Signing Day Special

Voice of the Tucson Roadrunners Jonathon Schaffer and Co-Host Kim Cota-Robles were joined by both defenseman Maveric Lamoureux and forward ryan McGregor at the team's season ticket member signing event. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's five o'clock on yours es day down they say's
two Sun Roadrunners happy out from Fox Sports fourteen fifty
AM with Jonathan ship Right Kim Coda road Blacks.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, we know the story, but you gotta tell the
viewers that starts. It's so funny.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's our usual Tuesday night get together.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
So I don't know, maybe we should start implementing.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Some break dance pre games during the season and see
how that goes.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Right here on Tucson Sports Day yet Fox Sports fourteen
fifty A.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah, Fox Sports fourteen fifty am, our usual Tuesday night
get together. Jonathan Shafe here with Kim Coda Robas for
our STM Signing Day Parties special joining us right off
of the hop, Number ten, Maverick Lambrue Maverick, how's it
going man?

Speaker 4 (00:43):
Good?

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Pretty good? How about you guys?

Speaker 6 (00:45):
What we're doing?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Fantastic? Good to have you on. This is your first
time on the road or is happy? Our show? So welcome?
And yeah, just right off the bat, how's it been going? Uh,
you know, just being back here in Tucson. How we've
been settling in well? And yeah, yeah, how's it going?

Speaker 5 (00:58):
Went pretty well? Definitely?

Speaker 7 (01:00):
They started playing again too, to adjust to my game.
I feel like I can play five games now, so
I'm all. I'm all good, all adjusted. Just getting back
to my apartment, getting back with the team, seeing the
guys again. You know, like I left this season pretty
early to go to Utah, so i didn't know many
of them really well. So I'm just starting to get
to everyone to know even more now. So I'm sending

(01:22):
him pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, what's what's been the process like since coming back
from that that injury? You know, what was that whole
rehabilitation process like? And yeah, you just said you're you're
feeling pretty good, so I'm sure it's going well so far.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, So it didn't take too long.

Speaker 7 (01:36):
It was like about what the five six weeks for
for my injury. Of course, when you miss sometimes it's
always a bit harder to come back, like get the
like you can't do the amount of practice to workout
you want, But getting back in a game is always different.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
You're always going to be way more tired and just getting.

Speaker 7 (01:52):
Like the the systems and the speed and like the
passing and the shooting and everything. To get that back
is definitely order. So that game it. Cag was a
bit harder for me, but after like, I feel like
I sailed him pretty well and then I'm all good
right now?

Speaker 6 (02:06):
Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. And I think Ako told us
you're living at his apartment complex.

Speaker 5 (02:11):
Is that right?

Speaker 7 (02:11):
Yeah, So we're actually bought a lot of guys together.
There's Aku, there's Metika, there's Zuber, there's McCartney on Yrbouci
and then me. So we're a bunch of guys living
in that place. So it's it's pretty nice.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Yeah, that's fantastic. Okay, I need you to do me
a favorite because your name is very very French Canadian
and we kind of talked about this before you left,
and then you left and I didn't have to say
your name for so long, and now you're back and
you're scaring me. So tell me how your grandmother would
pronounce your name if she was if she was on the.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Po Well, you know what, my grandmother is actually from Wisconsin.

Speaker 7 (02:44):
So so she's English. She would say the same way
as you, guys, lamoureau. But the French way to say
my name is lamuger. Ah, It's exactly, it's the awes
like English people exactly that's it's not there, but that
that's that's better, like any like Russians like do though
like Jerymans like exactly it's easy for them, but like

(03:08):
English people that ours like are not like I. Yeah,
so that's sorry for you guys, but it's not over.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I can't do that on the call. That'd be that
I focused on it too much. Yeah, it would come
out the wrong way.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
I got a question to ask you too, So our
social media guy Bennett was doing a video of stuff
that the guys wanted me to stay on air. I
didn't get a chance to say yours because just you know,
I gotta wait for the right moment, right, But what
was the exactly wanted me to say? Because he was
trying to explain it to me, but I don't want
to say it wrong.

Speaker 7 (03:36):
Yeah, I got you. So what I wanted you to
say was come at. That's a bunch. That's a French saying,
saying like like in the good old days. Okay, so
we used to do this come at or like yeah,
we used to have like dance like come at to
like a good night come at and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
So okay, that was close.

Speaker 5 (03:59):
Yeah, so that's why it was that was it? Yeah,
that's what I was thinking.

Speaker 7 (04:02):
Like if I someone scored, like a goal or a fight,
there's something you say, Oh, that's a good old fights,
like come out of okay, thank you?

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Yeah, because we have we have games to do it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
So like I just wanted to ask you first first
time to say it and exactly what it meant.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
So I'll try to throw it in the next broadcast.

Speaker 5 (04:19):
Yeah, good, be good.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
I feel like you're gonna have to go back and
re listen to this after Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:23):
Really yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well see, at first I thought it was because I
did the I tried doing Google translation, but I forget
maybe that French Canadian might be different than you know. Uh,
I wouldn't say normal Canadian or sorry French Canadian then
for the French. But yeah, I was gonna say coon. Yeah,
that's not too bad, that's pretty similar.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
Good.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, but I want to use yours, so thank you
for that.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
Perfect.

Speaker 6 (04:46):
So tell us a little bit about Saltly Citty. What's
it like. I actually used to travel there a lot,
but I haven't been there in a really long time.
What is it like.

Speaker 7 (04:53):
It's it's actually beautiful, especially now with the snow and
all the mountains.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
It was.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
It was beautiful, like especially for for Christmas time we
went up to Park City. My whole family was there,
so we went to Park City. It was great, like
you just going up the mountains, you see all the snow.
It's like Park City is like an old town. Yes,
it looks a bit like home for me, like a
mold Tamplin. I don't know if you guys would know
where that is. But overall it's a pretty like chill city.

(05:19):
There's not much happening. There's there's there's not much people.
There's not much traffic, but like it's it's beautiful and
it's really clean all over the place. But just playing
hockey there is a great achy town. Like people love
their all key in Salt Lake City. They really do.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Did you get recognized at all when you were out
in town?

Speaker 5 (05:37):
Actually? Yeah, yeah, so that that was.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Not hard, not hard to distinguish.

Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah, exactly, so they see it's all got Well it
could be a basketball player. We never know that, but yeah,
I got they recognized a couple of times, just at
them all walking people stopping me or I was I
was eating dinner once with my family and then someone
just they were leaving the restaurant and I was actually
injured at that time, and they just tapped my show.

Speaker 5 (06:00):
They were like, oh, we can't wait to get you back, Maverick,
like recover.

Speaker 7 (06:03):
Well, so people are really really nice to like, people
are open to talk.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
They really nice. They love the hokey. But yeah, I
got recognize a couple of time, which is which is nice?

Speaker 6 (06:11):
I love you?

Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Did you ever did you're out?

Speaker 3 (06:17):
Did you ever in your career think you would be
playing for a team like the Utah Hockey Cup, right, like,
you know, a team that relocates in a brand new
city and every I've never seen a game, but from
seeing it, you know, on video and everything, it looks
like every game looks like a playoff matchout.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
What has that been that experience like that?

Speaker 5 (06:34):
Yeah, no, it's it's it's great.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
But no, never I would I would imagine that like
those type of thing like are soberer and they don't
really happen. A team relocating going from like Arizona to
it then Utah then being like a prospect because that
was a prospect at that time, like all that happened.
It was last season this summer, I was, I was
I wasn't playing here. I was sending too Sooner or

(06:57):
Salt Lake City, So all that was new for me.
So the chances that that happened to me like so
rare and small. So no, I never thought about that.
But yeah, every game there feels like a playoff games.
People are so excited and so happy for all key
being there, which is which is a great thing as
a player.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, how is it I've heard you refer to as
a rookie sensation, which how does it feel like? Is
there a lot of pressure associated with that? Or you
just like let it slay off your back, Like I'm
just still still just playing the same game I played
when I was.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Eighty Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 (07:28):
Well, it's just it's it's way different now, it's at
a way bigger stage.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yeah, especially like a rookie sensation.

Speaker 7 (07:35):
Like I was like, holy, like it's it sounds great
when you hear it, but you're like, is it really
happening to me? Is like is that true? Like what's
happening here? But no, of course that comes with a
lot of pressure. I think just playing in the NHL
comes with a lot of pressure for everyone.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Uh huh.

Speaker 7 (07:51):
But I just you just got to get to the
rink and try to play and try to do your
job every day even though you're in the NHL, which
makes it even bigger and greater.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
I know.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
I just try to play my game every day and
stay the same player.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
I was, good job, you're doing a great job. Yeah,
great job. I need to ask you about the social
media post when you guys went Utah was in Toronto.
I think you guse Toronto. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was
like great, yes, that was such a great puss. I
saw you. I was like, oh my god, yeah, tell
me what happened? What's going on there?

Speaker 7 (08:23):
So it was like a Christmas parade going on in
the city, and Toronto is already like a lot of traffic.
There's always really yeah, there's always it's really really bad,
and there's already so much people there. So that Christmas
parade they kind of closed like a full boulevard or
kind of eyeway and it was a mess. Like they
closed tree, they closed that boulevard closed I think an

(08:44):
eye away too. And like the bus ride from the
hotel to the rink normally takes five or six minutes,
it's like one point two miles I think, and it
was it took the bus driver an hour not or
I think an hour fifteen minutes or something like that.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
So we were gonna late for like your first meeting.

Speaker 7 (09:02):
So we arrived at the rink an hour and a
half before the game, an hour before warm up, so
we were getting late. So the guys were like, well,
we gotta leave, we we gotta walk. So everyone just
got off and then we started walking in the street
and then just walked like from the like straight through
the main interest of the rink like normal people exactly,

(09:22):
all tickets, no tickets, all in their suits, and then
just went down to the locker room.

Speaker 5 (09:26):
So that was that was a crazy experience.

Speaker 7 (09:28):
Like I asked, like a couple of guys like Bortuso,
like the staff of like did you guys ever lived
That was like nope, that's the first time.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
So another first, another first for me.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
Wow, that's amazing. Okay, I know you were You've shared
before that you're a big Harry Potter guy. Yeah yeah, okay,
So who which Harry Potter character do you think matches
your vibe the best? Who's your who's your person? In
Harry Potter and then also in Star Wars in the
Star Wars Universe.

Speaker 7 (09:58):
Yeah, I say, probably easier to say an I reportter.
I'll say, I would say run wisely, because he's just
always like happy to be there living life. It's just
always happy, smiling. So I would say him, yeah, that's
that's I repotter story that the World Junior last year.
After every game, we just we were like all the

(10:20):
que guys and a couple other guys, and like room
in Europe are like really small hotel rooms, and we
were about nine guys in room with single beds, and
then we had bunk beds that we could like flip off,
so we had guys in there, and then we had
guys on the ground, and then we had guys everywhere,
and then we used to watch every night like a
I Reportter movie. And then the Star Wars. Actually I

(10:42):
don't know, Chewbacca, that would be I'm not.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
So accurate.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
I would say, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
I would say The Mandalarian.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Because I watched this series and I love this guy.

Speaker 7 (10:56):
I just love him, so I would say I would
say him, yeah, that series, the all three season is
so good.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
So I actually have that the soundtrack on my Spotify
playlist because it's so good. The music is so like
what I'm running, like, yeah, it's a good one, Yes
it is, okay. And then you also you're a reader. Yeah, yeah,
which is a big deal. Like there's a few readers
on the team. Have you guys talked and do you
talk to anything? I actually have no idea who it
is Hammeron hebe and Ryan McGregor actually.

Speaker 7 (11:24):
Okay, okay, so he big is my roommate on the road,
so I'll talk to him about that.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
Yeah, Because what are you reading right now?

Speaker 5 (11:31):
Right now? I got a book on the psychology of sports.

Speaker 7 (11:35):
Okay, it's a sports psychologist who's talking about all he's
working with athletes.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
So I got that book.

Speaker 7 (11:41):
And then I got a book on investing money and
all that kind of stuff. And I got another one.
It's my agent that gave it to me. He's like,
I want you to read that and it's ow to
like go over obstacles in life, when life is going
not your way out, do you get through it? And
stuff like that. So that I got. That's the three

(12:01):
books I've got I've got right now. But like when
I was young, I was reading a lot of sci fi,
a lot of fantasy that was that was where my
goal to I think I have probably around one hundred
and fifty books.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
Like Douglas Preston is that.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
Like, No, it was more Quebec like writers, so it
wasn't really like English writers, especially because when I was younger,
I didn't read English that well, so it was mostly
like writers from Quebec.

Speaker 6 (12:26):
Yeah, okay, wait when did you learn English?

Speaker 7 (12:30):
Like I've spoke English my whole life, Like my grandmother
is from Wisconsin, like I told you guys, and then
my both my parents are bill Angle okay, but like
and never really spoke it when I was younger. So
I left in grade nine to go to Ontario.

Speaker 5 (12:44):
So I went to an.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
English school there and then I just for a year
just spoke only English, and then came back to Quebec
and then that was that was yet that it worked.

Speaker 6 (12:52):
Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. We just so you know, keep
Cameron heat big right now. I was reading The Mountains
you he shared that with us. O good, so just
so you know, because he reads like kind of very
similar books.

Speaker 7 (13:03):
To the site that you're sci fi fantasy or okay
what I just said, help sports psychology.

Speaker 6 (13:09):
All around the psychology, but also finance books okay, finance.

Speaker 7 (13:14):
Yeah no, and since since I got drafted and then
well since I signed my contract, it was it was
really important for me to.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
Like take care of my money and like invest oh yeah,
like a big part of it.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Then I started pretty young too, So that's why I
wanted to learn all that that works, because it's pretty complicated,
Like you don't, like, we don't learn that at school.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
We should actually learn that at school.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
It would be so important as you yeah, exactly, so
like taxes and all those kind of stuff and what
you do with your money and all it grows from
all the years if you let it in an account,
that's going to grow from four, five, six, seven, eight,
ten percent however you put it, however you invested. That
they should teach young kids that at school because it's
so important for life after.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
One hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Just a great topic, Yeah, into it.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
I just learned on TikTok yesterday that NHL players or
tax whatever state they're playing in. So wherever you travel to,
you got to pay that state tax. That is an
insane amount of work for a CPA to do the tax. NHL.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah wait, so like when they travel around, they get
taxed on where they are really and you're traveling half
the year exactly.

Speaker 7 (14:25):
So let's say you play in California, you get taxed.
Let's say you spend three days in California, you get
taxed to three days where there, you go to New York,
you get taxed to the two days where there you
go to Florida. Well, there's no tax there, so that's perfect.
So that's why some players want to want to go
like to Texas, or you want to go.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
To Nashville or Washington State.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Okay, so like I didn't know that one.

Speaker 7 (14:47):
So that's why, like those teams are like good like
areas where players want to go because there's no tax.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
So yeah, so they should teach at school.

Speaker 6 (14:55):
And then also when you go back to Canada and
you play those teams, there's no taxes.

Speaker 7 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, there is, Yeah, there is. Like Quebec for
US is expensive. It's it looks pretty much the same
as New York, which is abound fifty four percent if
I'm right or something like that.

Speaker 5 (15:09):
So it is a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Wow, yeah, guys must say California trips then because you're
gonna be longer in California and spend a lot more
in the taxes.

Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yeah, exactly, even a lot.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Well that's what the vitrono from honoring, that's what he did.
You like, I don't know exactly what it is with
his contract, but he might actually like go around the
California tax, which is going to say is going to
live outside of the state. So that's that that worried
about that he's not paying the California tax and he's
saying way more money.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
I heard slightly about that. Yeah, in some way he
was doing it for him.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
That's amazing.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
Yeah, if you can figure that.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
Out, Yeah, I'll find a way.

Speaker 6 (15:47):
Yeah, keep reading the book series.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah, So back speaking of the road trips, how much
have you rode with Cameron?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Hebig yet? Rouged with Cameron? Hebig yet? Or is it
gotta be a new thing when we go on this
gem show trip?

Speaker 5 (15:58):
No, so I was.

Speaker 7 (15:59):
I was with him when we started the year in Colorado,
and then when we were in Calgary, I was with
him again. I was back with him. So I only
did two trips when him actually so the one in
the California, the one in California is gonna be He's
gonna be big ones all definitely all definitely know him
a lot and probably gonna talk about about book a
lot of time.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
Then, Yeah, he.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
Told us that, you you know, you like to go
to bed early. You're quiet, You're not You're not bad
of a roommate. Yeah, you know, I want to get
your perspective. Yeah, what's he like as a yeah road roommate.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
No, like he he's a bit like that in a
way too.

Speaker 5 (16:30):
He's more like a kind of quiet guy.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
It just does his stuff goes too bad, it doesn't
go well, doesn't party too much. He just does everything
right so that he can't perform. But so I'm kind
of happy that he's that way, and then I don't
have to have him come back in a room late
at two three am, so we're actually good on that.
He loves naps too. I'm a big nap.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a big nap guy.

Speaker 7 (16:51):
So on game days we used to like we no
for like good two hours and a half and he
would sometimes not for three hours snap, so every hour.
And yeah, sorry, I'm that way because I love big knaps.
But I think he's even worse than me on that one.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Wait, and then how do you sleep at the end
of the night, Like if I slept three hours in
the middle of the day, Like no matter what kind
of physical exertion I'm doing, Like I still.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
They play a three two and a half hour hockey game. Yeah,
it's still not I would still not.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
Be too And I don't know, it depends, especially some
nights after after a game, it's it's hard to fall
back asleep, Like our brain is so wide up is
so so high, and then we're on like the adrenaline
of the game. Yeah, so sometimes it a bit hard.
But like melowtnin is great.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
Then a kind of stuff magnesium or fantastic for you.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Yeah, so yeah, I'll look onto on that. But sometimes
some nights so easier than than the others to fall
fall back to sleep.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
What's it like been?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
What's it been like to have Cameron he Big named
to the All Star Game recently? You know, this is
the first time you played with him, but he's a
legend here in Tucson. This is fifty with the team,
very well liked guy in the locker room. What's it
been like for the locker room just to have him
be rewarded. But the hard work that he's put.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
It, he deserves it.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
He's been He's been so good he's all season long,
he's been on fire and he deserves it so so much.
And then he's always early at the rink. He's working
so hard. Every day practice, he works hard, and then
you see him in game and he just dominates the
other teams. So he really deserves that one.

Speaker 6 (18:22):
Yet, what app do you use the most right now?
What do you think?

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Instagram? Yeah, Instagram to.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Okay, do you watch TV at all?

Speaker 5 (18:34):
Yeah? Yeah, I've been a big show. I love.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
I love movies and shows. I love Avengers too, I
love Marvels. I love movie shows like Big Stranger Things. Guy.
There's gonna be a season five coming soon, I think,
so I can't wait for.

Speaker 6 (18:48):
That one for that. Did you watch games?

Speaker 5 (18:51):
I watched Quid Games.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Yeah, I haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 5 (18:56):
I'll tell you is.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
I did like the ending of season two a finish
like and it just finished too quick.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
We're like, what's happening? But there's gonna be a third one, Yeah,
that's for sure, which.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Is very soon. So I have some catching up to do.
But I'm watching The Bear right now. Have you seen
The Bear? That one's good. It's on Hulu.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
It's in time. I started it. It was a little intent.

Speaker 3 (19:14):
If you've worked in a restaurant business, it stresses you out,
which I did in college. So when it's like, yeah,
it's this guy trying to pretty much inherit his dead
brother's restaurant and it's just all chaos. Okay, he's from
Chicago and everything, has a very toxic family.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's a great show.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
The episode is only like thirty minutes each, so you
can binge it okay really quickly when you.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
Get some long ones.

Speaker 7 (19:34):
That's the thing with the long ones is in the
break there's like twenty episoles per season. There's six season,
I think, and then like every episode is like an hour.

Speaker 6 (19:42):
That's a commitment.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
That commitment that is so good.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
So when you're when it's good, you want more.

Speaker 5 (19:47):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
So it's not too bad, but it's also nice when
you have like less things to binge it, then you
just get done with it because I can't watch multiple
multiple shows at once. I have one show at a time,
and I have like a ten page list of like
shows I just want to watch.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Yeah, exactly, if you were in squid Games, how long
do you think you would last?

Speaker 5 (20:04):
You know what? They think I'd win it.

Speaker 7 (20:06):
I'm pretty sure I know what he's doing if I
keep saying. I saw videos on Instagram after like about
like if it would be like in America kind of
what the games would be, and like I was like, hey,
if that's those games, I'm gonna win it.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
That's for sure.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
I'm not dying here.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
So yeah, I think I would have a pretty good
chance here.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Okay, I appreciate that. Have you seen have you guys
seen Beast games?

Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yeah? Yeah, I love it games.

Speaker 6 (20:33):
Yeah, that one coded. It's very game, yes, but.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
It's way harder because you need luck doing that one.

Speaker 6 (20:42):
But it's also about like networking with the right person.
If you network with the wrong person.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
You're done.

Speaker 6 (20:47):
You're done exactly. You don't know until you get to
that spot.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
And that that's when you see like the people like
real identity because he gives money away, and he gives
a lot of money away.

Speaker 6 (20:56):
So they had a Lamborghini on the last episode and
they had there was trains involved. Like that's all I
want to say. But there was a little Bborghini with
a train and.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
I'm assuming the trains smash. You have to make some choices.
You'll see, you'll see check it out to see do.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
You have any music requests for us during warm ups
or during the game, anything you want to hear.

Speaker 7 (21:16):
I love house music, Okay, house music.

Speaker 5 (21:20):
Hey, I'm I'm really on it right now.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Okay. Yeah, was here when we're not here.

Speaker 5 (21:30):
I would I would have went, that's for sure. I
love ouse music.

Speaker 7 (21:34):
I love there's one No Bad Vibes by jay Z
is really good. I got everyone knows that one now,
moved by Adam Port, Addicted by Zerb. I'll start with
those threes. But like I, I love like good house music.

(21:55):
That's because of.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
We got drafted this year bye.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
And then he's he's an okay, big guy, like okay,
and he's he loves music really big, and then he
loves us music and then he got me into it
this summer, and then since then I just keep listening
to it.

Speaker 5 (22:11):
It's really good.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Yeah, okay, good to know we're gonna pull some strings.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah yeah like that like that?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Well, Map, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you guys,
really appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Yeah, just real quick, is that what the boys call you?
Is that your hockey name math?

Speaker 7 (22:23):
Yeah, there's mav lamar uh and solid. Like people call
me lover because my last name in French means the lover.
Oh yeah, so it really does, so it depends so
like yeah, so it's mostly Mav Lamur or the lover
they call me up there.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
So it's a pretty good cool thing, pretty good good thing.
My last name is that. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, that is very cool, fantastic. Well Mav again, thanks
so much for joining us. Really great talking to you,
and uh, I'll get you to your table and you
get some singers just that bick now joining us. Number sixteen,
Ryan McGregor. Ryan, first off, happy birthday your birthday today,
Ben McCartney told me when we got in the building today,
So happy birthday. Any plans after this or tonight or
this weekend perhaps, Uh?

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Yeah, no, I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm not sure. I know. Uh,
Bogo's wife might be making a cake or getting a
cake or something, so yeah, we'll hopefully eat some cake.

Speaker 6 (23:15):
How old are you today?

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Twenty six?

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (23:18):
Yeah, and you've been with us for five years my
seasons already. Like that's amazing that I did not realize
that you were just a teeny tiny baby when you
first scheme of board with us. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
How's the uh you know, how's it been this season
for you again, as Kim just said, your fifth year,
you're rooming with Dougie again, and just what's the process
has been like for your number five with Tucson.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, it's been good. I mean obviously a lot of
familiarity here and with the coaching staff and you know,
just everyone that's around you guys. So it's kind of
it's been easy just to get back into it and uh,
you know, always happy to be in Tucson and uh,
it's it's a great spot.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
You know, I think a big role in you know
we've had the last two years is death right, and
you've done a great job when you've been called to
action and now you're you're playing on a game per
game basis. And when I've been talking to see popin
about just our depth of the team, one thing you
said for you is you know your role for the
team and you know you're you're really confident going in
to the building every single day and just yeah, what
what has that been like for you?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Just kind of.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Waiting for your opportunity to you know, show your skill
set for the road Runners.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah, I mean we've had we have a good team
this year, so you know, it's not always easy to
get in the lineup, but you know, I just want
to help us win when I can, you know, do
my job defensively on the p K and stuff and
win some face offs and you know, just try and
help us win.

Speaker 6 (24:38):
Every time we'll talk to you, you were very you
were very composed, You are very self spoken. But you
have heard, we have heard from so many different people
that you're the funniest guy on the team. So what's
up with that?

Speaker 4 (24:52):
Yeah, I don't I don't know. I will say I
am pretty loud.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
That's what we start. Parker talks about it.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Okay, if you ask these guys, they they'll say, I
never shut up. So yeah, I don't know. I uh,
I guess just on the radio and stuff, I like
to try and keep it keep it cool.

Speaker 6 (25:10):
Is it is it like almost like a mask, like
because when you're on the ice too, you're kind of
a different person then and everybody seems to be right.
So is it is it a mask you develop over time?

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (25:20):
I don't know. I just uh, when I'm on the ice,
I've never really talked the ton I don't know. I
just always it's never really been something that I've been.
I just kind of go out there, do my do
my bang and try and play hard and uh, you know,
let let my game do the talking. So yeah, I
mean I will I will say I am pretty outgoing

(25:41):
when I'm when I'm with people that you know, I'm
comfortable with and that I know well and stuff. So
I'm sure you guys see around the rink every now
and then, but uh, yeah, no, it's uh, I guess
maybe a little bit of a mask.

Speaker 9 (25:53):
Yeah, tell us what it's like living at kassa dougie
greggy like is you guys seem like you gotta out
of energy, but and you compliment each other, so well,
what's what's like the normal vibe, like what's going on
at your house on the.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Day to day? And Josh was living with you guys
right at one point and the dog Yeah, and the
dog the dog with you too.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
Hank is with Montana right now. He's and his girlfriend.
So yeah, we've been missing him around here. I'm not
sure exactly what the plan is for that, right, but no.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
Justice for you guys to get Hank visits.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it was awesome having don't
relive with us. He was welcomed edition, And I mean
me and doug just kind of hang out. We're really close,
and it's always nice when you feel like you have
like a brother at your house as opposed to, you know,
a roommate. So you know, we kind of both do
whatever we want. We're not worried about getting in the
other guy's way or anything. And I mean we spend

(26:51):
almost the entire day together. So yeah, it's it's fun.
You know. We we live at the same complex as
a bunch of other guys too.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
So are you in the same places Maverick and Aku.

Speaker 4 (27:02):
And no, it's like Bear Pogo.

Speaker 6 (27:05):
Oh, the older guys, the more quiet.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Yeah, the quiet area that's too chaotic.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:13):
Yeah, So tell us getting back to Dougie, how did
you guys first become friends and then like how did
you just realize that that that worked for you guys?

Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (27:23):
So he uh, Liam Kirk was my roof date Dougie's
first year hair and he ended up going home to
Europe and Dougie kind of got traded around the same
time and me and Dougie, he's from about like fifteen
minutes for me back home, so we had a ton
of like mutual friends and stuff, and we didn't know
each other, but we we knew of each other, and
we knew a bunch of the same people, so, you know,

(27:46):
I just kind of he was a he was a
lost puppy and I kind of just come into my
home and that's kid. Yeah, I was. I was happy
to have him.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
Do you stay in touch with Liam Kirk at all?

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah? He texted me today. Actually he's playing in out Berlin.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
Oh my gosh, holy Con.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
He's having a great year too. Yeah, Yeah, he's doing well.

Speaker 6 (28:06):
I love to talking to him. He was British or
he still is. Yeahs British and I think he was
the first player from the UK to get to get
drafted into the NHL, so it was a big deal
when he came here. Yeah, he was awesome.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, he's a great guy.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
How cool is it to like kind of make connections
with you know, players you played in the past, and
players you meet eventually meet and then you kind of
switch teams and then eventually you find each other on
the same team again, and it's like you don't think
of it much as like maybe a community within the
players as well, and just what's that like?

Speaker 2 (28:35):
You know, staying in touch with.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Past guys and being on teams with them again or
just staying in touch for the future.

Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yeah, it's always really cool. I know, like cam Denene,
for example, we were really close and we played together
in junior and then when I signed with the Coyotes,
you know, he texted me and was like awesome, whatever,
and the next year we were living together again. So
it's kind of like you don't really know the next
time you're going to see him, but that bond's always
still there, and you know it's an I'm in his

(29:00):
wedding party this summer, so I'm gonna ge to see
him again there, and uh yeah, it's uh, it's always
cool the people you meet, the relationships you make, and
uh yeah, it's a it's a great lifestyle.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
And I think what's so awesome about this league too,
is you know the team changes so much every year, right,
Like we still have our core guys, but then have
the new additions of the the younger guys, the vets
and uh, you know, everyone just coming together for the team.
And what's the locker room been like for this season
and kind of seasons compared to seasons past.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
Yeah, we've had a We've had a great locker room,
to be honest, We've really always had pretty good locker
rooms here. You know a lot of the core guys
kind of stick around and lead in a way, and
you know, try and help the younger guys. And uh,
obviously the vets come in with uh, you know, other
other experiences and stuff, and you know, they they kind
of meld into our our relationships and and all that stuff,

(29:49):
and it's, uh, it's good just to you know, have
a good mix of everything. And uh, yeah, the locker
room's been great.

Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Now that you've been in the league for a bit too,
and again fifty year as a roadrunner, how do you
lead sometimes, you know the younger guys in the locker
room and try to set some examples for them as well.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Yeah, I'm you know, I kind of just come in,
do my thing, try and be a good pro. And
I like to say I'm pretty positive for the most part.
So around the room, you know, we're losing and stuff.
I always try and keep the guys upbeat and going
and keep us on the right track. You know, right
now we're in a bit of a slide, and you know,
just try and stay positive. And you know, we know

(30:28):
we're gonna work away out of it. So yeah, that's
kind of.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
My thing, committing away from hockey a little bit. And
I hate to keep bringing Curtis up, but are you
going to be doing mullets for March with him this year? I?

Speaker 4 (30:39):
Oh, that was good last year. I'm yes, I would
say like ninety percent. I know he is for sure.

Speaker 6 (30:46):
Okay, yeah, you did a good job. You didn't do
it last year, right, but you did this season before.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
I yeah, I think we've only done it once. I
don't know if it was last year, the year before.

Speaker 6 (30:58):
Yeah, I think it was the year before. Yeah, I
can't remember. But because he decided yet, who is gonna benefit?

Speaker 4 (31:04):
It always goes to the s A m H. It's
like the Canadian Mental Health Oh that's right Association. So
that's uh, that's his charity of choice. And there's a
very good chance with him this year.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Okay, that's very cool. Do you watch television?

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (31:21):
Do you watch Netflix? Did you watch Squid Games?

Speaker 3 (31:24):
We did watchings. I haven't seen it yet. I'm like
a only person in the word hasn't seen good We
Did you like season two?

Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (31:32):
I love the season.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
It was so good, right, Like it took a minute
to get to the game, but it was so good. Okay,
go ahead, what are we gonna say?

Speaker 4 (31:39):
I can't agree more. Me and Doug were watching that
together and we were disappointed when it was over.

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Yeah, yeah, I gotta get it. I gotta get on it.

Speaker 6 (31:47):
Yes you do, Yes, you do it. Okay. So if
you're on squid Games, how far do you think that
you could get?

Speaker 4 (31:54):
I don't know some of those Some of those games
are a little tricky and not games I'm familiar with.
But I think i'd be able to get I could
get past the first game, I know that.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
After that. After that there's some interesting stuff. But i'd
do my best.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
Yeah, okay, all right, I was just kids. I asked
you about Zombie Apocalypse last time, so I thought i'd
ask you about that this time. If you had an
extra hour every day, what would you do with it?

Speaker 4 (32:21):
That's a good question, extra hour. I'd probably spend another
hour on the couch with Doug keep saying, Now, what would.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
You be watching? Do you have like a do you
have like a comfort show that you guys watched together?

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Now we watch a lot of YouTube actually we both are.
We both played the guitar a little bit, and we
both we both love watching like live performances and stuff.
So we'll watch like these tiny desk concerts all.

Speaker 6 (32:50):
The times concerts, So we watch what's that. It's an NPR,
it's a tiny disc, it's a concert at a tiny desk.
It's exactly what it was.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Okay, it's very like live and everything's acoustic.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
And yeah, but it's like the vibes and pure Tender
Death concert are so so good and you get to
see like the artists like as they really are, like
totally stripped down. It's so good.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
That's cool.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah, you can tell who's good and who's.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yes, that's an autotune happening. So what what app are
you seeing the most on your phone right now?

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Uh? Instagram probably, I don't post. They just love just stocking.

Speaker 6 (33:30):
Yeah, what does your what does your fop look like?

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Mostly I don't know, it's a lot of hockey stuff.
I would say, mostly hockey stuff. Yeah, I mean just
like other leagues and European leagues and fights and I
don't know, that's just that's what that's what it gives me.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
Okay, all right, I was just curious.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
That's too bad. Cameron Hubig recently name to the All
Star roster. I mean, a guy who's worked so hard
to get to this point and having a career year
from soup And I asked Maverick this earlier because he's
also been on the show too, And what's just that
like for you guys in the locker room? Just to
see him have this great accomplishment.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Yeah, I mean, I can't even explain to you guys
how how happy I was when I heard that, and
just the year he's been having. I mean, he's he's
one of the best guys I've ever met. And you know,
he comes in, does his does the same thing every day.
I could tell you any any time of the day
where he's going to be, and he's such a good
pro And just to see him have a bit of
a breakout here, I mean, you know, everybody probably saw

(34:33):
it coming a little bit, but he's, uh, he's such
a good player and to see him recognize like that
around the league is awesome.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
I think the best part was, I think it was
our first practice since his All Star being named and
he was the last one on the ice, and I'm like,
that's that's prime example of Cameron e BG.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
Yeah, he's he's always always doing the same thing. He's
such a routine oriented guy, and you know he's just
he's I love seen his face every day. So I
don't tell him. I told you, don't ever tell him.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
We won't.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
I like nobody will around.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Just between us, we'll.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Keep it to ourselves.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
Do you want to hear a joke?

Speaker 4 (35:12):
Sure?

Speaker 6 (35:13):
Okay, ready, Why can't dinosaurs clap their hands? I don't know,
because they're extinct? Ryan straight?

Speaker 8 (35:23):
What?

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Because? Really?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Oh that was too straight to the point.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
I was going some type of tracks.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
Yeah, t wreck, it was not it was not. It
was really dark, so sorry about that. It was really dark.
Dinosaurs are no longer here.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
I don't make a fun of all the Dinosaurs's.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
Next your road room, lad? Or do you get a
break from him? Oh my god, that's a lot. Do
you go sit next to each other on the bus too? U?

Speaker 4 (35:48):
Yeah? Yeah, and sometimes we sit together actually moving.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
Next to each other.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
Well that's a very specific choice to make on the bus.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Yeah, yeah, it's uh, we always have with guys going
up and down and stuff or bus situation. He's splits up,
so not everybody wants to double up, so sometimes we'll
take one for the team and double up together.

Speaker 6 (36:05):
Do you have your spot on? Are you on the
left or the right? Hands?

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Usually the left?

Speaker 6 (36:09):
Okay, all right? And then what are you guys doing
during especially like the longer what are you guys?

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Sorry, we play a lot of cards, just I would
say cards or like usually or snarps and seven up
seven downs the main one we play. It's I think
it's it's a pretty hockey game, like it's not. I
haven't really heard of it many other places. But if
you go to any team in this league or any

(36:35):
of the other leagues, I'm sure they would all play
it too. But yeah, no, it's uh, it's fun. Usually
later in the bus trip, if it's like a six
hour bustle, pull out the iPad and watch a movie
or something. But for the first little bit, for sure,
we'll play cards.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
And we have the Gem Show trip coming up.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
You know, is there just any kind of mental prep
for that, just knowing that it's kind of the longest
stretch away from home of the season.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, it's a long trip obviously. You know, we've had
a good stand here at home just able to you know,
kind of get our feet under us and and hang
out a little bit and we'll have the break there
and then you know, all systems go on the road,
and you know, sometimes they can be a nice playing
on the road, just not as much pressure and you
go in there and you just do your thing, and

(37:20):
you know, I think we've been pretty decent on the
road this year, and you know, look to continue that.

Speaker 6 (37:27):
Are you a nap guy? Are you a game day
and nap guy?

Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (37:30):
You are? Okay, how we just talked to Maverick Glamor Room. Yeah,
I can't say it. Sometimes it takes three hour nap
on game days. Yeah. What are you looking at on
a game day for a nap time?

Speaker 4 (37:41):
That's what that's successive for sure.

Speaker 6 (37:43):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought too.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
But I mean it depends, like sometimes on a I
think scientifically what I've heard at least is you're supposed
to either nap like under thirty minutes or over for
you aroun hour and a half. Yeah, So usually I
try and stick with that. And like sometimes on the
on the end of a back to back, like if
we play Friday Saturday, the Saturday, I'll sometimes sleep like

(38:05):
an hour and a half, but usually I sleep like
thirty minutes.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
Yeah, that's so it's healthy. Yeah, that's super super healthy.
That's what I've heard. More than thirty minutes.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
It's just hard to sleep after if you after the game,
if you sleep for see.

Speaker 6 (38:17):
That's what I was saying that it's it's hard to
get back into a good rhythm like your life sleeping
for three hours in the middle of the day. How
do you how do you take care of your mental health?
I know you try to. You talked about trying, you know,
to be a positive person, but what does that look
like for you?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Yeah, I mean, obviously, just surround yourself with people who
are you know, like minded. And fortunately we have a
lot of guys like that here. And you know, Doug's
obviously you know his charity and stuff, and he's he's
big on that stuff, and he's really good at helping
me out with that stuff. And when it gets you know,
when times are tough, you know, he's always there for me.

(38:53):
Everybody in the room's always there for me. So I
think a lot of guys you would say it's kind
of like a family, and you know, everybody as each
other's back. So it's it's pretty easy to you know,
keep yourself even keel and you know, make sure you're
feeling right.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
Can I ask more questions? Do we have more time?

Speaker 5 (39:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
We got yeah, a few more minutes. Okay, yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (39:12):
Okay. So I asked j just do in this question
because the interns turned to me one day and said
that they think that Peter Deliberatory looks like a Disney prince,
which was interesting. So it just like opened up this
whole conversation about Disney prince to this, If you were
a Disney prince, which one do you think would match

(39:33):
your vibe most closely?

Speaker 4 (39:36):
I'm not entirely familiar with many, Like I'm trying to
think that's okay, I'm trying to think of who. I
don't even know where I would start on that, Like
Who's do you have an answer? For you yourself or
for me?

Speaker 6 (39:52):
There's I don't know. For myself, I don't know the answer.
There's not a lot of Hispanic Disney princess fair enough,
but for you okay. So Donor said that his Disney
prince would be what was his name, Christoph Frozen, and
we thought that that was really, really amazingly accurate.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Is he the bad guy?

Speaker 2 (40:18):
He's technically not Prince in the movie.

Speaker 6 (40:19):
It was that you thought that Donor would.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Make himself that I've seen that movie before.

Speaker 6 (40:24):
But what about Little about Beast from Beauty and the
Beast because of the hair, that.

Speaker 4 (40:30):
Was the first one that came to mind, But that
was also probably the only one that I was thinking of.
So that I think he's a pretty good guy, I know. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
take that. I can.

Speaker 6 (40:41):
Yeah, he's he's somewhat problematic at the beginning, and then
and then it all works out really well and yes, yes,
exactly right.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Well are we all good? You got any more things?
I did?

Speaker 6 (40:53):
I have one more and I can't find it. I'm
trying to find it. What's your favorite thing about play hockey?
And you can't say the boys? Don't say the boy.

Speaker 5 (41:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
I would say, uh, it's kind of saying the boys,
but just like, no, just like being around the room
and going out for dinners with guys and and being
a part of like, uh you know, some like a
second family is kind of cool to me. So that's
probably it.

Speaker 6 (41:18):
All right? That was cheating, But where are you all
going for dinner. Where's your spot in town? You've been
here for five season? Now if you seasons, what's what's
your jam?

Speaker 4 (41:27):
I got a couple of spots that I like. I
like Dominic's up North.

Speaker 6 (41:31):
It's uh is it Italian?

Speaker 4 (41:32):
I mean it is Italian? Okay, I go there for
pregame every now and then. Uh, North Italian is good.
I like Riley's Downtown.

Speaker 6 (41:41):
Is so good. They're spaghetti Bolinnings.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yeah, it is so so good. I forget what's uh?
I get this RIGATONI it's great.

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Yeah, because they make older pasta in house. Have you
ever been underneath to the top the.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Tough Let Club. I'm glad to check this place out.
So this sounds awesome.

Speaker 6 (41:57):
It was a mortuary till not too long ago.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
It's a mortuary.

Speaker 6 (42:01):
It's it's where to go when you die, and then
everybody can oh is a dead body? No, Mark's different
mortuaries where people come to celebrate your life and they
see in the coffin kind of place.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
Got it?

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a good spot.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
That was a good spot.

Speaker 6 (42:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Well, Ryan, thanks so much for joining us again. Man,
I always appreciate it, and yeah, just go go out
the rest of away and happy birthday, birthday, closing out
our season ticket member signing the special and uh why not?

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Ryan Lathman is now on the show. We had Ryan
on the show, gosh, like near the beginning of the season.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Game ops manager runs everything game ops and event manager
running not according to microd energy.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Yeah that's my bad.

Speaker 4 (42:44):
Heard.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, Ryan running everything in the entertainment side of the
arena setting a lot of this up as well.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Uh, you know with every fan engagement and Ryan, how's
it going, man, it's going good.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
I'm still waiting for the first season ticket member to
ask for my autograph.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Stow waiting, still waiting.

Speaker 8 (43:04):
I know that they're not going to hear it now,
but I am around and available.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
We have a pen, You have a pen, but I
can get a sure. See.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
It's tough for me because I've never had to like
sign anything before ever in my life for it until
I started working in this job. And I don't have
the best signature. You never had a sign credit for
Oh I'm sorry, I mean, like you ever have a
check book, say stuff for signy stuff for fans. I'm like,
I don't know, Like I want to make it look nice,
but all I do is kind of just put a

(43:32):
j and some scribbles and that's it.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
That's my site.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
That's all you need.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
That's all you need.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
Brian, We're halfway through the season. How's everything going. It's it.
This is a this is an intense season. Some big
we have some big games where you have a lot
to do, like Wizards and Witches and Star Wars Night,
and then some very random weekday games.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Oh gosh, yeah, the weekday games.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
Oh they are they easier to manage the weekday games then?
Or they are they it's.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Something here to plan.

Speaker 8 (44:03):
But when it comes to actually like directing a game,
I feel like each game kind of demands like a
certain level that you have to hit. It's not like
you can really just kind of mail it in for
Tuesday Wednesday. But they're definitely easier to plan because it's
not there's less stuff to coordinate, you know. It's like

(44:24):
most times it's just a soloist anthem singer. I don't
have to worry about twenty five kids going out there.
And then yeah, like again, when it comes into like
the planning, I don't have to like plan on the
media days to kind of do something special, to film
with the players, for.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
That theme night.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
It's like I don't have to I guess it's like
you don't really have to come up with new ideas,
you know, to try to make it entertaining.

Speaker 2 (44:49):
Still, what's your favorite part of the job, She's been
asking everybody that.

Speaker 8 (44:56):
I would honestly say, like having the creativity to make
those special video Yeah, for the theme nights. Like you know,
me and Johnny were just at the arena today, film
and stuff with the players was good. Yeah, it's it's
definitely busy, and you know, you have to plan ahead
and really like come up with ideas that make sense

(45:18):
because you know, you guys know that I can film
whatever I want, but it still has to make sense
to run it in the game. It has to be
entertaining or funny or interactive or ideally like all of
the above. So that is kind of what I enjoy,
is having that that creativity, and then you know, I
enjoy directing the games too. You know, like at the

(45:41):
end of the day, you're at a hockey game, which is.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, we get paid to be a hockey game.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
And usually we get the information about what's going on
before anybody else does, right, Like yeah, yeah, and you
have such a birds that you both actually have such
a bird's eye view of everything else happening.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
You work at literally opposite sides.

Speaker 8 (46:00):
Yeah, we were sometimes we were avalking about Yeah, well
I was loading in videos on like.

Speaker 2 (46:05):
The Monday Game, I think, and I messaged on you.
I was like, are you in the press box And
I was like it.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
Was like, I was like, I was like, wave at
meut Ran.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
I love for here O Ran. Thanks for joining us
on our last little segment here. This has been the
season take a members Signing Day special of the Roadwards
Happy Hour show. We will see you next week after
the All Star break. This has been Roadrunners happier. Take
care everybody and have a great night.