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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something went on here, something on there. And this time
on t N t Our, first ever deliberate two parter,
Jonathan goes to Edmonton for an Oilers game and then
I debrief afterwards. It's all coming up right now on
tn t after game two body Oilers are down too.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, I'm gonna tell you something.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
What's going on? What are your feelings? I am pretty calm,
I'm not rash, I'm not reckless.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
But I did something that I've never done before in
my life. What's that?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
After Game six against Dallas, I went on the internet,
Like I knew they were in the Stanley Cup. I
went on the I thought, I wonder, out of curiosity,
just algorithm wise, how fast do ticket prices for something
like I'm going to go to Edmonton go through the roof?
And because it was thirty seconds after they won, there

(01:13):
was a.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Cheap ticket, so I bought it. Come on, and then I.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Thought the same thing about airbnbs. What happens with airbnbs.
I wonder they're going to go through the roof surely
because the world is going to descend on Edmonton. I
wonder if I, out of curiosity, was to book one
right now, if it would be crazy. It was not,
so I booked it. Then I went on the stub Hub. Okay,
sorry sorry. Was this for the that game, that game two?

(01:38):
Or was this for like games a game later down
the road? This is for game three in Edmonton tomorrow,
to which I am going.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, I love how it just turns into that.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
So this will come out after the game sadly talk
about it now. But I looked at individual tickets for
the game because it's a lot of cake to ask
a friend to spend.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
They're my team. Every year.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
I say, they get to round two, i'm gonna go.
If they get to round three, I'm going to go.
I've run out of excuses. Sure, okay, so this is
the time. You have the time, I have the time,
and Carol, being a wonderful partners, like I think you
should do it. I'm like, I don't know. It feels
fundamentally selfish. I would always choose to be with them.
I'm choosing to do something that takes me away from them.

(02:29):
But that is really kind of exciting. So I was
looking at individual tickets on stub Hub to the game,
and because it was the morning after, they hadn't gone.
Don't get me wrong. It is extravagant and ridiculous, but
it's not like a Chrysler Lemon's.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Did you throw a line out to any of the
bods over there at the Oilers World?

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, this is what I wanted to do, is cover myself. Yeah,
and make sure I was covered because I imagine the
ask for Frankie, for example, who's one of our buds there,
who's awesome?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
And I hope to see them all.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
I'm gonna do Tom Gozola's show on Game Day.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I'm going to see my figured Gadzick. Wouldn't wouldn't be
able to maybe help you out?

Speaker 2 (03:22):
You never know? Well, I to know.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
This is the difference between us. I think you travel
in a world where you get discount car parts and
free barbecues, and I kind of pay my own way.
And then people will say you should have asked, and
I'm like, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I didn't want to bother you.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Okay, which is by the way, that's that's not a
diss or a criticism. I know that you came up
in a world where you had something of value, like yeah,
I'll put you on the list. You guys come to
the show, no problem. I can get you in come backstage.
I've never had anything to barter really because no one's like, yeah,
can I come watch Street Sense tape?

Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I know I.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Feel like you could. You could definitely wheeld that world
more though I think so.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
In fairness, Frankie, who's awesome and has is a button
has done last for us, said I can maybe help
with your ticket.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Uh, let me know.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I had already bought one. So I was also thinking,
by the way, the whole way up until today, I
could still cancel the flight in airbnb. Airbnb would be
stoked if I canceled, because they could rent it for
four times as much, and I could probably flip my
ticket for I don't know, dinner for ten at the keg, yeah,

(04:39):
and like that it used the profit for that, yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It's gone nuts.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
But the only the only thing that was uh sort
of a wrestling match was if I'm going to go,
I don't want to be three rows from the top
in the upper bowl where people are hauling out their
nords throwing blows at each other.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I want to see it.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
So so I ponied up for the lower bowl, which
was I think three or four hundred bucks more than
the upper bowl.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
I know it's it's insane.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
But also, if you're gonna do it, you want you
let's like you got. It's like when you take a chance,
or if you're gonna go on a trip, like there's
no point in waiting in line at the theme park. Like,
if you're gonna do it, do it.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
The fast beast.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
We were having this conversation this morning and we used
some Avian points to book a holiday perfect there you go,
and we used more than we wanted to to book
a place that was really nice. And Carol's like, you
could spend let's say, eighty thousand points and have a
terrible time, or you spend one hundred and ten and

(05:48):
have a great time. If you spend eighty and it's terrible,
you still lose the eighty thousand points, So you're not
you're not really gaining anything. It's it's the memory that
you'll have. So I don't imagine I'll get to the
end and wish I'd gone to less Stanley Cup.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Games that my team was in. But it just feels very.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
It's far to go, it's not inexpensive, but also I'm
just fighting the guilt and just trying to surrender to
the I'm pumped. It's gonna be awesome.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
And it's I've been to like playoff games before in
baseball and hockey and other sports, but to be close
to the field on any of those is so much
more exciting and cool when you're at like a I was,
for example, I think I was at not the bat
flip Bautista Jay's game, but one of those when I

(06:46):
think when in car Nacion hit the home run to
win the game that one, and I was up in
the in a box, and just to be there to
hear the volume is one thing, but I you know,
it'd be so much cooler to be close to the
to the actual field so you can see the reaction
on the players a little more. It's cool to be there,
for sure, but it really makes a difference if you're

(07:08):
closer to the actual field and see the players going mad.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, let's let's be clear. I think I'm still twenty
rows up, and I know I'm not saying I'm kind of.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
No, but there's a big difference between the top and
even the middle. Yes, So what I'm excited for is
obviously I'm going by myself, which which is kind of odd.
But also kind of I'll be nimble and I can
do the things I want to do, Like I don't
want to drag someone who's not a fan of the
team with me.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
I just kind of want to go buy some merch
and listen to a band called Our Lady Piece is
playing before the concert.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Are they?

Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (07:50):
Oh y a, they just announced it.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Our Lady Piece is playing outside before game three and
Shanaia played outside before Game four.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Perfect. So yeah, if you need tickets for that, I
could probably hope you up.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, there you go. Well you have before yeah to
remember rain Spotting.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah. Yeah, maybe I'll have another one on the this weekend. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Incredible.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
So I'm only going to Game three, which is Wednesday night.
I'm hoping despite the fact that we're down two games,
the atmosphere.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Will be incredible. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I think that the town is gonna be pumped. I'm
gonna see our bud Tom Gazola. I'm gonna do his show.
My friend Alice Moran, who's a comedian from Toronto. We're
gonna have lunch together.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
It's gonna be constant, like gonna be like some you know,
like fifty cent coming in for meetings in the yark Yeah,
well like every hour or somebody else.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Hopefully I'll get to see Frankie, although I'm sure they're
insanely busy. And same with Kyle bukowskis Bud Yeah, and
just a phenomenal broadcaster man, people under absolutely great.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
To have someone in your ear talking to you while
you're interviewing Charles Barkley and trying to keep the train
on the tracks there and get it to time and
throw it back like yeah, man, he's good and likable.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
That's the thing he throws out at ease when he's
talking to people. That's very hard. That's so hard to do.
Everyone's nervous, and he takes that away. That's a great
skill here for sure. Yes, Like the volume in there
is going to be bananas.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yeah, so the.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hockey itself part, Like, so I get there late Wednesday
night because I didn't want to travel in game day,
So I get there late Wednesday night. Thursday is going
to be fun kind of bombing around and then the
games Thursday night, and I think my flight is I
don't know, six am Friday, Like it'll feel like a
fever dream.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah. Well, once in a lifetime. Man. Wow, so I'll
be rolling around.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
In my oilers Jersey with eighteen thousand friends that I've
never met before, flying solo.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
So cool. It'll be great.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
It'll be great reporting back and hearing something. There will
be lots. I'm sure there's gonna be all kinds of stuff.
You have to check off the list of of all
the people.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
That you ran into.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Well, we should also consider, I guess it could be
the next episode, but we could consider part two of
this episode is on Friday, after I get home.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
That's true, we could do that after. That's not a
bad idea. Actually we should do that because I think it. Yeah,
we will do that.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Actually, they obviously need to win, Yes, that is evident.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
This is a must win game to get the momentum.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh here's the thing, though, you have you watched the
first couple of games or kind of highlights or.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
You watch that.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Well, I just kind of I watched them, and I
got disappointed in both of them and ended up like
turning it off after a bit and going back and
then get more mad, you know that feeling.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I had a.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Couple probably, Yeah, I watched a couple periods of both.
Though I feel like Leon dry title must be very hurt.
He's not playing up to his usual snuffing. Obviously, they
can't say during the series. They have to wait till
it's over and say, by the way, he was playing

(11:16):
with a broken hip or whatever. I think Darnell's obviously hurt.
Day heartening. I think everyone's banged up, I know, but
then you'll find out that half the you know, the
Panthers are banged up too, right, like, yeah, they've been
doing that for three years now, where they're just like man,
they come up at the end and they're just so

(11:36):
strong and they're probably taping bones together at this point.
But it's really it's all about Bevrovsky being such a
pain in the ass. Yes, wow, just I don't even
like it. The harder it gets, the battery gets, and
that to me is like it's the all time like
where did this guy come from? With you know again

(11:59):
again and again and again, but now he's like turning
into trets yak for crying out loud.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, we ran into a hot goalie, which you need
to win. Everybody says that you need two things to win.
One is a hot goalie, which they have and which
we have half the time.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's the thing. Like it you're hoping it can't last forever.
At some point, it's just they're gonna open the flood
gates and it's gonna be like seven to two. Yeah,
that's what I'm hoping will happen, because you can't just
keep doing that forever and ever.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Great if tomorrow night, even even if that's it, even
if tomorrow night they just open up and let her rip.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, that's the thing in these these it's uh, it's
all confidence and if they can turn it the other
way and realize who they are. Right now, they're looking
in the mirror and they're seeing like a three D
like a you know, like when you go to a
theme park and a guy Create Rights does the animation
character of you. Yeah, that's what they're seeing in the

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role they look right now. They got to get it
together and realize who they are.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
But I think ironically, especially in game one, when the
shots were like forty for us and ten for them
or something, it's like goal on the first shot, yeah,
first on the second period went in ouch.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
But by and large I think Connor is playing better than.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
He ever has. I know, that's the thing. So dominant,
it's stupid.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's what what makes the series so good. Like it's
like that first game, it seemed like Edmonton was the
better team and yet they somehow lost. That's why you know,
everybody goes to the Bobby Bobby McGee between the pipes
because he seemed to be the only reason that they

(13:53):
didn't win the first game. Yeah, so that's why it's like, yeah,
just it's it doesn't make sense, but it does if
you look at where the Florida has come and all
the teams that they beat, and it's like, ah, that
kind of kind of makes sense because they have seemingly
more determination than anybody.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Well so hawg all is one thing you need and
the second thing you need. And everybody says this is
a mean streak. Yeah, like they are just when you
think they they'll retreat, they just are lashing out like
even crazier.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Like it seems like if you look back, it's like,
what were they doing? Was that extra? And they all
like start just hoofing each other in the nuts and
after they like that's what they do during the day
over and over the Hackey sack around and then canders
are hoofing each other in the nuts.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Again, over and.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Over, like half an hour, like those Kung Fu master guys.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
It was interesting the feature that Elliott had with Barkoff
last night, who has the reputation as being the nicest,
nicest guy in the world, and they had to find
a way for him to not be nice. So Paul
Moury said, he's such a team guy. We just changed
the way our team played.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
And you know how I turned their nuts into resin.
Let's go boys, Let's get him soft.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm two kissing the nuts away to get it out there.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Well.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Also, our guy Carrick did a nut job on one
of them maps.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, but it was like a more like jig and
mackerel like ram to stick there and like tried to
hook it, give.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
It a ship.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
I gave it right to get it. The illegal fishing
tech like he was he was smelting or something or
like kicked out, kicked out of the bass tournament because
I got him on video doing that, Yeah, jerking it.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Like he was trying to jerk an eel.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
But it was in retaliation and uh dry Citle had
a dumb hit and Bouchard had a couple of penalties
and if you don't listen or watch hockey. You're like,
come on, boys, cha's the subject.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
But it is. It is an interesting nut to crack,
it sure is, but a good nut.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's funny seeing I don't know if you saw the
clip of Gretzky, because it's it's more fun to think
about the eighties oilers, especially if there was like a
snowstorm and they were out all night and still winning.
But Wayne saying like I didn't get nervous before a game.
I got excited. I was like, this is my puck.
You guys get your own.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah. Yeah, he's so banged up in that too.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
He's so banged up in there. He's so banged up in.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
It, but like comfortable banged up. Yeah, like Wayner after
ten o'clock am, no at night, like every night. He's
got that kind of path with him five four or
five times, like a golf tournament here the way Lodge

(17:19):
appears in there, that kind of thing. Only golf tournaments
in that, Yeah, golf tournaments only, I think, no golt
one golf tournaments. And then Saltlake that party, oh yeah,
after the guilt the goal game, what about and all time? Well,

(17:40):
the moose actually gave us an award I think best
Rock Album of the Year or something.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
The Moose at at the Juno, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, and if you look at the video of it,
I'm like, I'm all giddy and like shaking his hand
and like, oh my god, the Moose, the mo But yeah,
just there and then. But yeah, definitely, all counts of
Grets that I saw him, he was definitely buckled every time.
Buckled's a great term. He was buckled.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
He definitely was buckled.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
How many drinks do you think it takes Grets to
get buckled? Oh, twenty maybe twenty five, twelve to get
a jag on, Oh my gosh, fifteen to be clearly
banged up, and then twenty to twenty five to thirty

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just buckled.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Like twenty eight is like you need to shut her down, Bud,
You should probably go, oh yeah, oh yeah, yes.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Twenty eight is like literally just some guys around him
just to make sure he doesn't fall somewhere.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
But he does. He does kind of.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
I mean, let's he is the great one. And maybe
the best thing that he ever ever did is a
bit was his ability to crush beverages. In terms of greatness,
I don't know where the great lies who like which.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Have you ever seen that is like that guy can
go hard.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'd say most of them, because it's just they when
you work out that much and you have the sea
legs of just the fact that the fact that you're
your legs are strong enough to carry you around for
a bit after you don't even know you're awake. You
know what I mean? That thing like when a fighter
works out their legs because they know that it'll last

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them throughout the fight, like right away. If you have
that core fitness, you can probably drink a little bit
more than the average person.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's never occurred to me before.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
And then if you're a drinking well, I mean you
have to. I'm not saying that if someone never drinks.
I'm saying people that have a tendency to drink, if
there have a better fitness, then they they'll probably be
able to drink a little longer just because of that.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
But people that are.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Drinkers, you know, some guy, there's the skinny guy that
never lifted a weight in his life and he can
make you know, drink everybody under the table. There's those
guys too. But I'm just saying overall fitness kind of
keeps keeps you walking. So I've said I've met a

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lot of athletes, and it was generally the guys that
were the biggest that were able to drink the longest.
I'd say probably Brent Cluche. It was never in the NHL,
but a good bud from Petahwahwah. I saw him drink
sixty these cores lights sixty what yeah, over a like

(20:58):
at an overnight at a part in Muskoka and then
and the halfway point. This was actually on Lake Lake
Joseph and no, sorry, yeah, it was Lake Joe and
we're in the bay.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
So if you look across I.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
Don't know, maybe I don't I don't know, one hundred
acres or something that when you look across a bay
or whatever, how far it is like a big stretch
of water. Anyway, He's like, I can make it over
to the other side of that land and come back
here in twenty minutes, he says.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
And he's on the deck of the cottage and I'm like.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
There's no chance, and everyone's like, no way, and he
just jumps in the water and it sounds like someone
turned on an engine because he's like ju ju ju
juju and he's he disappears and he goes out like
he's a boat. I swear to god, he was going
like a small engine boat and he's like, you know,

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a big but he was just going so fast and
he made it back on the deck in like twelve minutes. Yes, yes,
he said. Oh, by the way, I was number two
or three in those in Canada swimming at one point.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
It's like, well that that makes sense. So not only
is he a beast physically size wise and you know,
a grueling, tough guy on hockey, but he can also
swim like an absolute boat.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
So yeah, that guy could crush beers more than anyone
I had ever seen, like probably John Bonham styles.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
And you know what happened to him?

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Yeah, that's so crazy? Sixty beer? Yeah, Like why not
after number fifty eight?

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Are you like? Eh? Probably don't know.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Well, like the first twenty were like just water, I guess.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
But like did he have to pee every six minutes?

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Sure? Absolute like a racehorse behind trees and stuff over houses.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, like you're saying jet could do that. I think
about that a lot. Yeah, And I really want to
understand the science there.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
I know, me too, he can't do it anymore.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Which would just tried.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
While Yeah, well he's mentioned to me like, I can't
do that anymore, almost like a picture that could throw
one hundred and five miles an hour once but now
it doesn't even want to try, can't do it.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Do you think in the Stanley Cup, like in the
eighties Dynasty Islanders Oilers years, do you think they were.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Partying at night?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
They were four one hun and every crazy drug you
could think of and whatever.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Nos.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yes, all those sports teams, the Mets when they were
apparently insane, like Snowstorm, Yeah, everything, Darryl Strawberry, like those guys,
like they said it was, they would just like go
out and it's New York City, so they're they're at
Studio fifty four, you know, like whatever team, And that's

(24:10):
I've met. Hockey players are like they love playing in
Edmonton just because it's so fun, because the atmosphere is
so intense and they go out a lot. So I
don't know what it is about Edmonton, but they people
say it's one of the funnest places to play for
that stuff. But I mean, if you're not into partying

(24:31):
and all that stuff, then you're gonna you know, probably
not enjoy it as much.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Well, I guess in Edmonton they can't party.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
Like that anymore. I don't think obviously. But you know,
you hear stories about people getting into crazy drugs, and
then those are the ones that don't that either. You know,
you see them getting traded off and then disappear. You
can't do that kind of stuff nowadays, But it seems
like in the eighties they were partying no different than

(24:58):
like bands that came in to New York or wherever crazy.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
Like I guess in Edmonton there aren't celebrities from a
whole bunch of different vocations like in New York there
might be a band or actors or famous politicians or whoever.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
So the oilers might be less of a novelty in Manhattan.
But if they're out in Edmonton at earls or whatever
it is, that's huge. I think it might be, yeah,
because in New York nobody cares, right, yeah, But in
Edmonton it's like you're getting passed around like gods in
the club.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
What do you mean passed around?

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Well, people are passing you around like on top of
the crowd, like as if you were walking on like
just like a yeah, just being like served and carried around.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Did people carrying honor getting booze after the wind?

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah, yeah, that that to me was pretty solid. Like
it looked to me like he was just either taking
care of his bros and just kind of but just
being cool. I think that's a great if he's you know,
being a leader and just taking care of his teammates,
or the fact that he was just trying to be
super I don't know, when you're grabbing beers for people,

(26:18):
that just seems like a quality move.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yes, I think so too. I wish they had touched
him less. I know, I get the excitement, but don't
block his way and don't slap his back.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And don't put your arm around him and stuff like.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
I know, you could tell he was just kind of
you could see how uncomfortable he was, because you never
know when people are coming around and being that open, right. Yeah,
But the fact that he was just like, all right,
it's all good, let's chill and let's get these beers
in here and have a good one.

Speaker 3 (26:52):
Like imagine if someone high fived him and they sprained
his thumb and he couldn't play.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, well that that could happen. Anywhere for sure.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I suppose that's true, definitely, So you gotta be careful,
are you, boss?

Speaker 3 (27:04):
It's a lot of hockey talk for the summer, but
are you boys going to keep Marner?

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I don't know, I don't I don't know. I don't
know nothing right now. Like I said, the Leafs we're
so they're kind of close. But I don't know if
it's like personality, you know, an issue with that like
if who you have to move out or move in?
Then this this new coach seems like he's more of

(27:29):
a ethics work type person that doesn't like the Shenanigans
as much. So I don't know that. But the coach,
the best coaches in the world have come to Toronto
and been turned away and embarrassed. So I don't think
a coach fixes anything. But I don't know, man, it's
just such a such a you know, black hole when

(27:54):
you look into what the possibilities are because it's the
Leafs and there's just such an action of of what
they've been continually doing. The Harold Ballard years of like
sucking on purpose kind of just multiplied into having the
best people around and still not winning. Somehow, What was

(28:15):
the strategy there, sucking on purpose like I've been doing
because Harold Ballard. Yeah, Harold Ballard realized that it didn't
matter to win, and he just probably wanted to make
as much money as possible. I don't know how, but
like the season tickets were always sold well in Toronto.
Spend less on salaries for plays. It doesn't matter. And

(28:38):
that's why you had even the best players like Sittler
and all those guys going like what the fuck's going
on here? Man? Like what are you doing? This is
the best team in the whole league, and you're you
get one or two guys and you just so you
can tell that it's like, oh, you know, they can
never be good enough because they would never throw down
for the defense or whatever extra lines that they needed

(29:00):
a hot goalie. And he kind of prided himself in
that that idea of no, we're not going to do this,
this is okay to just kind of limp across the
finish line the fourth or fifth place. I mean, it's
it's kind of genius and ballsy.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
More than you care about anything else.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I don't know how he did it, because look at
you've had other franchises in Great Big cities that just
eventually or it's too difficult to maintain it until they
start winning. You know, you didn't see every single game
from the White Sox or the Cubs like packed. If

(29:47):
they suck, like they sure they go, and it's still
twenty three thousand people and nobody cares because that's still
enough to make tons of cash. That's the other funny
thing about baseball is one hundred and sixty two games
and they only really probably need to sell five thousand
tickets or ten, but they sell fifty, right yeah, And

(30:09):
then they have you know, six games a week or
whatever for so it's like constantly making extra cash. Like
it was so ridiculous. The baseball should be eighty games.
Even eighty games is a lot of games, like they
and what one hundred and sixty two had nothing to

(30:29):
do with like the quality of the game. It's just
like they wanted to make more and more money, so
they just kept crushing it and crushing it. So I
don't know, like that that the idea of like the
amount of games is ridiculous, but sports is is like that,
it's entertainment and people are actually trying to make money

(30:50):
selling seats. So when you start talking about performance and
teams being better. It's hard to do that when you
have that other side of it, especially with the Leafs.
So it's like, when you talk about the Leafs, I
don't think it matters if Marner's here or not. I
think they like, if he's here, then they make fun
of the fact that whatever, he's either goofy or he's different,

(31:15):
or if you keep him and they say he's or
if he goes to another team and wins three Stanley Cups,
it's like castle or whatever. Right, they make fun of
them when they're here, and then they leave and they
win ten times and then it's like, oh, I guess
it's not you know, they weren't so terrible or scoofy
or whatever. Yeah, it's Marner hitting the gritty on his

(31:37):
skates at his wedding in his driveway.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
That's funny.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, well, just uh, they're kids too, right, Like kids
can do be silly as well, like that. People forget
that part. Kids can be cringe and awkward.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
There wouldn't be much less scrutiny if you're playing in.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, no one would know anything. Yeah, no one would
be here in any of that stuff. It's just so
Toronto sucks for that.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Man.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
It's interesting to see that at the Florida Games in Sunrise.
Obviously it's the Stanley Cup, so it's packed. But they
do seem like compared to a few years ago when
I remember when Luongo was playing and there were like
three hundred people at the games.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah, yeah, it does seem like they've gotten behind them.
And that's cool.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Bottom line, you're about to get into the soup and
it's going to be quite a few days.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
I like this part one.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
In part two, yeah, let's I'm psyched to hear the
full on finish.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
All right, is there anything any final words of advice?
Is there anything you want me to do? Is there
anything you want me to know?

Speaker 1 (32:49):
I would like a win, that's all bring us back away. Really,
if you're the ingreen ingredient for that, then that would
be fantastic.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Imagine if suddenly, no, that's that like an eight year
old Oilers Van Jonathan Torren's thinking. Suddenly they're like, you
know what we won when Jonavision was here. We need
them at all the games.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
They need something, they need something, they need something that's
not on the ice.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
I'm gonna bring that secret saucepot. All right, Bud, Okay,
I'll talk to you on the flip flipsy.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Hey Bod, Happy Father's Day, Bod, Happy Father's Day in
your back? What a what a sweet and sour A
couple of days it's been, I guess right since you
went there.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
I'm going to say, universally sweet.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Yeah, Okay, I want to start at the start and
you'll love this story. Okay, it's going to take a minute,
but it's worth it, I think.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
All right.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
I had an experience similar to your Victoria Airbnb experience. Okay, So,
as I talked about last time, I, by the way,
the headline is awesome, trip, life changing, incredible, but got
off to a bit of a rocky start, so I
wanted to leave as late as possible on the day

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I was going, So I left at five o'clock Halifax time,
got there at like ten something Edmonton time, which for
me is kind of one in the morning, getting close
to two.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
So pretty tired, but also just fired up to be there.
Been sitting a long time. So the airbnb was one
of these like send me a message when you get there,
I'll buzz you in. You have a door code in
your Airbnb inbox. You put that on the door. You
walk into the apartment and there are fobs in there.
And the language was once you get the fobs, that's
all you need. You can get in and out as

(34:39):
much as you want.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
So I get there, it's like ten twenty, still kind
of light out in Edmonton, which is wild, and I'm
kind of restless because I've been sitting so much. I
had a couple of rise.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
On the plane and I.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Was staying half a block from Rogers's Place, so I
was like, you know what, I want to walk down
and see the scene of the crime the night before,
like the quiet before the storm, kind of figure out
where I'm going, and the next morning get a vibe.
So I grab the fobs and I leave. And when
I get to Roger's place, I think, oh, man, I
should take a picture. Don't have my phone, no problem.
So I look around and it's pretty quiet, you know,

(35:17):
Tuesday night if the game was on Wednesday, I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Wednesday night and the games on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
So pretty quiet but like kind of peaceful, kind of nice,
really cool to be there. You see the Gretzky statue
outside Rogers Place. Go back to the apartment. Use the
fob to get in the building. Use the fob to
get in the secure door, no problem. Get up to
the apartment. The door I had left unlocked. It has
auto lock, and I thought, oh, okay, it's probably the fob,
so I tap the fob to it.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Nothing happens. I needed the code to get in the
apartment door and on it's on your phone. Correct in
the apartment. So it's not too often that I'm snookerd.
So I think, Okay, here's what I'll do, no problem.
Going to go to a hotel because they're a bunch
in the Ice district, going to ask to use their

(36:04):
business center. Going to log into my Gmail and just
get the code that way, because you know, you get
a Gmail saying you have an Airbnb message.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
And you can find it in your Gmail.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
So yeah, I walk to the JW Marriott. Can I
use your business center? I explained the situation. They're like,
of course, log into my Gmail two factor identification. We're
going to just shoot you a quick code on your phone.
That doesn't work, Okay, I'm going to log into my Airbnb.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
No problem.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
We're going to send you a verification FODE to your Gmail.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yeah, can't get into my Gmail. Your phone log into
my other Gmail. It says, We're going to just shoot
you a quick verification code to your other Gmail, your
backup Gmail. Can't get into that. Okay, here's what I'll do.
I'm going to start a new Arabia account and just
send her a message and say this is what happened.
Can you shoot me the code? So I go to

(36:54):
start a new Airbnb account. By this time, it's like,
you know, eleven fifty eight, twelve post seven four in
the morning for me, So to start a new Airbnb account.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
At this point, you're sweating a little bit right big
time starting.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Yeah, Luckily I had my money clip on me, so
the worst case scenario was dangling out in the horizon
and I knew where it was heat. So I start
a new Airbnb account. It says, we just need a
backup email address. Will just shoot you a verification code
to your backup email address. That doesn't work, no problem.
Do you want us to send it to your phone instead?

(37:32):
That doesn't work either. So it's let's say twelve something
now and I go to the counter of the JW Marriott.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you have any rooms available? Think? Can I pull
a j R.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
State a hotel when we had an airbnb, she says,
we do. They were nine hundred and ninety nine dollars
for the night, the grat Ski price, so I said,
and everything, as you know, when the power goes out,
you're like, well, I'm just gonna have a No I can't.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
I'm just gonna make it enough team. No I can't,
So don't have my phone. I'm like, no problem, I'll
just look to see what other hotels.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
No, I can't.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
And it's like it's the night before the game, like
there's no deals anywhere.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
Well, exactly downtown, across the street from the rink.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
So I go to the Sandman. They were full. I
go to the Delta, no rooms available. Have to go
back to the JW. Marriott with my tail my legs
and say I'll take it. So she says, are you uh?

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Because at this point, I'm just thinking, good night's sleep
in the harsh light a day, I'll be able to
regroup and kind of figure it out. No point in
waking Carol up to see if she can check my
Gmail to see if she can get a thing. I
was thinking, I guess what has to happen? In the
morning is Carol starts in Airbnb account and then sends
her a message. But nothing's gonna happen tonight. So I

(38:54):
say I'll take a room. She says, like two doubles
are a king? Like I don't care. She says, are
you Marriott Rewards member? I say yes. She says, I
have good news for you. It's only nine seventy nine.
So I saved twenty bonds. I had no luggage.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
You just instantly doubled your trip price. Yes, So I
go up to the room. I asked her for a
toothbrush and toothpaste. She's like, would you like a bottle
of water? I'm like, friggin' rights, I would Why not? Yeah,
give me a nine hundred and seventy nine dollar bottle
of water. So in the morning, you know, it's probably

(39:35):
six I wake up. I'm right across the street from
Roger's place. I can see the stage where olp He's
gonna be playing me or hours from now, and our
bude Frankie, as you know, had invited me to the
morning skate. Yeah that's us, which was so awesome, but
I was hoping I didn't have to go in the
clothes I'd flown in without like having to get a
shower or you know, change. So I called Carol at

(39:58):
six in the morning explain situation. The other thing is,
as I'm sure you do.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
Normally I would shoot Carol an email and say I
don't want to wake you up with a text, but
I made it. I'm here save bah blah bah. And
so I was imagining Carol waking up in the morning.
There's no correspondence from me. She can't find me. She
might be texting me. I can't text her back like
that deal. Yeah, So I call her at six in
the morning, Edmonton time and explain the situation. And we're
trying to figure out like, okay, well she has an

(40:23):
Airbnb account, could she log in, send a message whatever.
Then we discover, of course, or she discovered my iPad
was tied to my Gmail, so she could get into
my iPad, find the message, find the code. So then
she calls the hotel back because I can't call her,
like when was the last time you made a call

(40:44):
from your hotel room?

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, so I.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Call her from the room and so she gets a
phone call from JW.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Marriott and Edmonton. She's like what h.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
So she calls back and the person at the desk
is like, we have privacy things, I can't put you through.
And Carol's like, oh, I'm sorry, you don't understand. He's
expecting my call, this is a situation. I have the
code that he's he needs, and they're like, I understand, ma'am,
but it's our hotel policy that we can't put you
through at this hour of the morning. So I'm pacing

(41:18):
the room like a caged animal. And about an hour
and a half later, because I don't want to call
her every ten minutes and go, how's it going any
luck because she's already you know, doing me solid trying
to figure it out. So finally, an hour and a
half later, I call him like is everything okay? And
she said yeah, they wouldn't put me through. So I
learned that the Florida Panthers were also staying in the

(41:41):
same hotel room or same hotel, and I wonder if
it was like a security thing.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
Because imagine, people call can you put me through?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Butbrovsky's room four in the morning, five in the morning,
six in the morning, so they probably just had a
blanket hotel policy not putting anyone through so got the code,
went back to the Airbnb, showered, hit the reset button.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I was just flying.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
So met Frankie Ryan Frankson at the Barn Rogers Place,
and I invited my friend Alice Moran, who's a Second
City alum and big comedy writer and huge Oilers fan.
Grew up kind of in Red Deer, so she and
I met Frankie and the first thing that we did

(42:27):
is go down just as the press conference was coming out.
So if you're a hockey fan and you're swimming upstream
and David Amber, Kyle Bukowskis, James Duthy, Ron McClain, Darren Dragger,
like every hockey personality you could possibly imagine, just a

(42:51):
murderer's row of broadcasters, which.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Gangs in New York style, like just all coming at you. Yeah, yeah,
everybody dressed and ready in there element. I got a
text from doth They saying are you here. I'm like no,
and he's like, I'm like, Torrens is there. He's like yeah,
I just oh funny. Yeah, well I saw Lucistic too,
like Dubois are all there?

Speaker 2 (43:14):
Yeah, yeah, everybody's there.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
Duthee is such a nice man, and yeah, Ron McClain too, Like,
as you probably know, the game was Thursday and the
Panthers flew in.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Was it Wednesday night? No, must have been late Tuesday night.
No games Thursday night. They flew in late Wednesday night, right,
because that's when I stayed at the JW.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Marriott.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
So there's a lot of question as to whether did
they blow it because they ran into weather and was
it going to prove to be a problem for them
because they'd be exhausted.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
You ask a guy like Ron McLean, is that a mistake?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
And he's like, well, Edmonton is twenty three hundred feet
above sea level, so there's an altitude difference between here
and Florida, which is.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Like three feet below sea level. So I think it
was strategy. They were delaying their arrival as late as
possible so that the different air didn't impact their lungs.
Like of course he hits on that level, like, Ron,
what are the refs doing today? Well, they would have
had a morning skate before the teams and probably just

(44:22):
like the athletes, have a little shut down in the afternoon,
go for a walk and try to just focus and
you know, control the nerves. Like he knows everything, So
you're yeah, So then you went to the game and
obviously it was a bummer of a game.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Well sure, kind of, I mean the outcome was late.

Speaker 3 (44:41):
I mean, wait, so after we finished seeing the kind
of morning skate, the boys were out on the ice
like kind of fire and pucks around and stuff. It
was only fifteen twenty minutes, Alice and I went over
to see Tom Gozola, who's a and he has a

(45:02):
podcast called The Hangout with a Couple Buds, and she
and I did that live podcast, and then we went
back to the Oilers store and Frankie met us there
and was kind enough to let us use his discount
to buy some mercha. So then we go back to
the rink and I kept you know, if you have
somewhere to be, if you have it's a game day,

(45:23):
I'm sure you have stuff to do. But he was
so generous and gracious with his time, and he kind
of alluded to saving the best for last. So we
got to see the broadcast room where they you know,
produced the live show within the rink, what goes on
the cameras and who's on camera and.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Pre tape packs and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Then we got to see the hallway where like the
oiler's door where they walk out from the dressing room,
and then we got to sit on the bench nice
and that was like, I mean, you grew up in Arenas,
You've probably had this experience a whole bunch, but it
was it was almost overwhelming, Like it felt like you

(46:04):
kind of had to whisper because it was sort of
like church, but it felt like really sacred ground for sure.
And the met the team photographer and anyway, I saw
biz nasty Paul Bison in the ice district. But everyone
who works for the team, without exception friendly, welcoming, generous

(46:27):
with their time. Never felt anybody giving any like, well,
you guys better go because it's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
It's game day.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Kind of reminded me of I love when people come
to visit on set and I can see the process
through the eyes of someone who hasn't been exposed to it.
It reminds you how.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Cool it is, for sure. So hopefully if you.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
Work, I was trying to imagine, like you work for
the team and it's really exciting during a Stanley Cup run.
But November fourth, trying to find a new take on
a practice to make some content for the fans of
the team to see like, oh, they changed up the
lines of practice this morning. Like I'm sure some days

(47:09):
it's a bit of a grind to try to have
new and fresh. So hopefully seeing the environment through the
eyes of people that are getting exposed to it for
the first time is exciting for them. In some ways,
they're a good reminder because man, it was exciting for me. Yeah,
and costly and costly. So after that I kind of

(47:29):
needed a shut down. I was just kind of firing
on all cumers and you added so much unnecessary stress.
I know it, I know all about it, and it sucks,
and there's nothing you can do but bite the bullets.
Did I tell you about Coach K being a keynote
speaker at this thing? I did a couple weeks ago.

(47:52):
Coach K, the Duke basketball legendary coach, perhaps probably well.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
He was talking about coaching the men's Olympic American basketball team,
and he was saying how he had Kobe and Lebron
and all these incredible players, and he said, I know
the expression leave your ego at the door, but I
kind of think, bring your ego in, because that's what
got you here. And we'll figure out how to make
it work within these confines. So he said, one of

(48:21):
our first practices, it was very clear that Kobe was
taking what he called Laker shots, like three pointers from
half court and really ball hogging and stuff. And in
their first exhibition game, Kobe was taking those same shots,
and he said, Lebron looked at me and I was like,
don't worry, I'll talk to him.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
I'll handle it.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
And he looked at me again, and I was like, Lebron,
leave it with me.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
I'll bring it up with him.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
So he said, I kind of sat up all night
thinking how do I tell the best basketball player in
the world that he needs to pass the ball more.
So he kind of thought of a few different strategies,
and the next morning he saw Kobe and said, can
I talk to for second? And Kobe came in and
sat down and said, what is it, coach, And he said,
I need you to not be taking those the shots

(49:07):
and pass the ball more. And Kobe said, okay, which
was kind of an interesting lesson that sometimes the things
that you fear the most end up being like way different,
a way whatever, easier than you thought. The reason I
bring this up is because another thing coach k said
to these big superstars after practice one morning, he said,

(49:30):
go up to your room and I want you to
be fifteen years old for one second. So he had
laid out all their US American jerseys on their bed
and they were going to be seeing them for the
first time. So the next morning, Kobe tracked him down
and said, Coach, thanks for saying that, and he said,
what did you do when he went up to your room, Kobe?
And Kobe said, I sat on my bed and cried.

(49:52):
So I tried to experience this through my childhood eyes,
and it was it was overwhelming.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
It was just awesome. That's the best way to do
it for sure, to the point where there was like
a mother with her probably eight year old blonde son
sitting next to me at the game, and I was like,
is this supposed to be confronting me with my younger self?

Speaker 2 (50:20):
But all the.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Experiences of like seeing my team score a goal in
the Stanley Cup and everyone jumps up and high fives
each other, like despite the outcome, the third period was
really exciting and kind of close, and we almost came back,
and I met so many buds that were so happy
to see me and generous with their time and respectful

(50:45):
and cool. It was just a whirlwind trip and then
I was back home thirty two hours after I left.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Remember that.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Imagine that kid looked at you when you saw the
blonde kid and he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah you
he family ties me. Yeah yeah. It was like every
every fiber, every nerve ending was sort of open to stuff.

(51:17):
So huge thank you to Frankie who was exceedingly generous
with his time and the access and uh answering every
question I had, which includes and you would probably know
more about.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Some of this stuff.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
But if if Charles Barkley wants to go to an
Oilers game, how does he do that? Is there like
celebrity relations at the rink? I'm sure? Yeah, Like it's
like it was already probably taken care of when he
was going before that fact, right, Like why else was

(51:51):
he going to Edmonton? Is that where he went to Edmonton? Yeah?
Why else is he going there? So he must have
been in game two hanging with Gretzky could have been
one of the things. I don't know, maybe, like if not,
it would be he would call Rod Black and then Rod.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Black would figure it out and sort them out.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
Right, but it's definitely like I'm sure the Oilers hooked
it up because he was everywhere all over social media,
so they were definitely kind of parading him around, right.
Well yeah, and same with like the Spit and chick
Lits guys. Their crew is not small, I guess, and
this is a pr thing for them, right, so they

(52:35):
are all out there just pushing everything. It's it's a
pr thing for Spin and chick Lits, but I guess
it is for the Oilers organization too, Like do they
set aside three hundred tickets for nine to one to
one last minute Oshania Twain wants a ticket to the game? Yeahright,
Oh for sure, there's never it's yeah that the guest

(52:56):
list is never full.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
For people like that.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Yeah, they because they use it on ten different levels
to make it seem like they're cool. Well that's what
I wonder, Like, what is you would know the OLP
guys played the concert before Game three, They must get
tickets to Game three, right if they want to go?
I'm sure probably Yeah, they got a box or whatever

(53:20):
for they have boxes just for the either the main
sponsors for the events that are that are putting on
those concerts that have tons of spots, tickets, boxes, free booze. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
Another thing that I found kind of moving was obviously
the fans of this team have been through it in
recent years as I well know, but the people of
Edmonton that support this team and go every week and
chant let's go Oilers even when it's.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Really hard to.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
When they lost Game three at home, despite there being
so much excitement about out this game and this team
being in the Stanley Cup, there was no like, no
one through their jersey on the ice, no one boomed
the home team, like everyone was so positive even when
the outcome wasn't what anyone wanted that I really appreciated that.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Because that was and then and the everyone come in
cheer coming back like that right like eight to one,
Like that's a statement. That's like they unlocked Bobrosky and
you know, anything can happen now, and it's that kind
of a deal, like when it's that much of a change.

Speaker 3 (54:38):
So I guess there is an interesting talk on the panel,
I think after the second period about whether you run
up the score, does that make Florida mad or does
that make them kind of get in their own heads and.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
Think, oh, man, I know, but getting getting mad when
your goalie is letting everything in all of a sudden
that there's no nothing you can do about it. That's
the thing, Like, go ahead and get mad. You've already
been super mad all the time like a hornet's nest
and winning. So if you're mad and confused, that's that's it.

(55:09):
That's great, that's the sweet spot.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Yeah, for sure. So hopefully.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
Well, I think they're playing like they had nothing to lose,
which they didn't. And there's a lesson in there somewhere
about how freeing that is. Well, I mean, how many
series went to seven games throughout this playoffs. It's how
almost happened every time, So why not keep it, keep
it rolling. Lots of teams have already done what they

(55:34):
need to do, or they're coming back from three downs.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
So man, that's.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Far though, that's so such a far distance and the difference,
I know, But when you're playing really well and you
feel like, okay, now you have your footing, it's a
whole different thing. It's kind of you see the collapse
because they already it's going the other way. It's almost
impossible to connect back to the three games that Florida

(56:01):
had that momentum. If if Edmonton continues with this stuff,
it's almost like when when the Red Sox beat the
beat the won the World Series after the big drought
and the curse and all that stuff. Like the when
they beat the Yankees, it was almost bigger than when

(56:23):
they're comeback against the Yankees was almost bigger than the
whole World Series itself. Like the momentum was so intense
coming back to win it just like the rest, what
doesn't even matter, You don't even know because you just
it plays you through it.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
You think of the logistics on this grand a scale,
Like a lot of the Florida families were in attendance
last night. They traveled from Florida in case their loved
one won the Cup. They're all traveling back today going
what was the point of that?

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Yeah? I know, right, Yeah. The person who's in charge
of like oilers travel logistics, book hotel rooms for every
game and then cancel them if you don't need them,
or she scrambling or he to book till how about
long that long haired Darryl Sittler looking math that takes
care of the Cup, that's been doing it forever. Yeah,

(57:14):
he had a pretty good smile on his face when
he was like putting the case back into the track
at the end of the game, back in his Santa
fe Yeah, he was stoked.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
He was like happy to We were talking about him
last night, like what a unique job he has and
imagine the places in every corner of the world he's
found himself with the cup.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Well.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Yeah, like when the guys were lonely, gig or both.
Probably great because you're always partying. He is probably what's
going on. You're always at a party. Yeah, But like
when like Sydney's Crosby was sleeping with it, does that
mean he's like in the gas room? Is that how
it works? I don't know. I don't know if there's
some someone's baby is sitting in it or no. But

(58:00):
he has to be there around it. Like how like
do they get it alone and he can like go
home for a day or like does he have to
like stay around it? I think he has to stay
around it. Like what would be the point of it
if he could just like a right, sit here it is,
I'll be back Sunday. Like who's who's the guy that
one of the guys dented it in their pool, like
threw in the pool and had a big curve and

(58:21):
the top like super dead.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Like.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
I think that's why he's got to be around in
case like that stuff happens, because they can just take
it and get it sorted right away.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Yeah, it must be a really cool job in some ways.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
I'm sure it's.

Speaker 3 (58:39):
Uh, there are challenges that we don't even consider, but
just the magnitude of moving that many people, uh, with
that much precision, and like floods in southern Florida and
you can't plan for that and you have to work
around that and forget it. Like ticket sales to game

(59:00):
that are if necessary, do you sell them first or
do you wait till the game's necessary then put them
on sale? Well, I mean at that point, if you're
in the playoffs, it's all gravy, right, Like it's just
all good, doesn't matter. Yeah, I think I think I
heard one hundred and seventy nine million dollars was pumped
into Edmonton during this playoff run.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Man, that's real money.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Huh. How about the uh well sor I got sidetracked
from a bump upstairs. I'm in like the basement, so
there's probably you're probably hearing all kinds of odd trick,
like you know when you sleep over at someone's house
and you hear like water going down the pipe and yeah,
and then like a furnace turns on or something. So

(59:47):
this has been sound effects going on this whole time.
But yeah, anyway, I lost my train of thought where
we were there.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
All that to say, super exciting, So glad I went like,
don't have to go again. Even if we make the
standing up again, I don't have to do that again.

Speaker 1 (01:00:05):
I remember what I was gonna say. It's just the
fact that it's like it's you know, if this does
go seven games, we're looking at freaking what we're looking
at July for like honestly, oh, which is crazy, that's insanity.
Like all the other players that were you know, missed
in the first round or didn't even make the playoffs

(01:00:26):
or just probably like all tanned up and they're back
at the gym getting good at golf.

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Yeah I know. It is like Connor's getting married this summer.
Oh yeah, Okayvid what a year that would be for him?
Well that'll be a big because he's from the like
my neighborhood, right, so I will see maybe if there's
been some big parties around here. Hopefully if the Cup

(01:00:54):
is in tow. Yeah, I'll let you know if there's
some backyard.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Action going on.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
Chuk is such a goof what Chuck is such a goof?
What why? Just in general?

Speaker 3 (01:01:10):
And they're like, there are people dressed at the game
dressed as teenage mutant ninja turtles because he turtles so much.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
And people you're just like, you're just can't.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
He's like Marsha And to you right now, wellying other
guy that's always in the other team's face.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
Yeah, Whereas Corey Perry, who's on our team now I
suddenly love when he was on Anaheim, Like what a
slimy goof.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
But of us, he's the best.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Well, I mean, good luck we're here, we roll in here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
Yeah, be crazy if we came back.

Speaker 1 (01:01:45):
Good luck, good luck and good chatting but good chatting.
But