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August 7, 2025 • 72 mins

After returning from his long-delayed honeymoon, Jason Demers shares his Italian adventures with Adnan Virk. The pair then get into their way-too-early predictions for the upcoming season before welcoming TJ Oshie, who talks about retirement, his legendary 2014 Olympic performance and watching Alex Ovechkin smash the all-time goals record. Finally, the guys discuss the summer's biggest movies, including Superman, Naked Gun and Happy Gilmore 2.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
It is Unscripted Dog Days Summer edition. We were back, Buddy,
We're back.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Jason Demurs back from his honeymoon, and Italy cannot wait
for all the stories in the Found sixties rare and
to go.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
We got Superman coming out of the Tank. We got
the new Naked Gun, which is a hit at the
Theatre's number three at the box office, seventeen million dollars.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
What's up, Leslie Nielsa's Frank Drevn And of course some
great hockey talk. Tj Oshi is our special guest, the
first round pick back in the five of the Saint
Louis Blues, of course, of the storied career over one
thousand games and a goal that every America remembers against
Russia in the twenty fourteen Olympics. And we'll talk a
little Sidney Crosby as well, and actually know what a
little bit of love as well for a little bit
of golfing news. As JD's old teammate Joe Pavelski. It's

(00:57):
been a while now, but American Century Championship pretty impressive.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
With a little late to that one. It's just true.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
It's been a little while. Good to see you, buddy.
August edition of Unscripted. Talk to me about Italy. Let's
go Italia, Roberto Benini.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Life is beautiful. Oh how come down? That was they?

Speaker 4 (01:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
We rented a car for the whole trip and just
just absolutely hauled ass around Italy, kind of through the
more through the interior. I wanted to see a lot
of like the Tustany region, but also south like Umbria
and Perusia. So it was great. We had the we
had the Spotify Summer Vacation in Italy playlist going and
it was just beam bomb Beam, bom bomb Beam and

(01:42):
then Dean Martin on the Frank Sinatra. So that was great.
It was an amazing trip. I was telling tal before
before you got on next year, I was late. Yeah,
one minute late is late, and uh it is just
by the like twelfth day. My wife is like, I
don't know if I can eat anymore, and I was like,

(02:03):
I can have one meal a day just because everything's
so heavy. It's not heavy because you know the way
they grow the wheat and stuff like that. Everything tastes
so much better and it's a different typ of car.
They could be passed all day. They don't get fat. Yeah,
but I like, I hit my limit. But it was
I mean, I mean brown butter sage ravioli. Oh god,

(02:25):
I was just I was coming all over the place.
Give us that here we go, don't give us that
we're fat.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
How about what's the single best meal you had? That's
what I want to hear.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Okay, single single best meal I had. Which was really
cool is we were staying at this this little resort
in Perusia and it was actually just a small town
adjacent to Perusia called Brufa, and we were going to
go into town. So we're like, let's go into town
in Perusia to night and have dinner. And you know,

(02:55):
my wife's like, I don't want to go too far
as like fifteen twenty minutes. And we were like we
at that point we had driven like three four hours
a day, and she's like, God, I just want to
relax and have an apple all sprits. I'm like, no, no, let's
go take a beekuse we drive, we drive out of
the resort and like as we're driving to Perusia, there's
like this super tiny town the downtown of Brufa. It's
like a thousand people and as I'm driving by, I'm like,

(03:17):
there's this little restaurant. I was like, that looks interesting.
It's like looks really nice inside, and she's like, why
don't we try that? So we go in and you
know it's empty. There's one guy in there. We walk in,
but it's two young kids, brothers that opened this restaurant
in Brufa. And the one brother, the chef, was a
Michelin star chef in Denmark for like three four years,

(03:39):
came back they wanted to open a restaurant in Brufa,
and like, we looked at the reviews and it was like,
you know, ten reviews but all five stars. So we
were like, okay, let's have a let's let's eat here.
It was the best past I've had. That's where the
he made a brown butter sage ravioli with rabbit on
the inside. It was incredible. I'm sorry the PETA listeners here,

(04:02):
you can suck it as delicious.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
But that's where gotta go to get the best feeling.
Gonna go too.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
And it was thirteen euros per per per person bottle
of wine too. The kid the other brother was like
a somolier too, So it was just a great you know,
just the family. They came back to their their small
town open and w restaurant. It was really cool and
the food was. I mean we left there, we're like, oh,
what a decision we made. You know when we saw
a couple of people from our resort that had come

(04:31):
there and they're like, we've eaten here four nights in
a row, they're like, because it's like so good. So
that was the best meal for me. Bologna too, was
we stopped and bologna was was incredible. Those little those
little tells the tjell It's like these little like sandwiches
that look like they're English muffins and they stuff them

(04:53):
full of absolute goodness and deliciousness delicious. So it was fantastic. Yeah,
it was great trip. Yeah, so many, so many cool
to see. And you know, you know when you're on
those long trips and you're going constantly going all these
museums and stuff like that, after a while you're like,
god damn it. You're like it's like I've seen enough

(05:14):
paintings and this this person in you know, this city
got ravaged by some plague or something like this, because
there's so much history there. So you're just kind of
going through and like nodding your head like every other
stupid tourist. But uh, we were, we were just had
so much fun. And uh, my wife's the biggest part

(05:35):
of it is my wife's like the biggest gold horde,
Like she like loves gold, and her dad's like it's
crazy and like no, no, no, like Barry like listen
like like when I'm talking like gold like not like
expended tastes like gold like Barry under the back in
the backyard. Oh like yeah, like been buying gold, Yes,

(05:55):
I've been buying gold for like the last twenty years.
And go in Florence is like kind of where you
get the gold and it's like really good prices and
stuff like that. So where they are like walking around
a couple of eprechauns coming going through Italy and I'm like,
what are we doing here? My wife says, just come on,
come on, getting good prices here. We hit about seven
gold shops trying to look and by gold vest and yeah,

(06:18):
oh yeah, yeah, you don't know where it is. Nobody
knows where it is though, so good luck trying to
get it from us, but it's uh yeah, we're we're
ready for the apocalypse here.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
That's unbelievable. Tal was giving a heads up when you
mentioned Bologna. Tell you've been to Bologna as well. You
can confirm could eats there as well.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
The Red City, gorgeous, gorgeous. I loved that was the city.
That's good stuff.

Speaker 6 (06:41):
That's what it's called. I think that's what it's. It's
all red.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yeah, the food is great, some gorgeous antiquities. There's like
a vibe. It's not you know, like a lot of Italy.
There's a lot of tourists there, but it doesn't have
like venice or roam that like total tourist trap feel,
you know.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
So we didn't want we didn't.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Yeah, yeah, incredible.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
We went from amazing. But there's more. There's more tourists
than locals. And I mean.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yes, I told, I told my wife and I was like,
I want to go to a place where I want
to go with the Italian's vacation or or or different
European because I was like, I don't. We went to
Tuscany for like three days, Tal and you know, my
wife turns me and goes. I fucking came to Italy
to be sitting next to a bunch of people from
New Jersey like all taste them, like, how's that red?

(07:27):
How do you like that red? It's a nice sandiavesa,
and you're just like, get me the fuck out of here.
I didn't come here to see other Americans. I came
here to kind of So that's like I've the older,
I've gotten more curmudginy I've gotten. I'm like, I don't
want to travel and and be like yucking it up
with people from like, you know, Texas, as much as
that's fun, I want to go and kind of be

(07:49):
in my own world and experience, Yeah, talk to some
locals and talk to some people in Italian and give
a little, give a little, Oh, Benitivo.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Now one more for you, because you're posted on social
media a little bit of water sports you were involved
in as well.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
This was adventurous.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
You weren't just going to museums to strike at paintings.
You were getting active out there.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh I gotta get a workout in on the road always.
Oh I missed two things. We went truffle hunting with
with Die. It was actually busy trip. I'll talk about
the truffle hunting after. But we were in on Lake
Orda because we you know, everybody's like go to Lake Comos.
When people say go somewhere, I'm like, okay, great, No
I'm not going to Yeah. So I went to Lake Orda,

(08:28):
which is you know, more and I always get in there.
It was more west towards Turin, and we like went
to the lake and really quiet isolated all Italians that
were vacationing there. So we were like, let's go on
the beach one day and let's just go swim a bit.
So we went in the water and and there's this
random Italian guy that's like, you like, wanted to try

(08:52):
this bike. I'm like what, and they're like, this is
like bike, and I think he was like what is it.
It's like it's not a Ponzi scheme, but it's like
those affiliate marketing where these guys go to some convention
and do a seminar about this bike and then they
sell it to make money. And but it's basically this
like hydro bike that once you're on top of the water,

(09:12):
you're just spinning in it. You're literally like zooming on
the water. But it was so tough to get up
for me. And so I'm in the middle of this
lake trying to get up because you have to like
push the bike all the way down, and then you
got to pedal your feet and as you're pedaling, you're
pedaling your feet. It's like it's like one of those
like little scooters. So you pedal your feet and then
you turn the engine on because you got to generate

(09:34):
a little heat. But then if you're not leaned forward enough,
you know, the front just comes out and you're you're dead.
You're hoofed. And it happened like ten times. I'm in
the middle of the water, like treading water with this
Italian guy and a speedo that's looking at me and
going it's easy, it's easy. And I'm like, you saw
my go fund yourself right now. I'm I'm I'm trying

(09:55):
to get up here. I'm like, I got ten pounds
of pasta in my belly and I'm trying to like
bike this thing. But so cool once you get up.
And then they yelled at me too, because when I
felt off, They're like, you can't jump off like that
and like throw the bike. But I'm like I don't
want to. I'm not trying to hurt myself. But uh yeah,
I did it for like twenty minutes. Literally just did
it for Instagram and that the hydro doing it for

(10:18):
the gram. Yeah, but the one we did for Instagram
was truffle hunting. Truffle hunting with these dogs. Incredible stuff.
These dogs they go around we went it was black
truffle summer tuffle hunting, which is black truffles in the
winter is white truffles, which is like the way more
expensive and more rare. And they were saying like it
was crazy, these dogs zipping around and like their noses

(10:40):
are incredible, and like the black summer truffle grows really
shallow in the dirt. So we got like pounds of it.
And then the guy kept talking. We had this Italian
guy that was showing us who trains the dogs, who
didn't speak a lick of English. We had a translator.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Was how was the English to it?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Talient? Because you were I can have stopped. Yeah, I can.
I can understand. I can't speak great, but I can
understand cause of the French, like I can piece my
way through, I can read and stuff like that. At second,
throw a couple of things together, you know. But yeah,
so we're we're going around and you know, they're digging

(11:16):
up the truffles and and I'm a huge fan of truffles,
and so it was just amazing because this restaurant, you
you go with the dogs and you find the truffles,
and then they make you dinner with the truffles that
you caught. So they just pasta and and all sorts
of stuff. Is really good. Uh. But he was literally
telling us these dogs are like, like the dog that
was with us was like worth fifteen thousand dollars because

(11:39):
they're like that good. And he's at truffle hunting, like
they're crazy at finding truffles, and people other farms try
to poison them.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Oh geez.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
He said his dog that he caught two people trying
to poison They fill like sausages because the dogs love
sausages too. They got fine taste sau sausage truffles. Yeah,
I sausage party. But they fill it with like poison
and then they like throw it on the ground onside.
The are crazy world, man, The truffle world, cash business,

(12:09):
cash money, cash is clay, all of it together. That
was my That was my trip in a nutshell.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Incredible travelog the honeymoon coming uh and it certainly was
well worth a truffle hunting.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
A lot of sex.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
Dude, you're in that, you're there in the honeymoons.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
You hopefully get little bit of that as well, but
also hopefully you're checking out some of the scenery as well.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I mean, you're want to be a little lot Italian
walking around.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
That's why we drove. She couldn't walk but up. And
then we segue to hockey.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Even though there's nothing happening in the NHL in July and August,
still plenty of trade rumors. How about this, Mason McTavish
of the Ducks, Marco Rosh of the wild rumors about
both these guys. Now you had predicted, you said, I
know Zegres can get traded, and you were right, went
to the Philippia Flyers.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
I was right and nailed.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Now too, young, talented forest be a welcome addition to
any any roster. I want you to put on that
no stra demurs cap again, McTavish, ROSSI either of these
guy's gonna get dealt.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
I can't McTavish, I can't see it, just because I
love him as a center. I think if they ultimately,
if they can't settle on a number, or or you know,
if he doesn't like but they're just trending in the
right direction with Quinnville. I can't see mctaviash wanting to leave,
even though you know Zegrest is his good buddy. I
just don't see it. I mean, he'd be highly sought after.
I'm sure they're they're kicking the tires listening at what

(13:28):
they could possibly get, because if they could get somebody,
you know, really interesting in return, that could kind of
get him to that next level, because I mean, you know,
and then this team's Anaheim's like kind of there might
pick to make the playoffs my dark horse. Yeah, I
think Quinville like they're making a push here. So it's like,
I don't know why you'd get rid of a mctabash
ROSSI I think he's going to get dealt. I think

(13:50):
he hasn't been happy there. I think he's and his
eyes has been underutilized, and I think he's still got
some value. So I think he's a guy that could
produce on another team and have a bigger role, And
I think that's what he wants, so definitely, if they're
gonna keep Caprice off and they got to sign Capriso,
I think he's kind of been pushing forward and I

(14:11):
think they're trying to look for a place for him.
So I see him getting moved. I just don't know
where goods skilled forward, So could really be anywhere that
a team that needs somebody could see like them. I
wouldn't say Vegas, but you could see like a Rangers.
I think maybe somewhere out east. I don't think they
keep him in the West, you can see Rangers. Maybe

(14:32):
I'm not an Anaheim, but you know, maybe in LA
There's just there's some places that he could fit. So
I think him for sure. I don't think mctabb I
can't see mctabbah should be nuts though. If if maybe
there's just it's just irreconcilable differences, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, and speaking traits that aren't gonna happen, but just
interesting chatter. Sidney Crosby turns thirty eighth this week. He's
gonna captain of Pittsburgh team that appears be in full
tank mode. He's got two years left in his current
deal with the Penguins. Now I can't imagine the situation
JD in which you would leave the Pittsburgh Penguin just
feels like a life for no matter what. At the
same time, I suppose if there was an opportunity in
which he wanted to chase another cup. It doesn't feel

(15:10):
like to me happening in time suit in Pittsburgh. Again,
I don't see it happening. I don't think it's moved
the next couple of years, But what do you think
happens there in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I've talked to Thrupper a lot on this, and I
guess it's more the temperament of what he wants to do.
Is he just happy to finish off in pitt and
I love the only Yeah. I mean, I think maybe
initially he's like, I'm staying and then now you're gonna
see how bad this shit can get. Yes, But I
just know Dubis is trying to put his little fingerprints

(15:40):
all over this, and I think he's trying to get
rid of the old guard. So I think if he
gets rid of the Malkins, the Latin the Malkins, the Latanks,
I think Sid might be more inclined to say, like, Hey,
I'm out of here. But what a sad way to
end the era for them, just kind of limping through.
You know, you look at Ovi and it's like, at
least Ov there, they're staying competitive. You know, they're staying

(16:03):
competitive for him. I'm like, pit, how do you not
you have those three guys, How do you not say competitive?
How do you not figure something out? So Dubus is
gonna try have to I think, maybe make one more
push for it. But I'm the only place I'd like
to see sid go is is Colorado. That's really it.
I just I don't know what you guys think, but
I just feel like playing with Nate would be the

(16:25):
best case Ontario for me.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Yeah, I think with two seasons left in the deal.
I'm kind to your points thinking, I don't think it's true.
This year like as miserable as would be, but I
think next year, if it's like the final year, maybe
next summer he could say, all right, I got one
year left, one last kick of the can. It's not
happening in Pittsburgh, where some situations I would find enviable.
Tal has some upcoming predictions and takes for the season.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
What do you got for his tal?

Speaker 5 (16:45):
Well, I was just gonna add also a lot of
I mean it's mostly from Canadians fans, but a lot
of Sid to Montreal night chatter about will will the
Canadians be rounding in de forum just as Sid's ready
to finally sign off on a trade. I don't see
it happening, but that's you know, we need to talk
about something.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
It's barely August, right, so yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
It would Sid go to a play like a big market,
or would Sid want to go to like a Anaheim
or like a Colorado where it's like less media because
you imagine Sidney Crosby in Montreal.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh my god, out of control to be they would
be throwing.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Panty out of control.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Oh those little Maria Canadians super fans would be going bananas.

Speaker 5 (17:33):
Well, you mentioned also predictions add and of course you know,
and my duties as producer. I asked you both to
come up with some stuff for this dog day of
Summer edition of NHL Unscripted, and you both responded, you know,
justifiably do it.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
It's barely August. What are we what are we doing here?

Speaker 2 (17:49):
All right?

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Stanley Cupper Boss, Carolina Hurriys, that's what you want right here?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
You go. Well, I said, I mean I kind of
want let's go. Yeah, JD, what you got dark horse
playoff team Ducks. Ducks are going to make the playoffs
this year. Rangers are gonna miss again.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Vegas also, Stanley cupper Bus, you signed that they're pushing hard.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
There's yeah, Vegas, Vegas, Vegas will be in. I think
this is I like Carolina, but again, I think they're
gonna make the playoffs and well they have enough who knows.
But I mean the biggest one is will Florida repeat again?
That's probably the one that everybody's that's the lowest hanging fruit.

(18:32):
But when you think about it, it's so tough to
win twice. Can they do it a third time? Now?
Targets on their back picked Tim and they've been ship
talking everybody right now all summer long. And I mean, hey, listen,
so what do you guys think of What do you
guys think of Matthew Chuck on the cover of What
do you guys think of that? Let's hear that.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I think this is a guy who really represents the
best of the sport. He's a phenomenal player. He had
a coming out party, certainly with the Four Nations. It
makes a lot of sense to me.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Tell yeah, I think we've reached full face of the
league status for Matthew could Chuck.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
I mean, not the only face, but one.

Speaker 5 (19:10):
Of the faces of the league in terms of, you know, statistically,
he's not putting up McDavid numbers, but in terms of
the personality the lineage, I mean, how many interviews did
he do immediately after Four Nations and they didn't even
win that tournament?

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Not you know candidate, I'm just going to throw.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
That out there, But anyway, but he's everywhere. He's someone
in the league is clearly putting out there to be
one of the guys. And it's it's because he does
so many different things. He kind of, I think represents
what a hockey player is for a lot of people
in terms of all the different elements he brings to
the game. And let's be real, he turned that franchise
around that thing that they became a Stanley Cup dynasty

(19:48):
when they acquired Matthew could Chuck.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
I mean, there's gonna be a lot of Panthers talk
all season long about if they're going to go three
in a row, and right now, I can't. I can't
go against him, even though it's August.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Even though it's August, you're early not you know, so
much can happen here. But talas adamant, well, hey, get
your futures bets in, folks, even though we don't.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
Exactly imagine if we had odds brought to you by
bet MGM like that.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oh, we don't have anyone in there, so that's fine.
We just have to kind of rind away.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
Still to come here in NHL and scripted, we got
our hockey talking, we got fearless predictions in for Bob Bender,
and we got JD's Tripp and more importantly, Tjos. She's
coming up right around the bend. Just went through an
impressive move. He's formally retired. We'll catch up with tj
some of the highlights of his career. It is coming
up next right after this here in NHL unscripted, our

(20:48):
next guest, a first round pick twenty fourth overall the
two thousand and five NHL dropped by the Saint Louis
Blues after collecting three hundred and two goals and six
hundred and ninety five points and over one thousand career
NHL games the Blues and the Capitals.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
He called it her career when he fished. He retired
in June.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
Stanley Cup Champion, US Olympic legend tj ohh TJ.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Good to see it man, how you been.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
Good to see you? Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
So for all the incredible things you did in the NHL,
may have just computed the most impressive feet of your career.
You recently moved a family of six from Virginia back
to Minnesota. You've got four kids, you and your wife.
How co listen, there's nothing worse to me than the
move Outgrace was it making that move from different states?

Speaker 4 (21:25):
The move was tough.

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Had we had a good moving company that helped us
out and kind of took care of some of the
stuff for us. But uh yeah, I mean there's just
so many things that go into it that you don't
think of, Like the kids need new doctors, the new Dennis. Yes,
then you need to sign up for new travel sports.
Then you got to sign up for new camps. It's
just like all the things that seemed like kinda even

(21:49):
though that they're a little hard being a parent, you know,
keeping juggling all these things, to take all those things
and then transfer them to a state where really, I mean,
we know family here. I know guys that I played against,
Zach Breezey, Drew Stafford, doub Nick.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
We all played golf together the other day.

Speaker 7 (22:04):
It's like I know those guys, but I didn't like
grow up with them, to go to high school with them,
and so uh yeah, you just don't have like your
normal stuff. So we're kind of starting over a little bit.
We got some family, which is nice, but kind of
a fresh start.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
It's like being back in high school finding your community again.
Like you gotta you're like first day at school, You're
just like, come on, boys, egg golf with the fellow
stuff like that. So I'm sure it's awkward a little bit. Yeah, yeah,
it is a little bit.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
And I'm not like an extremely social person.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
I'm not you know, I'm not going out to dinner
like once a week, like you know, hanging out with everyone.
I'm kind of homebody a little bit, like to just
make make food at home, hang out, enjoy some some
peace and quiet.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
So being that social.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
Guy is like a little more difficult at the you know,
going to the golf course and like like introducing yourself
to a lot of people like, hey, you want to
be my friend.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
My friend, I'm new in town. Yeah you know, I
know you had a moving company and uh, you know,
but kind of when you get settled. You know, I
did a big move and I retired too. So you know,
the day I retired, I moved out of my house
from Phoenix to you know, a different house, and you're
packing up and seeing all your old, old stuff. Is
there anything you saw that like brought back some memories

(23:20):
that you were like, oh my god, I didn't even
know that was still kicking around the house, like some
memorabilia or something, you know, growing up.

Speaker 7 (23:28):
Yeah, I haven't dug too deep into the memorabilia stuff. Actually,
last summer, which technically was right after I played my
last game, I went through my teammates high school teamates
up in war Owed.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
There's this big debacle.

Speaker 7 (23:45):
My dad obviously at Alzheimer's forgot a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
He forgot.

Speaker 7 (23:49):
They had a storage unit up in northern Minnesota and
just stopped paying for it, and you know storage wars.
Someone got it. They tried to They tried to like
like ask me to buy it back for like numbers
like sixteen grand or something. I was like, dude, it's
just my childhood things, like it's yeah, there's no there's

(24:12):
nothing like it's all high school before so not World Juniors,
like none of that stuff, right, and and.

Speaker 4 (24:19):
He like won't give it back, won't give it back.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
And finally I was like, all right, just keep it,
like piece it off and sell it if you want.
Apparently he couldn't sell it because it was like literally
my kid, like your medals playing like Burnaby eight rings,
like the Super series, like that's all what it was like,
stuff like that, my team pictures.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
And anyway.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
So I went up for our team golf or the
City World Golf tournament last year, and they brought me
down to my buddies basement and surprised me. Some World
guy was driving through a guy told him about it,
and he was like, I'm leaving with that stuff, and
he like paid the guy. I can't remember what the
amount was, not sixteen, but I think he paid like
over one thousand dollars. He's like, it's all I have here,

(25:00):
I'm leaving with TJ stuff. Nice and he packed it
all up and I walked down theirs and like they
had it like out like a museum. It was like, yeah,
and I'm like my letterman's jacket was in there, and
then like a bunch of my dad's childhood stuff, like
his community college basketball things, and so that was kind

(25:23):
of the big thing for me, is like I got
all that stuff, and last summer I went through it
all and you know, threw away some stuff that's no meaning,
but cool to see all that stuff and a good,
good surprise for my my high school buddies.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Your shoot up performance against Russia. Of course, twenty fourteen
Olympics remains an indelible moment the history of USA hockey.
I once asked Joe Carter, who hit the famous homer
for the Blue Jays in ninety three. I said, you
know how often people mention that home run too? And
he said, well, if I'm out of the house pretty
much every day, I said, come on, every day I
go to the grocery. Someone said, hey, Joe Carter, I
remember the home if I'm with the golf course every day.
So the question to you is how often do people

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mentioned that goal to.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
It actually depends on where I'm at. So if I'm
in d C, it's all cap stuff. You know, Saint Louis.
I don't get back there very much, but that's mostly
about Saint Louis stuff. Minnesota, not much any other place Betwirese.
Besides those three places, it's all shootout, you know.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
Because I'm in Minnesota. They talk about high.

Speaker 7 (26:27):
School, they talk about playing North Dakota DC, they talk
about the Cup, talk about well, you talk about Ob
mostly and then and then you know, in Saint Louis
they talk about just like the old days and whatever,
you know, my my younger years. So but yeah, anywhere
outside of those places, like I'm walking around like in
New York stay and a hockey fan notices me for

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some reason, it's going to be about the shootout on
hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh my. And what's usually the question that you're getting
when you're somebody's grabbing you for that? Is it like
how'd you beat Bob? Or is it just like what's
usually the general question that comes up when somebody grabs
you for that?

Speaker 7 (27:06):
Yeah, what's what's great is it's usually man, I've never
been to a bar at six am, and they're like
that was the best like time at a bar, And
I was like, so that that's usually what they say,
they're like, yeah, I have my kid with me, Like
we were buzzing, like can your name at six am?

(27:27):
And I'm like, that's actually pretty cool. That maybe a
reason why it stands out so much.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Is it a moment that like you can replay in
your head all the time, or is it one of
those that when you see it all the time that
it kind of you know, brings it's not that long ago,
but it brings back every single detail of that performance.

Speaker 7 (27:42):
Uh, I can, Yeah, I can pretty much remember everything
that happened. I'm usually not like that with games and sports.
There's only like a few moments where like off the
top of my head I can remember unless I like
watch it and then you know the feelings sprint come
back or the emotions or whatever it is. But that
one I can, just because it blew up so big

(28:04):
At the time. I wasn't thinking much about it. You know,
You're just playing and finish and you know you look
at look at the coach, see if he wants you
to go again and give.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Me the tap fell I'm feeling it again.

Speaker 7 (28:20):
And so but yeah, it was you know, obviously a
special moment in my in my career, and so I
saw get all the feels, and I actually didn't watch
the whole thing back again until maybe a year ago.
I'd say, wow, you know, I had just seen the
clips of the goals. So me and my daughter, my

(28:41):
nine year old, she's a little athlete in the family,
and she wanted to watch the game, and so that's
that's the first time I'd ever watched the game was
a couple of months ago.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's awesome. How weird does that watch the game? It's
it's going back and watching some like early games in
your career is always so weird because you're just like god,
I was. I was every time I watched. I'm like God,
I could not skate to save my life, but I
was just flowing out there.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
I definitely looked terrible in the game, I thought, for sure.
You know what I noticed is some of the older
guys that, like you know, are probably almost all now
retired from the twenty fourteen Olympics.

Speaker 4 (29:19):
You look at those.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Guys and I remember them based on like the last
year or two of their career, and you see them
out You're like, oh my god, like I was, I
saw obviously, I'm good buddies with Orpik.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
I'm like, holy, Orpie's flying out.

Speaker 7 (29:32):
Yeah, you know, because like at the end, you know,
you have knee problems, back problem, like you know you're
you're an NHL player, but you're kind of you're you're
getting through some things to get out there and stay
on the ice, you knowwh Yeah, And I.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Just remember some guys in the game.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
I was like, God, they are those guys are good,
Like they were really good.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Brooks door picked really good. Yeah you were good.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, I mean Jack, But.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I wanted to I wanted to talk about No dak
for a sec just because you know, you play with
Jonathan Taves and you know, seeing him make his comeback,
you know, does that make you feel any kind of
way because you guys were together at such a young
age and had some good teams too. I was going
back and looking and how was that experience with him?
And was he always that serious?

Speaker 7 (30:24):
He would he would lighten up sometimes, But I mean
as when we came in, I want to say he
either started school early as a young kid, or he
did high school in like three years or something, because
he was only seventeen as a freshman in North Dakota.
And so but even then, like he was definitely more
mature than I was, you know, turning nineteen that in

(30:47):
a couple months into my freshman year, he just had
like this drive about him and this like he was
like ultra ultra I don't want to say serious, but
he was like determined to like play in the NHL,
to be like the best player in the NHL, you know.
Where it was compared to someone like me, who was like,
I'm just there to have fun. If I make it

(31:09):
to NHL, you know great. I didn't watch my draft,
you know, like it was just two different So compared
to me, yeah, he was incredibly serious. But in those moments,
like in the locker room, he'd like we'd joke around,
We'd sitting there in our gear for hours, you know,
we'd show up in between classes and skate together. I
think he was really good for me, and I was

(31:30):
really good for him back then, because, like I said,
I was one hundred percent like fun, like that's all I.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Wanted to do.

Speaker 7 (31:38):
And so we would kind of clash, go head to head,
right Like point spies were always like pretty close on
the team, but like and even playing time a little bit,
but we were like super competitive against each other. And
you know, it was like Canadian American, you know, like

(31:58):
I don't know, like fun guy, like serious guy. But
we I mean, we absolutely loved each other, but we
were so we pushed each other so hard to the
point where like you know, sometimes we get not fight,
but like we get pissed at each other on the ice,
you know what I mean. And uh, but I'm I'm
so excited for him. He talked to me, gosh, you
must have called me in the spring, maybe late spring

(32:24):
about making a comeback and about training and stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
We use a.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
My trainer is something that he had used at some
point but throughout his career, and he's thinking about getting
back into it. So he's training where I trained in
the in the Twin Cities, And yeah, we talked about it,
and I'm super super excited for him.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
He sounded awesome on the phone.

Speaker 7 (32:46):
And uh, John's got like the just the hockey smarts
that if his body gets into shape, like those those
those smarts just don't go away, right, All those guys
that play forever, they're so smart, they're so intelligent. Yeah,
they're so intelligent on the ice. So I hope he's
in a good spot. That was he gets in a
good spot. I think he can you know, he can

(33:06):
definitely help TJ.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
He came to the league with Keith the Chuck as
a teammate in Saint Louis. What's it been like seeing
Matthew and Brady and matthewa checkson on the cover of
a NHL twenty six obviously Standley Cup champion.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
How wild has that been?

Speaker 7 (33:19):
It's insane, honestly, it is. It's it's like crazy that,
you know, you get to that point because I remember
in the locker room they would be, you know, you'd
still be getting undressed and they'd be like playing like
like shinny like knee hockey in the locker room, and
we had a we had a big locker room with

(33:40):
we had a big locker room with like a rink
on the in the middle of it so that coaches
could like talk about it or whatever, but and use
like the carpet for like the whiteboard.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah, and uh.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, school, I know it is. You don't see that
any anywhere. You just have the coach just pointing on
the ice. That's why. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Yeah. So to go from there.

Speaker 7 (34:05):
And now to him being on the cover to stand
the Cups it's it's pretty pretty surreal.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I mean, how was Keith for you as a as
a veteran guy when you came in and how was he?
You know, obviously he's got his two kids there and
they're so young, but but how did he mentor and
what was his style? You know, because at that point
he was about a year I think it was his
second last year when you first started playing with him.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Yeah, he was, Uh, he was a little difficult.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
I love hearing that.

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Yeah he was. He was hard. He was hard.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
Yeah, he uh, yeah, he he expected you know, I
don't know, he was just he was just hard on me,
Patrick Bergland, David Perun specifically us three, and uh.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
It was good for me, honestly.

Speaker 7 (35:03):
You know, I think he kind of saw, you know,
maybe the mistakes that he had maybe made at some
point in his career and saw you know, us and
knuckleheads running around, and so it was he was.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
He was hard on us.

Speaker 7 (35:15):
But you know, every once in a while he'd like
grab you and like pull you under his arm and
like kiss the top of your head or something, you know,
and you're like, oh, he loves me.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
You know.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
It's like that dad that like never like says good
to job, and then like that one like every once
in a while he like grabbed me. You're like he
likes me, but no, it was it was scary like
if he was in a bad mood and he walked
in the training room, like as like we would like
walk out.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Oh wow, that for sure because like this guy.

Speaker 7 (35:41):
Yeah, but I mean and it was hard too because
like you loved him at the same time. But yeah, no,
he was.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
He was great. I remember the first time.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
I first time, like I might have been practice, were
like his big skate and like I come in the
training room and Walt has his own blue robe with
a blue symbol on it and just says Walt, and
no one else on the team had a row. It
was only it was just him and he's walking around you,
and I was like, wow, this must be this is different.

Speaker 4 (36:12):
This is a little different. But it was. It was awesome.
He was so good for me. But you know, at
the time, you're like, god, this guy is kind of meat.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
But see that's that's like what's great to hear from guys,
because I feel like fans don't get that enough, like listen,
like I had Joe Thornton obviously Joe Thornton and Kitchuck
are so different. But he was so incredibly hard on me,
to the point where like if I told people's stories,
they'd be like, that's not true, and I'm like telling you,
like they're such competitors, Like it's like people need to
know that. It's just like it's it helped me, but

(36:44):
at times you're like going home, I'm driving home like
this guy, this guy hates me, and I'm like, it's
just one of those things. It's like you gotta you
gotta go through those moments as a as a young kid,
and you know it's not all you know, roses and
all that stuff. So that's cool to hear that Keith
was not just all smiles but could be a dick sometimes.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Yeah, well, certainly Keith Chuk could be a tough customer.
As far as Alexandro Vetchkin TJ, I feel like it's
a little more like you, fun loving kind of guy.
I know he didn't play last season with the Capitals,
but how much were you around the team, and of
course Obie's incredible gold chase hunting down Gretz.

Speaker 7 (37:18):
Yeah, I mean I was, I was around a lot
at the at the beginning during training camp, went with
the team. We brought back our like team bonding trip
this year, which we hadn't had for a couple of years,
and uh, definitely I was around during during the chase
and Ted was generous enough to have me and Backy

(37:41):
you know, fly with him.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
From game to game. Luckily ob made it pretty quick,
so make too many trips.

Speaker 7 (37:47):
But no, it was it was an incredible, incredible year,
incredible seeing him do it. I mean it's been a
couple of years since I stopped. Like people ask me
all the time, like is he getting retires, is he
going to slow it down? Is going to get the record?
And my first two years I was like, yeah, I
don't know. Yeah, I guess everyone you hear like all

(38:08):
your too, your windows over like it's you know. And
then I was like, you know what, always gonna do
whatever he wants to put his mind to, and so
I stopped guessing how far he can go, how many
goals he can score, and sure enough he got it done.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I mean I was one of those those doubters. I
was like, I mean, he's gonna get there, but it's
gonna take him a while. And you know, I think
as athletes we love seeing guys that kind of defy
father time and he's done that. And and you know,
there wasn't really a moment more than when he came
back from that leg injury, like like how is that?
Like were you around the room when he was rehabbing,

(38:46):
and like, as a guy that you know, I was
injured in my career and a lot, and it's like that,
that's just so disheartening. And he somehow came back quicker
than everybody thought.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
I I saw him the next morning and I walked
in and I'm sitting there like doing.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
My cross or you know, I don't have anything to do,
so I was like, I don't even think like a
cross over your clothes.

Speaker 7 (39:10):
Yeah, we were a big cross for a team, and
we got the recliners, you know, almost getting into like
the Walt territory a little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's how I said, you're gonna give yourself a bathroom?

Speaker 7 (39:19):
Yeah, and uh and uh no.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
I I saw him.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
I look over and he's like walking in and he
broke his leg like the day before, and I'm like, oh.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
What are you doing.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
He's like I'm walking in.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
He's like I'm fine, bad, fine. He had like he
had like crutches, but like set him down and then
like walked around the table to like get up right,
and and I'm like and he sits down and I
go look, I'm like, let me see the X rays.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
I looked at him. I mean, he's broke. Like his
leg was broken.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
It wasn't like a small sliver, like a little crack,
it was broken. His bone was in half. And I
was like, oh man. I was like, I had a
spiral fracture, you know. I got like a plate and
screws down above my ankle.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
And I was like, damn, m that sucks. Man.

Speaker 7 (40:05):
It's gonna be like, you know, a couple of months
until you can skate again. And he's like, no, babe,
i'll be on the ice in two weeks. And I
was like, I was like, oh, there's no chance. He's
like watch, I'll be on the ice in two weeks.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
We and so that's crazy to me. So he's got
to know something, some Russian medicine. Then I don't know.

Speaker 7 (40:24):
I don't well, he's like different. His I swear his
bones are like different. Like he's just I don't know
how to explain it. Like he's Everyone talks about how
healthy is like he's not that healthy, like he as
far as like his body, like how he he's hurt
a lot. Yeah, never doesn't play. He has like this
insane patrens. You see him like getting hit in the

(40:46):
bench with a puck in the face and he just
like licks his like cheek and like goes back to
watching like getting hit with the puck in the face.
Most people drop to the floor.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, and he hurts.

Speaker 7 (40:57):
He was like, oh something like nick me. It's like, yeah,
you got him the puck in the face. But yeah,
So anyways, two weeks literally is two weeks later from
that day, I'm at home and he sends a video
to my phone and I'm like, I'm at home with
my wife.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Sends a people of my phone and it's him.

Speaker 7 (41:15):
On the ice, like not skating, but like on the
ice moving around with the skates on, and.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
It's like, I'm like, dude, you're insane.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
How is Like the group chat during that time guys
were just like, is this fucking for real?

Speaker 4 (41:28):
I Mean that's.

Speaker 7 (41:29):
He's He's so such like an incredible just human being
and like so many different facets of life that like
he's like the topic of conversation a lot of times
like he's just that.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
It's just I don't know, he's just OV. It's it's amazing.

Speaker 7 (41:46):
It's like funny, incredible, like impressive, like dumbfounded, something like
I don't know how to how to describe it.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
He's like one of a kind.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
I mean he is, and I don't know if there'll
be another one like him. And I mean yourself too.
You're you're so unique in what you've done in your
career and in your personality. But talk a little bit.
We had you on the network and we talked about
your affinity for Mario Kart and then you got a
tattoo of Warrio on your leg, which is, uh, we
we could not have guessed it, but you got it

(42:16):
was insane. But just talk about that, like stint in
the bubble with OV, with those guys, and how great
it was that you guys found something to like all
kind of collectively play around, which is Mario Kart.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:28):
Man, it really at the time, it was just like
there's just so much time in the hotel and so
we're like, let's just play Mario Kart. And for whatever reason,
it almost became like a religion, like you're going you're
on the plane. You know you're going on the road,
and you're like, boys, I can't wait to like set
it up, like you just like go in, throw your
bags down. I'd usually if you had a Mario Kart backpack,

(42:50):
like a Nintendo sixty four backpack that we carried it in.
And so usually when we get off the plane, our
team services guy Rob maybe like the best in the business.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
So Rob, right when I get off, you'd like hand
me the backpack, I'd take it.

Speaker 7 (43:04):
I'd go straight to the lounge, set up all the
video games because usually they have like the PlayStation five set.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
Up like the wrong way or whatever.

Speaker 7 (43:12):
Yeah, that way, I could pick what TV the Mario
Kard gets and what the PlayStation gets, and I would
like move it out of the way, set it up,
move the chairs, and then I would go out to
my room, set my bags down, switch into like your sweats,
and then run down there because you want to get.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
A controller, have to.

Speaker 7 (43:30):
And so it became like a I don't know, it
was just like our way to bond. And we were
always in the lounge, not only just playing Mariocard. That
was like our like section of guys, but like everyone
was just always in the lounge when we were like
bonding that year, it wasn't like guys going to their
room and doing their own thing or guys going out
to dinner for their own thing.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
It was like everyone was just together.

Speaker 7 (43:51):
The whole run, and uh, you know, kind of almost
the same way we played the game. We were just
like fully like together and no one was complaining about anything,
just you know, onto the next and bonding and having fun.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Like I'm sure you've answered this, you know a bunch
and have thought about it, but like you know, and
I know, it's it's really a common sentiment between guys
when you retire. Myself included of like, you know, some
personally you're gonna miss, which is always seems to come
up the guys in the locker room and the camaraderie.
Is that kind of the same vein for you? Is
there anything else that kind of you're gonna miss about

(44:29):
the game and going to the rink every day?

Speaker 7 (44:32):
Yeah, I mean, I think the I think why everyone
says it's like the guys and why that part's so
important is because you're really like I guess metaphorically, but
you're like going to war on the ice every day.
And so it almost like that that time that you're
together not on the ice is just like you just
bond it even more, you know what I mean. A

(44:53):
lot of times you're bonding over the game. You're bonding
over like tough losses, You're bonding over huge wins, you
know what I mean. And so you guys, you take
this emotional or coaster together like all every right, and
it's just like you're doing that together, whereas like not
every guy is like moving to a different state right

(45:14):
now that I can just like grab a beer with
at night, you know what I mean. It's it's just
so you missed that going through things together.

Speaker 4 (45:22):
Gosh.

Speaker 7 (45:22):
Other than that, just like the competition, I was like
my whole life even now, Like maybe that's why people
like having like a couple of drinks with me, because
like I need to get like some type of game going,
you know what I mean. And I'm just like I
can sit and chat for a little bit, and I'm like,
all right, guys, let's go like get in here, you know.
And so like I miss that about hockey that like

(45:45):
every day and I would make every like I tried
to make like practices like turn them into game somehow
or after the after practice have the guys down at
my end and be like hey, backhand crossbar, like like
let's go, you know, And so I I kind of
I miss that part. It translates a little into like
me and my kids and stuff. But but you know,

(46:05):
you miss miss your time with the boys.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Yeah, and that is the biggest thing, and I love that.
So we'll have to find a time to grab a
beer at some time because I need to play shuffle
or I need to do something and keep those juices going.
But now that you're done, you kind of did a
little stint, you did some ESPN stuff. You know, did
you enjoy it? Did you get a good feeling of that?
Is that's something you're trying to hope to kind of
continue and kind of what's next for you? Are you

(46:29):
just taking some time to get settled in the new
house and and just take a breath.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah. ESPN was great. I loved it.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
You're great, Uka mass for great.

Speaker 4 (46:39):
Steve was great.

Speaker 7 (46:41):
It was it was really eye opening, that is I
mean it was at the start, it was so much
harder than I thought it would ever be with like
the ear piece in that's tough, and like people talking.
I'd never even said a word with like one of
my ears plugged, and so like right off the hop,

(47:02):
I was like, oh boy, like I'm thinking about my
ear piece, my legs shaking because I'm nervous, the desk
is like tight on my thighs, and like I don't
like that.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
You know, here, I'm coming my notes.

Speaker 7 (47:14):
I got to remember like what my question is and
and so it was very hard at the start. And
by the end of the second intermission, They're like, all right,
we're done.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
And I was like, oh what, Like I just felt
like I was getting caught out my rhythm, Like I'm.

Speaker 7 (47:28):
Sitting there like, no, we're done, We're good, and like
get a plate and like and uh. And I was
like they're sitting there probably like oh thank God, Like
I can't wait to go home, and I'm sitting there
like please go it overtime, Please go to overtime, like one.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Moreh Never you never say that on there, you never
say that. I've been stuck in a couple of long days.
But yeah, it's the scary thing is the ear piece,
like cause you're you know, somebody's counting you down in
your ear and you're trying to get a point off
and you're like all year in years thirty twenty five
and you're like, fuck, I haven't even gotten to the
best part.

Speaker 7 (48:02):
Yeah, yeah, I know it was. I mean at one point,
it was at the end, they're like everyone had one
last take. I think it was at and the second
second intermission, maybe everyone had one last one for the game, Like,
how does you know? Whatever it is, and they're like,
everyone gets seven seconds. Well, they were counting down the
seconds that we all had combined, and when it got

(48:24):
to me, it was down to like one second.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
That's brutal.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
That's they they gave me. They gave me the extra time.
You know. Steve Lee obviously like an.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Absolute he's he's the king.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Yeah, he's the king. So he saved me at the end.

Speaker 7 (48:40):
But in my mind, I was like, I don't know
what happened. So in my mind I was like, I'm
gonna be talking and it's just gonna cut.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
You know, I don't know, I don't know how what
happens credits, and so.

Speaker 7 (48:54):
I think it ended up being okay, and and I
got my you know quick, I only needed like three
seconds to say whatever I need to say.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
But it is.

Speaker 7 (49:02):
Something I'm pursuing right now a little bit. I'm also
talking to the Caps about some stuff nice and so yeah,
I'm kind of trying to get my foot in the
door and like a couple of different things and uh, yeah,
we'll see, we'll see where it takes me. TV was fun.
I could see my skill self getting into that. I
would love to coach, I really really would. I just

(49:22):
don't have the time with four kids right now.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Yeah, you're eleven. I just can't do it.

Speaker 7 (49:27):
But I know I was like, like watching Mighty Ducks
back in the day Charlie Conway when he like gave
away his skate and grabbed the clipboard.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
I was like, Oh, that's gonna be me one day,
you know.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
So transition, that's awesome, man, Yeah that's yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
So well, well we'll see what happens. But the TV
was fun.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
ESPN.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
ESPN was first class and it was.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Great, oh amazing. And you know, finally for you, I
just wanted to give you the kind of space to
talk about war Road and is there anything kind of
new coming out or or just any developments for you guys.
And you're doing great work and you know, protecting kids
and protecting athletes in general.

Speaker 4 (50:06):
Thank you. Yeah, it's uh, you know, it's coming along.

Speaker 7 (50:09):
Growing a business is tough, but we're doing it for
the right reasons and we're trying to do it the
right way. So we're trying to protect as many as
many kids as possible. I think a lot of times,
a lot of kids. Last year kind of went more
forward towards like the doughnut neck guard thing a little bit,
and so right now we're just trying to educate that
what we have is a little more protective. You know,

(50:30):
you got the collar bone, you got the whole thing covered.
We're making it as comfortable as possible. We're working on,
you know, the next generation, which I think is going
to be pretty cool, but it's a little bit out.
So just trying to grow it. Hopefully kids out there
and everyone just stays safe. You know, it takes that one.
It's always a crazy accident, right, There's no reason a

(50:51):
skates should be by your neck. But even like I
was going through it's one of my one of my
buddies sent me a like a hit video that someone
made to me on it on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
I was like, oh, what's this.

Speaker 7 (51:02):
I clicked it and there was like two or three
hits where either we were going to the ice or
just I hit a guy and his skates come up
and like hit me in the shoulder. One time I
ran over someone in Minnesota. I can't remember who it was,
and he I fell on top of him. My skate
came through and like looked like it like clipped his vibes.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
It's so close all the time, so I'm was like, gosh.

Speaker 7 (51:25):
Like I look at those now obviously trying to you know,
making bass layers with neck protection and yeah, risk protection
all that. I'm like, man, that is so close and
you just don't know. So you know, I just hope
the kids stay safe they wear World or not. We're
just trying to protect the game.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Awesome, Boddy, that's great. Well you got so much going on.
Go hang with the family, go take care of all
that stuff and moving, and we hope to see you soon.
But thanks so much Tjohi, and good luck and retirement.
And I'm sure it's not the last we've seen you,
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Thanks brother, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Thanks once again to tj osh As it's now time
for a little centophile. In sixty Jad and I both
saw Superman talents has been stuck watching kids movies. Tal
I saved editing for you Ari Astro's new movie We'll
do That Another Time, which was fantastic new movie Starry
Paedro piscal and Joaquin Phoenix. My new Superman is the
big one, so we gotta get to that. And plus
I did watch the new Naked Gun movie, which is
really funny.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
So Superman JD.

Speaker 1 (52:27):
I'm fired up to go see it, obviously the kids
want to go. And I was really disappointed by a couple.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Of main issues.

Speaker 1 (52:32):
People send me this video of Mike Frances's eight and
a half minute rant against Superman, and I got listen to.
Mike Francisco is nice stuff, guy. I'm sure he's a
Radio Hall favorer. I'm not gonna watch it. Eight and
a half minute rant to go. Now, dude, you have
to watch it. So I wait until I Sadimnway, which
I was disappointed by. Then I watched it and I
thought it was hysterical and two of his major points
which I agree with. One enough with the dog? What's
with the dog? I don't care about Crypto?

Speaker 2 (52:51):
What's with like? Who cares? It's a Superman movie.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
I couldn't agree.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
More like, maybe it's just I'm not a dog guy,
but enough with crypto everything. There's a dog, dog needs saving,
dog showing up again. Apparently one point James gun said
the dog would be even a.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
More of a featured role.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Verst with the tript He's like, I'm gonna make the
dog basically the central part of the movie, which tells
you all you need to know.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Clearly playing to kids, waitmen, et cetera. Not really my jam.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
The major issue is this though for me, way too
much of the supporting characters.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
It's a Superman movie where Superman, Superman's goodness butt kicked
the whole movie. He shows up first, He's gonna hit
you can't do nothing.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Who's this guy, mister Terrific?

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Like, mister Terrific ends.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
Up having one of the most exciting sequences of the
entire movie. Lois Lane is writing, Shako and mister Tripp, Who.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
The fuck is mister Terrific?

Speaker 3 (53:31):
I want to watch a Superman movie.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
I'm like, and this is James Gunn, who did such
a great job at the Guardians of the Galaxy. There's
no question about it. He reinvigorated that franchise. It's funny,
it's irreverend, it's different. But they love the multiverse, they
love the multiple characters. I just want Superman GD against
Lex Luthor and instead of getting all these other ancillary characters.

Speaker 3 (53:49):
The guy plays Superman was fine.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
He's not exactly Christopher Reeve love Brosnahand because I love
Marvel's missus Basel, she was all right.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
But overall, form me, he's a disappointment. Having said that,
kids loved it.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Uh, the movie worldwide is not doing great, but Domestic
was a strong hit.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
So we're gonna get Superman two and all the rest
of it. But for me, I was disappointed. What did
you think of the Man of Steel?

Speaker 2 (54:07):
Well, when you make those points, so I enjoyed it
because I thought, when I'm looking at what I want
to see from Superman, I thought they brought it back
a little bit more hokey and he's like kind of
a just a kid from a farm and stuff like that.
So I enjoyed that. And he's very happy, go lucky.
You know, the dark Superman I never was the biggest

(54:28):
fan of because I don't think that was that was
ever Superman's vibe. He's just this good guy that that
is trying to do right and stumbles a lot of
the time because he's still learning as a human being
does so I like that. I mean I didn't, you know,
to your point when you mentioned the dog, I thought
there was too much crypto. I don't like an animated
dog is I hate animated animals and movies where it's

(54:51):
like this, you're playing with this random pet that doesn't
even exist, like it's a ball or it's it's like
some random human that's wearing a wearing those dots and yeah,
jumping in your arms. Like I didn't love that. I
enjoyed mister terrific. He actually was, Like I thought that
was like the best written character, right, But you know,

(55:13):
why show him that much makes no sense, you know,
him getting saved. I think they're trying to set up
for the next one. I mean, I thought Lex Luthor
was good. I thought I thought he was good. Yep,
I thought he played well. And those scenes with Lex
Luthor and Superman were the best scenes, you know, Like
those are the best scenes when they're arguing, battling, fighting,
Like that's that's what we to your point, what everyone

(55:35):
he wanted to see. But you know, I like overall,
it's like, Okay, good job, But it's always with DC.
I find you're just like, oh yeah, good, But like
I feel like I feel like you missed. I feel
like you missed what Marvel captured so early on. And
now I think Marvel's falling off a little bit. But
what they caught early on of like towing that line

(55:55):
between dark and light and all that stuff and the
funny and the so but yeah, too much animated dog.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
With the whole battle DC versus Marvel, like overall should
be a route for Marble. All DC's got is Batman
and Superman, which are the two most iconic characters arguably
ever in comic book history. But then Marvel just has
a litany of great characters in addition to course of
Spider Man. Tal Are you gonna see Superman at some point?
Are you're just not interested you just have the time yet,
or you're gonna wait to streaming?

Speaker 6 (56:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
I kind of between Superman and Fantastic Four, I kind
of feel like, haven't we done all this?

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Like I keep thinking of looks awful too. Yeah, I keep.

Speaker 6 (56:31):
Thinking of Robbie Williams.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Like I feel like every five years someone tries to
throw Robbie Williams at us, and we're like, we're not
interested in Robbie Williams. I'm sure he's great and yeah,
but just I'm not into it. And I feel the
same way about Superman and Fantastic four. Superman I'll probably
stream at some point. I still need to see F one.
I'm way behind Naked Gun. We were talking about that

(56:53):
top weight that you That's the first thing I'm gonna
see in the next week or so.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
You're not a Robbie Williams fan.

Speaker 6 (56:59):
I saw I never forought to even do a deep dive.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
And I saw that that Better Man biopic. I thought
it was fantastic. It was a monkey though, that was yeah. No,
I know it's yeah, but he is. Yeah, but I
I just enjoy it once you kind of look past it.
I I I really a story told through a monkey?
Is that different? Being different? Better Man?

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Well, after you just pointed out, I think correctly. You
don't like these animated characters like all the.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
No, I don't like animated I don't like animated animals dogs,
dogs because I play a monkey. Okay, I yeah, that
one was. I liked it. I liked the song I
like the I like the love story a bit, and j.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
D the Robbie Williams defender who knew I touched a
nerve there.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
I liked his music. I always liked Robby Williams music too.

Speaker 5 (57:46):
That he's good, well, fantastic for then, I think more
speaks to this because like we've gone through this several
like there's literally, isn't there like a Michael B.

Speaker 6 (57:53):
Jordan fantastic for a movie that no one's seen.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
I mean I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
I wanted the thought of Better Man.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
It dot generally positive reviews, but one of the biggest
box office flops of recent memory. One hundred and ten
million her budget and it grows twenty million dollars worldwide,
and Jasons is a defender of it.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Better Man. Wow, that's crazy. Me and me and me
and Jill watched it and we're both like, you know,
once you get past that APG. I liked it, but.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Some of you said it was a unique and potentially
off putting concept. Yeah, okay, let's get into the naked gun. Then,
like a blind man at an orgy, I was gonna
have to feel my way around like a midgetary urinal.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
I just have to be on my toes.

Speaker 1 (58:34):
It's tough to top the original Naked Gun with the
all time great comedies, but I thought it was a
fantastic job by Akiva Schaeffering Company. First off, Leah Neeson
is such a home run as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Drevens
and Leslie Nielsen know, his entire career played a lot
of dramatic roles. That's why Naked Gun was so refreshing,
was he had been a dramatic actor and then all
of a sudden shows up doing these great deadpan comedies.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
And of course, you know Abrams and the Zucker Brothers.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Those guys pioneered a new style of comedy of the
airplane back in nineteen eighty and Naked Gun was an
extension of that.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
But it's really tough to top the original.

Speaker 1 (59:03):
It's got every single type of right syche gags, ponds
double on Taunders, and this one really kind of fits
into that mold. Nissan specifically a remarkable career, right He's
Oscar Schindler, does these great movies with gravitas, then he
becomes an action star and now doing a comedy. The
only really comedic shot that he's shown, which is hysterical.
Was Life's too short? Ricky Gervais show, he has one

(59:23):
scene if you haven't seen it before, it is like
on the floor hysterical. At one point he's talked. But
the reason he got Schindler's List because he makes lists
and Ricky Jervas's laughing it dead pays it. No, I
told Steven Goes Stephen, I make lists all the time,
like I should absolutely play this role.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
And it is so funny the fact.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
He stays in characters, so I knew, like, all right,
niece's got him to be funny, and he plays it
straight and hysterical. Great chemistry with him and Pamela Anderson
fellow Canadian who they've been canoonling on the red carpet.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
They found their role that.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Was pretty I like that. I love it later stage
in life.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Yeah, they've got genuine chemistry in the movie. And what's
great about the movie it's short, eighty five minutes. You
take up the credits, it's eighty minutes. Just let's just go, man,
get in there and go twenty five minutes of trailers.
So seven o'clock show, seven to twenty eighth the movie starts,
but you're walking out there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Eight fifty eight. Oh, I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
Some big time laughs.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
I mean, listen some some Missus Dottaby laugh was great,
but I'm giving a solid three to for me beliefs
a good time, and more importantly, it might be the
biggest movie of the summer in terms of impact, because
we've come a long way away from JD having great comedies. Normally,
every summer you'd say, what's the comedy of the summer,
the Hangover, there's something about Mary.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
Now it doesn't happen. Comedies just don't get released in theaters.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
So the fact there's actually a comedy seth McFarlan, who
produced it, that's what he was joking about. I want
to just explain to peeple what this is. It's a
movie where you go to the theater and actually laugh.
We used to do that in the summers. That's what
kind of this is all about. So seventeen million dollar
opening and a forty two million dollar budget, that's a
good opening for them.

Speaker 3 (01:00:39):
Opening the third behind Fantastic Forum.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
Whatever the hell's was second place probably Superman, but good
stuff from the Nake Again. I hope people enjoyed, and
I think you guys will both really enjoyed as.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Well amazing Liam Neeson. He also had a small cameo
and ted ted one or two with the tricks are
for kids. That's hilarious, zach us. I was told that
tricks are specifically for kids. I'm taking this now. Yeah.

(01:01:07):
The fact that he stays in character is so well done. Yeah, yeah,
I love his stuff with Pamela Anderson too. They did
it well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:14):
Yeah, good John, all right, a couple more topics and
will bounce. He played his last year the NHL more
than a year ago. But how about your guy, Joe
Pavelski still racking up wins American Century Championship. Favorite memory
of Joe Pevelski?

Speaker 2 (01:01:25):
Did you have any id?

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Was this good a golfer?

Speaker 6 (01:01:27):
You probably did well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Can we go to Happy Gilmore first?

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
Oh yeah, Happy to go two?

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Three? Then Happy Gilmore. Happy Gilmore will go into into PAVs.
Yeah no.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
By the way, before, let me just prayable by this.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
I've had friends text me it's the worst way they've
seen in fifteen years. I said, why would you watch it?
You know it's a cash grab Unless you truly love
Adam Sandler. I feel like you're gonna give me a
better review of what of my friends said, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
I you know, what do you expect? You saw what
I wrote on Twitter when this guy wrote. And you know,
Adam Sandler plays on nostalgia and he plays on on
he plays the hits. I thought, man, his use of
his his daughters who are not actors is very tough.
They just they aren't they, oh man? And and you

(01:02:14):
know the whole family thing with with with Bowen and
killing her and I know you have to have this
like sad thing and this comeback story. I just thought
it just did not have a place whatsoever. You know,
it just it had some moments. But again we you know,
I watched it with my wife and she's looking over

(01:02:36):
and she's like, you're telling me you couldn't have found
somebody else to play this part other than all these
cameos of these people that don't act at all. And yeah,
and and you're just you know, the Travis Kel season
The Bad Bad Bunny was awful, and and you know
you're trying to say, like, come on, like just give
somebody that you know, John Traturo was in Mister de
It's like, get a guy that can act, that can
that can play that role. Like, get somebody iconic, but

(01:02:58):
that can act, don't just cash grap And then when
they got to that Maxi golf thing that that match
against the other league was god awful and we were like,
what the fuck is going on in this movie? Like
it completely went turned into like an animated movie. But

(01:03:19):
you know, some fun parts in it, and again it's nostalgic.
You finish it and you're like, Okay, that was bad,
but there are some nice things I saw. So it's
just one of those. It's the classic Adam Sandler movie.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
So you're not recommended this way. It's a bad film.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
You're saying if you like Adam Sandler and you like
grown Ups and it's basically grown Ups on steroids, you know,
that's what it is, grown Ups two on steroids, where
it's every single one of his buddies minus you know,
the Spades and the Rocks and and Kevin James. Those
guys aren't in it. But he's got a you know,
Rob Schneider mix a cameo. It's just cameo after cameo.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Yeah, that's just almostay, we go. The cameos are great.
It's when you're telling me the cameos are great. When
you're hanging your hat on that, that means that the
movie's not pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
The funniest part of it was I thought Scotty Scheffler
was great. The golf guys are actually pretty funny. Scotty
Scheffler was good, Ricky Fowler, Xander Schoffli, those guys are
actually pretty funny, like the golf guys. So I enjoyed
that part of it. No Tiger would so thought he
would come in, but I just thought, overall, I thought
the golf guys, actually it was pretty funny, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
The golf guy's the highlight. Speaking of golf guys, Joe Pavelski.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Wow, amazing wins acc nine years in the making, does
it great? Segue by you? Ah, Yeah, he was. I
mean the best part of that whole win was when
he stiff armed one of his buddies coming to hug
him to get to his wife, and he like threw
him aside. I was dying laughing. But I mean, that

(01:04:47):
guy is fuck. Anything that guy does he's good at.
It's just one of those weird things. He's such a
good golfer, you know, I'd love to see him really
make a push. I don't know, if he would. But
you know, he's so good, he's you know, but he's
also a huge hunter and fisherman, like loves doing both
those and big games getting out Yeah, uh no, he does,

(01:05:09):
like duck hunting, fucking geese, geese hunting, you know what.
The when they're coming like.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
Hey, we like going to Africa, Like I'm gonna go
big game hunting.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
Yeah, with a knife. That's not a knife.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
This is a knife.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
This is a knife. That's not a knife. Yeah. Uh
I got a little Crocodile Dundee underrated. That's an underrated film.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
I'm not sure with the sequels though, Like Crocodile Dundee
three is just brutal.

Speaker 3 (01:05:37):
Every road on that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
You know they're going to remake that at some point.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Yeah, Hugh Jackman, he's Australian, he can do it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
Hemsworth will come in. That's not a knife. Yeah, But
good for him. I I thought I was, you know,
he's been really wanting when winning that for like nine
years and I've been trying to be his caddy for
seven of them and just ices me ebe well, he
plays with this really good buddy Matt Forna Taro so
shout out to those two big W big W for him.

Speaker 1 (01:06:08):
Awesome news there and as far as another NHL players,
Nick Suzuki, Patrick Line hung out. I believe he was
pronounced Oscehega in Montreal, Ohiaga Oshiaga. Matt Kachuck, Mackenzie Wieger
got married along with Suzuki as well. Matt Barzelis reading
two holes in one less than a week apart.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Panthers hift the cup to a cold Play concert.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
This has been one of the stories of the summer,
the Coldplay concert, the affair thankfully, the.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Are we gonna get into that?

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Well, I'm just curious your thoughts and everyone's been talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
It, curious your thoughts on that well, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
They've already lost in life.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
When you're going to a cold Play concert in twenty
twenty five, I mean, what if you're gonna go see
you know in my place back in six I'm with you,
but now I have no interest in seeing Chris Martin now.
But I give Chris Martin. I give Chris martinkrat the
fact that he just immediately said, oh no, they're not
what they should be. Maybe they're having a fair incredible
that he was able to pick up on it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Just wait record scratch. Coldplay puts on an absolute fantastic concert.
Maybe the pageantry of the lights, the songung, the singing,
the community. What is wrong with you? Love something? At it?
Just love something? Listen.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
If you're gonna have an affair, you're gonna be a
little more discreet. I mean Coldplay concert.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Yeah, you like sitting listen, You like sitting in a dark,
musty movie theater and listening to trailers and watching the
credits and yeah, yeah that's my Like, yeah, you're you're
I like that about you. Who's your concert or choice?

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
I mean, it's you know what you Honestly, I'm kind
of like an old soul, you know, like i'd like,
you know, the the classic crooners so to speak.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
I love by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Seth McFarland just released like unreleased Sinatra recordings. That's what
I've been listening to right now my Spotify. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
I like Sinatra.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
Yeah, Seth mcfarrel like he loves Sinatra, so like he
filled these old basically they rearranged these old songs. It's
unreleased Sinatia. It's incredible. Seth McFarland pain Tribute to Frank.
I'm just sitting in my basement crooning all day listening
to something. I think of a guy like sept mcfeller.
The guy could do Family Guy, which is like, you know,
potty humor, vulgar at times disturbing, but then he's a
crooning like classic Sinatra.

Speaker 3 (01:08:05):
Like what a talent.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Seth MacFarland is talent raging liberal too, but what a talent.
I love Seth.

Speaker 1 (01:08:13):
I'm Kidadian, by the way, James Hagen's I went to
the Happy Gilmore two premiere, So.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
That kid is that kid is a that kid big
game getting after it right now, James James Hagen's when
I talked to him, he is on some he is
a PR team with him or something, because he's very polished,
very well spoken, and I think he's like, you know,
he plays the game very well.

Speaker 1 (01:08:37):
Yeah, hopefully things work out as a debut season coming up. Also,
a bunch of Lightning players took Pat Maroon with them
on a trip to Dublin. Pat Rooon now are colleague
and ahele. We have to get some stories with him.
If irish eyes were smiling. Tom Wilson also played volleyball
with his dog.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
With all that being said, that's a tough that's a
tough one to finish.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
Yeah, of all the things that happened, that's a.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Tough that's a tough note to finish. Tom Wilson playing
with his dog, Crypto, Tom Wilson and Crypto.

Speaker 1 (01:09:04):
No no, I was gonna say, Popper room. That's that's exciting,
Doublin having again.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
Not a Guinness. Was safe that Scotland? Or is that Ireland?
That's oh it's Irish.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Oh yeah, they both, they both, they both took a
ton of gitness.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Did you have a favorite offseason when you were playing
town once a now, something that could top top Wilson
playing volleyball with this dog?

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
Well, man, I was, you know, I was when I
was young in San Jose. I stayed in San Jose
a couple of years and and I I would play,
you know, I would work out in the on the
week and during the week sorry, and then I'd go
to like Vegas or La on the weekends and I'd
just fly in and go enjoy the city and go

(01:09:45):
with either Joe Thornton or I'd go with myself for
buddies and i'd go just rip it out. So yeah,
rip it out, just bury myself after five good days
of working out, and that was the young, youthful stupidity
that I had. But no, that was one. Uh, you know,
I love traveling, so I you know, probably that my

(01:10:06):
World championship year was fun because you know, I got
to go to Cologne in Paris and me and my
wife stayed after At that time we were dating, and
we went to Buda Peste and where else did we go?
Did we go to Iceland too? Might have went to
Iceland too during that trip, but it was just a
cool trip, cool summer. Then you know, rolled that right
into working out and all that. But I mean, listen,

(01:10:28):
when you're the off seasons are fun, but you're also
just preparing for the next season, right, So you're working out,
you're taking care of yourself, and you know, you get
to this point August and you're like, your your colladays,
get me out of it. Yeah, you're just like, let's
start this now, or you know what I mean. So,
so yeah, it's good. Okay, what's your what's your favorite

(01:10:51):
offic You never really have an off season, you're always
working working away.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Here baseball season a bit of a mess there at
the Bristol Motor Speedway. I'm not sure if you saw that.
I was working Saturday night. The rains came town. Know,
so they had a first ever baseball game, eighty five
thousand fans the Bristol Motor Speedies. So they built like
a diamond inside the racetrack. But then the rains came down.
They started the game, had to had to postpone. The
game started, an absolute mess. Picked up the game Sunday,

(01:11:14):
think when the game was played, but uh, it was
not ideal. Let's say about that way, we've lost tow
by the way, I think that means that's the end
of the episode.

Speaker 3 (01:11:21):
He just got summoned. That's back now, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
He's in he's in London right now. Towns in London.

Speaker 3 (01:11:27):
He said he's trying to talk and he can't even talk.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
This is unbelievable.

Speaker 6 (01:11:30):
Sorry, my my family came into the room.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Sorry, I see I saw motions that little guy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
That's not funny. He's in London right now. Are you
from London? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:11:40):
Live from London?

Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Okay, live listen. Let's say go enjoy time with your son.
Go enjoy some fish and chips. Get after the Big
Ben Trafalgar Square. Thanks so much for checking HL inscripted
thanks to j oh and tals Son. We'll see the
next time on an h L in scripted. NHL Unscripted

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