November 17, 2020 • 59 mins
When our neighbors to the north go to play, they play for keeps! In this highly anticipated and fan requested episode, Megan and C.J. welcome Rachel Bonnetta (Fox Sports, Hall of Shame podcast) to the show to discuss the greatest Canadian athletes of all time.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Greatest. I am
Megan Gaily, joined in my dining room by my husband C. J. Toladano.
This is a podcast studio. Oh wow, Well, we have
(00:24):
really exciting news from the Gailey Tolodono podcast studio home.
While we are recording in our dining room. Our friends
ran out of room in their home and their recording
podcast in our and we'll bring you on a second.
But Rachel, well, no, you have to bring them up.
I'm gonna tell her because I don't want her to.
(00:45):
Just can I bring our guests on gosh our guests today,
gotch I'm a fan, I'm a friend. Um, she is
on Fox Sports, as I was reading today, the youngest
on air person for Fox Sports. Well, which is incredible.
And uh one of the hosts of Crookds Hall of
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Shame podcast and for this episode specifically a Canadian. Please
welcome Rachel Vanetta. Thank you so much for having me.
I'm loving the chaotic energy already. This is where this
is good for us. We're so what's up with the
there's people recording a podcast in your girl? Just people?
(01:32):
Another couple another husband and wife. Oh my said, I
was like, this is truly embarrassing. If anyone was to
see this going on, they would be like, we wouldn't
be embarrassed. I think l A would be embarrassed that
there is two couple podcasts recording in with and I
sent her two options. We have like a patio and
(01:53):
the garage, and I said studio one or two is yours.
Whichever and whichever you need have been why this is
this is? I did, like you mentioned I have a
podcast on crooked I did, I think maybe two episodes
with my podcast partner in studio and all of the
other ones have been like this over zoom and like,
(02:15):
thankfully we get along because if not that would have
been really messy. That's tough though, to just do the
two in person. And then I didn't know each other before,
so you're like literally building chemistry over zoom during the
course of this year. Do you have any do you
have any ship you need to get off your chest?
You know that. I'm like that I should tell, well,
(02:37):
you know, any greement this is to air. She doesn't
turn her mike on sometimes it's pretty fucking right. Well,
and like my heart obviously really cares about the quality.
But I was about to be like Crooked really cares
about the quality. They both care. It's just hard, like
it's hard to yet we have no we have no.
(02:59):
I remember we the week that everything shut down. Love
it was gonna have us and where does he do
his comedy show in l A And the Improv. He
was gonna have us on his show at the Improv
and we were gonna like we were planning on getting
very drunk. Oh I get very drunk, and so that
show got canceled. So I was just like, Okay, let's
just get drunk anyways, like in the studio and like
(03:21):
all uber homes. So I remember packing like something stupid,
like white cloths or something like that, put in the car,
and we showed up at the studio and everyone was
gone and everything was silent and there was Clorox wipes everywhere,
and everyone was kind of just like should we just
like go home? But it was such a weird. It
was that week that everything got canceled and everything was
(03:42):
just very scary, and I was like, I'm just gonna
go drink this whole hole by myself. You were like,
I just want to get drunk. I don't care what
the location show about, you guys, but I have been
getting drunk a lot. I got addicted to weed gummies.
Weed gummies every night for the last four months, and
I just only in the one this is what this
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This will be week two of not doing it on
the weekdays. Oh yeah, I mean we're not even setting
tough goals for Yeah, I've been smoking a lot of weed.
I'm a nighttime I can't do it during the day,
so I at least like I'll wait until below deck
bachelorette time to really get my exact like no, I
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I like I would drink a couple of times a week,
but now I just find myself having and it's not
it's not a time like I'm having one or two
glasses of wine, but I've never done that before. And
now I just feel like my body is a trash can.
So I'm trying to same as you guys. I'm trying
to like kind of just stay on the weekends. But
it's hard, I know. And now and now it's the holidays,
and like the holidays for me, so just like I
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want to get high and watch bor At with my mom.
You know, that's what I want to do to do that.
I haven't seen the original boor apt chapter one. What
I don't know, you gift right to chapter two. Yeah.
I think it came out when I was in college
and there were just like enough men around me doing
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the voice. And you know, I went to a very
conservative leaning school and I fought with men all the time,
so like and the men I went to college with,
I was like, I'm not doing anything you're into, and
so I swore it off that way. But that's a
good call. Yeah, no, I but the second did you have?
You guys watched I laughed, Um, but I'm going to
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laugh at it. I had a great time. I was like,
I thought, this this woman is a revelation. She was fantastic,
so funny and like. And then we were watching it
with a friend and her friend had auditioned for that part.
And I always love like those stories of like what
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did they send? And she was like, oh, it wasn't
because sometimes you'll get I very rarely have this happen,
but they'll send what's not the script because they don't
want it's like so secretive and yeah, that she was
just given kind of like a blank piece of paper
and then told to just like yell out things in
an Eastern European acts. God, that's so funny. I would
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never audition for that that movie, Oh my god. And
I was watching her. I was just having such anxiety
watching her do these things because it's like I would
never be able to do that. It's just so brave.
I Um, I was on a prank show. I was
on an MTV prank show, and it was truly it
took years off of my life. I mean really just
(06:35):
high stress. Yeah, and like I don't like people being
mad at me. I don't know why. I thought this
was going to be like an enjoyable experience for me.
And also because I look so, you know, just kind
of middle of America in New York City. People were like, oh,
she's not tricking me, and then I was fully tricking
them and people tried to fight me a lot. Yeah,
(06:55):
it was tough. It was tough. Oh what it was
called be Like Once a girl yelled at me, bitch,
I'm from Chicago, and that's like yeah, then I was like,
oh okay. Security security and security Security quote unquote was
the one man on the show who is a very
flamboyant hilarious opera singing comedian named Mateo Lane and they
(07:19):
would like say in my ear. They'd be like, Mateo's
got your back, and the Mateo would look at me
and be like, no, I don't know. I'm not helping you.
I can't fight these people. I might have to go
and watch this show. This sounds absolutely insane. Well, there
were supposed to be ten episodes and there were only eight,
so you can breaze right through it. Tho, it's weird.
You will never tell me where I can watch them, Megan, Um,
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I think, Sarah, I know you can watch them all right.
We've never seen any of them. I've seen clips and
then I'm just like, well, yeah, I don't need I
don't need to know all of this. I don't need
to see all of this. I was listen. I made
the most of a tough situation, but I was afraid
a lot was very afraid. That's like hard acting. Yeah,
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I would like I have to tell men that they
I mean yeah, I was like pretending people cheated. It
was it was yeah, it was bad. It was bad.
I would I don't think i'd be able to sleep
the night before that ship, Like I would just have
such crazy. I've done one prank in my life before,
and I hated every second on it. We sent somebody,
we sent somebody on a radio show and had they
had a fake heart attack, like yeah, when you're like, yeah,
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that's I wasn't my idea. I just had to go
along with it. And it was the worst experience of
my life. Didn't get a lot of views, views and yeah,
well the guy, the guy, so hold on, oh god,
this I shouldn't have brought this up. This guy to
an audition. It was with a sal who you've met
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I do my show with, and um, so we were
trying to we like put out a casting call for
like you must be old and like be able to
fake a heart attack and all this stuff. We had
to go sal and I to sit through multiple auditions
of old men, thinking oh my god, oh my was atrocious.
And then we landed on one and he got stage
right and so he had a heart attack and it
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lasted for like five seconds, and he was like, oh,
it was not successful at all. It was bad. I
would love to see the casting tape. If men pretending
that I've got the head shot, okay, listen, I'd into
those two. This just reminds you real quick. I know
we're talking too much about pranks, but there was one
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of my favorite vhs is growing up was this NBA
like prank video and their number one prank was Minute
Bowl or Charles Barkley putting his head Like they cut
a hole in the table, Charles Barkley went under it
to put a tablecloth over it and put his head
through a hole, and then they put a platter cover
over his head, which is like in the eighties I
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think was like the height of pranks, I say today,
and then they're like, hey, Manute Bowl, go over there
and get a snack from underneath a platter and he lives. Wait,
so it was just NBA players pranking other nbah. I'd
watched the ship YouTube. Just look up NBA pranks Manu
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Bowl and you'll see a whole rep. You'll go. You know,
another another sports icon. O J. Simpson had a prank show,
Yes he did. He had This was post murder trial.
Me had an O J. Simpson prank show. Yeah yeah,
what would he just know he was prank he was
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pranking people or it was just I think it was
like him and the cast, Yeah, bron everything. It was
it's a it's a strange choice to try and rehabilitate
your career. That's not a good call. Yeah, Rachel, we
are so excited to have you. I brought up that
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you are Canadian because today's topic is by popular demand.
To people have been, oh, I don't. I don't believe
listened by popular demand. I mean two or three people
okay have asked him been like, can we get a
little Canadian love? So we are doing greatest Canadian athletes?
And where are you from? You have a Raptor's shirt
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on right now? Perfect. I thought you guys were going
to be like decked out in Lakers gear. I follow
both of you, and I know that you guys are
both huge basketball fans, and so I was like, okay,
I gotta bring some heat. I love that too from
this new company that I wanted to wear it. So
I'm sorry, okay, wow, I had I had a pitch.
You don't really love your I had a pitch today,
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So I'm looking better than I usually do. But yesterday
C and I had on inadvertently matching Lakers shirts, So
you just missed us by one day. You guys are
sports couples goals I mean, we have gotten in a
fight because I said he doesn't care about the cults enough.
Do you have a basketball or a football team? Oh,
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I mean, I guess it's the Rams right now. But
it was to say, I mean it is the Colts,
but I adopted. Yeah, we we got in a fight
and I said I didn't want to watch the Colts game.
And that was the wrong thing to say. I forgot.
That cuts deeper than most things that we ever getting
fights over. I just have adopted so many things that
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you love, but I always love the best thing. That's
like me being a front runner. I know, but I'm
saying the best thing is the Colts. Why don't you holler? Okay,
thank you? But where am I from? I'm sorry we
got We're getting so off topic. I am from a
very very small town, like two and a half hours
outside of Toronto called or No. My high school was
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on a highway and people used to ride their snowmobiles.
There was like a snowmobile parking lot at my high school.
We were like out in the boonies and um, all
my friends had babies at seventeen basically, and I was
the only one that escaped. Yeah, so is that. I mean,
I honestly did not know you were Canadian for a
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while because you have almost no accent. Because I got
made fun of so much when I first moved to
the States. When I first moved to the States, I
was working for Major League Soccer. I want, okay, so
I'll try and tell this story very quickly. I don't
have So I was going to school for broadcast journalism.
I hated it. I didn't want to do sports, I
didn't want to do news nothing, and so I dropped out.
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And I was just like, I want to be an actress,
Like improv was my favorite class at journalism school. So
it's like I'm doing the wrong thing. So I dropped out,
and I was so broke that I was stealing toilet
paper from the sushi restaurant down the street. Like that's
what That's what the mood was like in my life.
And so I started applying for all of these jobs
while I was waiting to go back into school, and
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I saw on Facebook this ad for the Toronto FC
dream job. Toronto FC was our major league soccer team.
Did not watch soccer at all. I played when I
was younger. I was like, always played sports, but so
I applied for it not knowing anything, just like bullshitted
my way through the bio. I don't even know how
I got chosen into a smaller category because the way
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I don't shouldn't even tell the story. But the way
that I led my opening sentence was like, besides my
love for balls, like I thought, it was like my
attempt at trying to be like I think is going
to catch their attention. I think we know how you
got to the second round now, I think they were like, okay,
top of the The first round was just like a
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little bit about yourself and I went to school for
like being on camera, so um. And then the second
round was like send in a video of why you
should have this job. So I wrote a sketch, um.
And then I got top five and I was just
like I should not be here. And then I fucking won.
I just swear on this pot. Yeah yeah, yeah, I won.
I won. I beat out over five people. I remember
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when I went in for my interview, I had the
captain's name written on my hand and pen like I
was so so out of the loop. And then I
learned everything that I could about soccer and like being
on camera. I was like shooting all my own stuff.
It was like when YouTube was first happening. So I
was shooting all of these sketches and like funny bits.
And then Major League Soccer and the head office in
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New York City emailed me one day and they're like,
we've been seeing your stuff. It's really fun and like
weird and different. Would you ever consider working in New
York City? And I had been in New York once
in my life before. I had a Carnegie Delhi napkin
on my desk, like on my little bulletin board and
I was just like, oh my god. Yeah, And so
it took a little while from my visa to go through.
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And then I went and worked in New York and
was like in a I was the only female in
office with like thirty five dudes, and all they would
do my It was so embarrassing. I do all my
hits in front of the entire office. It was when
I first start that I had a serious like Canadian
twang and um so every time I would say like
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tomorrow or sorry and like so I had to fix
it so quickly because I was like this fucking sock,
So did you do dialect or you just like no, no,
I just there's there was really only a couple of
words that really came out with it's just fixing a
couple of owls um. But yeah, thankfully I was able
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to kind of get rid of it, because I think
that that's kind of help if I was super Canadian.
I mean, like Jay and Dan, who are huge Canadian
sports broadcasters, they came to the States and they didn't
get rid of their accent, and that was like one
of the things that a lot of people talked about it. Yeah,
so that's insane. That is really insane, Like that's awesome
that you you fixed it. I mean I feel like
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even saying fixed it is like yeah, it's like it's
five voice. It just it sounds a little like honk,
like honky tonk, like Canadian Canadian accents. Sometimes when I
go home, it's it reminds me of like a southern drawl.
Like if I'm home and I started drinking and I'm
around my brothers and like my cousins, like I really
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start to sound a little bit like a hillbilly. And
so I think I kind of wanted to fix it
because I didn't love the sound of it well. And
they always say this, like, even if you're from the
South or the Northeast and you want to be a
newsperson on camera there like you need to, especially like
a Wisconsin, Minnesota those places too, They're like, watch these
Midwestern accents and then that is what they want people
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to have. So even if you have like a drawl
out here, they're gonna they're gonna beat it out of you.
But well, even I mean being wanting to be an
actress to like, I couldn't just go an audition to
be an American girl with the Canadian accent, so I
had to get rid of it. Well it sounds great now,
but I'd love to hear drunk around your cousins too.
Oh yeah, it gets pretty nice. My boyfriend's just like you.
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It gets fully turned off. I sound a little country sometimes,
you sound very much from where you're from. Okay, wow
felt Oh yeah that sounded really okay. So so excited
to do this. My grandmother was Canadian. My parents are
from Niagara Falls, New York, but like spent their whole
I love doing stand up in Canada. It's like one
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of my favorite places to perform all over. Just lovely
wonderful people we could learn a lot from. Okay, So
for our purposes, you are going to start with your
number three, and then we'll go in sending. I can
never remember, um, but are you ready to lead us
up with your number three pick for greatest Canadian athletes? Yes?
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I am ready. Okay, So here's the thing my brain.
When you guys asked me top three Canadians, my brain
instantly went to my three favorite athletes who have played
sports in Canada. But that's definitely not Canadian. No, But
I'm just saying I have a bunch of honorable mentions
that I count as like honorable Canadians. But I did
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come up with three, uh, three solid Canadians. Okay, so
you want my number three, I'm gonna go for three.
I didn't want to go all hockey because you could
easily do that. I think I'm going to land on
like a Steve Nash situation. I think he's a pretty
solid a Canadian that I can be proud of. I'm
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gonna Nelly for Tato song. There's a lot of things,
but he is hands down the most famous Canadian basketball player,
and so I also think that makes him probably the
most famous Canadian athletes outside of kind of the one
we're probably all thinking about. But basketball is so huge
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in America. It's much bigger than hockey, and so Steve
Nash is really the Canadian poster child. I think so. Yeah,
I mean I kind of wish he's never No, he
didn't play for any Canadian team, so I kind of
wish I kind of wish he did. Like my number
one on this list was Vince Carter, Like I wish
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that he was Canadian so much because he is the Canadian.
He really is the Canadian basketball camps, even though Steve
Nash exists, like he is the number one Canadian basketball player.
I was obsessed with him. I honestly want to kick
Steve off the list. Yeah, that's interesting, Like do people
ever fault these Canadian stars that come to America. I
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mean he played in Phoenix to like Phoenix is the
antithesis of Canada. I was thinking about this today and
I was thinking about the Lakers and like how you
guys are always able to get these like rad players,
and how you were able to build a team around
Lebron James. Because so many people want to go and
live in Los Angeles, nobody wants to go and play
a basketball season which goes through the winner in Toronto,
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Like Toronto in the summer is sweet. But like the
thing about the Raptors is like we kind of have
to get lucky with like a rag tag team like
we did, because we're never gonna get this. Like if
we got a huge star, I'd be like, I ship
my pants, you know what I mean, Like I'd be like, why,
how how did this happen? But with like he was
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the first star that we had, like three years after
our team started, and he was who like brought us
to the playoffs for the first time. And he's like
what the Raptors stood for. And like, you know, when
you think of the Raptors, you think of Vince Carter
like that he is, he is the Raptor And so
I feel he, you know, he's just like the king
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of Canadian basketball in that way, I think, And we're
not We're probably never gonna have one like that again.
And so he was fully adopted and beloved for sure.
If he gets into if he stayed longer, I think, yeah,
it's um, you know, it's funny you brought up like
Toronto and you know, players going to play in whatever
city do you want to live in. So, I mean,
the rumors right now are that the Raptors may play
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in Tampa, which is just so confusing to me because
of what's going to go on with We're gonna like
bring everyone the Canadian governments like, don't send your dirty, breathing,
fucking citizens up here. We're good, thank you. I think
the Toronto was like elegant, diverse, like you know, it's
it's still it's a great city, and people pretty much
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trust me. I can sell anybody on the city. The
city is sick, Like the food scene is amazing, the
women are beautiful, Like the music scene is really cool,
and the summer is awesome. But I just know a
lot of Americans think, like I don't want to go
to Canada, but I think you won a championship, right,
it's a little bit more attractive now. But I just don't.
I can't ever see, Like I remember a couple of
months ago, it's like, well maybe we'll get you, honest,
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and it's like, bitch, I'm gonna go from Toronto, gonna
get my hopes up for that stupid You're stupid, Okay, great,
you want me to go next Okay. I was like,
I know that there's some athletes that I must not
know about. So I kind of used this episode to
expand my horizons a little bit because there are sort
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of those core too. One of them is already the
mentioned that pop in my head. And so my number
three pick is an Olympian. Her name is Clara Hughes.
She's very famous in Canada. She is so incredible. So
these are some of her accomplishments. She's a six time
Olympic medalist and she's one of only two athletes since
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World War Two to win a medal in the Summer
and Winter Games. In the Summer Games, she won two
bronze medals in cycling, and then she has since won
four medals over three Winter Games in speed skating. One
of them she's one of bronze and silver and a gold,
and she's a badass. I can't imagine being able to
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be an Olympic cycler and an Olympic speed skater. I
guess they're kind of on the same track. I don't know,
but it seems like difficult to be one of only two.
And and then it made me be like, oh, I
almost like forget about Canadian athletes until the Olympics happen,
you know, like honestly, yeah, Like I was a little
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worried when you asked me to do this podcast because
I was like, oh, Ship, Like who am I gonna
Who am I going to know? But she is. It's
funny because there are so many Canadians that are so
famous in Canada, and as soon as you crossed the border,
people are like, I don't know who this person is.
Like going back to Jay and Dan, a lot of
people probably aren't gonna know who they are. But when
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I found out that they were at Fox, that's why
I chose to go to Fox. I hadn't offer at
ESPN and Fox at the same time, and I chose
l A and Fox partly because they were there, Like
they were so cute. I remember seeing Jay in the
street one time and I was in a cab and
I hit like I didn't want him to see me,
like he didn't know who I was at all, but
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I was. That's that was my reaction. I was like,
oh my god, this person's too famous, Like I can't
look at them. It was so But it's the same
with athletes and Claire. He's so huge. She had this
cute little gap in her tooth. I know exactly who
this person is. She probably couldn't walk down the street
without getting recognized, and a lot of people probably don't
know who. And the same thing happens in stand up too,
because there's they'll be like, this guy is the the
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Seinfeld of Canada and we've truly never like a man
who is like a famous Canadian in insulted me in
like a not nice. It was a part of a roast,
but I was like waiting with him, not the puppet
he was. In Australian I had to roast a puppet
a puppet and I had a roast battle and I
lost to the puppet and one of the judges was
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this Canadian guy who came at me and I remember
being like, bitch, i've never seen you on TV. But
then he is very famous in Canada. In Canada, I
could never do a roast. I'm way too sensitive. I
would always get my feelings hurt. I am totally fine
with them. I will say, if you're listening, I suggested
not doing a roast with an inanimate object because they
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don't have any feelings or steaks, so it's not really
you know. I mean, when a puppet brings up your abortion,
it definitely hurts, you know, got it? Got it? Oh boy,
Randy felt Face. But but the man and the man
is so nice. But if I see Randy felt Face
the puppet, I'll kill him. But the man is a
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terrible name for a puppet. Man who Man's Randy? I like, okay,
you go, but you know that's the same person. But
that's why it sucks, because I I channel all my
negative feelings towards Randy and my positive feelings towards the
actual person. Yeah, okay, my pick. I'm going to continue
in classic CJ fashion where these aren't the greatest. But
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I just I mean, I had to look it up.
I did do some research. One of the highlights of
the Bubble. This guy plays for the Denver Nuggets, Jamal Murray. Yeah,
he was on my honorable mention. I mean, to me,
it's like he's probably on his way to being one
of the greatest Canadian athletes. And yeah, I mean he's
been on my radar and been on people's radar for
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the last few years. But like what he did in
the bubble. Okay, so this this podcast we cover like
actual performances, but also pop culture. The dude got He
accidentally went on I G Live while getting oral sex
from his girlfriend and hold on, this was like back
in like April April, or it was like before it
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was how does one act? He said, he got hacked.
I mean, it was a whole thing. And then of
course everyone started looking up the girlfriend. Who is this
like really hot blonde volleyball player And it became a
pretty big a pretty big big. There must have been
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a pandemic or something like that. It was competing with
the rest of which, again, it was one of those stories.
Had it happened in any other year, there was like,
you know, it would be every late night joke would
be about Jamal Murray. So I didn't at the time
that happened, I didn't have a face for Jamal Murray.
I had heard his name, and then when the bubble
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started and he was just I mean, he was incredible
and especially layoffs. And then someone referenced it and I
was like, that's my Jamal, Like I had to put
two and then the image flash before my eyes again.
I'm like, oh no, I can't believe I've seen this
man's pubes and I've been rooting for him with hold on,
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hold on, hold okay, without getting to like where was
the camp The camera was from his eyesight down? Oh
so was he trying to record it? And he went
on Instagram Live. Yes, okay. And my theory is, and
I don't know if you guys have done this. It's
like you don't know. You know, you see a picture,
you want to take a picture or something, and you go, oh, yeah,
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should that go on Instagram story or what? So you
kind of just used the camera within the Instagram app.
I feel like maybe he like has that decision making
in his head and he accidentally opened up the Instagram app.
And Instagram is like you have to that's it. You
would have to like roll it out with a computer.
You had to say, like go live if I think yeah,
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but but who is that dumb that they would I
should we just do a whole podcast. I knew this
would happen. And no, thank you for that, jem, I
didn't know that that was you know, he loves this woman.
This woman loves him. You know she seemed very good. Okay,
good for him connect to learn to not do these
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kinds of things like sure, that's a lovely thing to
have on your phone, probably for him, especially in the bubble,
but like maybe just you know, don't do that. I
think they get a rookie seminar not to do it.
But you know, you just see, you get in the
moment and it's fun. It's fun. Yeahs connected to his performance.
You know, the rule was in the bubble that family
members and friends could come in the second round and
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his yeah, he started making head but then everybody was
like is she here? Is she here? And they're like, oh,
she's here, She's here. And he went to school in
the States, like c J. Do you know about how
the recruiting process us, like, because you know, there there's
high school boys that you follow. Are you are you
going to teach me birds? I hope that gets clipped out.
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You know, there's high school boys that you're a fan of.
But then like, so how do they find these incredible
high school players in Canada? Oh, I mean it's you know,
they have a use, they have you know, and they
have like Northern scouts, like guys that really shine and
tournaments and stuff like that, right because I mean they're
in the last five ten years, there's been a big
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uptick in Canadian players Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, all guys
definitely aren't gonna be on the list, but yeah, there's
a big contingent for basketball. I feel like Wiggins was
so hugely didn't you go Number one? In the draft
that people are close close to that at least I
think people were probably like, oh, let's start like kind
of keeping tabs on because he was so shining, uh,
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such a standout that they're probably like looking more into it.
Are there universities in Canada that are like, oh, these
are like is there a duke of Like, oh, well,
I don't actually know college basketball in Canada too well,
but I will say, if you want to be in
the NBA, you're not going to play college ball in Canada.
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And they're kind of dare I say it kind of
takes away from their Canadian nous a little bit if
they go and play college ball in America, because like,
college in Canada is um there's something very American about
colleges in America that sounds so stupid. But you guys
have such a crazy college experience and we don't really
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have that. What do you mean don't like you don't
have to and like you know, it's not like college
football players and like Hottie mccotterson, he's like got a
beer gut and probably like hunts deer on the weekend.
Like that's Canada. So I feel like they become more Americanized.
Like I didn't know Jamal Murray was a Canadian at
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first until somebody until he was like in the thick
of playoffs, and then I found out and I was
just like whoa, um, so yeah, but he's he's he
can be honest for eighteen to twenty two are also
extremely formative years. Formative years. I mean we've all met
like a girl who did study abroad in Italy for
one year and it's like, I'm Italian, you know, so
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like you can fully like embrace a culture like that. Okay,
we're gonna take a pickbreak and we'll be right back,
and we are back, Rachel, you want to give us
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your number two pick? Yeah, So I'm gonna surprise you
guys with this one because I feel it it's probably
number one for y'all, but I'm gonna put Wayne Gretzky
into makes your number one even more interesting. I'm gonna
put Wayne Gretzky at number two. I know he's like
the great one and like did all these amazing things
with his NHL career and was just a fantastic hockey person.
(32:58):
But did you guys know this is maybe one of
my favorite facts about Wayne Gretzky that his wife was
involved in a highly illegal gambling ring involving multiple NHL
coaches and a Philadelphia crime family. Yeah, you guys, and
Wayne Gretzky may or may not have known about it.
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Have you talked about the Sun Hall of Shame? We
did a full episode on Okay, so everybody go listen
to the episode, But then, Rachel, can you give us
like cliff notes of Okay, let's see if I can
remember because it was early on in the season, but
it's basically like, okay, so this was when sports gambling
was illegal and it still isn't a lot of places.
But they were a group of very wealthy people, including
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I want to see, like the Flyers head coach, Philly
Flyer's head coach, and Wayne Gretzky's wife and a couple
of other people were placing these like massive bets apparently
not on hockey but on the Super Bowl, and like
they were like millions and millions of dollars um. She
like really liked to gamble apparently, and then they got caught.
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The bookies were like this Philadelphia crime family was like
a little bit of a dicey situation. This this the
head coach of the Flyers got caught and he had
like all these fancy watches and like all these TVs
in his house and it was crazy. But the speculation
is that Gretzky's wife took the fall for him, so
that it was actually Gretzky that was involved. But since
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he's Wayne Gretzky, she took the fall for him. So
did she Did she get arrested? No, I don't think
she got arrested. I think she got fine um and
they had to pay money. But yeah, it was really
spicy and I'm pretty sure, Yeah, he can't cheat on
his daughter, freaking got the jack Paul Justin Johnson. Yeah, yeah,
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bore her own green jacket this weekend. I've got I
have a oh that yeah yeah yeah, because I remember
people would be like at some point she was being
referred to as like Dustin Johnson's hot girlfriend or something,
and so whenever that is, I'm like crude, these hat
And then it's like, oh, your dad's Wayne grit Sky. Okay,
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well that's really like, of course, yeah, you just get
to be hot for the rest. You're already rich, and
now you're marrying this man who had a coke problem
and can play golf. This is incredible and apparently broke
up a bunch of relationships across the PGA. Did you
guys here about that Dustin or she gets slept, No,
he slept with some lay um because he looks like
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he's a dirty dog. Yeah, he looks like I got
to look. She looks sometimes a beard. Look. It would
be like if a guy that you went to high
school with was like hot in high school and then
was like still hot now and like really get a
golf and wins the exactly you Okay, that is a
great pick. He's my number one. He held sixty one
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NHL records when he retired. It's really incredible. Okay. My
number two pick is a hockey woman. Her name is Haley.
So you know, there's a debate about who may be
the greatest male hockey player, but they say, without a doubt,
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Haley is the best female hockey player ever. She was
on the Canadian national team for twenty three years. She
has four gold medals and a silver medal, and she
also this is incredible to just just like Clara. She
also represented Canada in the Summer Olympics on the Canadian
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softball team. Oh, I didn't know that. That's really right.
I have this memory of which was very cool. Actually,
I have this memory of my school shutting down. Canada
was playing in the Olympics for the gold medal match.
I want to say it was against the U S.
Maybe it wasn't, I can't remember who cares um and
they pulled us all into this gymnasium and put the game,
the final gold medal game, up on the TV. And
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just being a young girl, my my dream was to
play in the w n b A. When I was younger,
I loved school so much, and seeing this whole school,
the entire school, every single grade, boy and girl in
the gymnasium watching women's hockey win a gold medal was
like so cool. It was like and that was when
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I was in elementary school, like so so long ago.
That was so cool. That would probably not happening. Yeah,
Like so is that sort of the equivalent like the
women's national team because the like the US women's soccer
team is celebrated here equally, if not more than the
men because they're much more decorated. Um yeah, I mean
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you can celebrate when you win, you know, so it's
easier to celebrate them. Is that sort of like the
national women's hockey team in Canada, it's sort of the
same vibe. I think it's different because the men's hockey
team is good, whereas the US men's national team has
not been good for a long time and didn't make
another the World Cups. That's probably why every relationship ships
on them. They're good now. But um oh yeah, so no.
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I but I think that that's also what makes it cool.
It wasn't like, let's wait for the guys game. It's like, no,
the women are in the gold medal match. Let's shut
down the school and everyone watch. I know. So it
was I know only one girl that I've met my
entire life that played hockey, and it seems like I
played hockey for five years. It's the most fun sports,
So I don't think they encourage girls to play it
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here in the States. Well, it was weird when I
first came to the States. I remember my first time
on TV was filling in on Calling Coward Show. You
like sit in the booth like fifty feet away from
him and like, uh ask him questions every so often.
And the first time I did that, they were like, no, hockey,
don't mention hockey, don't talk about hockey. We don't do
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hockey in the States. And I was just like okay,
Roger that, um, yeah, I just don't think it's a
thing here in a lot of places where we're like
literally born, this is gonna sund We're like literally born
with the States, hockey is so massive. I remember I
went home a little while ago, like sometime last year,
and I went to this restaurant, this like chain restaurant,
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and they had a menu for hockey players, like in
the in the menu was a special menu for hockey players.
And this was like a massive chain restaurant, like they're
just everyone places. And was that like portion specific or
I think it was all like healthy stupid stuff, par athlete,
you should be eating salmon. Yeah. Here, it's like ye
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a year, ESPN wheels out, Barry Melrose and then that's
it basically, you know, And like Linda Cone will sometimes
get to talk about it, but it's so. I mean,
I on the bubble machine. We did like the stats
and I didn't. I think I mentioned NHL twice and
part of that is because I didn't grow up in
a city with hockey. But yeah, it's just it hasn't no,
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it really, it's really insane that it's not a it's
not bigger here like every time. Oh yeah, it's really exciting.
We both lived in Chicago during that Be Your stretch
when the black Hawks won three Stanley Cups and it
was and comedy shows everything canceled, like it was just
as big as if if the White Sox were It
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was bigger than if the White Sox weren't. So we've
seen it, but like that, like Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, they
feel kind of like the outliers. Yeah yeah, I think
that you would love, Megan, if you ever want to
try and give it a whirl. It's really great. It's
a great way to take out frustration like I used
to just hurt girl. Wow, I would swear at them
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like I you become a different person on the ice,
and it's a very nice way to like then, okay
it and we can make it a couple thing. I'll
dress up as a goalie and you could take shots
on I would love to. Yeah, it's great, a great
way to get your anger out. I always like talking
because it just looked fun getting all that gear. I mean,
I liked football and getting all this stuff. Belase I went,
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you know, free skating and all that stuff. But then
also to then in high school, I think all the
all the hockey player dudes, we're rich and hot, and
got all of my crushes. But then their their feet
smell so bad. Oh my god, it was. And I
was like, I played football, My stuff doesn't smell its
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bad because I got aired out. But I think hockey
players kept it in their bag and then they would
still skate with what they used for playing. And so
I remember this kid who was like, I had all
the hottest girlfriends. He'd opened up his bag and like,
I like faintest, like in a cartoon. Yeah, it's so gnarly.
My brothers used to like the gloves of the worst
for some reason, the gloves of the most disgusting thing.
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You have to like soak your hands in acid after
my brothers after a hockey game. I have three older brothers,
which makes a lot of things make um they used
to take their bare hands and just like my face
after a hockey game, and like I was, my brothers
are a lot older than me and a lot bigger
than me, so I would just have to deal. I
would just be like, pretend I'm dead, and like it
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was the worst c J. What would it do to
your ego that such smelly men were winning? It was
more about that. I mean, I was already battling other things,
being the only Filipino kids in Pennsylvania, But you know,
it was one of those things. But yeah, it turns out, Hey,
hey Clara, I'm one of a kind. Um you want
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to give your number two my number number two? Pick Um? Again,
I don't know much about hockey, but I just know
this guy is just massive. Sidney Crosby and yeah, Sidney
Kidd And I remember too, because so I moved to
Pittsburgh for my first year of college film school at
Point Park University didn't work out, left after one semester um,
but I moved there in two thousand five when Sidney
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Crosby his rookie year, and so I remember just like
doing a little bit of like and just sitting on
Sports Center like this young kid I think he was
eighteen seventeen or eighteen playing in the n h L,
and it was kind of like a Lebron situation where
kid was prodigy, like he's going to be the greatest
ever and to then live up to it. Three Stanley
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Cups stayed on the again, like to stay he's in.
He's been on the Penguins his whole career, right, Yeah,
and I love when guys just have one team. That's
my favorite. The thing the cool thing about said, it's like, yeah,
prodigy for sure. I remember seeing highlights of him when
he was young where he would be behind the net
and he would pick up the puck on his stick
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and scoop it over the top and it would somehow
go in. Like this guy was just so insane, he
was so gifted, and like, you know, maybe once he retires,
he's going to be like the next I mean, if
he's not already the next Wayne Gretzky, I think he's
probably pretty clear. Yeah, the fact that he's still playing
definitely means that this his like legacy can only continue
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to grow. Yeah, his numbers are going to be like
just as impressed is he hot? It doesn't restrate me
so many so many, like so many famous win then
in the United States, Mary hockey players, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Duff,
Aaron Andrews. Like, it's a lot of blonde if you're
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famous in America and blonde. Boy. Here's the thing. I
feel like Canadians are automatically attracted to men who play hockey.
So Sidney Crosby could be like mediocre, um, and I
think I'd still be very attracted to him. But I
do think he was cute picture I like it. Yeah,
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he's cute. He's got little rosy cheeks. I love that,
but he's not like sometimes you see these hockey players
and they're like ounks, you know, and then and then
they've bought no teeth, and I'm like, I'm even into that,
Like the less teeth, the cooler. So Jenny Taft, he's
on Fox Sports and hosts on Disputed. She's this beautiful,
stunning woman. She's so smart. She covers college football and
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does on Disputed and all this stuff. And I meet
her husband, who is like very handsome, um, so gorgeous,
and I'm like, oh my god, you guys are like
the perfect pair. And he's like, hey, I'm Matt. Nice
to meet you and he's missing like a bunch of teeth,
and I was just like, this is fantastic. It just
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that and he's that that's how he's out meeting people
Like good for him. It's just like I'm huge and
hot whatever, I'll look just like takes it if he
knows he's gonna eat, like we've been out to dinner.
If you know he's gonna eat, he just takes it out.
It takes those slippers out. I just think that this
party trick. Yeah, Okay, we'll take one more break and
then we'll be back with our number one picks and
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we are back. I am at first rate till we
have you go last, because you're our guest and you're
our grand finale. Um. As I said, Wayne Gretzky was
my number one. I knew, you know it just sort
Wayne Gret's the great one like that is that's kind
of I don't even think you need to say. Yeah,
I do have some honorable mentions. I have two hockey
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players on here, so I'm not going to say them
because I'm guessing one of them is yours. So the
honorable mentions that I will say I had Sidney Crosby,
I have Mike We're a Master's champion who is a
very famous golfer. I did not realize he was Canadian,
because you know, Canadians look American. You just you know,
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he's got a he's got a golf tan line where
his forehead is pale and the rest of his face
is tan. And to me, that looks like he could
be for from Tampa, you know. But Mike, we're also
I did not realize that Lennox Lewis is Canadian. He
has dual citizenship, so he was born in the UK,
but then he was educated basically sixth grade on in Canada.
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And he's a three time heavyweight and I didn't Yeah,
so I guess he did. He boxed in the Olympics
once as a Canadian and once as as a UK citizen.
It's kind of I have problems with that. Well, if
you go into the olymp x ones, you can't go
back and change your It's kind of complicated too, because
Canada is a like British Commonwealth colony. Yeah, what have commonwealth?
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I don't know, I have a queen. I don't know
the queen is on the money. So it's like, well, yeah,
I guess if you're it seems that's a very Yeah,
it's a thin um. It's an easy cross. It's an
easy cross. It's an easy cross people. Because there's a
Jamaican born sprinter who then ran in the Olympics as
a Canadian, and I'm like, he's Jamaican to me, I
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know that. Well, there's a lot of there's a lot
of there's a a really exciting new guy on the
Canadian men's national team for soccer. What's his name? Anyways,
he was born in Ghana. But because we welcome all
of these people from all of these countries, not like
some other countries, a lot of people claim citizenship in Canada,
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so they represent our country in the Olympics and stuff,
which is really cool because our Olympic teams are always
incredibly diverse. It's amazing. That is yeah, because when I
saw these sprinters, I was like, where are they from?
And they're just Jamaican said moved to Canada. My grandmother.
She had a dual American and Canadian citizenship and she
would only travel on her Canadian passport. She was like,
people are just nice ser to you. If you show
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them an American passport, They're like whatever, Um, here's your mayonnaise.
Uh so yeah, those are those are my picks. And
I was so happy to learn about some Canadians. See,
I'm worried I'm gonna take I'm taking Rachel's here, and
I don't know much, so if I do, feel free
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to chime in. But Mario Amile, oh not mine right?
Used to where is jersey? Used to wear? Is jersey love? Yeah?
I mean, and and feel free to to fill me
in here. But like he was the only hockey player
I knew growing up again. I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania,
which was two hours outside of Pittsburgh, and he was
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just the Michael Jordan's. So then when there was like
posters where it was like every best player of a league,
it was like Jordan's Lemieux, Emmett Smith and whatever. But
like Mario lemiue and I did a little bit of
research the other day when I didn't know we were
gonna do this topic. But he played a long ass
time and then I saw that little gap and he
had cancer and then overcame it and then came back.
When he came back pretty amazing. So I'm gonna yeah,
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he is my number one pick for for greatest Canadian athlete.
That's great. I don't know why. I don't know why
I had that jersey. I think that was a hand
me down from my brothers. But I used to wear
it during practice and I always remember my coaches whenever,
like my shift was up, they would just like yell
at your name, and they never yelled my name. They
always go Mario Mario Lemieux. Is that how you say?
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I mean, it's a it's a classic name to like,
it's it's a classic Canadian, French Canadian name, and like
you hear that name and you're like, oh, yeah, no,
I know who that is. Even if you're not like,
oh he won three consecutive n HL m vps, it's like, oh,
Mario lemie was famous for sure. And it sounds like
pep probably as it totally sounds like, yeah, probably top
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three sports mullet too, in my opinion. In his early career, well,
I'm looking at this photo, which is a very I mean,
he's just a lot of good mullets in hockey. Yeah,
he scored one of the most in Canada. He scored
one of the most common air goal. Yeah. Well, because
the thing is as cold, you gotta keep the back
of you. I'm stupid. I need to grow mullet always,
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like my neck is freezing. Have you ever seen an
Asian person with a mullet? An Asian person in the mullet?
I don't know. That's the question. Seems racing. I'm gonna
look it up. Okay, Rachel, you bring us home with
your number one pick. I can't wait for you to
school our Yankee asses. Okay, Number one on my top
Canadian athlete list is the one and only. I think
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he's actually the most Canadian of the Canadian athletes. His
name is tie Domi. Okay, I was thinking you were
gonna say Gordy how no no, no, no, no no,
that's boring. Tie Domi. It was known and is known
to be like the ultimate fighter on the ice. We
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did this on our podcast as well. But there was
one time, so he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I don't know if he played for other teams, but
that's what I know him as he played on that
team for a really on time. Um, there was one
time that they were in Philadelphia playing the Flyers, and
these two teams like hated each other for whatever reason,
and he got put in the penalty box as he
does because he's always fighting people. And um, there was
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a fan that was like chirping him because they hated
the leafs, and he grabbed water and went over the
penalty box and poured the water on the fan. And
this fan, like a psychopath, came in like was singing
on the glass and fell into the lion's den the
penalty box and tie Domy just went to town on
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this guy. This fan had to be escorted out by security,
had to get stitches in his forehead, and I don't
I know, he played the rest of the game. He
wasn't even kicked out, so and that's like one story
in his career. Like this guy will never pay for
a drink the rest of his life. He's such a
scrappy like just he's like a he's a fucker. It's
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just a sucker, and you just always want to cheer
him on. He's just so he's he's Canadian through and through.
My my sister's boyfriend when I was growing up, it
was always like my sister had the whitest boyfriends ever.
This this one in particular, Doug Smith, and he was like,
I'm going to teach you how to fight in hockey,
like Tie Domey And so that's when I first learned
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his name in like second grade and was like pulling
the shirt like over the head and like yeah, I
mean yeah, that's how I knew his name. And I
think he was like referenced in Goon a Bunch to me,
and so I was like, yeah, he's like the slap shot,
Yeah yeah, those like big fighting. Yeah, I mean that's
how I basically learned how to fight back against my brothers.
Like we would have these nasty we we would just
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like I would just fight them all the time and
we would do like they drop the gloves thing and
they would like pull my jersey over and I was
just like swiping at them. But yeah, he's great. When
you go see hockey and there's not a fight, I
like leave disappointed and I hate fighting, but I'm always
like fighting too, But there's something like you feel better
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about it with hockey because you know they're at least
somewhat protected because they've got the pads on. It's like
it's hockey, Like it's so scrappy game and there's like
there's some things are allowed. You know, you can't whip
a stick at somebody like they've got fouls within. Do
you want to tell us your honor Yes, I've got
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a couple of Some of them aren't Canadian, but he
said that, Like I said, okay, So Vince Carter is
my number one honorable mention. I think he's an honorable Canadian.
Jose Abautista major honorary Canadian, Joe Carter major honorary Canadian.
One of them is Canadian. And I have a fun story.
There is this, um I promised, I don't think that
you guys would know who this is, but there's this
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guy named Milos Brownitch who is a very famous Canadian
tennis player. Yeah. Yeah, like curly curly hair. Like. I
was out at this like benefit one night and um
I met him and he was huge at the time.
He was like on this amazing run and everyone left him.
He was the celebt that was at the benefit, and
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um I went up to like, I was drunk clearly,
and I went up to him and started talking to him,
and then I gave him my number, and um I
went back into my office the next day. This was
when I was working for Toronto cy and I told
all my guy friends, like I met Milos last night
and I gave him my number so like I might
quit and become the first first lady of Canadian tennis.
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Like just you guys, watch and these fuckers in my
office started texting me pretending to be Melos round Edge
for like a week and a half and like planning
a dating guys. I was mortified, mortified, franked you and
I was like just out of a really bad relationship.
So I was just like, oh my god, like what
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an upgrade? Like I'm going to date TenneT Being a
tennis girlfriend or wife is the best because they cut
to you all the time and you're sitting in the
box like just who all? I that was like my dream.
I wanted someone to run over I was. I was like,
I'm not gonna win Wimbledon, but maybe I can make
out with someone who did you know? That's that's what
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I hope Forgize it was. It was so devastating, you guys.
But it's fine. I'm onto bigger and better things. But yeah,
you guys, shoutows Megan. You had all the women that
were on my list. That was great. But yeah, I
think that that was I had Gordy how oh, Terry
Fox do you guys know who that is? So Terry Fox. Um,
we have a Terry Fox run every year. There was
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this guy that I believe had cancer and had to
have his leg amputated, and he ran across the country
with his leg amputated and had like a prosthetic leg.
He ran across Canada, so like Forrest Gump with a
prosthetic literally Forest style before he was Forrest Gump before
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Forrest Gump existed. And so now every year there's a
Terry Fox run and people go on like a five
k and raise money for cancer. Amazing sign up. Sorry,
I forgot I was gonna say. I was gonna say
Tom Green. Remember, Oh yeah, you were going to say
Tom and he was a professional skateboarder. Yeah. I mean
(56:47):
it's loose, like Jason Lee was a professional skateboarder. It's
like if you have a flannel and can do a
kick flip, you're a professional. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we
got Tom Green in there. Count Rachel, thank you so much.
Where can people find you? I host a podcast called
Hall of Shame on Crooked that comes out every Monday,
and I also host a show on Fox Sports every
day called Fox About Live. And it's on a two
(57:09):
pm Pacific every day. A daily show is a grind,
it's a lot. I bet, well, thank you so much
for doing this. This is so fun. Thank you guys
for having me. This was awesome. We needed a real
Canadian to like tell us what's what you know? So yeah,
I hope people will find like I feel like a
lot of people are like Canada. I don't want to
(57:29):
know anything about that. Oh I don't think so. I think,
especially right now, our listeners, I would hope are going
you know what, maybe we should look around the world
and see what other people are feel other We've my
boyfriend and I aren't married, but we've had many conversations
like okay, if Trump gets reelected or if she hits
the fan, like can I come to your country? And
(57:50):
I was like, we, I guess we we can't go
to the Philippines because they have a dictator as well
and typhoons. But yeah, I remember being like, see, can
we go to the Philippines. It's like they shoot people
in the streets. So yeah, yeah, we're stuck here. They
have Tanner Trump over there, tan Trump. Okay, we're in
(58:13):
a good place now, we're good we're moving forward. We
got Delaware's finest man in the ship. Okay. You can
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Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Hello and welcome to another episode of Greatest. I am
Megan Gaily, joined in my dining room by my husband C. J. Toladano.
This is a podcast studio. Oh wow, Well, we have
(00:24):
really exciting news from the Gailey Tolodono podcast studio home.
While we are recording in our dining room. Our friends
ran out of room in their home and their recording
podcast in our and we'll bring you on a second.
But Rachel, well, no, you have to bring them up.
I'm gonna tell her because I don't want her to.
(00:45):
Just can I bring our guests on gosh our guests today,
gotch I'm a fan, I'm a friend. Um, she is
on Fox Sports, as I was reading today, the youngest
on air person for Fox Sports. Well, which is incredible.
And uh one of the hosts of Crookds Hall of
(01:08):
Shame podcast and for this episode specifically a Canadian. Please
welcome Rachel Vanetta. Thank you so much for having me.
I'm loving the chaotic energy already. This is where this
is good for us. We're so what's up with the
there's people recording a podcast in your girl? Just people?
(01:32):
Another couple another husband and wife. Oh my said, I
was like, this is truly embarrassing. If anyone was to
see this going on, they would be like, we wouldn't
be embarrassed. I think l A would be embarrassed that
there is two couple podcasts recording in with and I
sent her two options. We have like a patio and
(01:53):
the garage, and I said studio one or two is yours.
Whichever and whichever you need have been why this is
this is? I did, like you mentioned I have a
podcast on crooked I did, I think maybe two episodes
with my podcast partner in studio and all of the
other ones have been like this over zoom and like,
(02:15):
thankfully we get along because if not that would have
been really messy. That's tough though, to just do the
two in person. And then I didn't know each other before,
so you're like literally building chemistry over zoom during the
course of this year. Do you have any do you
have any ship you need to get off your chest?
You know that. I'm like that I should tell, well,
(02:37):
you know, any greement this is to air. She doesn't
turn her mike on sometimes it's pretty fucking right. Well,
and like my heart obviously really cares about the quality.
But I was about to be like Crooked really cares
about the quality. They both care. It's just hard, like
it's hard to yet we have no we have no.
(02:59):
I remember we the week that everything shut down. Love
it was gonna have us and where does he do
his comedy show in l A And the Improv. He
was gonna have us on his show at the Improv
and we were gonna like we were planning on getting
very drunk. Oh I get very drunk, and so that
show got canceled. So I was just like, Okay, let's
just get drunk anyways, like in the studio and like
(03:21):
all uber homes. So I remember packing like something stupid,
like white cloths or something like that, put in the car,
and we showed up at the studio and everyone was
gone and everything was silent and there was Clorox wipes everywhere,
and everyone was kind of just like should we just
like go home? But it was such a weird. It
was that week that everything got canceled and everything was
(03:42):
just very scary, and I was like, I'm just gonna
go drink this whole hole by myself. You were like,
I just want to get drunk. I don't care what
the location show about, you guys, but I have been
getting drunk a lot. I got addicted to weed gummies.
Weed gummies every night for the last four months, and
I just only in the one this is what this
(04:02):
This will be week two of not doing it on
the weekdays. Oh yeah, I mean we're not even setting
tough goals for Yeah, I've been smoking a lot of weed.
I'm a nighttime I can't do it during the day,
so I at least like I'll wait until below deck
bachelorette time to really get my exact like no, I
(04:25):
I like I would drink a couple of times a week,
but now I just find myself having and it's not
it's not a time like I'm having one or two
glasses of wine, but I've never done that before. And
now I just feel like my body is a trash can.
So I'm trying to same as you guys. I'm trying
to like kind of just stay on the weekends. But
it's hard, I know. And now and now it's the holidays,
and like the holidays for me, so just like I
(04:47):
want to get high and watch bor At with my mom.
You know, that's what I want to do to do that.
I haven't seen the original boor apt chapter one. What
I don't know, you gift right to chapter two. Yeah.
I think it came out when I was in college
and there were just like enough men around me doing
(05:07):
the voice. And you know, I went to a very
conservative leaning school and I fought with men all the time,
so like and the men I went to college with,
I was like, I'm not doing anything you're into, and
so I swore it off that way. But that's a
good call. Yeah, no, I but the second did you have?
You guys watched I laughed, Um, but I'm going to
(05:28):
laugh at it. I had a great time. I was like,
I thought, this this woman is a revelation. She was fantastic,
so funny and like. And then we were watching it
with a friend and her friend had auditioned for that part.
And I always love like those stories of like what
(05:50):
did they send? And she was like, oh, it wasn't
because sometimes you'll get I very rarely have this happen,
but they'll send what's not the script because they don't
want it's like so secretive and yeah, that she was
just given kind of like a blank piece of paper
and then told to just like yell out things in
an Eastern European acts. God, that's so funny. I would
(06:12):
never audition for that that movie, Oh my god. And
I was watching her. I was just having such anxiety
watching her do these things because it's like I would
never be able to do that. It's just so brave.
I Um, I was on a prank show. I was
on an MTV prank show, and it was truly it
took years off of my life. I mean really just
(06:35):
high stress. Yeah, and like I don't like people being
mad at me. I don't know why. I thought this
was going to be like an enjoyable experience for me.
And also because I look so, you know, just kind
of middle of America in New York City. People were like, oh,
she's not tricking me, and then I was fully tricking
them and people tried to fight me a lot. Yeah,
(06:55):
it was tough. It was tough. Oh what it was
called be Like Once a girl yelled at me, bitch,
I'm from Chicago, and that's like yeah, then I was like,
oh okay. Security security and security Security quote unquote was
the one man on the show who is a very
flamboyant hilarious opera singing comedian named Mateo Lane and they
(07:19):
would like say in my ear. They'd be like, Mateo's
got your back, and the Mateo would look at me
and be like, no, I don't know. I'm not helping you.
I can't fight these people. I might have to go
and watch this show. This sounds absolutely insane. Well, there
were supposed to be ten episodes and there were only eight,
so you can breaze right through it. Tho, it's weird.
You will never tell me where I can watch them, Megan, Um,
(07:42):
I think, Sarah, I know you can watch them all right.
We've never seen any of them. I've seen clips and
then I'm just like, well, yeah, I don't need I
don't need to know all of this. I don't need
to see all of this. I was listen. I made
the most of a tough situation, but I was afraid
a lot was very afraid. That's like hard acting. Yeah,
(08:02):
I would like I have to tell men that they
I mean yeah, I was like pretending people cheated. It
was it was yeah, it was bad. It was bad.
I would I don't think i'd be able to sleep
the night before that ship, Like I would just have
such crazy. I've done one prank in my life before,
and I hated every second on it. We sent somebody,
we sent somebody on a radio show and had they
had a fake heart attack, like yeah, when you're like, yeah,
(08:27):
that's I wasn't my idea. I just had to go
along with it. And it was the worst experience of
my life. Didn't get a lot of views, views and yeah,
well the guy, the guy, so hold on, oh god,
this I shouldn't have brought this up. This guy to
an audition. It was with a sal who you've met
(08:49):
I do my show with, and um, so we were
trying to we like put out a casting call for
like you must be old and like be able to
fake a heart attack and all this stuff. We had
to go sal and I to sit through multiple auditions
of old men, thinking oh my god, oh my was atrocious.
And then we landed on one and he got stage
right and so he had a heart attack and it
(09:10):
lasted for like five seconds, and he was like, oh,
it was not successful at all. It was bad. I
would love to see the casting tape. If men pretending
that I've got the head shot, okay, listen, I'd into
those two. This just reminds you real quick. I know
we're talking too much about pranks, but there was one
(09:31):
of my favorite vhs is growing up was this NBA
like prank video and their number one prank was Minute
Bowl or Charles Barkley putting his head Like they cut
a hole in the table, Charles Barkley went under it
to put a tablecloth over it and put his head
through a hole, and then they put a platter cover
over his head, which is like in the eighties I
(09:53):
think was like the height of pranks, I say today,
and then they're like, hey, Manute Bowl, go over there
and get a snack from underneath a platter and he lives. Wait,
so it was just NBA players pranking other nbah. I'd
watched the ship YouTube. Just look up NBA pranks Manu
(10:15):
Bowl and you'll see a whole rep. You'll go. You know,
another another sports icon. O J. Simpson had a prank show,
Yes he did. He had This was post murder trial.
Me had an O J. Simpson prank show. Yeah yeah,
what would he just know he was prank he was
(10:36):
pranking people or it was just I think it was
like him and the cast, Yeah, bron everything. It was
it's a it's a strange choice to try and rehabilitate
your career. That's not a good call. Yeah, Rachel, we
are so excited to have you. I brought up that
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you are Canadian because today's topic is by popular demand.
To people have been, oh, I don't. I don't believe
listened by popular demand. I mean two or three people
okay have asked him been like, can we get a
little Canadian love? So we are doing greatest Canadian athletes?
And where are you from? You have a Raptor's shirt
(11:18):
on right now? Perfect. I thought you guys were going
to be like decked out in Lakers gear. I follow
both of you, and I know that you guys are
both huge basketball fans, and so I was like, okay,
I gotta bring some heat. I love that too from
this new company that I wanted to wear it. So
I'm sorry, okay, wow, I had I had a pitch.
You don't really love your I had a pitch today,
(11:39):
So I'm looking better than I usually do. But yesterday
C and I had on inadvertently matching Lakers shirts, So
you just missed us by one day. You guys are
sports couples goals I mean, we have gotten in a
fight because I said he doesn't care about the cults enough.
Do you have a basketball or a football team? Oh,
(12:00):
I mean, I guess it's the Rams right now. But
it was to say, I mean it is the Colts,
but I adopted. Yeah, we we got in a fight
and I said I didn't want to watch the Colts game.
And that was the wrong thing to say. I forgot.
That cuts deeper than most things that we ever getting
fights over. I just have adopted so many things that
(12:21):
you love, but I always love the best thing. That's
like me being a front runner. I know, but I'm
saying the best thing is the Colts. Why don't you holler? Okay,
thank you? But where am I from? I'm sorry we
got We're getting so off topic. I am from a
very very small town, like two and a half hours
outside of Toronto called or No. My high school was
(12:42):
on a highway and people used to ride their snowmobiles.
There was like a snowmobile parking lot at my high school.
We were like out in the boonies and um, all
my friends had babies at seventeen basically, and I was
the only one that escaped. Yeah, so is that. I mean,
I honestly did not know you were Canadian for a
(13:04):
while because you have almost no accent. Because I got
made fun of so much when I first moved to
the States. When I first moved to the States, I
was working for Major League Soccer. I want, okay, so
I'll try and tell this story very quickly. I don't
have So I was going to school for broadcast journalism.
I hated it. I didn't want to do sports, I
didn't want to do news nothing, and so I dropped out.
(13:27):
And I was just like, I want to be an actress,
Like improv was my favorite class at journalism school. So
it's like I'm doing the wrong thing. So I dropped out,
and I was so broke that I was stealing toilet
paper from the sushi restaurant down the street. Like that's
what That's what the mood was like in my life.
And so I started applying for all of these jobs
while I was waiting to go back into school, and
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I saw on Facebook this ad for the Toronto FC
dream job. Toronto FC was our major league soccer team.
Did not watch soccer at all. I played when I
was younger. I was like, always played sports, but so
I applied for it not knowing anything, just like bullshitted
my way through the bio. I don't even know how
I got chosen into a smaller category because the way
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I don't shouldn't even tell the story. But the way
that I led my opening sentence was like, besides my
love for balls, like I thought, it was like my
attempt at trying to be like I think is going
to catch their attention. I think we know how you
got to the second round now, I think they were like, okay,
top of the The first round was just like a
(14:30):
little bit about yourself and I went to school for
like being on camera, so um. And then the second
round was like send in a video of why you
should have this job. So I wrote a sketch, um.
And then I got top five and I was just
like I should not be here. And then I fucking won.
I just swear on this pot. Yeah yeah, yeah, I won.
I won. I beat out over five people. I remember
(14:52):
when I went in for my interview, I had the
captain's name written on my hand and pen like I
was so so out of the loop. And then I
learned everything that I could about soccer and like being
on camera. I was like shooting all my own stuff.
It was like when YouTube was first happening. So I
was shooting all of these sketches and like funny bits.
And then Major League Soccer and the head office in
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New York City emailed me one day and they're like,
we've been seeing your stuff. It's really fun and like
weird and different. Would you ever consider working in New
York City? And I had been in New York once
in my life before. I had a Carnegie Delhi napkin
on my desk, like on my little bulletin board and
I was just like, oh my god. Yeah, And so
it took a little while from my visa to go through.
(15:34):
And then I went and worked in New York and
was like in a I was the only female in
office with like thirty five dudes, and all they would
do my It was so embarrassing. I do all my
hits in front of the entire office. It was when
I first start that I had a serious like Canadian
twang and um so every time I would say like
(15:55):
tomorrow or sorry and like so I had to fix
it so quickly because I was like this fucking sock,
So did you do dialect or you just like no, no,
I just there's there was really only a couple of
words that really came out with it's just fixing a
couple of owls um. But yeah, thankfully I was able
(16:15):
to kind of get rid of it, because I think
that that's kind of help if I was super Canadian.
I mean, like Jay and Dan, who are huge Canadian
sports broadcasters, they came to the States and they didn't
get rid of their accent, and that was like one
of the things that a lot of people talked about it. Yeah,
so that's insane. That is really insane, Like that's awesome
that you you fixed it. I mean I feel like
(16:37):
even saying fixed it is like yeah, it's like it's
five voice. It just it sounds a little like honk,
like honky tonk, like Canadian Canadian accents. Sometimes when I
go home, it's it reminds me of like a southern drawl.
Like if I'm home and I started drinking and I'm
around my brothers and like my cousins, like I really
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start to sound a little bit like a hillbilly. And
so I think I kind of wanted to fix it
because I didn't love the sound of it well. And
they always say this, like, even if you're from the
South or the Northeast and you want to be a
newsperson on camera there like you need to, especially like
a Wisconsin, Minnesota those places too, They're like, watch these
Midwestern accents and then that is what they want people
(17:24):
to have. So even if you have like a drawl
out here, they're gonna they're gonna beat it out of you.
But well, even I mean being wanting to be an
actress to like, I couldn't just go an audition to
be an American girl with the Canadian accent, so I
had to get rid of it. Well it sounds great now,
but I'd love to hear drunk around your cousins too.
Oh yeah, it gets pretty nice. My boyfriend's just like you.
(17:47):
It gets fully turned off. I sound a little country sometimes,
you sound very much from where you're from. Okay, wow
felt Oh yeah that sounded really okay. So so excited
to do this. My grandmother was Canadian. My parents are
from Niagara Falls, New York, but like spent their whole
I love doing stand up in Canada. It's like one
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of my favorite places to perform all over. Just lovely
wonderful people we could learn a lot from. Okay, So
for our purposes, you are going to start with your
number three, and then we'll go in sending. I can
never remember, um, but are you ready to lead us
up with your number three pick for greatest Canadian athletes? Yes?
(18:30):
I am ready. Okay, So here's the thing my brain.
When you guys asked me top three Canadians, my brain
instantly went to my three favorite athletes who have played
sports in Canada. But that's definitely not Canadian. No, But
I'm just saying I have a bunch of honorable mentions
that I count as like honorable Canadians. But I did
(18:51):
come up with three, uh, three solid Canadians. Okay, so
you want my number three, I'm gonna go for three.
I didn't want to go all hockey because you could
easily do that. I think I'm going to land on
like a Steve Nash situation. I think he's a pretty
solid a Canadian that I can be proud of. I'm
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gonna Nelly for Tato song. There's a lot of things,
but he is hands down the most famous Canadian basketball player,
and so I also think that makes him probably the
most famous Canadian athletes outside of kind of the one
we're probably all thinking about. But basketball is so huge
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in America. It's much bigger than hockey, and so Steve
Nash is really the Canadian poster child. I think so. Yeah,
I mean I kind of wish he's never No, he
didn't play for any Canadian team, so I kind of
wish I kind of wish he did. Like my number
one on this list was Vince Carter, Like I wish
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that he was Canadian so much because he is the Canadian.
He really is the Canadian basketball camps, even though Steve
Nash exists, like he is the number one Canadian basketball player.
I was obsessed with him. I honestly want to kick
Steve off the list. Yeah, that's interesting, Like do people
ever fault these Canadian stars that come to America. I
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mean he played in Phoenix to like Phoenix is the
antithesis of Canada. I was thinking about this today and
I was thinking about the Lakers and like how you
guys are always able to get these like rad players,
and how you were able to build a team around
Lebron James. Because so many people want to go and
live in Los Angeles, nobody wants to go and play
a basketball season which goes through the winner in Toronto,
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Like Toronto in the summer is sweet. But like the
thing about the Raptors is like we kind of have
to get lucky with like a rag tag team like
we did, because we're never gonna get this. Like if
we got a huge star, I'd be like, I ship
my pants, you know what I mean, Like I'd be like, why,
how how did this happen? But with like he was
(21:01):
the first star that we had, like three years after
our team started, and he was who like brought us
to the playoffs for the first time. And he's like
what the Raptors stood for. And like, you know, when
you think of the Raptors, you think of Vince Carter
like that he is, he is the Raptor And so
I feel he, you know, he's just like the king
(21:21):
of Canadian basketball in that way, I think, And we're
not We're probably never gonna have one like that again.
And so he was fully adopted and beloved for sure.
If he gets into if he stayed longer, I think, yeah,
it's um, you know, it's funny you brought up like
Toronto and you know, players going to play in whatever
city do you want to live in. So, I mean,
the rumors right now are that the Raptors may play
(21:43):
in Tampa, which is just so confusing to me because
of what's going to go on with We're gonna like
bring everyone the Canadian governments like, don't send your dirty, breathing,
fucking citizens up here. We're good, thank you. I think
the Toronto was like elegant, diverse, like you know, it's
it's still it's a great city, and people pretty much
(22:05):
trust me. I can sell anybody on the city. The
city is sick, Like the food scene is amazing, the
women are beautiful, Like the music scene is really cool,
and the summer is awesome. But I just know a
lot of Americans think, like I don't want to go
to Canada, but I think you won a championship, right,
it's a little bit more attractive now. But I just don't.
I can't ever see, Like I remember a couple of
months ago, it's like, well maybe we'll get you, honest,
(22:26):
and it's like, bitch, I'm gonna go from Toronto, gonna
get my hopes up for that stupid You're stupid, Okay, great,
you want me to go next Okay. I was like,
I know that there's some athletes that I must not
know about. So I kind of used this episode to
expand my horizons a little bit because there are sort
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of those core too. One of them is already the
mentioned that pop in my head. And so my number
three pick is an Olympian. Her name is Clara Hughes.
She's very famous in Canada. She is so incredible. So
these are some of her accomplishments. She's a six time
Olympic medalist and she's one of only two athletes since
(23:11):
World War Two to win a medal in the Summer
and Winter Games. In the Summer Games, she won two
bronze medals in cycling, and then she has since won
four medals over three Winter Games in speed skating. One
of them she's one of bronze and silver and a gold,
and she's a badass. I can't imagine being able to
(23:34):
be an Olympic cycler and an Olympic speed skater. I
guess they're kind of on the same track. I don't know,
but it seems like difficult to be one of only two.
And and then it made me be like, oh, I
almost like forget about Canadian athletes until the Olympics happen,
you know, like honestly, yeah, Like I was a little
(23:58):
worried when you asked me to do this podcast because
I was like, oh, Ship, Like who am I gonna
Who am I going to know? But she is. It's
funny because there are so many Canadians that are so
famous in Canada, and as soon as you crossed the border,
people are like, I don't know who this person is.
Like going back to Jay and Dan, a lot of
people probably aren't gonna know who they are. But when
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I found out that they were at Fox, that's why
I chose to go to Fox. I hadn't offer at
ESPN and Fox at the same time, and I chose
l A and Fox partly because they were there, Like
they were so cute. I remember seeing Jay in the
street one time and I was in a cab and
I hit like I didn't want him to see me,
like he didn't know who I was at all, but
(24:41):
I was. That's that was my reaction. I was like,
oh my god, this person's too famous, Like I can't
look at them. It was so But it's the same
with athletes and Claire. He's so huge. She had this
cute little gap in her tooth. I know exactly who
this person is. She probably couldn't walk down the street
without getting recognized, and a lot of people probably don't
know who. And the same thing happens in stand up too,
because there's they'll be like, this guy is the the
(25:04):
Seinfeld of Canada and we've truly never like a man
who is like a famous Canadian in insulted me in
like a not nice. It was a part of a roast,
but I was like waiting with him, not the puppet
he was. In Australian I had to roast a puppet
a puppet and I had a roast battle and I
lost to the puppet and one of the judges was
(25:26):
this Canadian guy who came at me and I remember
being like, bitch, i've never seen you on TV. But
then he is very famous in Canada. In Canada, I
could never do a roast. I'm way too sensitive. I
would always get my feelings hurt. I am totally fine
with them. I will say, if you're listening, I suggested
not doing a roast with an inanimate object because they
(25:48):
don't have any feelings or steaks, so it's not really
you know. I mean, when a puppet brings up your abortion,
it definitely hurts, you know, got it? Got it? Oh boy,
Randy felt Face. But but the man and the man
is so nice. But if I see Randy felt Face
the puppet, I'll kill him. But the man is a
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terrible name for a puppet. Man who Man's Randy? I like, okay,
you go, but you know that's the same person. But
that's why it sucks, because I I channel all my
negative feelings towards Randy and my positive feelings towards the
actual person. Yeah, okay, my pick. I'm going to continue
in classic CJ fashion where these aren't the greatest. But
(26:31):
I just I mean, I had to look it up.
I did do some research. One of the highlights of
the Bubble. This guy plays for the Denver Nuggets, Jamal Murray. Yeah,
he was on my honorable mention. I mean, to me,
it's like he's probably on his way to being one
of the greatest Canadian athletes. And yeah, I mean he's
been on my radar and been on people's radar for
(26:52):
the last few years. But like what he did in
the bubble. Okay, so this this podcast we cover like
actual performances, but also pop culture. The dude got He
accidentally went on I G Live while getting oral sex
from his girlfriend and hold on, this was like back
in like April April, or it was like before it
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was how does one act? He said, he got hacked.
I mean, it was a whole thing. And then of
course everyone started looking up the girlfriend. Who is this
like really hot blonde volleyball player And it became a
pretty big a pretty big big. There must have been
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a pandemic or something like that. It was competing with
the rest of which, again, it was one of those stories.
Had it happened in any other year, there was like,
you know, it would be every late night joke would
be about Jamal Murray. So I didn't at the time
that happened, I didn't have a face for Jamal Murray.
I had heard his name, and then when the bubble
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started and he was just I mean, he was incredible
and especially layoffs. And then someone referenced it and I
was like, that's my Jamal, Like I had to put
two and then the image flash before my eyes again.
I'm like, oh no, I can't believe I've seen this
man's pubes and I've been rooting for him with hold on,
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hold on, hold okay, without getting to like where was
the camp The camera was from his eyesight down? Oh
so was he trying to record it? And he went
on Instagram Live. Yes, okay. And my theory is, and
I don't know if you guys have done this. It's
like you don't know. You know, you see a picture,
you want to take a picture or something, and you go, oh, yeah,
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should that go on Instagram story or what? So you
kind of just used the camera within the Instagram app.
I feel like maybe he like has that decision making
in his head and he accidentally opened up the Instagram app.
And Instagram is like you have to that's it. You
would have to like roll it out with a computer.
You had to say, like go live if I think yeah,
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but but who is that dumb that they would I
should we just do a whole podcast. I knew this
would happen. And no, thank you for that, jem, I
didn't know that that was you know, he loves this woman.
This woman loves him. You know she seemed very good. Okay,
good for him connect to learn to not do these
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kinds of things like sure, that's a lovely thing to
have on your phone, probably for him, especially in the bubble,
but like maybe just you know, don't do that. I
think they get a rookie seminar not to do it.
But you know, you just see, you get in the
moment and it's fun. It's fun. Yeahs connected to his performance.
You know, the rule was in the bubble that family
members and friends could come in the second round and
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his yeah, he started making head but then everybody was
like is she here? Is she here? And they're like, oh,
she's here, She's here. And he went to school in
the States, like c J. Do you know about how
the recruiting process us, like, because you know, there there's
high school boys that you follow. Are you are you
going to teach me birds? I hope that gets clipped out.
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You know, there's high school boys that you're a fan of.
But then like, so how do they find these incredible
high school players in Canada? Oh, I mean it's you know,
they have a use, they have you know, and they
have like Northern scouts, like guys that really shine and
tournaments and stuff like that, right because I mean they're
in the last five ten years, there's been a big
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uptick in Canadian players Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, all guys
definitely aren't gonna be on the list, but yeah, there's
a big contingent for basketball. I feel like Wiggins was
so hugely didn't you go Number one? In the draft
that people are close close to that at least I
think people were probably like, oh, let's start like kind
of keeping tabs on because he was so shining, uh,
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such a standout that they're probably like looking more into it.
Are there universities in Canada that are like, oh, these
are like is there a duke of Like, oh, well,
I don't actually know college basketball in Canada too well,
but I will say, if you want to be in
the NBA, you're not going to play college ball in Canada.
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And they're kind of dare I say it kind of
takes away from their Canadian nous a little bit if
they go and play college ball in America, because like,
college in Canada is um there's something very American about
colleges in America that sounds so stupid. But you guys
have such a crazy college experience and we don't really
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have that. What do you mean don't like you don't
have to and like you know, it's not like college
football players and like Hottie mccotterson, he's like got a
beer gut and probably like hunts deer on the weekend.
Like that's Canada. So I feel like they become more Americanized.
Like I didn't know Jamal Murray was a Canadian at
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first until somebody until he was like in the thick
of playoffs, and then I found out and I was
just like whoa, um, so yeah, but he's he's he
can be honest for eighteen to twenty two are also
extremely formative years. Formative years. I mean we've all met
like a girl who did study abroad in Italy for
one year and it's like, I'm Italian, you know, so
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like you can fully like embrace a culture like that. Okay,
we're gonna take a pickbreak and we'll be right back,
and we are back, Rachel, you want to give us
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your number two pick? Yeah, So I'm gonna surprise you
guys with this one because I feel it it's probably
number one for y'all, but I'm gonna put Wayne Gretzky
into makes your number one even more interesting. I'm gonna
put Wayne Gretzky at number two. I know he's like
the great one and like did all these amazing things
with his NHL career and was just a fantastic hockey person.
(32:58):
But did you guys know this is maybe one of
my favorite facts about Wayne Gretzky that his wife was
involved in a highly illegal gambling ring involving multiple NHL
coaches and a Philadelphia crime family. Yeah, you guys, and
Wayne Gretzky may or may not have known about it.
(33:19):
Have you talked about the Sun Hall of Shame? We
did a full episode on Okay, so everybody go listen
to the episode, But then, Rachel, can you give us
like cliff notes of Okay, let's see if I can
remember because it was early on in the season, but
it's basically like, okay, so this was when sports gambling
was illegal and it still isn't a lot of places.
But they were a group of very wealthy people, including
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I want to see, like the Flyers head coach, Philly
Flyer's head coach, and Wayne Gretzky's wife and a couple
of other people were placing these like massive bets apparently
not on hockey but on the Super Bowl, and like
they were like millions and millions of dollars um. She
like really liked to gamble apparently, and then they got caught.
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The bookies were like this Philadelphia crime family was like
a little bit of a dicey situation. This this the
head coach of the Flyers got caught and he had
like all these fancy watches and like all these TVs
in his house and it was crazy. But the speculation
is that Gretzky's wife took the fall for him, so
that it was actually Gretzky that was involved. But since
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he's Wayne Gretzky, she took the fall for him. So
did she Did she get arrested? No, I don't think
she got arrested. I think she got fine um and
they had to pay money. But yeah, it was really
spicy and I'm pretty sure, Yeah, he can't cheat on
his daughter, freaking got the jack Paul Justin Johnson. Yeah, yeah,
(34:48):
bore her own green jacket this weekend. I've got I
have a oh that yeah yeah yeah, because I remember
people would be like at some point she was being
referred to as like Dustin Johnson's hot girlfriend or something,
and so whenever that is, I'm like crude, these hat
And then it's like, oh, your dad's Wayne grit Sky. Okay,
(35:08):
well that's really like, of course, yeah, you just get
to be hot for the rest. You're already rich, and
now you're marrying this man who had a coke problem
and can play golf. This is incredible and apparently broke
up a bunch of relationships across the PGA. Did you
guys here about that Dustin or she gets slept, No,
he slept with some lay um because he looks like
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he's a dirty dog. Yeah, he looks like I got
to look. She looks sometimes a beard. Look. It would
be like if a guy that you went to high
school with was like hot in high school and then
was like still hot now and like really get a
golf and wins the exactly you Okay, that is a
great pick. He's my number one. He held sixty one
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NHL records when he retired. It's really incredible. Okay. My
number two pick is a hockey woman. Her name is Haley.
So you know, there's a debate about who may be
the greatest male hockey player, but they say, without a doubt,
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Haley is the best female hockey player ever. She was
on the Canadian national team for twenty three years. She
has four gold medals and a silver medal, and she
also this is incredible to just just like Clara. She
also represented Canada in the Summer Olympics on the Canadian
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softball team. Oh, I didn't know that. That's really right.
I have this memory of which was very cool. Actually,
I have this memory of my school shutting down. Canada
was playing in the Olympics for the gold medal match.
I want to say it was against the U S.
Maybe it wasn't, I can't remember who cares um and
they pulled us all into this gymnasium and put the game,
the final gold medal game, up on the TV. And
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just being a young girl, my my dream was to
play in the w n b A. When I was younger,
I loved school so much, and seeing this whole school,
the entire school, every single grade, boy and girl in
the gymnasium watching women's hockey win a gold medal was
like so cool. It was like and that was when
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I was in elementary school, like so so long ago.
That was so cool. That would probably not happening. Yeah,
Like so is that sort of the equivalent like the
women's national team because the like the US women's soccer
team is celebrated here equally, if not more than the
men because they're much more decorated. Um yeah, I mean
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you can celebrate when you win, you know, so it's
easier to celebrate them. Is that sort of like the
national women's hockey team in Canada, it's sort of the
same vibe. I think it's different because the men's hockey
team is good, whereas the US men's national team has
not been good for a long time and didn't make
another the World Cups. That's probably why every relationship ships
on them. They're good now. But um oh yeah, so no.
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I but I think that that's also what makes it cool.
It wasn't like, let's wait for the guys game. It's like, no,
the women are in the gold medal match. Let's shut
down the school and everyone watch. I know. So it
was I know only one girl that I've met my
entire life that played hockey, and it seems like I
played hockey for five years. It's the most fun sports,
So I don't think they encourage girls to play it
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here in the States. Well, it was weird when I
first came to the States. I remember my first time
on TV was filling in on Calling Coward Show. You
like sit in the booth like fifty feet away from
him and like, uh ask him questions every so often.
And the first time I did that, they were like, no, hockey,
don't mention hockey, don't talk about hockey. We don't do
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hockey in the States. And I was just like okay,
Roger that, um, yeah, I just don't think it's a
thing here in a lot of places where we're like
literally born, this is gonna sund We're like literally born
with the States, hockey is so massive. I remember I
went home a little while ago, like sometime last year,
and I went to this restaurant, this like chain restaurant,
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and they had a menu for hockey players, like in
the in the menu was a special menu for hockey players.
And this was like a massive chain restaurant, like they're
just everyone places. And was that like portion specific or
I think it was all like healthy stupid stuff, par athlete,
you should be eating salmon. Yeah. Here, it's like ye
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a year, ESPN wheels out, Barry Melrose and then that's
it basically, you know, And like Linda Cone will sometimes
get to talk about it, but it's so. I mean,
I on the bubble machine. We did like the stats
and I didn't. I think I mentioned NHL twice and
part of that is because I didn't grow up in
a city with hockey. But yeah, it's just it hasn't no,
(39:50):
it really, it's really insane that it's not a it's
not bigger here like every time. Oh yeah, it's really exciting.
We both lived in Chicago during that Be Your stretch
when the black Hawks won three Stanley Cups and it
was and comedy shows everything canceled, like it was just
as big as if if the White Sox were It
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was bigger than if the White Sox weren't. So we've
seen it, but like that, like Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, they
feel kind of like the outliers. Yeah yeah, I think
that you would love, Megan, if you ever want to
try and give it a whirl. It's really great. It's
a great way to take out frustration like I used
to just hurt girl. Wow, I would swear at them
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like I you become a different person on the ice,
and it's a very nice way to like then, okay
it and we can make it a couple thing. I'll
dress up as a goalie and you could take shots
on I would love to. Yeah, it's great, a great
way to get your anger out. I always like talking
because it just looked fun getting all that gear. I mean,
I liked football and getting all this stuff. Belase I went,
(40:58):
you know, free skating and all that stuff. But then
also to then in high school, I think all the
all the hockey player dudes, we're rich and hot, and
got all of my crushes. But then their their feet
smell so bad. Oh my god, it was. And I
was like, I played football, My stuff doesn't smell its
(41:18):
bad because I got aired out. But I think hockey
players kept it in their bag and then they would
still skate with what they used for playing. And so
I remember this kid who was like, I had all
the hottest girlfriends. He'd opened up his bag and like,
I like faintest, like in a cartoon. Yeah, it's so gnarly.
My brothers used to like the gloves of the worst
for some reason, the gloves of the most disgusting thing.
(41:39):
You have to like soak your hands in acid after
my brothers after a hockey game. I have three older brothers,
which makes a lot of things make um they used
to take their bare hands and just like my face
after a hockey game, and like I was, my brothers
are a lot older than me and a lot bigger
than me, so I would just have to deal. I
would just be like, pretend I'm dead, and like it
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was the worst c J. What would it do to
your ego that such smelly men were winning? It was
more about that. I mean, I was already battling other things,
being the only Filipino kids in Pennsylvania, But you know,
it was one of those things. But yeah, it turns out, Hey,
hey Clara, I'm one of a kind. Um you want
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to give your number two my number number two? Pick Um? Again,
I don't know much about hockey, but I just know
this guy is just massive. Sidney Crosby and yeah, Sidney
Kidd And I remember too, because so I moved to
Pittsburgh for my first year of college film school at
Point Park University didn't work out, left after one semester um,
but I moved there in two thousand five when Sidney
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Crosby his rookie year, and so I remember just like
doing a little bit of like and just sitting on
Sports Center like this young kid I think he was
eighteen seventeen or eighteen playing in the n h L,
and it was kind of like a Lebron situation where
kid was prodigy, like he's going to be the greatest
ever and to then live up to it. Three Stanley
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Cups stayed on the again, like to stay he's in.
He's been on the Penguins his whole career, right, Yeah,
and I love when guys just have one team. That's
my favorite. The thing the cool thing about said, it's like, yeah,
prodigy for sure. I remember seeing highlights of him when
he was young where he would be behind the net
and he would pick up the puck on his stick
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and scoop it over the top and it would somehow
go in. Like this guy was just so insane, he
was so gifted, and like, you know, maybe once he retires,
he's going to be like the next I mean, if
he's not already the next Wayne Gretzky, I think he's
probably pretty clear. Yeah, the fact that he's still playing
definitely means that this his like legacy can only continue
(43:49):
to grow. Yeah, his numbers are going to be like
just as impressed is he hot? It doesn't restrate me
so many so many, like so many famous win then
in the United States, Mary hockey players, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Duff,
Aaron Andrews. Like, it's a lot of blonde if you're
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famous in America and blonde. Boy. Here's the thing. I
feel like Canadians are automatically attracted to men who play hockey.
So Sidney Crosby could be like mediocre, um, and I
think I'd still be very attracted to him. But I
do think he was cute picture I like it. Yeah,
(44:31):
he's cute. He's got little rosy cheeks. I love that,
but he's not like sometimes you see these hockey players
and they're like ounks, you know, and then and then
they've bought no teeth, and I'm like, I'm even into that,
Like the less teeth, the cooler. So Jenny Taft, he's
on Fox Sports and hosts on Disputed. She's this beautiful,
stunning woman. She's so smart. She covers college football and
(44:54):
does on Disputed and all this stuff. And I meet
her husband, who is like very handsome, um, so gorgeous,
and I'm like, oh my god, you guys are like
the perfect pair. And he's like, hey, I'm Matt. Nice
to meet you and he's missing like a bunch of teeth,
and I was just like, this is fantastic. It just
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that and he's that that's how he's out meeting people
Like good for him. It's just like I'm huge and
hot whatever, I'll look just like takes it if he
knows he's gonna eat, like we've been out to dinner.
If you know he's gonna eat, he just takes it out.
It takes those slippers out. I just think that this
party trick. Yeah, Okay, we'll take one more break and
then we'll be back with our number one picks and
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we are back. I am at first rate till we
have you go last, because you're our guest and you're
our grand finale. Um. As I said, Wayne Gretzky was
my number one. I knew, you know it just sort
Wayne Gret's the great one like that is that's kind
of I don't even think you need to say. Yeah,
I do have some honorable mentions. I have two hockey
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players on here, so I'm not going to say them
because I'm guessing one of them is yours. So the
honorable mentions that I will say I had Sidney Crosby,
I have Mike We're a Master's champion who is a
very famous golfer. I did not realize he was Canadian,
because you know, Canadians look American. You just you know,
(46:23):
he's got a he's got a golf tan line where
his forehead is pale and the rest of his face
is tan. And to me, that looks like he could
be for from Tampa, you know. But Mike, we're also
I did not realize that Lennox Lewis is Canadian. He
has dual citizenship, so he was born in the UK,
but then he was educated basically sixth grade on in Canada.
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And he's a three time heavyweight and I didn't Yeah,
so I guess he did. He boxed in the Olympics
once as a Canadian and once as as a UK citizen.
It's kind of I have problems with that. Well, if
you go into the olymp x ones, you can't go
back and change your It's kind of complicated too, because
Canada is a like British Commonwealth colony. Yeah, what have commonwealth?
(47:13):
I don't know, I have a queen. I don't know
the queen is on the money. So it's like, well, yeah,
I guess if you're it seems that's a very Yeah,
it's a thin um. It's an easy cross. It's an
easy cross. It's an easy cross people. Because there's a
Jamaican born sprinter who then ran in the Olympics as
a Canadian, and I'm like, he's Jamaican to me, I
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know that. Well, there's a lot of there's a lot
of there's a a really exciting new guy on the
Canadian men's national team for soccer. What's his name? Anyways,
he was born in Ghana. But because we welcome all
of these people from all of these countries, not like
some other countries, a lot of people claim citizenship in Canada,
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so they represent our country in the Olympics and stuff,
which is really cool because our Olympic teams are always
incredibly diverse. It's amazing. That is yeah, because when I
saw these sprinters, I was like, where are they from?
And they're just Jamaican said moved to Canada. My grandmother.
She had a dual American and Canadian citizenship and she
would only travel on her Canadian passport. She was like,
people are just nice ser to you. If you show
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them an American passport, They're like whatever, Um, here's your mayonnaise.
Uh so yeah, those are those are my picks. And
I was so happy to learn about some Canadians. See,
I'm worried I'm gonna take I'm taking Rachel's here, and
I don't know much, so if I do, feel free
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to chime in. But Mario Amile, oh not mine right?
Used to where is jersey? Used to wear? Is jersey love? Yeah?
I mean, and and feel free to to fill me
in here. But like he was the only hockey player
I knew growing up again. I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania,
which was two hours outside of Pittsburgh, and he was
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just the Michael Jordan's. So then when there was like
posters where it was like every best player of a league,
it was like Jordan's Lemieux, Emmett Smith and whatever. But
like Mario lemiue and I did a little bit of
research the other day when I didn't know we were
gonna do this topic. But he played a long ass
time and then I saw that little gap and he
had cancer and then overcame it and then came back.
When he came back pretty amazing. So I'm gonna yeah,
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he is my number one pick for for greatest Canadian athlete.
That's great. I don't know why. I don't know why
I had that jersey. I think that was a hand
me down from my brothers. But I used to wear
it during practice and I always remember my coaches whenever,
like my shift was up, they would just like yell
at your name, and they never yelled my name. They
always go Mario Mario Lemieux. Is that how you say?
(49:50):
I mean, it's a it's a classic name to like,
it's it's a classic Canadian, French Canadian name, and like
you hear that name and you're like, oh, yeah, no,
I know who that is. Even if you're not like,
oh he won three consecutive n HL m vps, it's like, oh,
Mario lemie was famous for sure. And it sounds like
pep probably as it totally sounds like, yeah, probably top
(50:13):
three sports mullet too, in my opinion. In his early career, well,
I'm looking at this photo, which is a very I mean,
he's just a lot of good mullets in hockey. Yeah,
he scored one of the most in Canada. He scored
one of the most common air goal. Yeah. Well, because
the thing is as cold, you gotta keep the back
of you. I'm stupid. I need to grow mullet always,
(50:38):
like my neck is freezing. Have you ever seen an
Asian person with a mullet? An Asian person in the mullet?
I don't know. That's the question. Seems racing. I'm gonna
look it up. Okay, Rachel, you bring us home with
your number one pick. I can't wait for you to
school our Yankee asses. Okay, Number one on my top
Canadian athlete list is the one and only. I think
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he's actually the most Canadian of the Canadian athletes. His
name is tie Domi. Okay, I was thinking you were
gonna say Gordy how no no, no, no, no no,
that's boring. Tie Domi. It was known and is known
to be like the ultimate fighter on the ice. We
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did this on our podcast as well. But there was
one time, so he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
I don't know if he played for other teams, but
that's what I know him as he played on that
team for a really on time. Um, there was one
time that they were in Philadelphia playing the Flyers, and
these two teams like hated each other for whatever reason,
and he got put in the penalty box as he
does because he's always fighting people. And um, there was
(51:45):
a fan that was like chirping him because they hated
the leafs, and he grabbed water and went over the
penalty box and poured the water on the fan. And
this fan, like a psychopath, came in like was singing
on the glass and fell into the lion's den the
penalty box and tie Domy just went to town on
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this guy. This fan had to be escorted out by security,
had to get stitches in his forehead, and I don't
I know, he played the rest of the game. He
wasn't even kicked out, so and that's like one story
in his career. Like this guy will never pay for
a drink the rest of his life. He's such a
scrappy like just he's like a he's a fucker. It's
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just a sucker, and you just always want to cheer
him on. He's just so he's he's Canadian through and through.
My my sister's boyfriend when I was growing up, it
was always like my sister had the whitest boyfriends ever.
This this one in particular, Doug Smith, and he was like,
I'm going to teach you how to fight in hockey,
like Tie Domey And so that's when I first learned
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his name in like second grade and was like pulling
the shirt like over the head and like yeah, I
mean yeah, that's how I knew his name. And I
think he was like referenced in Goon a Bunch to me,
and so I was like, yeah, he's like the slap shot,
Yeah yeah, those like big fighting. Yeah, I mean that's
how I basically learned how to fight back against my brothers.
Like we would have these nasty we we would just
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like I would just fight them all the time and
we would do like they drop the gloves thing and
they would like pull my jersey over and I was
just like swiping at them. But yeah, he's great. When
you go see hockey and there's not a fight, I
like leave disappointed and I hate fighting, but I'm always
like fighting too, But there's something like you feel better
(53:37):
about it with hockey because you know they're at least
somewhat protected because they've got the pads on. It's like
it's hockey, Like it's so scrappy game and there's like
there's some things are allowed. You know, you can't whip
a stick at somebody like they've got fouls within. Do
you want to tell us your honor Yes, I've got
(53:57):
a couple of Some of them aren't Canadian, but he
said that, Like I said, okay, So Vince Carter is
my number one honorable mention. I think he's an honorable Canadian.
Jose Abautista major honorary Canadian, Joe Carter major honorary Canadian.
One of them is Canadian. And I have a fun story.
There is this, um I promised, I don't think that
you guys would know who this is, but there's this
(54:19):
guy named Milos Brownitch who is a very famous Canadian
tennis player. Yeah. Yeah, like curly curly hair. Like. I
was out at this like benefit one night and um
I met him and he was huge at the time.
He was like on this amazing run and everyone left him.
He was the celebt that was at the benefit, and
(54:40):
um I went up to like, I was drunk clearly,
and I went up to him and started talking to him,
and then I gave him my number, and um I
went back into my office the next day. This was
when I was working for Toronto cy and I told
all my guy friends, like I met Milos last night
and I gave him my number so like I might
quit and become the first first lady of Canadian tennis.
(55:01):
Like just you guys, watch and these fuckers in my
office started texting me pretending to be Melos round Edge
for like a week and a half and like planning
a dating guys. I was mortified, mortified, franked you and
I was like just out of a really bad relationship.
So I was just like, oh my god, like what
(55:21):
an upgrade? Like I'm going to date TenneT Being a
tennis girlfriend or wife is the best because they cut
to you all the time and you're sitting in the
box like just who all? I that was like my dream.
I wanted someone to run over I was. I was like,
I'm not gonna win Wimbledon, but maybe I can make
out with someone who did you know? That's that's what
(55:43):
I hope Forgize it was. It was so devastating, you guys.
But it's fine. I'm onto bigger and better things. But yeah,
you guys, shoutows Megan. You had all the women that
were on my list. That was great. But yeah, I
think that that was I had Gordy how oh, Terry
Fox do you guys know who that is? So Terry Fox. Um,
we have a Terry Fox run every year. There was
(56:05):
this guy that I believe had cancer and had to
have his leg amputated, and he ran across the country
with his leg amputated and had like a prosthetic leg.
He ran across Canada, so like Forrest Gump with a
prosthetic literally Forest style before he was Forrest Gump before
(56:27):
Forrest Gump existed. And so now every year there's a
Terry Fox run and people go on like a five
k and raise money for cancer. Amazing sign up. Sorry,
I forgot I was gonna say. I was gonna say
Tom Green. Remember, Oh yeah, you were going to say
Tom and he was a professional skateboarder. Yeah. I mean
(56:47):
it's loose, like Jason Lee was a professional skateboarder. It's
like if you have a flannel and can do a
kick flip, you're a professional. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we
got Tom Green in there. Count Rachel, thank you so much.
Where can people find you? I host a podcast called
Hall of Shame on Crooked that comes out every Monday,
and I also host a show on Fox Sports every
day called Fox About Live. And it's on a two
(57:09):
pm Pacific every day. A daily show is a grind,
it's a lot. I bet, well, thank you so much
for doing this. This is so fun. Thank you guys
for having me. This was awesome. We needed a real
Canadian to like tell us what's what you know? So yeah,
I hope people will find like I feel like a
lot of people are like Canada. I don't want to
(57:29):
know anything about that. Oh I don't think so. I think,
especially right now, our listeners, I would hope are going
you know what, maybe we should look around the world
and see what other people are feel other We've my
boyfriend and I aren't married, but we've had many conversations
like okay, if Trump gets reelected or if she hits
the fan, like can I come to your country? And
(57:50):
I was like, we, I guess we we can't go
to the Philippines because they have a dictator as well
and typhoons. But yeah, I remember being like, see, can
we go to the Philippines. It's like they shoot people
in the streets. So yeah, yeah, we're stuck here. They
have Tanner Trump over there, tan Trump. Okay, we're in
(58:13):
a good place now, we're good we're moving forward. We
got Delaware's finest man in the ship. Okay. You can
find me at Megan Gailey on Twitter at better Megan
Gaily on Instagram at c J Tolnano on everything. Please
rate and review five stars Okay, I've been reading them.
(58:33):
I've been reading them. I've been liking them because I
gotta go see if there's one stars and there's no
new one stars. Oh, I can't do that. I can't reading.
I like to I'm a mass a kiss when it
comes to reviews of my work. And guess what, people
don't like it? Um, this has been so fun of Yeah,
we'll talk to you guys next week. Be safe where
(58:54):
a fucking mask, wear a mask, wear a mask, wear
a mask, wear a mask, wear a mask. Okay, bye,
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