Talking Pizza With Onyebuchi

On this week's Insider Podcast, Adrian Denny and Jonathon Schaffer are joined by Roadrunners Defenseman Montana Onyebuchi. They talk about his first season in Tucson, his D-pairing with teamate Patrik Koch and reveal to him that he has been in the podcast intro since Johnny joined the organization. The guys then talk about different Fantasy Football punishments, the new story involving actor Keanu Reeves and draft their favorite pizza toppings and what opposing teams they are taking to play if the Roadrunners need a win. Adrian also tells the finale of the ongoing saga from his Car accident at Development Camp in Utah and teases a small portion of the 2024-25 Promotional Schedule.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
When you want more road Runners, We've got more road Runners.
This is the Tucson Roadrunners Insider Podcasts.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Great to have you back in your inside our podcast. Everybody.
Johnathan Schaeffer is here, I mean you and Denny Antenna.
Ony Bucci is coming up as usual, our our weekly
hour together. Johnny, We're always excited to be back. Some
fun stuff. We're gonna draft Pete's toppings and maybe a
little bit of a controversial topic on this week's podcast. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Well it's one that just you and I. You and
I condone. Yeah, we're doing this.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Was all right, rod Runners players, coaches, management have nothing
to do with it. Yeah, this was our ideas, all right. Yeah,
we're gonna draft it coming up, and then we're gonna
uh maybe get in us more trouble with our promo
schedule because I have secured the promo schedule. It's not
public yet. Yes, but we'll let Johnny uh tell us

(00:56):
his favorite prom nights so forward too, and maybe we'll
give you a date or two. Some other stuff coming
up on this week's podcast. We'll close the books, an
ongoing saga we've been covering on the podcast for the
last two months as well, and we'll talk some some
punishments that maybe our locker room might want to consider

(01:18):
this year for guys that are really bad at fantasy
or get the last place in the master's draft. We'll
see so stacked our coming up. Montana on your boujie, though,
leads us off. Montana on your bujie joining us now.
Great to see you, Montana, Welcome to the podcast. How's
it going good?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Good? Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, thanks for thanks for coming on, Thanks for your time.
What are you up to today?

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Today?

Speaker 5 (01:45):
Just skated, worked out and I knew I had this interview,
so it's kind of hanging out.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
And yeah, preparing for the podcast. I know I know
you would.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, Well let's let's start things off with some road
runners wrapped fire.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I'll give you an adjective, a verb, a down, and
you give us a word or sentence to describe it.
How does that sound?

Speaker 4 (02:09):
Sounds good?

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Okay, here we go, less than a month until camp excited.
You're two in the desert ready, Steve Potman, smart, Patrick
Kotch a great de partner. Jonathan Schaeffer experienced fighting Ryan McGregor.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Good story.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Being teammates with Ryan McGregor.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Favorite Tucson off ice activity.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
I would say Catan favorite cookie, chocolate chip.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Take a shot in the shootout or pick another teammate
object donor your rookie season in San Jose Learning experience
Curtis Douglas Tall, you're playing style hard. Andrew Agazino great captain,
your pregame suits diverse. A favorite opposing player you have
fought before Alex Glan, John Slaney wise, favorite animal wolf,

(02:57):
and a favorite pizza.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Topping pepperoni and bacon.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
There it is, there we go wrap you. We got it.
Thanks for getting this rolling with that. Alex Galan. Do
you know him as a guy? I had him in
Utah and he's just an unbelievable, unbelievable person.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, he is a great guy. He is a good guy.

Speaker 5 (03:15):
I don't know him too well, just honestly just playing
against them. But I've seen him like after games and stuff,
and and he's been nothing but classy and and just
just a gentleman. And I think there's a certain respect
factor between guys that do fight each other, and I think, uh, yeah,
he's one of the guys that are just you know,

(03:35):
he can be a tough guy on the ice, and everything.
But after after that, you know, he's just he's a
great dude and he's actually a good person.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
So he's got a brother to Brett Golant. Yeah, it's
another another good guy, good good family. Where are they
from pe I.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I think I think they're I think they are. Yeah,
Prince Edward Island. Hey, are you you back in Manitoba?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
I am yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
How do you pronounce the name of your hometown? Is
that where you're at? I' listed in hockey TB.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
Yeah? Do Gold?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Okay, do Gold? Okay.

Speaker 5 (04:11):
Well, I'm like probably five hundred people in there. But
it's it's like thirty minutes away from Winnipeg. It's not
so the drive's not crazy, but yeah, just have like
five acres at my house and just kind of it's
it's not like a farm, but it's just it's definitely
in the country for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
That sounds great.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
It's nice to get away from the city a little bit.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, totally. Have you ever driven through McDonald or Portage,
Lo Prairie, where Ben McCartney's from.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah, I've been to Portage. Yeah, it's not too far away.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
I think it's about two hours away, gotcha from my house,
But yeah, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
See anybody we know this summer so far.

Speaker 4 (04:53):
Like from from.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Too, from the Roadrunners, anybody who's played against.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Yeah, I think a bunch of guys. Uh, well, I
skate at the rink. I trained at the rink. Reese
Matelli was there this morning skating there. He actually has
a black eye and a cut under his eye right now.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Is always good at looking mean.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, he ran into the post.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
But yeah, there's a bunch of a bunch of guys
that I've played against. Uh in the dub and and everything,
even in the A two. A lot of the Moose
guys come out too, and and guys that are just
from here. So yeah, the Carson Lambo's from Iowa. We
play him a bunch of times.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
He's out here.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Uh yeah, Jarvis glass Door, there's a bunch of guys
that skate.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
The pit Bull, Connor Doer, the Yeah, it's a good nickname.
Do they call him the pit bull where you're from?
I think he when he was in Ever, he went
by the pit Bull. I'm not sure if it started there.

Speaker 5 (05:59):
If it's Junkyard Dog, I don't know where where the
pitbull came into, but it was Junkyard dog, but.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
But oh sorry, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (06:13):
No, No, he's actually just just came back from Maine.
He was in there for quite a bit of the summer.
So it's backskating with us. So's it's been good.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
So one of the rapid fire questions we had Andra Gazino,
you said, a great captain. Just what's your reaction to
him signing with the road Runners. You spent a season
with him in San Jose and he's bring a lot
of experience to the team.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
No, yeah, he's he's he's a he's a great guy.
One of my best captains I've ever had. I think, Uh,
he knows the guys, he's good with the guys. He
leads by example, you know, and he always shows up
and he always shows up ready to work. So I was,
I was super excited when I heard that we signed him.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Yeah, that was exciting because we played him every we were.
We played him in Colorado, we put him in San Jose,
we played him with with San Diego, and you know,
you can kind of get an inkling as I'm watching guys,
you were definitely one of them guys that would fit
in well with us, and uh, and he definitely fits
that bill for sure for sure. Yeah, and just going

(07:18):
back to that, you're playing stylet for yourself. You know,
you stepped in a big role for the road Runners
this season, you know with the injuries to the blue
line and the call ups to the blue line as well.
Just how big was that for you to get a
lot of games under your belt for two soon this
past season.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
No, it was big.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
I think every every year you get a little bit
more comfortable, and you want more and and you want
to get more experience and and and you just feel
better out there. So I think that last year was
was big for me just you know, getting more games,
games in and smart experience and that's that's all it's about.
So I can just have that confidence coming into this

(07:57):
year and uh, you ready to go.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Now that you had a lot playing time in Tucson,
you get to see what the team was like. And
again you're playing style. It's aggressive. You know, you lay
a lot of big hits, you get a lot of
fights in, but you also play a really smart style
of defense. I think you had a plus minus of
nine this season this past season, which is no easy task,
especially how much goals are being scored, you know nowadays,
But how are you going to bring that play style

(08:22):
into next season?

Speaker 5 (08:24):
Yeah, you know, I just I take pride in in
in defense for sure. You know, they can't win if
they don't score any goals. So I think that's a
big thing, especially for a defenseman. Is is our plus minus.
So I think, you know, just and especially my d
partner Patrick Koch. Got to give a lot of credit

(08:45):
to him as well.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
He's he's a really good defender.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
He plays kind of the same style as I play
place physical, place fast.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
We don't we don't. We don't like giving up lines, so.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
I think both of us together we try to kill
the rush before they even get to the red line.
So I think that's that's gonna be a big thing
for this year. Is just is playing forward, you know,
killing plays early. So I think that's uh yeah, I
think that's that's the reason why. I think that's why.
I yeah, I don't know what's going with This was

(09:20):
round one.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
But yeah, yeah, you're good. Well you've come to the
right place. Yeah, that's all we do is ramble. I
don't I don't have the exact scientific stats. Montana. We
get a lot of that on the podcast, but it
seemed to me and I went back and I looked
over several games. You and and Patrick cotch deep partners
really for most of the season. And it started with

(09:43):
you know, early on game one, Game two, you guys
had never played together before, had never met, but we're
just a really good tannem out there. Johnny, you will
you sign off on the fact that Montana and Patrick
played more games as deep partners than any other deep
I'm pretty sure. Yeah, it had to be right, It
had to be.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
It's just it was one of those DeepArt pairings that
you just you had to stick with, you know, throughout
the whole season. And Montana, you and Patrick get a
phenomenal job this year for the team.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Thank you appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank It was like from from game number one going
out with Patrick for the first time and and all
of a sudden, fifty games later, still still rolling.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
You know, like he's he's not the loudest guy in
the room or anything, and he's an older guy, so
I really looked up to him and just the way
he approaches the game like he's he's a real pro.
He takes every single day like this is a step
to get better, you know, every every single day. He's
a He's a great guy for younger guys or even

(10:44):
guys that are just young but still getting older but
like to look up to and and he knows how
to U just prepare and.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
Make sure he's ready every single day. So I looked
up to him.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
I know a lot of the other guys looked up
to him, just his preparation and everything. And I think
from from game game one playing together to game fifty,
not much has changed because he just he's just so
solid and you just know what you're going to get
from him every day.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
So and we're oh, sorry, and we're bringing Patrick back,
which is huge, and now we have Robbie Russo and
Kevin Kannan coming to the team. Just how big is
the blue line going to look like for the next season.

Speaker 4 (11:23):
I think it's gonna be really good. You know.

Speaker 5 (11:24):
We got a lot of older guys, a lot of experience. Yeah,
I think it's going to be a lot of big
guys too. And I think Robbie was here before, yes, yeah,
and yeah he's I think I've seen him play too.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
He's a really good player. Yeah. I'm excited, excited about
the group.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
We have this year, and I think we can do
a lot of good things and and even hopefully do
better than you did last year.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Did you have a teammate last year that you played
against but didn't know personally that that maybe he became
friends with.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
That I didn't know, Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 5 (11:59):
I think a lot of the guys, I think that's
like coming into it like I'm a guy that's probably
gonna chirp the whole bench and and get into it
with a lot of other guys. But then you know,
you come on the team and it's different, you know
what I mean, because they get to know you and
you get to know them. I think anybody from Gregg's
to to Dougie, you know, like Jersey Hunter. I think

(12:27):
I think a lot of those guys you didn't really
know you could get along with, but once you're on
your team, you just know that they're actually just good
guys and you just you jive.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
So so Montane, obviously, we were both in San Jose together.
I was in my first year working in hockey, year
in your first year with in professional hockey with an organization,
and honestly, you're you're a fan favorite in San Jose
and now you've kind of become a fan favorite in
Tucson as well. And of course, obviously your first thing
you care about is how you're playing and the team winning.

(12:57):
But just what's it like for you now that you
played in twoper professional organizations and you just know that
the fans are always excited every time you take the
ice or anytime you get a tusso or a fight.

Speaker 5 (13:07):
Yeah, I think I think that's that's big, because you know,
like it's nice having the fans support, and you know,
I'm a guy that feeds off of the energy from
the crowd.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
You know. I love hearing the fans. I love seeing
the fans come out.

Speaker 5 (13:19):
And during COVID when there's no fans, it's kind of
like just felt dead.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
It didn't feel right in the rank.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
So no, I've loved that and I appreciated that from
all the fans, and it's it's been awesome.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
How much fun was the winning last year, second place
season and then making that run And you know, I'm
gonna go out and say it, I think we're the
favorites to win the division this year.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Yeah, I think I think so too.

Speaker 5 (13:43):
I think there's nothing better than coming to the rink
every day when you're winning. And I've been on teams
that have not been winning every game, you know what
I mean, You're losing three out of four games, and
it's just it's down. It's the coaches are getting agitated,
the players are getting ogitated, the energy in the rooms off,

(14:04):
it's no fun.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
So when you're winning every game, it's it's different.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
It's just makes everything easier for everybody, and everyone just
in says good spirits and is in good mood really
of the time.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
So going into sorry we keep cutting you off. No,
it's you're such an eloquent speaker, and Johnny and I
just keep jumping in like we're arguing a case and
a trial. What about going into twenty four to twenty five?
What information did you take from last year that going

(14:34):
into your number two in the organization and your your
fourth year pro you can you can take focus on
in the off season and come back and get that
one percent better going into training camp.

Speaker 5 (14:45):
Yeah, I think it's just for me just just playing quicker,
making quicker decisions, quicker puck touches. Yeah, I just keep
you know, honing my game and playing within our structure
and you know, using what's my strengths to my advantage,
and you know, also working on my weaknesses. So I
think coming into this season, I think I learned a

(15:09):
lot and and just even just watching video, I've just
been watching all my clips and stuff, so I get
to see where some in some situations where I made
a mistake or where I could have done something a
little better. So I think just just that and just
learning from and just implementing into this year and just
using it.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
You said it in the Rapid Fire. I think it's
not a question. John Slaney's the best assistant coach I've
ever seen.

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Ever, Absolutely absolutely, very wise, very he's and like just
going back to when he was playing, you know, he
played a very smart game and very skilled game and
and he won.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Was it.

Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, He's on the h AL All Star team and everything.
So like he he is a very experienced coach and
he's very he can teach the game very well. So
I think that just for our Blue line is just
huge for us. And having Patzi you know, also is
just big because he just brings us, He hypes stuff

(16:12):
before the game, brings so much energy. You know, people
want to play for him, and I think that's that's huge.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
And the success of teams.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Yeah, those two are amazing. And to have had them
going into our ninth season for them and their their
eight season together, that's that's pretty pretty incredible. Do you
have any questions for US Montana?

Speaker 4 (16:35):
No, I was just wondering about the weather earlier.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
But yeah, hot and sticky, Yeah, and the monsoon and
people people won't believe it, Johnny. People are shocked when
we talk about the monsoon. And in Phoenix they talk
about their monsoon and it's a bunch of blowing dust
and blowing leaves. They don't get any precipitation in here.
It's just soaks. It just depends on the neighborhood you're

(16:59):
going to be. From night to night. You can see
the clouds over the mountains and sometimes you don't get hit,
and then the next time you do, and some nights
it's three times in a row.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
But the worst when it's humid out, Oh yeah, like
just it's nothing worse.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Though, Johnny and I just did eat outside at Street
Taco because it was cold in there. It's probably like
sixty two degrees.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
It's just you get cold. I get cold. I was
a little hot outside at the end of you ready
to go, I's ready to go.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
I like to stay and have a long lunches. You
know what do you think of that, Johnny? Do you
like to have long lunches? Not to bring you in
the middle of this Montana. Other days going a long lunch.
That's work we have to do.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
You know, long lunch guy, Montana, because you'll see people
they get their lunch to go. I could never do that.
I got to.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
Stay in the place and baronate a little bit ut
three or four.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Refills and just get out of the During the season
it's like quick lunches.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
But off season we have time. But you see like
college kids from the U of A go in, sit down,
rush through their lunch and get out in ten minutes.
Like where else you got to be Yeah, jobs, I
don't know. Hey, Montana, you did the first interview that
Johnny did when he first got to the Roadrunners at

(18:12):
Prospect and Development Camp last year, and we needed we
needed something from Johnny to add to our podcast open Uh,
just something for production, some sound. So I don't know
if you know that you were a big part of it,
but we have a clip from you in this year's
podcast Open and here it is.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
When you want more road runners, We've got more road runners.
This is the Tucson Roadrunners Insider podcast.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
And we're not fighting. They were having a discussion with.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
The voice of the Roadrunners, Adrian Jemmy.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
What advice do you have for me?

Speaker 4 (18:46):
Drink a lot of water?

Speaker 2 (18:46):
It's pretty odd?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
And your new best friend, my best friend, Jonathan Shaffer.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
The guys there you go, Montana, you've been in that
open all year. How about that one innocent question? What
advice do you have for me? Drink a lot of water?
It's pretty hot?

Speaker 4 (19:03):
Yeah. I didn't even hear that. I couldn't hear it,
but uh.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'll send it to you. I'll text.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
What did it say? What did it say?

Speaker 2 (19:13):
It's said, Johnny's asking you, what advice do you have
for me coming to Tucson, and you say, drink a
lot of water? It's pretty hot.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah, that's great advice.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
It was.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
It was straight up hydrated. Have you been to hydrated once, Johnny?
Since you got here? Uh? When I went golfing one
day in like one hundred degrees.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Uh, he didn't pretty take Montana's advice of the course,
I was drinking water but are you drinking water? I was,
but I wasn't drinking gator and you need electric lights
out here? Okay, all right, you're sweating too much and
eat salt and stuff, so that's fair.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
Hey what got me? Hey? Montana? A couple of weeks
ago on the podcast, Kim started something that we've kind
of taken. Oh, and we've been giving guys these Buzzfeak quizzards,
which I don't if you've seen him, but you ask
a bunch of questions, right, Johnny, a lot of questions
and then blood pretty quick though. BuzzFeed tells you a
detail about you. So this one is discover which endangered

(20:13):
animal your personality resembles? Okay, and Johnny and I have
also taken this BuzzFeed quiz and we will give you
our results after yours.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Sound good?

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Okay? What's your favorite way to spend time when you
have free time? Reading books, exploring, watching TV, talking.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
With friends, talking with friends? Okay?

Speaker 2 (20:37):
What's your favorite color? Pink, yellow, black, red, blue, or purple.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Black?

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Okay, I'm getting pretty good at this. Johnny. You are
on my phone because you got these pop up ads,
and it's as I've gotten the hang of it. Now
you've navigated through it. On our third BuzzFeed quiz and
taking one for myself, where's your dream vacation spot. Somewhere
in the forest, somewhere in the snow, somewhere in the desert,
somewhere on the.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Each, somewhere on the beach.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Very good. Next one is how would you describe yourself? Caring, passionate, introverted, loyal, strong,
or adaptable.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I'd say passionate, okay.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
And finally, what are your future goals? To start a family,
to make money, to travel more, to find myself.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
I'll say to find myself.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
Okay, all right, we've got the answer. Oh, this is good.
This is good. I'll tell you why it's good in
the second what is it your personality is most similar
to a black rhino. Black rhinos are solitary creatures that
prefer to be alone and are more introverted. You'd love
to spend time with yourself and prefer to have meaningful conversations. Unfortunately,

(21:47):
there are only six thousand of you left in the world,
and they need your help. Try to research more about
them and see what you can do.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
How'd they do, nice, bud, Yeah, you're right, Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Here's mine, here's mine, Montana. Six thousand of these left
the world. Two on this podcast right now, maybe three three,
there's three. We're all rhinos. We're all right. I got
black rhino too. You got black? Yeah? Because so Johnny
takes his buzz sweed quiz. He's like, I don't really
think it was good. I took it, and I'm like, yeah,
that's it. I am a solitary creature that prefers to

(22:22):
be alone. I thought about some more.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
I like being alone from time to time too, after
a day at work or something. So I mean we
all got we got the same thing.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, we all got the same thing. We'll have we'll get.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Kim's result here, like like a peacock or something.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Probably I wouldn't be surprised. Well that was fun. Did
you enjoy that? Have you ever done those? Montana? I'm
really getting into them.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
No, I've never done them. But yeah, that's good.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Great idea, great idea by Kim. Let's see here. Oh,
she says, I figured you guys would want to do
this versus the what percent datable are you?

Speaker 4 (22:59):
Quiz? No?

Speaker 2 (23:04):
What percentage do you think?

Speaker 3 (23:06):
I don't know. I'm not gonna go down that road. Okay,
you don't have to. Just getting personal question. Hey, Montana,
any suggestions on who we should talk to next on
the podcast next week? Coming out of Labor Day?

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Coming out? Who did you guys talk to you?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Maybe Zoobie, Maxie Zuber? Love it? Okay to text him,
let's get it. Yeah, his number? I do have his number. Good,
you have his number, Maxie Zuber. Great nomination, Montana. What
is it like? How many months into the off season
are we? Like? Three? Four months? Almost four months? Almost
four months? And uh, great job out of you. We

(23:46):
haven't talked to Maxie yet? No, we have not perfect Yeah,
I do think that covers it, Johnny, anything else? Anything?
I think we got it. Think we're good.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
You never we never asked who we should talk to next,
and the we're like, well, what the heck do we
do next?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Time? We for a nomination? Yeah, appreciate it, Montana, guys,
appreciate it. All the prep work you did coming on
the podcast. Great job. As always. We'll see a camp
and have the great great rest of your summer. Any
any vacations or any any fun spots you've been so far?

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Yeah, I was in I was in New York for
a wedding. So that was pretty sweet. I've never been.
It's a crazy experience.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
Yeah, how long were you there?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
I was there for five days, right right.

Speaker 2 (24:27):
Down in Manhattan or somewhere like that.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Well we stayed outside of it, but we went and explored. Yeah, Manhattan,
you know, went to Brooklyn, went everywhere, just walking around
and and just seeing the sight seeing and mostly and
going to Grand Central Park and just walking around there.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
And it was crazy. It's just so loud and everyone's jaywalking.
It's the different smells you get just walking. It's just
it's a lot. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Culture shock. It's chaotic.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
Ya, really, I don't know how people live built there
and just don't do that.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
I don't either bend to Bend to La bend to Chicago,
bend to Boston, bend to Rio. I don't know how
people do New York. It's insane.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, I got and I thought San Francisco was bad
when I first went there, but I feel like New
York is a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
The driving, the honking, like there's people people literally everywhere.
It's a it's a lot to unpack. Well, Montana, I promise,
I thank you. Ten minutes ago. But now we're we're
finally uh finally done. We'll get you on your way
and uh enjoy it and let us know if we
can help with anything, but we'll uh we'll see it

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camp soon.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Be sure. Thank you guys, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yeah, thanks a lot, Montana. Thanks Montana, Montana on your boucci.
This week's guest already a nomination for maxie Zuber for
next week, so we'll start efforting Maxi Johnny. I think
people have fun with us. I think they enjoy coming
on the podcast. I think guys are waiting for us
to give him the old invite. We need to do

(26:03):
more of these, right, We haven't missed a week. We've
done every single week all off season. We've had a
special guest Steve Potman. The only non player, Jake Wagman
came on, but we had well Gavin after Like, we
can't cram everybody into this summer. We're talking Patrick Kotch
with Montana and then Patrick on yet like, so we've

(26:26):
still got work to do, so keep coming back, folks.
We'll we'll keep checking these boxes on the podcast this week.
But Montana, first person you ever interviewed with the road
Runners back at Prospect and Development Camp, and little did
he know the impact that he would have on this

(26:46):
podcast for an entire year.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I know that was awesome. It was the the rookie
face off last year in Vegas. I had just gotten hired,
but I wasn't here yet, but I did tell you, Hey,
I'm going to this tournament to work for black Dog Hockey,
who I worked for while I was in college in
San Jose. And I asked, you, do you want me
to get anything while I'm here? You said, talk to
Steve Pavin and talk to a player, and I'm like, well,

(27:10):
the only one I know is Montana and Yabucci. So
I decided I'll talk to him because he was there
at camp, he was playing, and then that's why I
got to meet Steve. But yeah, that was my first
interview as a Roadrunner, So I'm glad we played it
all throughout the year. That was really fun to It's
been fun to listen to just needed something, Just need yeah, something, anything, something, anything, to.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Drink a lot of water. It's pretty hot. And to
this day, Johnny, you're still following his advice. I am, Yeah,
I am.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
I helped a friend move the other day was drinking
a lot of water during the move, and we did
in the morning.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
So it's very hot.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
But the thing I realized is, like I said before,
you have to drink gatorade because when you sweat, you're
losing your electrolytes. So you know, when you realize you've
sweated a lot, Yes, water helps, but you're still gonna
be dehydrated because you just you need the saltiness, you
need the electrolytes. So, uh, my advice is, if you
expect to sweat a lot, slide in the gatorade. In there,

(28:06):
he's he's something salty like chips, saltine crackers.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
This might sound bad.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
It may go get fast food because that's salty too,
but you kind of need everything when it's this hot.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Montana mentioned somebody that we missed last week when we
did our farewells, Cam Crotty justin Kirkland, to Stephen Camper,
to Micah Miller, to John Leonardelli. We didn't say farewell
to we missed it. We did it two years with us.

(28:36):
We loved Reese. Wish him all the best in Savannah
with the ghost Pirates in the EHL. He'll have a
great year. Yeah, that's a big pick up he'll get.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
He is an HL player, and yeah, again, it's all
about opportunity with these guys. And you know, we wish
the best of luck to Reese, but it's a huge opportunity.
Savanna is a newer team in the league. It's a
growing team right now. And he was one of the
top scores in Atlanta, so no doubt he'll be one
of the top scores for Savannah.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
So good for him.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
And you know, maybe Henderson will oh no that they
don't have the affiliation with them anymore.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah, Tahoe is with Henderson Florida now.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Savannahs with Florida now, so yeah, maybe we'll Charlotte. Yeah,
recent love Charlotte. Yeah go play with John Leonard. Yeah yeah,
So listen to the Best of Luck.

Speaker 2 (29:21):
We'll keep an eye on it. Promo schedule being announced
this week. This is Monday. It hasn't been announced yet,
but Johnny, I have I've got you have it. I've
gotten the promo schedule right here. I took it. I
took it off of Bob's desk before it's announced. And
Bob most certainly does not listen to this podcast. Okay,

(29:43):
we know that. Yes, we know that. So I thought
it would be fun for Johnny just to pick a
few nights and I'll tell you the date that we're
gonna have it before we announce this promo schedule coming
on later on this week, if you're listening before Wednesday. So,
john why don't you give me your three favorite promo
nights and I'll tell you the dates that they're gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
All right, Okay, I'm gonna start with my favorite Star
Wars night.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Star Wars Night is gonna be the first game after Christmas, Saturday,
December twenty eighth against Colorado.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
All Right, this one might be obvious, but it's just
one of my favorite two because we had a lot
of fun that day.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
The Saint Patty's Day tailgate. Uh yeah, that's a good
one because it's not on Saint Patrick's Day and Saint
Patrick's is on Monday this year. Yep. So Sunday, March sixteenth,
four pm. That was implied you burned a favorite prom night.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
No, I know, yeah, but we could have it was
kind of implied, right, Yeah, Sunday, March sixty, Yeah, you
burned one bonus all right, Well, one of the favorite
ones from you know, I think all the players when
we ask them and stuff, is the beach Night?

Speaker 2 (30:56):
When when is Beach Night? Each night's coming back Saturday,
January twenty fifth. The guys love Beach Night. Okay, here
I have another one. Okay, you can get a bonus,
you can get a bonus. All right. We had this
last year, Swifty Night. Oh yeah, Friday, December thirteenth against Henderson,
right before Teddy Bear Toss Night. I love it. And

(31:17):
we have some new ones, yeah, some new ones. I
don't know if we want to. How about Dead Night.
I think that might be a grateful Dead spin off
that's coming up on the on the schedule. Wizards and
Witches Night, because I don't think we can say Harry
Potter Night anymore. Legal.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Yeah, we won't let us kind of legal, won't let
us SayMore.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
So we're gonna do Wizards and Witches. We're gonna announce
this later on in the summer. But all you can
Eat nights, got some of those. Country Night was really
fun in March. We'll bring that back, of course. Uh
Elasa da Tucson. How about Ugly Sweater Night. Ugly Sweater Night,
that's going to be there, Yeah, Yeah, that's gonna be

(31:59):
there our last home game before Christmas on Wednesday, December eighteenth,
Johnny six Sunday games this year after just one. Yeah,
I personally love Sunday games.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
I just like hockey games are earlier in the day
because it's just I like them when there's I know,
there's a hockey game going on and there's still sun outside,
even though we don't see the sun.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Especially in the spring.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
In the spring, just knowing that, like it's sunny, it's
nice out right now. So I was really stoked to
see the sixthday Sunday games.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Friday nights off. Yeah, we like we like Friday nights Friday.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
That means watching football in the office, getting ready for
game day, so that will be it'll be really fun too.
So yeah, I'm stoked. I liked how it's the schedule
is a little more balanced this year. You know, we
get different days, so we have just different days of hockey.

Speaker 2 (32:49):
So there you go. The teas of the schedule of
thing with too much trouble. Bob doesn't listen to the podcast.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
I think, well, okay to us listens to every other
but maybe it's too much road runner for him. There's
a little bit of a teaser for your promost schedule, Johnny.
Fantasy football is a big thing in the locker room. Usually,
usually the guys will put together a fantasy league. You know,

(33:18):
there's a master's draft, like the guys. Guys are sports fans.
So I think one of the things that's that's kind
of come along in the last couple of years is
various fantasy leagues. You know, the winner gets the money, yeah, right,
if it's legal, right, okay, But the loser, the losers

(33:40):
sometimes have to do something, have to have to do
something to make their life miserable, like stand on a
street Qarter in their underwear saying I lost my fantasy
draft or my fantasy league as the suck.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Yeah, stuff like that. So you you've got one that
we thought was was interesting. I did.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, I showed you this yesterday and wanted to talk
about it. So a night in Vegas with no hotel
and twenty dollars and this is on Reddit. So I
lost my fantasy football league last year, and the punishment
is I have to show up to our Vegas draft
a day early with no hotel room and only twenty dollars. Question,
was any recommendations on cheap slash free things I can

(34:18):
do while they're or ways to get some free play
or free drink slash food, or where are the cheapest tables?
Any advice is much appreciated. That is the most crazy
punishment I've probably ever read, because that though it's not bad.
But you know, you see the standard ones like you said, yeah,
you know, sign standing on the side of the road,

(34:40):
you know, with no clothes on, or something saying I
suck at fantasy, or someone having to wear their most
hated teams jersey out in public, or most standard one
is the beer mile where you chug beer and jog.

Speaker 2 (34:52):
And twenty bucks. You what are you doing, Johnny? What
do you saying twenty bucks? Gosh? I mean, obviously you
find it? Can you find it all? You can eat
fay for under twenty bucks? The thing, though, try to
hang out at if.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
It was back in the day, Yeah, yes, because Vegas
back in the day had so many cheap options for food,
because that entices people to come, because it's like, hey,
I can come here when money and pay this some
amount for all you can eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
But nowadays though, and let me see when they's going
to hang out of the post, it could hang out.

Speaker 3 (35:22):
I mean, it doesn't really have a date, but I'm
assume it's this year that this Reddit post was created.
So like, you know, you're paying twenty bucks for the
meal itself, so that might and this is a whole day,
Like this is not just a night, this.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Is a whole day, twenty four hours in Vegas with
twenty bucks in no hotel, I mean the only Yeah,
I mean, do you do you just kind of go
and find a dollar and I don't think they have
them anymore, but like a three dollars five dollars blackjack tape.
I mean, but that's it's rare. I would say, like
they don't have those anymore. You can't go to Fremont
Street and play dollar blackjack. You would have to find like,

(35:59):
you know, you can test your luck with the slots,
any slots, you can do that very much test I
would do. Yeah, that's what I would start with. I
would start with the penny slots.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Yeah, just hoping I could win like ten twenty more
bucks out of that. Yeah, maybe win enough money from
the slots and then test you just you have you're
really testing your luck go into like the cheapest fifteen
dollars blackjack table test one hand, put fifteen down.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
You win. Great, let's try it because you're going to
be on a trip with us when we're in Vegas, right.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
I am, okay, all right, so I'll give you the
twenty bucks and I'll got to leave the room.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
For twenty four hours. I don't want to see you.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah, okay, all right, the little challenge for Johnny, I'll
tweet about it. I'll make a little video, okay, on
the On the Jump Show trip. Well, that's an excitement.
It's gonna be a long, long trip. I saw one
a couple months ago. The guy that actually produces my
favorite podcast, The College Football Inquire, Joe de Leone, finished
in last place in his fantasy football league. He had

(36:55):
to sit in the McDonald's for twenty four hours unless
you could eat it way out of it.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
That's always one too, like the the most the most
way you can shave it down is the big breakfast
with hotcakes will shave off two hours. So regular Big
breakfast will shave off an hour. Double quarter pound of
a cheese will shave off an hour. Apple slices shaves

(37:24):
off five minutes, the Apple Day ice cream milkshakes only
twenty five minutes of Big Max forty five minutes. So
he said, the goal is if I can eat twenty
Hash Browns, I can be out of there in less
than ten hours. So that's kind of that's not bad.
It's kind of what kind of what he did, but
he didn't didn't realize the grease and the starch and

(37:46):
and that kind of stuff. But uh yeah, so those
are kind of fun, so interesting to see as the
year goes on. If our guys do anything in their
fantasy leagues, if last place has to has to do, we.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
Can ask maybe, yeah, maybe whoever we we talk to next.
If it's Zoobie, we can ask him like, what.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Are you in it? Or you get involved in it?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Or and if he doesn't, then you know West the
next guy, next guy, and see if if there's any punishments.
One one league I'm in. We never did the punishment
because I don't know. I'm not here, but it didn't
work out. I didn't get last place, but I have
no clue what happened. But one of them was you
do a stand up comedy and everyone in the league
writes the jokes Oh that's one too, but I don't

(38:30):
think it ever got done, never happen. It's harder when
it comes to leagues where it's like you don't know
everybody because it's like you can't get together. Everyone lives
in different spots, like the league I'm in. I'm in
another league with like all my closest friends, and I'm
going home. I'm driving home for the draft, but like
only four of us out of the ten of us
are gonna be there in person for the draft because
it's just tough. Everyone's one's busy nowadays. But yeah, so yeah,

(38:53):
there you go. We'll check in you and Kim when
you had Cameron he big on. A couple of weeks ago,
the movie young Blood came up and it's back in
the news. It is, it is, which is so just ironic,
the fact that Kim brought it up, and then now
big news comes up that Keanu Reeves signed a one

(39:14):
day contract with the Spitfires because he tried out to
be a goalie when he was younger, and then he
played the goalie in the movie too, So he's a
big hockey guy, which I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I didn't know he was a big hockey guy. Yeah, yeah, no,
he likes he likes hockey. He's a Canadian guy. He
was in the movie Young Blood with Roblow and Patrick Swayze.
I first saw that. Remember when we used to watch
movies on the bus. We've talked about how back in
the day we used to watch movies on the bus,
And now every every bus had a DVD player and

(39:46):
like screens every other seat and watched it. But now
everybody's got their own own devices. But yeah, Patrick Swayze
signing a one day contract with the Keanu Reeves Yeah,
Keanu Reeves signing a one day contract with the UH
Ontario Hockey League's UH Windsor Spitfires. He grew up in Toronto,
tied tried out for the team as a goalie prospect,

(40:07):
but when he was a teenager, we couldn't play. Uh dude,
the injury. I don't The windsor spit Fires are in
the Ontario Hockey League's right across the river from Detroit.
I don't recall any players that have ever played for
us that have been UH windsor spit Fires. Is that ring,
uh ring of bells you've been doing? He know he

(40:29):
was in the Western Hot right, No, I haven't seen
any spit fire. Yeah, they're pretty they I just don't
recognize uh any of our guys have known guys have
come from uh Windsor, so Uh there's uh, there's uh
some hockey news on a slow day and uh dogs
for you.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yeah, the podcast, I still I still just love that
Kim talked about that movie. And then weeks later the
big yeah less yeah, and then we get we get
this that counter Reeves signed the one day contract and yes,
pretty awesome. I mean the worked out for him. I
mean he didn't get a goalie.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
But the team auctioning off items signed by Keanu Reeves
benefiting the Canadian Mental Health Association of Windsor Essex. Yeah,
it's right across the river. You can see it when
you're in Detroit. You can see it. You get Windsor
TV stations, radio stations. So that's uh, that's where that is.
You want to do, Uh, I want to do a
couple of drafts. Let's do it. Yeah draft Uh pizza

(41:25):
toppings coming up. But first, this is a draft that
has nothing to do. It is not endorsed by our players,
our coaches, our general manager. But as we were kind
of talking uh earlier today, we thought maybe it be
fun to draft the teams that we'd want to play

(41:46):
if the road winners need to win. How about that? Yeah,
let's go, let's do it. Do it. We need to
we need to win a Yeah, who are we going
to play? Johnny and I are gonna draft those opponents.
I'm curious to see what you're gonna say. Do you
want me to go first?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Yeah, you go first, You go first. Oh, San Diego gulls,
San Diego goes. That was my second you know, yeah,
that was my third pick.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I eight border arrivals, okay, easy eleven three to two
and oh against them in the last two seasons, thirty
one against them overall, more wins against San Diego than
any other opponent. I'm saying we need to win. Let's
play San Diego eight straight seasons or five hundred or
better against them. After we started out two to ten
against them in year one, a little bit of a

(42:30):
slow start, but we've we've gotten back at him.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Uh, first pick for me, gotta go with San Jose.
Had a good season against them last year. I do
think they're gonna be a little better this upcoming season.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
But you know, we got Andrew Potterolski. They did. That
was huge.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Yeah, that's huge acquisition score from Yeah, that's that's that's big.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Next week on the podcast, because Johnny, we have proclaimed
the Roadrunners the favorites of the Pacific Division. Right. We
like our off season with our players returning to the
organized e with the players that have been signed, we
feel like we're gonna be the favorites. With mentioned Cotola
Valley losing believe to be their top nine leading scores.
Next week on the podcast, we're gonna go over our

(43:11):
opponents and what their organizations have added just to scientifically
prove this. Yeah, So we'll do that next week coming
up on the podcast. My second pick, I'm gonna say
again just going numbers here. Man, it's a rivalry. It's
always tough, games, always close. The Ontario Rain second most

(43:33):
wins against them, right behind San Diego thirty four to
twenty five to eight No all time against Ontario. I
like it. Those games are always close.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
But again we are coming out with all the close
wins all of last season. That was just that was
just our motto. Next one for me, I'm gonna go
with Iowa. We Yeah, played good against them, last year.
We've had a lot of good wins against them over
the years. I don't think we're playing them this up
coming and we're not for one, so we will not

(44:02):
be seeing Cam crowdy.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Unfortunately, we won't be. I mean, I think he's gonna
spend a lot of time in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah, I'm
excited for Cam. I think that was a nice, nice
business decision right there. Central Division. We could feast on him, Johnny.
What about the Texas Stars. We went four to oh
against him last year two and oh after the first

(44:24):
two games of the year, and uh scored six goals
each against him, and in two games. I'll uh, I'll
poke that bear, Johnny. We've had some some fun games
against Texas opening Night a couple of years ago in
twenty twenty one, Ben McCartney hat trick. I've been brought
the top shutout. You look at uh yeah, you look

(44:46):
at last year going four and oh against him. We've
had our struggles. It's been a good rivalry the playoffs
at twenty eighteen. You ever remember that, but uh yeah,
we talked about it with Ben McCartney last year. His
first pro goal is first Patrick against the Texas. We
opened against them this year at home opening that the

(45:07):
TCC you need to win. I'm taking Texas.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Yeah, they were one of my picks, but I was
going to have it as a Texas on a you
know any opening weekend fashion. It's opening at home, are
opening on the road, because we just able to always
able to get a hold of them a little next
one for me, Henderson Henderson, we what do we go?

(45:32):
Five and one against him?

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Last year?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
I believe, Uh, I know Maxie Zuber was our top
scorer against him as well, so he had a lot
of couple of great games against them and one one
and they were just I don't know if there's just
one of the teams we uh we played good against
all those games were pretty close to you know, those
one goal games.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
But I like her. I always like our chances against Henderson.
All right, how do you like this? This? Uh? Draft
does not represent the Tucson Roadrunners management, coaches, players. I'm
saying in Coachella Valley, I knew it. I love it.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
We won three or four coche Valley. I'm taking in
Coachella Valley, we bring it on one of the toughest
arenas to play in, and our guys.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Just we were the first ever team to win in
Coachella Valley their second ever game. They'll be beat it
for like the next two months. I'm picking the Coachell
I like it at number four, all right.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Next one for me, Abbotsford at home at home. They
have not been us at home yet. Yes, we haven't
played a lot of games against this they beat this
one game last year. We're five and one all time
against at home at home. Oh man, that's close enough,
close enough. I thought were undefeated.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
Yeah, I'll stick in the Central Division. We've had a
lot of success against the Central Division. We made a
lot of that last year, Chicago not playing them this year.
Six and two against them the last two seasons. Remember
that Dylan Wells shut out. We've only lost one of
our five season series against Chicago. I'm taking Chicago.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Uh, this is our last one, the final last one.
This one's just kind of a random one. But I'm
just gonna go with Rockford just because we're playing them
this year. It's a team we haven't seen a lot.
But I feel like anytime during the season we're like,
we haven't seen this team in a while. Against Central
Division opponents, we find a way to beat them. So, yeah,
we go to Rockford for my last one.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
We owe them. We didn't last year we played them
with twenty two kind of the first year of the rebuild.
We didn't get Did we get a win? Maybe one?
We won one out of four against for Rockford. Okay, uh, yeah,
they're Blackhawk's affiliate always uh, always challenged, been pretty good
the last couple of years to Chicago's got got a

(47:47):
lot of prospects. Yeah, Jackson Sto scored the goalie goal
yes last year. Yes, yeah, we we got him in
the organization now. Yeah, good, that's a good call. Their
goalie nineteen wins last year with Rockford, now with.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
Yeah, so maybe maybe once we play Rockford they'll slide
them in there to play his former team get some events.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
So looking forward to that little matchup. Yeah, we'll see.
Good call there. Uh, there's a draft of teams for
the road Rudders to play if they need a big win.
How do you like that? I liked it? Yeah, always
the pencil he said, let's do it. I'm like, oh,
that's a new one. Never never slow day.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
Never, it's never never a slow day here in Tucson.
All right, Next draft we're going to do. Mentioned in
The Roadrunners, rapid Fire is the last one for any
Bucci favorite pizza topic.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
What did he say? Oh my gosh, what did he say?
I'll have to go back and find it. I think
we'll have to go back and listen to it. Here.
Here's what Montana said when we said rapid fire goes
so quick? But he said favorite pizza topic. Okay, now
we're Johnny, all right, Should I go first this time? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (48:49):
You go?

Speaker 3 (48:50):
Okay, this one might be a crazy take because not
everyone likes this, but I personally love them.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Mushrooms. Okay, mushrooms I was thinking about it. Didn't put
them down. I'm just saying, yeah, meatballs on pizza.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Do you remember the meatballs at the tcc our first game?
The meatballs on the pizza. Not a fan for everyone
was like beatballs on pizza. That's weird, and even I
thought I was like, that's that's different.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
But I had it. I liked it.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
I mean, put some Marinera sauce on that, like it's
not bad. That was my fifth pick. Next one for
me bacon.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Bake ban Yeah, I had bacon on my list. Threaded bacon.
I'm going to take one from you here, steak, I
had steak on pizza pizza.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
No, really is that one? No, I've never tried. This
one's another wild card, but again it's just personal preference. Spinach,
spinach on pizza.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
I'm a big spinach with the healthy pizza mushrooms. You know,
occasionally I'll ordered the green pizza. Yeah, all right, I
always pizza, totally, totally. Uh, give me some give me
some sausage. Yep, that's a that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
Know what I'm gonna I don't even have this on
my list, but I'm just gonna say it.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Now.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Pesto. If we're going green pesto and pizzas phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
I like it. I like it. How about some extra cheese.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
Just extra cheese cheese there, I like it. Gosh, we're
going quick here, I forgot, I don't know where we
are now. Onions last, that's my last pick, A perfect
onions because they're part they're a big part of when
you get a what was it called, like a buffalo
style pizza or barbecue chicken style pizza.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Onions are the big part of it.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
I had the other ingredients for that kind of pizza
on my list, but I didn't want to include them
on one.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Yeah. Yeah, I'll say anything else, but probably anchovies. I
don't think anything. Yeah, I think anchovies are kind of gross.
I've always been pizza. They don't do the just so
we could see how it was because I've always been curious.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
I just heard they're like really just salty, really salty fish,
Like they don't taste bad. Of course they probably gonna
smell weird, but like people have tried to just say
they're really salty fish.

Speaker 2 (51:06):
I've been curious.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
If someone said, do we want anchobi's, I would try,
just because I'm curious.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I love fish. So yeah, I love pizza. I like
I am in the uh in the department of that
there's no bad pizza. Every pizza is good. Yeah, I
love any kind of pizza. Just give me pizza.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
And you know, like there's there's times where you have
a phenomenal pizza and then you have another pizza where
it's like it was okay, but like it was pizza,
and we like, we love pizza. And you know, I
have a funny story. I once ate a whole pizza
by myself on a Sunday. Watching football sounds like the
best Sunday ever. It was my I was living in
San Jose at the time. Roomin and I, uh were like,

(51:47):
are you doing anything. It's like nope, Let's watch football day.
So I'd order pizza. Each of us ordered our own
personal pizza. Again, I like, I put spinach and stuff
on it. And I was just so lazy that day
and I just kept eating the pizza and before I
knew it, I was finished with it. And again, this
took me the whole day to eat, Like this was
probably the only thing I ate that day, but I

(52:08):
ate a whole pizza and I was like just really
really rethinking my life choices.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
I was like, dude, I just eat this whole pizza.
But like, yeah, I probably had.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
One of the best sundays that were just watching football
day and eating pizzas.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
So that's amazing. Best pizza you ever had?

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Yeah, Dominos Dominoes. My Dominoes is my all time favorite
pizza spot.

Speaker 4 (52:29):
Is.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
I just like the customization of their pizzas, you know
when you order one, So that's uh.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Do you know what Domo has? Those man, the the
the garlic cheese bites.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Those are so with the marinerosot and don't they have.
They have really good desserts too, right, like the the brownies,
the cookies, the cinnamon swirls.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
I think that's one too. So I got to tell
you about my favorite pizza place ever, probably uh, you know,
you have a lot of good pizza right anything in
Chicago Chicago Style. Loved Chicago Style in Anchorage, Alaska. Talked
about the food and anchors before the place that we
would always go on a game day for lunch or

(53:19):
just if we were going to only be there for
two days and we got in late and we're gonna
have another chance or night before. Mousa's Tooth Pizza and
Anchorage to order Santa's Little Helper, and all their pizzas
are unreal, Pepperoni, black and chicken, grilled steak, bacon, red peppers, cilantro,
monz are.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
So there is a grilled steak pizza. Yes, good medium
rare steak on pizza. I've never had that before.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
A new item that they've added. I'm on their website
right now. Mac and cheese pizza before Macaroni Noodle's, Parsley
American cheese, cheddar monzarella, prol and garlic oil. Gosh me
hungry on the shelf, Pepperoni, bacon, fresh pineapple, jalapeno, cilanto,
montrell pro bolone cream cheese. You ever had like a

(54:05):
wait was that? Would you say? An? Was that a
nacho pizza? They've got that? Yeah? That was I know,
not that was.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
I think what's fun about pizza is that like you
can put anything on it. I call it a pizza
because you can put you know, like, yeah, I get
like you said, macaroni. You can have a nacho style,
regular pepperoni, more healthy one like like I like dessert
pizzas where usually people throw like chocolate, strawberries, sometimes bacon,

(54:34):
which is crazy, but bacon and chocolate could could be
a good combination.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
I've never had that, but it sounds good.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Yeah, gosh, yeah, I guess talk about pizzas. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
One thing that that we'll do, Like if we played,
like been on the road for a while, we're going home,
or it's a Saturday night after a big weekend, guys
will have their postgame meals right after the game, and
then Jake will order pizzas just for a bus snack
and they'll be uhmb I was the boss. Everybody's passed
them up and back, and I'm so happy that there's

(55:04):
a there's pizza, so a good draft topic for uh
pizza toppings. Johnny, I'm very, very hungry. It's ten fifty eight.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
I know it's so much lunch lunch time for you.
I have lunch in the fridge. I brought Oh where
did we go? We just went there on Tuesday nights
gentle Ben's yeah, genle Benz, Yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
I wasn't there. I know you were there. I was there.
I don't think I was having dinner with Johnny on Tuesday.
I was not there, but I do know you went
to Glen Yeah. So I have that for my leftover.
So I got a French dip sandwich. Yeah. So I'm
excited for that. I know you will be. I think
I was thinking I changed it up. I got to Pagans.
Do I go to the Monica? Do you go get pizza? Now?

Speaker 4 (55:47):
Like?

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Did that change your that change your idea? What's that
pizza place, uh downtown that serves pizza by the slice,
Empire Pizza. Yeah, I haven't had.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
I don't think I've had any of like the pizza
spots down here. So maybe maybe that's the next week
lunch pizza sounds.

Speaker 2 (56:02):
A lunch idea pizza sounds very very yummy, Johnny. For
some reason, I don't know, man. It started with with
me and Kim over the last couple of months, just
car sagets, ongoing sagas with cars, and then last week
on the podcast, me and you saw each other on
the freeway. So I saw your car for the first time.

(56:22):
And you know, a couple couple of months ago, I
was involved in an auto accident on my way to
day to a development camp and ongoing saga. Uninsured driver
Bellen convicted of gun crimes. Uh insurance, didn't have collision
on the vehicle, blah blah blah. Just you know, just

(56:44):
just how it always goes when you get an ax it.
So we finally have the situation resolved, happy ending. I
went again, here's what we got, Johnny. They got the
collision back on the vehicle. They sent the fella over
to assess the vehicle. He's like, this is gone. It's total.

(57:06):
So it's total. Your car, My car's total. Car's gone. Sorry,
sixteen years old, rusted out. I love the favorite car ever.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Yeah it's gone, man, still sentimental value. So I knew
it was going to be totaled, just you know, knowing
the value of it.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Okay, the value of the car, Johnny, I thought, gosh,
I bet I get eight hundred bucks for this. I
was not expecting much. I thought, if I ever trade
this in, I'm not getting more than fifteen hundred.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
So insurance contacts me and they're like, yeah, Adrian, we're
going to send you a check for fifty six hundred dollars.
We'll pick up the car you send us the title. Oh,
I said, okay, great, all right, that's fine. And the
guy Aidan, great guy, sorry a Dan, A Dan is
his name, great guy. I was calling him Aidan, But

(57:57):
it was a Dan that I found out like after
the fourth fifth time we talked each other, because he
left me a voicemail.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
It's like, Adrian, it's a dad. Like, okay, gosh, well
really as Aiden? Yeah, yeah, that's that's tough Dan.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
So yeah, he's like yeah, And unfortunately, the guy who
hit you is uninsured, so we can't go after his insurance.
So we will be personally going after him. Did you
rent a car at all? Because we would be billing
him for that? Wow?

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Going after him personally? Oh yeah, bro, he didn't have insurance.
That's yeah, crazy, that's it.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
I love that, Like, yeah, so we can't go after
his insurance. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
And then you're thinking, like, so this guy though Johnny
it's been two months, thinks he's.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Totally out of the woods.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Oh yeah, because like it hasn't hasn't gotten anything because
they haven't tow the car yet.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
When they're coming to get the car, I'm gonna send
him the tie off to get Oh, they're coming to
get your car. Yeah, they're gonna scrap it whatever. Yeah,
and I uh, I'm gonna get fifty six hundred bucks.
And they're gonna go after him for like fifty six
hundred bus bucks plus the Adminson plus the service charge
plus the incan Like he's gonna get a bill for

(59:01):
like eighty five hundred bucks. Yeah, so why you have insurance? Kids?

Speaker 6 (59:04):
And then yeah, yeah, and here's what here's I didn't like.
The whole thing was pretty The whole thing was pretty chaotic. Right, Like,
I'm waiting for the cop because he blew a tire
on the way, right, I remember that. I remember that,
And the guy that hit me was over in the
ditch and I thought he just drove away.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
But I'm reading the police report his car was towed
by Park City Towing because I'm thinking, how does this
guy uninsured and then gets to drive away in his car?

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Right?

Speaker 2 (59:30):
But no car? His car was towed, And I because
I'm trying to figure this out, I'm like, doesn't your
car get automatically towed? Aren't they going to take it?
If you're uninsured, it's illegal right to be driving it.
So there was a Utah law that until twenty fifteen
said if a police officer encounters an uninsured driver, he
may have it towed. But in twenty fifteen they changed

(59:52):
the law to say he must have it towed. Oh
so not even a topic for debate for my police
officer at the car had the car towe. So that's
the that's the end of it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:01):
I'm gonna get fifty to go put towards a new
uh U Suv I could drive in the snow on
a back home in Utah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
And uh this fella is going to get a bill
for I'd say eighty and not only that, not only that,
he's got a ticket for not maintaining his lane, not
having insurance, and then his toad car impounded.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Yes, and I've had my car impounded, not just because
I parked in the wrong spot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Nothing crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:00:29):
I just one night was very tired getting home from work,
parked in the driving lane on accident covered in grass.
You were in a driving lane or like a driveway?
Drive the driver, Yeah, okay, it was just this grass
on it. Anyways, long story short, got my car toad
and I paid like seven hundred bucks to get it
out probably like it's really bad. So I don't wish

(01:00:52):
shot on the like obviously this guy deserved it, but
like anyone who Yeah, so don't park in the wrong spot.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
People. If you think you're fine, you're not fine.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
Always paid, always paid, double check, always pay like the
one of our parking meters.

Speaker 2 (01:01:07):
And all that stuff. One of our favorite things to
do here, at least for me. I like to hear
in our offices downtown, look over on Jackson Street and
uh see who's paying the meeting? Yeah, just double jaket Yeah,
just to see who's there. Yeah, in the neighborhood. So
that's that's it. Yeah, the ongoing saga with my vehicle
is closed. I am getting fifty six nice. Yeah, so

(01:01:29):
I'm happy to hear that man. Yeah, Awesome, I win again.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
Adrian wins again. I mean, I feel you should have
won from the get go. But yeah, you know, when
they're telling me there's not collision, on them like, wait,
did I screw up? Did I not get the right coverage?
And they're like, now this is our mistake. At least
they owned up to it. Yeah, took them a lot
to figure it out. These things take a while.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
Man. That guy who hit me, who thinks so NBD,
no big deal. I guess I got my truck back
and driving out is going to get a bill for
he probably.

Speaker 3 (01:02:01):
My guess is he paid the fees already gets truck back.
They were like, if I'm walking out of this paying
the eight hundred bucks, yeah, I'm okay. And then now
the ticket and the ticket yeah, and it takes right
ticket right you paid it? Yeah, you gotta pay the
tickets too. I think I had to pay an extra
hundred bucks for my ticket. Also, what was crazy about
that my car wasn't under my name at the time,
and the and the n pound bills you by day.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
Yeah, so my mom had.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
To mail me a a sheet saying like I hereby
they my son, like giving my son permission to do this,
YadA YadA.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
She didn't have it for a week. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
I actually I think it was like two delayed by
like two days or something because I think she had
no she had to mail it to me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
She had to like fast mail it to me or whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
So and then after that we decided like, all right,
car needs to be under my name in case something
like this ever happens again. And it worked out too,
because of course I ended up trading it in uh
when I got my new car, so I had all
my paperwork on me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
But uh, yeah, so I guess all of our.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
Car sagas are closed.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
We're all good now, case closed on the cars. We're good,
all right. Getting on the podcast Maxie Zooer and we
will validate why the Runners are the favorites to win
the Pacific Division. Have a great rest of your week,
great holiday weekend, and uh we're back next week with
all that stuff and more on your two son Roadrunners.

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Inside podcast, we'll play some Roadrunners.

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how the story ends.

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Tonight, we're using up tonight to go down and try
to run up on us.

Speaker 7 (01:03:49):
We're gonna the bus go back to where it came from.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Getting on the bus, drop five five away, hang up
the skates, drop your gloves, put just away.

Speaker 7 (01:04:06):
You got beat down tonight. That's the two sad Way.

Speaker 6 (01:04:09):
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Speaker 5 (01:04:18):
Road righter from.

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