackhawks ra talking about taking loans out for a cruise great show thank you to matt benears uh thank you to the yak for uh making fun of me and thank you to everyone who listened love all you guys and i hope you have a great week we'll be back but it's taking time and i know you don't let it it's going to happen it's going to happen again what happens when you lock 18 co-workers in an office for one week to compete for a quarter million dollars of cash this is surviving barstool season five presented by rumble premium each episode released three hours early so get it ad free before anyone else only when you join rumble premium surviving barstool premieres sunday august 9th at 5 p.m on rumble premium and everywhere else at 8 p.m you