That's How It's Doan

Kim Cota-Robles and Adrian Denny are joined by Forward Josh Doan after they open the podcast by paying their respects on 9-11. Josh has a cheat meal the hosts can finally agree on as they talk all about growing up hockey in the desert with Josh before getting to a Friday night phone call that Adrian took from another Roadrunners favorite.

Episode Transcript

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Adrian Denny. Josh Done is ourspecial guest today as we record here on
September eleventh. Kim. Yeah,yeah, it's a twenty second anniversary of
nine to eleven. It's it's interestingto think about that we have lots of
people on our roster who were notalive or who were probably very very young

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when September eleventh happened. And andfor you and I it's both I think
kind of like midlife for us.So I don't know about anybody else,
but you know, it took sometime this morning to think about it and
you know, reflect on everything,and also talked to my son about it
because he was born nine years after, eight years after September eleventh, so

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yeah, he has no concept ofit. So yeah, it's a somber
topic. But didn't want to notbring it up today. I mean,
you read about all the all thestories from people running back into the towers
and people escaping and people going backinto the towers and never being seen again,
like you read it. It's justlike you read it that that day,

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that week, Like you remember watchingwatching the news that entire week,
people are on people are on thenews with pictures of their family members saying
that they were last seen on thesixty sixth floor with Cantor Fitzgerald. Yeah,
and it just was I was thatwas something camp never never experienced anything

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like it. Nothing's felt like thatno ever. I remember walking walking out
I was in college, walking outmy burn's backyard that night, and it
just felt like just it was darkand it was empty, and you know,
there weren't any planes in the air, and it was gosh, it
was. It was. It wasa tough time. It was a very

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unique time. And interestingly, soyou were in Utah. It sounds like
when that happened. I was inWashington State when it happened, so like
I could not and I was ona small island in the San Juans could
not have been geographically further in thein the continental United States then from where
it was happening, and and sofor you probably it was early in the

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morning when everything started happening. Itwas about six forty five. I was
listening listening to news talk radio,and so you're hearing everything in real time,
and you know, you hear theplane went in, and you think
it's you know, planes have crashedinto it before. It was just you
know, a little a little propplane. And you know, just the

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same story is as everybody. Mybrother was in kitchen getting ready for school
with my dad and watching the TodayShow, and you know, just just
one thing, uh starts happening afteranother, and the towers get hit and
then all of a sudden, thePentagon and that gosh, it was just

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just like, this is really happening. I was on I was on my
way to work when I first caughtit, and I had to so it
was really early in the morning forme. It was dark. I used
to go to the hangar with mysquadron, like around five thirty six am.
I had to drop her off atthe babysitter and I asked them,

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I was like, can you pleaseturn on the TV. I think there's
something happening. And on that day, my squadron was getting ready to deploy
overseas, so we were doing allof the medical and administrative things that as
a group that we needed to dotogether. So we were all meeting in
one location away from our hangar toyeah, just to sign wills and powers

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of attorney and get shots and stufflike that. So it was a very
somber meeting for all of us becauseeverything changed, like we were just going
to be deployed to Japan and Korea, and everything changed for all of the
teams that were going to be leaving. And I remember I had to as

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soon as the airlines opened back up, I had to fly my daughter down
here to Arizona, go back bymyself, and then didn't see her for
eight months and went overseas in supportof operation and during Freedom. It was,
Yeah, it was surreal, absolutelysurreal. Where did you go?
So I actually was not in thethick of things at any point. I

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was in northern Japan, I wasin Okinawa, I was in Korea like
minimally so. But we did havesquadrons that were in Iraq and Afghanistan,
the Philippines just kind of all overthe place, places that I I didn't
ever expect that we would be orwe you know, we would We didn't
know that we were going to bethere when we started leaving, so it

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was a very it turned into avery different mood. And if anybody,
if you ever talked to anybody whogets stationed on Okinawa, it's the best
time. Okaw. It's fantastic.It's so much when I have the best
food, the people and the culture. It's a really small little island and
it is just so much fun tobe stationed there. When I when we
were stationed there, because it waspost September eleventh, they were closing down

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the gates every night at ten pm, so if you weren't back on base
by ten pm, you had tostay out in town until five am the
following morning for security reasons. Andone night when I was in Okinawa,
we didn't make it back in time, and so we ended up having to
stay out all night. We had, you know, just kind of wandering
around, went to McDonald's. JapaneseMcDonald's are absolutely amazing if you ever get

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a chance to go. They're sodifferent than American McDonald's. But yeah,
just kind of wandered around Okinawa forhours, waiting for the base to open.
Back up. But it really changed. It really changed everything, right,
because the airport didn't look like whatit looks like now, the bases
didn't look like what they look likenow. Kind Of everything in my life
went upside down. And I don'tknow how it was for other people,

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but it was. I mean Istill I still think about it all the
time. Yeah, no, andit's just the feeling. I remember the
one year anniversary of it in twothousand and two, Yeah, and like
a what a big deal that was. I was working with a sports radio
station and we went on remote anddid a nine to eleven one year anniversary

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special right the morning of a Universityof Utah football game, which kind of,
you know, kind of made ita little easier that we were getting
ready to have a big patriotic celebrationat a football game. Yeah. Yeah,
it's so yeah, it's so difficultto think about. I in a

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weird twist. I ended up livingin DC maybe six or seven years afterwards,
and I worked in the building.And this is very not widely reported,
but as the plane was coming intothe Pentagon, it actually hit some
some of the towers that were ontop of the building that I was working
in which was right next to thePentagon. So I worked in that building

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and then I ended up living literallylike less than a mile away from where
the plane hit the Pentagon, probablynot even a half a mile. And
so I've been to the Pentagon memorialthere. It's absolutely bonkers to think,
you know, to think about that. So but I did see in some
heartening news. I did see aTikTok this morning about the dogs of nine

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to eleven and all the dogs whowere participating in rescues in the rubble,
and you know, who were alsohelping people cope with uh, people who
were involved in that day, peopleyou know, or and there was the
story I've seen it a few differentplaces of one of those like Canterford Fitzgerald,

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people that you're talking about who workedon the svent seventy eighth floor and
was blind and his guide dog gothim out of the building safely. And
I'm just like it, just thatstory, just yeah, me right in
the fields. Yeah No. Andthen here in southern Arizona, obviously the
big, the big presence of thoseuh protecting us at Davis monthon and for

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who for who could chow? Who? Who could who? For who Chooka.
I love who it's Sierra Vista.So thanks to everybody that that's kept
us safe and and continues to doso and allowing us to come in here
on a on a Monday morning anddo uh do what we love in this
uh in this podcast with with aspecial guest whose birthday was February first of

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two thousand and two, in JoshDel Josh, how's it going today?
Man? Good ahead, doing good, just enjoying the nice Arizona heat.
How about you? Yeah, doyou get a chance to cool off earlier
this morning at any of our anyof our local rinks up in the valley?
Yeah, yeah, at the IceEnd and Scott's Tale this morning.
So it's a little bit colder inthere than they're outside, for sure.

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Yeah, that's not not bad atall. Kim and I just hanging out
here in Tucson. You know,Kim is Kim's a native Tucsonan who could
live without, live without the summerheat. And I am a transplant who
cannot get enough at the summer heat. So that kind of sums up,
sums up our summers, right,Kim. Yeah, warm is ridiculous,
Adrian, And this isn't even warm. This is just so hot. It's

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not okay that when it gets tobe under ninety degrees, I mentally think,
oh, maybe I should wear longsleeves because it's a little bit chilly
outside. I don't know about you, Josh. My my line for the
hoodie it comes off at eighty degrees. What about what about you as a
native air Zona? Yeah? Isaid the line is right around there as

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well. I think hoodies are comfortable, so I don't mind wearing hoodies,
and if I'm inside in Arizona,it's fine, But once you're outside,
the hoodie's got to come off atleast believest above eighty. Yeah. We
get to a certain point during theseason where for me, I come outside
after practice like one two and youfelt perfect all day and You're like,
okay, this this, uh,this needs to come off. It's March

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fifteenth. Yeah, what have youbeen up to this summer, Josh?
Not a lot. I went andI went up to Canada for a bit,
and so my family and trained upthere and had a development camp in
the beginning of July, which isalways nice and I'm good to see the
guys again. But it's good tobe back and and now just getting back

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to work in Arizona. Yeah,development camp right after the draft. There
some familiar faces. We talked totherees Batelli last week and Mica and Miller
was there, Michael Lombardi and uhyou guys, you guys, I know
we're leading the way. Yeah.Yeah, So fortunately I was on the
team with with with Milsey and withReese, so we had a good time

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together and it's so it's always goodto see those guys in the summertime.
Josh, your dad is a littlebit of a unicorn in that his entire
career pretty much is in one spot, right except for you know, starting
in Winnipeg and then coming coming down. Do you think that that would be
like a trajectory you'd you'd want tofollow, or I know, if if

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I was playing professional hockey, Ijust want to play like in so many
different places and like experienced so manydifferent things, and I was curious,
you know, what, what doyou see for yourself? Yeah, I
love Arizona and it's been my homemy whole life. There's there's a reason
I chose to come back and playat a su and go and stay at
home. So I think it's alwaysthe plan is to stay in Arizona as

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long as possible and as long asI'm wanted in Arizona. The goals to
stay in Arizona during of course thesummer. Uh. It's it's it's kind
of a hockey hotbed, Josh.Like you've got NHL players, HL players,
college players from all over, beit from Arizona or not, that
that make their off season home inArizona, heat or not. And it's

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a it's a good little thing youguys have going on. Yeah, No,
for sure, Like obviously with withthe group that they have an Arizona
right now, it's pretty pretty special. And you get to go to the
rink and you see Austin Matthews andand h Thompson and then those guys from
Arizona that that are getting their namesand Matthew and Eyes and Marcus Stellick,
and it's it's growing and it's it'sbecome quite the hotbed, like you said,

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for hockey players, Josh. Didyou did you guys go up to
cam Loops for the summer? Yeah, yeah, we did. Tell tell
me a little bit about that.We talked to Hunter Drew a few weeks
ago and he's up in BC rightnow and was actually talking to us about
the wildfires and how's you know,not as as relaxing as it normally is
just because of that. So,so, how was your summer up there?

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Good? It was really good.Uh. They got a good group
of guys that train up there anda lot of pro and junior players that
I've been with since I was alittle kid, and my trainer up there,
great resource, is a really goodjob and here with my dad pretty
much his whole career, so heknows that he's doing and he's been basically
like family to us now over theyears. And it was pretty relaxing.

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And then as we got heading out, the smoke kind of came in a
little bit with the with the wildfires, and now it's getting a little bit
too close, too close to comfortfor our cabin up there. Oh wow,
Yeah, that's that's that's scary,right, Like we we've had we've
had similar stuff in our at ourcabin in Utah over Fourth of July weekend

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probably five years ago. Like weleave on a Sunday and then we're gonna
go back up Tuesday for the holiday, and all of a sudden, the
fire sparked up and we were justwatching weather reports and scrolling Twitter for for
wildfire, you know, information,and man, it sneaks up on you
and it's it sucks. Yeah,that's what we're in the same boat right

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now. We're kind of doing thesame thing. Is just refreshing and hoping
there's good news and no bad news. Josh, I don't want to start
any family drama, but I wasscary if you had a favorite player growing
up that wasn't your dad. Yeah, there's there's a couple of guys i'd
say, away from away from theCoyotes. I was always a Nicholas Backsham

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fan. I think he's a guythat when I was a kid, I
like to try and model my gameafter a little bit, and someone that
plays a fun style and likes tomove the pod and set his teammates up.
But with the Coyotes, there areso many guys that would come in
and out throughout the years. WhenI was a kid, when my favorite
player of all time, we laugh, is a lot of slav Naggy.

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So he played when I was akid, and he was something that I
always liked to watch. And thenas I've gotten older, there's Max Toomy
and Michael Vodka and all those guyscame in and they played a huge role
in my life and kind of teachingyou some things along the way. So
if if if you know one ofthose guys was your favorite players, you've
got the the insight right, likeyou know that they're really good guys.

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Then if you know, if ifyou like them on the ice and can
tell that they're one of your favorites, right yeah, oh yeah, I
was just going to ask you.I'm assuming you grew up all hockey kind
of all the time, but maybethat's not true. But I was curious,
are there any other sports that you'reinto? Yeah, I'm My family
all teases me because I'm a bigsports nerd. So any sport I'll watch.

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It's whether it's soccer, baseball,football, basketball, any local airs
on a team I'm I'm a bigfan of I'll watch the Diamondbacks, the
Sons of Cardinals. But as akid, I grew up playing playing mostly
hockey, and then uh I playedbaseball till it was then in the middle
school and I played soccer well upto so I've kind of done a lot

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of what you can do in Arizonaand hockey kind of came away on top
of everything else you follow in theDiamondbacks. They're having kind of a fun
season. They're back, they're backhot again, and they're just they're still
a really fun team to watch.The kind of remind me of the Coyotes,
just the way that they've they've builttheir roster with with guys coming up
through the system, and you know, a manager and Tory Lavello that everybody

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loves playing for, and just aneasy team to root for and sit back,
you know, sit back on anevening and watch him or head to
the ballpark. Yeah, no,no, for sure. I think we
watched the games when whenever we can. And the last couple nights have been
fun us versus Texas obviously, thecouple of nights to go and could tell
Martte hit a home run in theninth inning to tie the game up and

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then they won, and and extras. Is always exciting. And then last
night with gallantying the MLB lead forfor wins, it's it's definitely a fun
time to be a diamond Backs fan. Yeah, you talk about those those
those last couple of games there andand and I refer to them around town
as the answer backs, because that'sthat's what they call them on TV,

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and people are like, what areyou talking about? Like that the other
team has a beginning, and theythey answer back like they've got a lot
of heart and to get through themonth that they had in July between the
All Star break when when things werekind of going their way, in fact,
everything was going not their way atall, and to be to be
back on track again, that's that'sanother sign of a fun team to root

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for. Oh yeah, for sure, they're starting to eat up again.
So it's good, Josh, youkind of grew up, I would assume
in a little bit of a fishbowl, right. I'm assuming you know
people know who you are when youwent to school. You know, they
know your name. Your name hasa lot of weight, so it might
be different for you than other people. But I was curious, what's a

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more nerve racking situation actually, likedoing a face off and playing a hockey
in front of thousands of people,or doing standing in front of the fans
to do the jersey auction. Ithink I think probably the second one is
a little more nerve racking. I'mnot a big uh in front of people

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kind of talk or do any kindof thing like that. I know all
my siblings give me a hard timebecause because they're all in acting or dance,
and they're really comfortable and when standingin front of people. But I
think I'd rather be be taking aface off than than having to stand up
and just kind of sit there awkwardly. Nothing you do, Josh, is
awkward, Like you are smooth andcomposed and so so pleasant. Yeah,

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I might might look that way,but on the inside of my head,
it doesn't feel that way. I'mfreaking out. Do any of your siblings
seem to be following in you andyour dad's footsteps. You said they were
into acting, Yeah, they alldid their own thing. My sisters were
are big into acting and dancing,and then my brothers. He's a super

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smart kid and he's the coolest personin the family. We all say he's
he's got his piano that he's reallygood at. He can sing really well,
and then he's also the smartest,so he he's I'll never tell him
he's the coolest, but he's definitelythe coolest. Josh. Were you around
any of the commercial shots for ChazRoberts when when they did the the AC
commercials up there with with your dadand sister. Yeah, yeah, we

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we were around. I never wantedto participate, but we all tease tease
my dad because his acting is terrible, So it's always something that we laugh
at when we see Have you seenthose commercials, Kim, No, I
have no idea. I'm gonna haveto google it. Somebody doesn't watch enough
Arizona Diamondbacks baseball Josh, Yeah,nope, that's me. I do not

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so. Josh, this is avery bizarre question for you, but it
kind of made me laugh thinking aboutit. If you were in a freaky
Friday situation with your dad, whatwould it sound like if he was in
your body right now? Oh?I don't even know. Is there like
something that he says to you allthe time? Uh? Yeah, he's
I probably asked me to go playFIFA with him, since that's really to

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do right now, but or justtell me to have fun and make sure
I'm working hard. Other than that, he's he's always surprising us with what
he's saying and he likes that funwith us. So it's you never know
what he's gonna say. And whatabout if it was your mom. Oh,
she'd be telling me to do myschool, get my school done.
She made me go back and getmy degree. So are you done?

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Are you finished? Now? No? I got I'm still in class,
so I got two years left thatI'm going to battle out. That's amazing.
I'm I'm on your mom's side.Get that done. How what are
you studying? I'm in I've beenin communications in business for a bit and
then now I don't even I don'tknow there. Whatever I can do to
get a degree is the plan.And now that they've kind of given me,

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so we'll see it. I thinkat the end of this year we'll
know a little more. You andNathan Smith can get some study groups going
after practice and on the road,and we might have another another couple of
guys. Uh, still still lookingto wrap up. No, for sure,
we could be college roommates. Smittyand I so from from Jucson.

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Where where'd you first meet Nate?We talked to him a couple of weeks
ago. He said, you guyshad known each other for a little bit.
Yes, we first met my firstdevelopment camp. We met and then
he's a He's a great guy.He's very welcoming, and open and kind
of help guide me through that alittle bit and made sure I was comfortable
with all the guys. So,and then we played against each other in

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college once so or twice, andhe was an unbelievable player then and obviously
now he's he's working his way upthe ranks. So he's just an awesome
guy and he's a good teammate tohave around. Did you know that he
started playing roller first before ice.Yeah. I heard the other day someone
said he started playing it ice hockeylike eleven years old, which is crazy,

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but I mean, he is fromFlorida, so he's in a similar
boat to the people from Arizona.There's not the most ice, so it
makes a little bit of sense forhim. It was so it was a
really cool story, Josh. Wehad him on the podcast a couple of
weeks ago. He said that thathim and his buddy started roller hockey when
they were five, like right whenTampa Bay was winning their first Cup,

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and then when they were when theywere eleven, they wanted to switch to
ice hockey, so the entire rollerhockey team joined an ice hockey league and
played together there. That's pretty cool, actually, that's you never hear that
anywhere else in the world. Ihad never heard that. Yeah, yeah,
Josh, what's the what's the bestthing or maybe the thing that stuck

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with you the most that you learnedin your time with us last season?
Yeah, I think the biggest thingis just just play your game and have
fun when you're doing. Then Ithought the step was was some special and
the games were a little bit morefun. I had a little bit more
meaning being in being in a playoffrace, and and you get an opportunity

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to play pro hockey and you kindof get the understanding of how much more
fun and fast paced the games canbe. So I think just to carry
with me is that enjoyment of playinghockey and having the opportunity to continue on
your career. Josh. One ofour favorite I think stories with with our
head coach, Steve Popman, whowe love, is that he was coaching

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kids at the ice end that thatare your age now, and we've got
an intern here who he coached atthe ice ND. He just happened to
end up as a Roadrunners intern andthey and and Brad had no idea Steve
was his coach, and Steve didn'tquite remember Brad and his Dad's like,
you know, coach Popman was yourcoach skating when you were growing up.
What was Steve like as a whenyou were when you were a kid,

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and what's what's it like now playingfor him your your first pro head coach.
Yeah, obviously as a kid hewas he was a great coach,
and we had a good group ofguys and a good team, so they
made sure to stick him with usand give us all the best chance to
be successful and to move on.We were a little bit I think we
were fourteen when we had him asour last year and we had a good

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team that year. We brought insome good guys and we had a lot
of fun. But he was emphasizeda lot on on the just skill working
skating and developing those traits to moveup. And it's a little bit similar
now is he's he's huge on thatthat skill work and stuff like that.
But he's a little bit harder nowas a pro coach as when he was

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a coach of me when I wasa kid, So it's it's a little
bit different, but still still thesame deep down. Josh, what is
the most bizarre question you've ever beenasked in an interview, because I see
you get interviewed all the time.Yeah, I think there's there's been a
couple and people are always asking mequestions about what I think of you,
of A and all that stuff.So there's been some some crazy questions I

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think about both schools or something likethat, but it's hard to really pin
one. I think, all right, let's get some more fun questions.
You're ready for fun questions, Kim, I am ready, Okay, all
right, Josh, So growing upin the valley, right, not a
lot of time that you spent inTucson, But during the month month and
a half that that you were here, any uh, any off days,

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any after practice activities that that youdid that you know you you do again?
Yeah, I think. I mean, I don't have a ton of
time. We were on the roadright away, but I'm I've heard there's
amazing golf and hiking down in Tucson. So those are two things that I
enjoyed doing. So I'm sure golfwill be will be my favorite off ice

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activity in Tucson. What makes whatmakes Arizona home? Right, Like,
what's your what's your favorite part aboutcalling call in Arizona home and deciding to
play college hockey d ASU and thensigning with with the Coyotes to start your
pro career. What what makes itfeel feel right like this is the place?

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Yeah, I think I think,aside from from my family being here,
just just the people and everyone aroundis always so nice and welcoming.
And then just the scenery of howpretty Arizona is, and and the weather
year round and even though it's superhot, you can always go outside and
enjoy enjoy the weather and the heatand you just look around and it's it's

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pretty special. So there's there's alot of things about Arizona that makes it
feel like, oh, what didyou do in college? And I don't
think we had any cooler weather tripswhen you were at the Roadrunners. But
a guy from Arizona, what doyou do when you go to a place
like Minnesota State man Cato for fora weekend as far as bundling up,
Yeah, So, so I thinkwe made a mistake my first year and

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we didn't have full in our coats. We just had a little bit thicker
track suits. So we went toMankato and then we went to Alaska,
so we had a root awakening whenwhen you went to those two because being
in Arizona and there's not a tonof other sports in our conference that are
up north that are really cold,so our school just kind of sent us

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the same as everyone else, andwe didn't really think too too far ahead.
And when we got there, itwas bundle up and stay inside was
was the main plan. But everyonelikes to snow when they see it because
they haven't seen it all year.So you get a couple of snow fights
and that's about it. Yeah,you can run out and throw a couple
of snowballs and not think about it. Yeah, on the way to the
bus, get a guy when he'snot looking, and then get on the

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bus quickly. Josh in the inthe locker room, who is your who
is your neighbors in the locker room? In twos when you got settled,
Yeah, so I had I hadSmitty and then I had and Bolco so,
and then Greggy was right down RyanMcGregor. We were in a corner
together US three so US four,So it was a pretty good corner to

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have. Obviously, having Bolco toyour left was was super super important early
on, and having him kind ofhelped me. And then having Nathan there
too because because he went through thattransition last year stepping into pro hockey and
having him next to me was wassomething I was helpful as well. What
about on the road, who isyour road roommate? My road roommate was

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was Yon Yannick for a little bitand then Ben McCartney and playoffs, So
two good guys and and fun guysto have on the road. Speaking of
playoffs, we're in Cotchella Valley fora week. Before that, you were
with us for our Vegas trip forabout a week when you were with ASU,
we had a weekend Calgary, soyou know we're the roadrunners. Where

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are you going on a on avacation if you got to spend a week
in Cotchella Valley, Vegas or Calgary? Calgary? Because because my my family's
off from a couple of days andenjoy enjoy the ranch that they're on while
while I'm up there, And uh, what about what about a cheat meal
for your vacation? Any any favoritecheat meals that you go to on on

(28:59):
cheat day? You can have anythingyou want. I don't know, I'm
I like pizza. Like pizza isan easy one to go to or an
Arizona in and out. I thinkgetting now is probably the biggest one for
me on cheap day is go geta burger and some fries from Minut and
Out and other than that, though, I'm I don't really count Chipotle as
a cheap meal. So that's aboutit for me. Chip Chipol is not

(29:22):
a cheap meal. Chipol. Youcan make it, you can make it
healthy, you can make it agood, good nutritions meal, and animal
it's in and out. Do youever go with the animal fries or any
of the milkshakes that they got?Yeah, I think animal fries every once
in a while, they're they're good, They're canna be a little much at
times, but every once in awhile it's always good to throw that on
there. And I'm a big chocolatemilkshake guy, so I've heard the vanilla

(29:45):
one's good too, but I usuallystick with chocolate. You know what I
did, uh? Quite a whileago, I went up to the girl
and I wanted, you know,I couldn't decide my flavor. I'm like,
does anybody ever order a strawberry combinedwith a vanilla and a child?
Act? And she she feverishly nodsher head and she's like, yeah they
do. It's called Theopolitan, saidall taken Neopolitan, and so that's my

(30:08):
that's my go to Kim. Ican taste it right now. How did
it taste? What did it tastelike? Oh, it's unbelievable strawberry,
chocolate and vanilla altogether as one.Yeah, you can buy me Apolitan ice
cream. It's really a thing.Yeah, that's chaos. Yeah, you
within animal style burger and fries andthe Apolitan shake. Its chos animal style

(30:30):
fries that I eat with a knifeand fork like it's like it's spetty and
neat balls. Oh, we lovefood. I love food. I love
food. But Kim, what doyou got for fun? Questions for Josh?
Okay, just a few Josh,is there somewhere on your bucket list
that you haven't had a chance totravel to yet that that's like going to
be your next spot you go tofor it is in terms of playing,

(30:53):
like traveling to play no, no, no, just you on your own,
gonna go vacation and it can itcan be outside of Coachella Valley Henderson.
Yeah, Kim doesn't give you.Kim doesn't give you a guidelines like
I do. Yeah, probably somewherein uh in Greece. I think Greece.

(31:15):
I've seen a couple of cool videoson social media of the beaches there
and the food and the weather,So I think that's got to be at
the top of the list right now. That's a good choice. That's so
out of podcast. I was notexpecting that in any way. That sounds
like a lot of fun. Yeah, okay, So here's a really weird
question. If you could communicate withone animal, any animal, what a

(31:38):
kind of animal would it be?I guess probably dog, just because it's
dog or horse. I feel likethose are two of the more common animals
that have around. So if Isaid line, it would kind of be
a waste, Like, I don'tknow if i'd be able to talk to
the line every an Arizona. SoI gotta think of something that I could

(31:59):
use, is it for? That'sa very practical decision. Plus, you
could you deal about emotional connection instantlywith a dog and a horse, right
like the other the other stuff's gonnatake some time, it seems. Yeah,
I might get eaten still if Ipick an other animal, So you
never know. My last question isasking everybody if you had the ox chord

(32:21):
in the locker room, what musicare we listening to? Oh? Country,
country, for sure. I don'teven wow. Outside of country,
I don't have too many genres thatI could I could pull out and play
the top songs for you for soit would get a little weird if I
was was playing other music. Whatwhat? What's your favorite country right now?

(32:42):
Because there's some good summer songs.There are some good summer songs.
There's I'm excited because because Chris Stapleton'sgot a new album coming out and he
just leaked a couple of songs andsort of tim or grow. But I'm
a huge Dirk's Bentley fan, sohe's He's the guy that I like to
listen to the most, probably andany and he's got some good summer songs.
So it's it's nice to turn himon and just kind of relax,

(33:06):
love it, Love it. Finalone, Josh, any questions for us,
Oh, I got some good ones, I guess, I guess.
For Adrian, we talked about aboutyour your running. Have you been able
to get out of outside and inthe heat. Are you getting up in
the morning, are you going outat night right now? Five am?

(33:27):
That's crazy, four forty five alarm, five am. Back home by six
thirty, in the office by seventhirty. Yeah, there you go.
I gotta and then I got.I guess I'll good. One for Kim
too, is what's the craziest questionyou've ever asked? Oh, it was
that freaky Friday question. For sure. That was the wordest question. That

(33:50):
was a perfect question for Kim.Yeah. I think that's the craziest question
I've asked today. Yeah, Yes, asked Josh one. You asked Reese
fatality about the suspension of disbelief.Yes, that so, So, Josh,
do you know what suspension of disbeliefis? No, see, I

(34:14):
take it for granted that people know. So I was a media arts major,
so I had to watch a lotof movie and colleagues that was it
was really tough. Yeah. So, suspension of disbelief is when you can
let go of what you know tobe true to enjoy a form of entertainment
when you know that it's wrong.Right. So I was telling Adrian a

(34:37):
suspension of disbelief for me that Ihave to let go of because I was
in the military and when I watchmilitary movies. Oh my god, Like
I'm like looking at uniforms. Ilook at you know, you're not allowed
to do certain things, and ifthey if they break a rule when I'm
watching it, I'm immediately like turnedoff. I'm like, oh no,
Like they don't know what they're doingmaking this movie. So my question to

(34:59):
you is, have you ever seena hockey movie that did that to you,
that took that that broke your suspensionof disbelief? Oh yeah, I
guess yeah. I think there's there'sa good amount of hockey movies when when
it just comes to skating and stufflike that, or it's it's almost like
and then they have fake actors andthey cut off their like go to like

(35:22):
just skates, and again they cutback and the actor doesn't know how to
he's skating, and it just looksawkward. So you gotta kind of cut
it out and be like, allright, just a movie, like you
gotta eliminate that. Yeah. Well, so we were talking about Goon Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, andthen also about Miracle, And one

(35:44):
of the things I loved about Miracleis that everybody was a player. Everybody
Yeah that was only the ice knewhow to ice skate and then they were
they knew hockey. So yeah,miracles are good. You aren't left to
do any of that during miracle.But like Goon is a tough one and
the Mighty Ducks they got some sometough skaters out there as well, so
you kind of just cut that out. Josh. We appreciate it. We

(36:07):
tell everybody we'll see in the desertsoon. But I guess the it's on
us here to come up and seeyou soon. Yeah. Yeah, you
gotta drive up to the Phoenix area, or I'll drive down to Tucson just
for me. We'll meet in CostaGrand at the In and Out Perfect Yeah.
Yeah, ice cream and meet there. Sounds sounds like a plan.

(36:30):
See in forty five minutes. Yeah, have a great day. Josh.
Thanks for joining us on the podcast. Yeah, of course, thanks Josh,
Thank you. So there's Josh Kim. That was so much fun for
us to chat with with Josh abouteverything that we did. I think we
finally were able to agree with oneof our guests on the cheap meal.

(36:51):
Yes, definitely be In and OutBurger, animal style fries, the shakes,
Neopolitan shake. Josh will go withus to in and out. He'll
get in that twenty five car linewith us at twelve thirty am and get
the in and out Kim. Ithink he has a true appreciation for the
meaning of the word cheap meet meat, cheap meal. So yes, hats

(37:14):
off, hats off to him.And also you, I did not know
that a Neopolitan shake was a thing, and I really need to try that.
I learned something I didn't either,but I asked questions. I am
not I'm not afraid to. Iwill would want to make sure I'm taking
full advantage of the food an inand out or steakhouse. I like.

(37:36):
I like the input. I likeinput. Yeah, I like that too.
And also to find out that Ihonestly feel like Josh could have his
own sports talk show. Like he'ssuper super got a bead on things that
are happening outside of his realm,which is really really nice to hear,
you know, like he's taking itall in eleven all the Arizona sports teams.

(37:58):
I love that that he loves thethe Arizona teams, the Songs,
Cardinals, Diamondbacks, yep. Goesto as U signs with with the Coyotes.
What a what an a all Arizonaboy that the Josh is and I
mean, you'd see Shane several timesa year on the set of diamond Backs

(38:20):
games. Is good Walsh's guests onn pre and postgame shows, and he
knows all about the team. Yeah, I feel like Josh is a true
son of Arizona, Like yeah,yeah, he really likes this place.
So that was really really good tohear. I love that. Yeah,
So thanks to Josh for for joiningus here on the program. And next
week we we we are efforting somemore Arizona flair to join Kim and I

(38:45):
on the podcast. Kim doesn't evenknow about it yet, but I had
to find a tease, so I'llget to that. Kim. You asking
Josh most unusual question he's ever beenasked. That had to be like,
uh had to be like loaded question, right. I don't know where that
came from in retrospect, the freakyFreddick question, like just yes to me.

(39:07):
It wasn't on the outline. No, I was just sitting here and
I was, you know, justthinking about I don't even remember what I
was thinking about. Like it literallyjust came out of nowhere where I was
thinking. It's so much. It'sso funny to me though, because I
was like, oh, he's probablygotta you know, it's really interesting.
You know, his dad has hadthis such a prolific career and is now

(39:27):
still doing amazing things in the NHL. But the fact that he was more
like, oh, what would mymom, what would the switch with my
mom look like? You know?That's that to me was really funny.
Yeah, that's it's it's it's agreat family. And you know, we
saw him on the commercial. Ican't believe you haven't. That's one of
my favorite commercials. Like they've gotseveral several different versions of it, but

(39:52):
the main one is probably Josh's sistermoving into her first apartment and Shane kind
of try to help out and she'slike, Dad, come on, you
know you have to call Chaz Robertseating and cooling. Oh, that's that's
right, that's what those are about. Okay, So not only if you
ask the family, can Shane notact not a great not a great handyman

(40:16):
either. That's so funny. Sure, I'm sure he could have figured it
out. I'm sure he could havefigured it out, but probably did you
know? I read on on Shane'sWikipedia page that he's a second cousin to
carry Price. Did you know that? No, I didn't know that.
I hadn't been over to Shane's Wikipedia. I don't know why I did.
I must have been on Josh's andthen went over to Shane's and just kick

(40:38):
the link. Yeah, yeah,of course I'm just doing doing deep dives
on everybody. So yeah, Ithought that was kind of funny. I
had meant to bring it up,and it just it just never came up,
so we didn't We didn't talk aboutit. But yeah, the siblings
to me are so interesting that they'reinto acting and things that are like in

(41:00):
no way you know, sports orhockey. And now I shouldn't be surprised,
obviously, everybody's going to do whatthey're good at, and but to
hear about it, and to hearit from Josh's perspective is so much fun,
right, because when when it's asibling, you get such a different
insight into somebody than if it's justa friend. Josh is gonna be on
the ice with the Coyotes this week. The team just announcing their rookie face

(41:24):
off roster. Three games in Vegascoming up Friday, Saturday, and Monday.
Josh is on the roster. MichaelLombardi, who the Roadrunners just signed
today. He played a game ofUS after winning the national championship at Quinnipiac
last year. Michael Miller will bethere Montana. Anya Bucci just signed to
that entry level deal by the Coyotes. We've seen him with San Jose last

(41:47):
couple of last couple of years.Another another big signing this offseason. Another
Kitty's draft pick, Aku Ratu namedto watch for in Kate's training camp.
Rice Fatelli, you'll be there,Anson Thornton, Katie's draffic from a couple
of years ago. Some more firstrounders Connor Geeky, Dylan gunther Maverick Lambaru

(42:08):
will be there for for the Coyotes. Not to mention Logan Cooley, Kim
so uh wow, who's who forthe Coyotes at the rookie faceoff and the
road winners coaching staff gonna be gonnabe leading the way there with with that
group. That's fantastic. Is itgoing to be Is it going to be

(42:30):
something that we can keep up todate on on socials? And how do
we how do we find out what'shappening there. Check out Arizona Coyotes dot
com and they'll have a they'll havea link for you to uh to watch
it. So that's that's coming upthis weekend. Then before you know it's
main camp starts. The Coatis willhead to Australia. Kim, you will
head to Wichita with Dusty. Folksweren't with us last week on the podcast.

(42:53):
You and Dusty we're going to thepreseason game at Hoichita on September twenty
third. I forarded you your airlineticket last week. I forarded you your
hotel reservation last week. Is thereanything else we can anything else we can
get you for this? Kim?No, we just names, which I

(43:13):
know you don't have. I don'thave names. No, I know you
don't have names. That's that's it. I'm ready to go. I'm ready
to Dustin and are going to hitthe road. So yeah, So,
Kim, we'll be in Wichita,p announcer for the Kennedy's game in Whichita
against Saint Louis. We think Istill never looked it up, But did
you look it up yet? Youknow who We're playing on the twenty third
at the Intrust Bank area and Wichita. I did see somewhere it is Saint

(43:35):
Louis, but I don't remember whereI saw it. I can't remember,
but it did say in Wichita.It's going to be the Blues. Confirmed.
Confirmed, We've confirmed that the Kimis going to be there. So
hockey's getting going and big signing forthe road winners State. Michael Lombardi National
championship at Quidipiac alternate captain on thatteam, was going to graduate school last
year. I played five years ofcollege with the the extra COVID year attached

(43:59):
to it, and played one gamewith the road Runners last year. That's
sick goal. One goal in aone game. He's a pointy game guy.
So him and Mike Carconi the pointof game guys from from last year
for the Roadrunners. That is awesome. I am excited to see what he's
gonna do. Super excited. Speakingof our favorites, Kim phone rings Friday

(44:23):
night. Let's see what time thephone rang Friday night for me. Let's
see here, Friday night at eightforty four, I get a phone call.
It lasts three minutes. Any idea, any ideas who it is?
It's a Roadrunner it's a long timeroad Runners. It's the longest time road

(44:45):
runner. Yes, yes, it'sIvan. It was Ivan. Ivan called
me yea Friday night. You knowthat if you've been listening to the podcast
this summer, you know that I'vebeen watching, Uh, some keys for
Ivan. A car key. Heleft a car here, so he left
us the spare key just in caseit needed to be moved over over in

(45:07):
his place. Left it's a storagekey, just in case flied Koyachonic beat
him back to Arizona and needed thestorage key. And all summer long,
I've been like, do not losethese keys, do not touch this coffee
cup. These keys are in Whereis the damn coffee cup? But all
all is well. The keys willbe delivered to Ivan this week. Our

(45:29):
equipment managers are taking to Phoenix ontheir way to camp. Oh nice.
So that's what that was, thethree minute call. He needs his Kis
like, he's back. Kims like, you guys took three minutes to hammer
out how to get Ivan his keysback. Yeah, yeah, we did.
That's fast. That's an incredibly fastphone call. Details are important,
Kim. Yeah, no, Iget it, I get it. I

(45:52):
am ready to go. Ready togo. Speaking of ready to go,
you went out to went out toeat. Give the folks an update on
Snoran restaurant week, Yes, okay, I got it last week. All
the all all sorts of restaurants insouthern Arizona specials that you can take advantage
of a hundred restaurants, And Ithought, so, it's a prefixed menu,

(46:13):
right, so twenty five, thirtyfive or forty five dollars. Not
every restaurant has the They have achoice of what they wanted to build.
And I'd been to restaurants in thepast where I was getting dishes that they
normally make, you know, LikeI went to Caruso's and got to lasagna
and salad. If nobody's ever hada Caruso's salad in lasagna, driven by

(46:34):
it one hundred times and mouth justwaters, my god, that's that's gonna
be a good spot. I don'teven know how many tons of garlic that
restaurant goest through on a daily basis, but it smells like it's fifty tons
when you pass by. It's justthe most intoxicating scent on Fourth Avenue is
that garlic. But I went toFlora's Market run over the weekend. I
think on Saturday, Flores on Floresis like sixth and Country Club. It

(47:00):
is. That's perfect, that's exactlywhere it is. It's the old rink
on Market and they had a veryspecific menu with items that they are only
making for snoor In Restaurant Week.And one the dessert was chai ice cream
with a handmade waffle cone bowl thatwas lined in chocolate with a I want

(47:25):
to say it was like a caramelor raspberry drizzle and candied pecans. I
cannot say enough good things about thisdessert. It was absolutely amazing. So
that was my whole thing was Ididn't realize that restaurants were creating special dishes
for Snoran Restaurant Week. So ifyou go to a restaurant that is part

(47:46):
of it, then you definitely needto ask and see if they If you
don't get a menu, you should. And it's I think I think it's
almost over. I think we onlyhave like two or three days left,
but definitely try and get out tothe local restaurants and take part in son
ourn Restaurant Weeks. So it's likeit's like the best and brightest chefs in
Tucson, and they're making signature dishesthat you will not be not be able

(48:09):
to get at another time in theyear. Probably. So guess what,
Kim, guess what. It's lunchtime. When do we shoot this podcast
around lunch time? It's lunch time. I'm sorry, are you where are
you going today? Street Talk orBeyond Bread? Oh yeah, you're gonna
walk just walk to Street Taco.Yeah, that's an option, or Beyond

(48:30):
Bread. So just doing it.We're doing a department lunch at one of
those places today, So got tofigure out how to balance the budget and
then we'll go to the place thatbest serves that. Okay, well they
both sound fantastic. Street Taco I'vealready. Is anybody's surprised like I did
through three places? Add Bagots tothat and oh yeah on Friday, you

(48:54):
know where to find me. What'dyou get? I always get a high
Baggins, which is their egg salad. Oh gosh, yeah, I get
so I get the veggie with thebrown deep wheat bread. Yeah. They
don't make a bad sandwich, Nothey don't. It's it's one of those
places you want to order everything andyou just sort of the same thing that

(49:14):
you always get. Do you haveyou ever tried their Chinese sesame pasta?
It comes in the little Oh Ihaven't. I don't know how they make
it. It's magic, I'm prettysure is what they're using to make it.
And it doesn't sound like much.It's just noodles with sesames and green
onions. But whatever they're using toflavor it is so good. Big big
fan. If you've never tried theirChinese sesame noodles or their bow tie pasta,

(49:37):
definitely give those a try. SoBagans beyond Bread Street Taco. Our
favorite place is endorsed by us atno additional talent fees being paid out to
us. We just do it outof the goodness of our heart and our
taste buds and our appetites. Thoseare three favorite, three favorite spots in

(49:59):
Tucson. Kim. Yeah, yeah, definitely, I feel like I have
all the favorite spots. Yeah.It's it's as as we said, like
there's this is the culinary capital ofthe Southwest, and you can get to
a new place every day and atleast me just go to the favorite spots
because just like when you go toorder a sandwich at Bagan's, you order
the same thing every time, justbecause it's it's the best thing you've ever

(50:21):
eaten. Right, yeah, allright, Kim. Last week on the
podcast, we ran out of timebefore we could talk about this situation with
you and your cell phone. Right, remember remember how it was going to
bring up something that you do withyour cell phone? Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, right, Okay, almostforgot it again because yeah, me

(50:43):
too. Don't don't have an outlinetoday. This show is completely spontaneous today,
the folks. You don't have anyou don't have an outline. You
know, things things on a Mondaygo crazy, and we got to push
the podcast out. So Kim andI are just just talking, all right,
Kim. So you heard the lastepisode with me and Jimmy and the
red receipts. Yeah, Jimmy's like, we have your red receipts on.

(51:06):
I'm like, no, I know, and I would never have my red
receipts on. And I go indeep to my phone and I find out
that my red receipts are only ontoJimmy, because yes, I must have
been. You know, like ifyou send somebody a picture or something and
you can go back into the backend and scroll through all the media.
But if you scroll too fast,you're going to toggle over a button that's
gonna turn on your red receipts whenyou when you text these people. So

(51:30):
so every time I said Jimmy atext, the red receipts come up,
so he knows that I've read it. Like, that's the last thing I
want anybody, especially him to see. I'm not am not a red receipts
guy. There's a lot of redreceipts. Guy, do you have your
red receipts on? Kim? Andthen on our last podcast together, we
spent fifteen minutes going over this istalking about unplanned that that was unplanned,

(51:53):
that was not on the outline.So that you guys having that conversation made
me wonder what settings my phone wason. So after listening to you guys
talk about that, I went andchecked and no, my red receipts are
not on. Thank god everything.Your red receipts are not on, Kim.
No, but there's something else that'son. What? Oh my god?

(52:15):
What? And this sucks. Thisis not fair that the iPhone does
this. Kim. I should havetold you last week, should have told
you six weeks ago. Kim,you have to go in and adjust the
setting, and you have no ideait's even there because it's part of a
late update. What what is it? Oh my gosh, I'm scared.

(52:36):
All right, Kim, I'm goingto text you right now. Okay,
let's see if this comes up.All right, let's take a look here.
Yep, it's I don't even haveto text you. I see it.
I open up to text you andI get a icon of a banana
moon and a note that said,Kim has notifications. Oh yeah, yes,

(53:00):
yes, I do have that.And I've seen that with other people.
You leave it on on purpose,Yeah, because I'm usually I'm not
always you know, talking to youon the podcast, but I can be
on the phone on another phone andI don't know. I honestly have not
Do you do it so people don'ttext you and then text you again and

(53:22):
then call and then call back.And is it a courtesy from you?
It's a courtesy of people that arearound me. Because I get the notifications
on my watch. My watch viberates when I get a text, so
I feel it. So it seemsredundant to have it make an audible for
me also, right, And likeI know, I don't think I've had

(53:45):
the sound on on my phone inyears. See, I did just the
opposite. I got one of thosewatch things for Christmas, put it on
in the living room. One ofthose watch things walked into the walked into
the kitchen, and I was alreadylosing my mind. It turned them off,
the notifications on the watch that Idon't even that I don't even wear.

(54:07):
I was driving any crazy, itwouldn't stop. Yeah, I mean
you can. You can control itso that it's not insanity, because I
also get I mean, everything comesto the watch, so Snapchat, Instagram,
TikTok, my team's messages, everythingcomes to the watch. So there
are there are times when I turnit off. I couldn't do it.

(54:28):
Yeah, I couldn't do it.Yeah. So I'm and do not disturb
sometimes, but I'm always my phoneis always on vibrate. There's no sound
coming out of my phone. Ja. Yeah, it's so Wait and have
you been in public too where youhear somebody get a message or a phone
call and it's such a jarring sensation, like because you don't hear it that

(54:53):
often, most people have it deliveredquietly. All right, kim, Let's
let's cover this social situation. Kim. Yeah. The only people that talk
on their phone like that in public, Kim are the people who have their
phones on speaker phone and talk intoit like six inches away, holding it
out. You see what I'm doing? What is that? Yes? I

(55:15):
have been so entertained by people doingI've been in a doctor's room, doctor's
office, waiting room and somebody hadtheir volume all the way up and is
having a phone conversation on speaker phone. We all knew their business. It's
it's like like, you know,you know, we've had these things for
over one hundred years. You canput them up to your ear. They're

(55:37):
handheld phones. Yeah, they're handsets, they're upsets, they're no. But
I assume that it's people who stillbelieve that if you hold it close to
your head that it's going to giveyou Kims, what is that? What
this is about that? What aboutwhat about the people where it's illegal to
talk on the phone when you're drivingand you have to use as free device

(56:00):
that I don't a sad dag.Yeah, hold the phones up, and
it's even more dangerous than if theywere talking on their phones. Kim,
holding up driving with one arm starteddown a rabbit hole. Adrian, I'm
worried about your blood pressure, butI was going to tell you so you
know, I walk around here allthe time, right the Flynn Parking garage.

(56:22):
The amount of times I have almostbeen hit as people are coming out
of that parking garage, because Ican tell their heads are down as they're
rolling out of the parking lot withtheir phones in their hands. It is.
It makes me absolutely bonkers, likeI'm so close to just writing a
letter to that apartment complex. Kim. Do you like how every time we

(56:44):
ask the guys if they have anyquestions for us, all the guys ask
me about my running. I thinkthey do. I like how they usually
go no, but and then theyask a question. They all say no,
that's all they have a question.They're they're infatuated by the running.
You run. It's it's like pathological. You're like a pathological runner. I

(57:04):
don't know how. I don't knowhow you do it. It's something so
Kim, maybe last five ten years. Okay, so I'm out running.
I used to run. I've gotthe right of way. I'm running.
Okay, you hit me, that'syour fault. I am an a crosswalk.
I have the right of way.You were taking a right you better

(57:27):
look over and see me or that'sgonna be a problem for you because it's
gonna be your fault, right ifyou hit me. Right, had several
close calls, and you know,as you get older, I don't ever
want to say that I was ahothead, Kim, but you know,
you kind of calmed down and thestuff isn't as big of a deal as
it was, and me running andyou know, it's it's okay, Adrian,

(57:53):
if you don't have the right ofway, you know, to just
stop and make sure that somebody seesyou. Right. So I'm more in
that mindset now of it's okay eventhough it's your right of way, Why
don't you just make sure take anextra two seconds here and make sure they

(58:13):
they see it, or maybe gobehind them or something like that. Right,
Yeah, you have more perspective onlife. Yeah, yeah, I
can't believe I was never hit bya car. There were some close calls
because I had the right of way, I know, right, Because if
you think about it, if youget hit, even if you have the
right of way, you could stilldie. It could not be your fault,
but that could happen, right,you know, you don't get any

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you know, be right, youdon't get any any deals at the hospital
because you had the right of way. Nope. So I'm a little more.
I'm a little more. I'm alittle more careful. I'm a little
more you know. You know,Adrian, you can take two seconds here,
sometimes it's only half a second,and make sure this car sees you,
even though you have the right ofway, because some people just zone

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out. And you see that.I actually was sitting. I was sitting
on the corner of Fort Lowell andCampbell, right there next to be on
Bread. I was sitting. Iwas in the turn lane, and normally,
when I'm going to take a lefthand turn, I will pull out
into the intersection and wait to beable to go. For some reason,
when the light turned green, Ijust decided to kind of hang back and

(59:22):
I'm just sitting there and I cansee a car coming out of my peripheral
vision perpendicular to the traffic that isgoing through the light. She didn't stop,
Adrian. It was the most bananasthing I've ever seen. It was
like something out of a movie.I don't know how she didn't hit a
single car going through that intersection,but traffic was fully going north and south,
and she was coming from the westside. She went straight through that

(59:43):
intersection and she did not look upone time. It was insane. There's
one thing we have here in Tucsonthat I've never seen anywhere else, and
that's the double left turn lanes.Oh I love those because we don't need
to. We don't have any freewayshere. We got to keep things moving
in some capacityes right, Yes,I all the people. If I am
in the second turn lane, like, I will wait. I will wait

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to get a I will wait toget a signal. If I'm closest to
the center to turn left right,I will wait to get a signal.
I will I will not just yetout into the middle of the road.
My first couple of weeks here,I'm like, all right, we here
we go. This is what youdo in Tucson. Here we go.
It's like, yeah, that's notgonna end. That's not good. I

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need so I wait to get asignal. If I'm in the lane that's
not the closest. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense,
and I'm working on it. I'man aggressive driver. I mean I
lived on the East Coast for along time. Very aggressive drivers out there,
and and Tucson is a weird mixand a weird amalgamation of students who

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are still trying to figure out wherethings are and kind of maybe driving a
little bit slower and maybe distracted peoplewho live here and know where they're going
and us want to get there,and then snowbirds and it is just a
what it what it reces use theword Gong show driving It is a Gong
show. I mean, you couldgo on and on and on and on.

(01:01:14):
Yeah, it's it's bananas. It'sit's anarchy out there, absolutely anarchy.
So we've got to be careful.And we thank everybody who listens to
the Roadrunners Insider podcast and too SunRead Winners Happy Hour while they're on the
road. They're on the road,Yeah for sure, don't be part of
the Gong Show. Just get homesafe. Speaking of Read Winners, Happy
or Kim, we've been going backand forth that neither of us have talked

(01:01:36):
to Brett in a couple of weeks. Yeah, he's he called me last
week. He's good for Happy Hour. Oh good. Oh, that's the
three of us will I'll be backon Read Winners Happy Hour Tuesday, October
three, five pm, Fox Sportsfourteen fifty am. I am looking forward
to catch up with Brett Kem andI will shift back over to the radio

(01:01:57):
side. Is Jonathan Schaefer arrives toco host the podcast with me starting on
October one at road Unders fan Fest? So is Jonathan? Did he find
a place? Is he here now? Did you lure him out to your
the east side? He did finda place out on the east Side,
Kim. Oh my goodness. See, he's going to be part of the
Gong Show because he can't avoid it. He's gonna be out on the east

(01:02:17):
Side with me. Yeah, Ohmy goodness. Well, I hope he
loves it out there. I thinkyou see all the stars out here.
He's gonna he's gonna love it.He looked at six or seven places and
Tucson and that was home. That'sfantastic. That's it good. I'm glad
So Jonathan be joining us coming upOctober one. In the meantime, you
got me and Kim for the nextcouple of weeks. We're gonna effort another

(01:02:40):
Arizona Arizona centric player in the nextnext episode of the podcast, Kim,
it's time for our random download cityof the week. US and Canada are
our choices this week, Kim,where do you want to go? Well,
we did? We did Canada lastdidn't we? Yes, we did?
I think we did. Okay,so then let's go oh US this

(01:03:00):
time? All right, A lotof download this week, but mostly in
Arizona. So we got Arizona,Nevada, Illinois, Utah, and New
York. Oh, how about Illinois, Illinois? Two cities in Illinois,
Kim, okay, Chicago and O'Fallon. Well, O'Fallon. I don't even

(01:03:24):
know where that is, but wedo get quite a few downloads from there.
Must have been just sell that isit? Like? Oh, Claire,
it's h o apostrophe fa l ohOkay, yeah, okay. It's
on the Saint Louis U Saint Louisside of Illinois. It's downtown. Yeah,

(01:03:45):
you know, I think let's Ithink we could go down a rabbit
hole here? Where was Dakota myrmisfrom former roadowners Captain Alton, Illinois,
Illinois. Jay Verity is from thatside of He's from Kahokia, Illinois.
All right, so we haven't narroweddown who could be listening to us in
O'Fallon, but we certainly do appreciateit. So Alton and O'Fallon are an

(01:04:12):
hour away, about forty forty fiveminutes away from each other. Yeah,
Dakota and Jay looks relatively close.That's that's awesome. That's very cool.
All right, Kim, Uh wedid it. We got over an hour?
Uh? Yeah, we did.We got over an hour? Did
we gave the folks that are hour? We promised him last week? Last
week, I think it said fiftynine minutes and forty five seconds. By

(01:04:34):
the time we get through everything wasdefinitely over an hour. But we got
over. We got over an hourfor sure this week because I have one
last thing that I could get usdefinitely yea, go ahead. Went to
go see the movie Grand Treismo.Yes, yea at the movie theater,
and I have to recommend anybody wholoves sports needs to go see this movie.
It was one of the best sportsmovies that I've ever seen. Like,

(01:04:56):
I laughed, I cried, Everybodycheered at the right points like out
loud. People just applause for long, long stretches of time. It was
so good. It is the truestory of a kid who plays Grand Tourismo
racing game on his PlayStation at homeand it turns out that he's one of
the highest scorers in this game,and the Nissan Auto Company ends up creating

(01:05:24):
a contest to make the top driversin their virtual game actual drivers in motorsport.
And it was, like I said, it's a true story. This
guy is still raised. His nameis Jan Maldenborough. He is still racing
today. The story is absolutely fantastic, The acting is amazing, the music

(01:05:45):
is so so good. It hasI know it's gonna be jarring, but
it has Kenny g and Enya init, which was just so hysterical.
But if you I figured out,I'm a big Formula one fan, so
I wanted to see it because Ilike, I like to watch him,
like, you know, six inthe morning on Sundays. There's not a
one on yeah, because they're alloverseas. Yeah. So I figured out

(01:06:09):
in watching this movie that I lovemotorsports. I don't think it's just Formula
One. This was just a fantasticmovie. So I just wanted to plug
it. If anybody gets a chanceto go see, especially while it's in
the theaters because you get all ofthe sounds of the cars and you get
you get it big in the theater. So I don't work for the theater.
I'm not affiliated with the theater.But and my son, I have

(01:06:31):
not seen him like more wrapped inattention watching a movie in a very very
long time than with this movie.It was just I could not give it
more stars if I had to giveit as many as you want. Yeah,
ninety all the good Night and onehundred stars, all stars, limit
list there is. The limit doesnot exist on the stars for this movie.

(01:06:55):
Yeah. So Adrian, let meknow what you'll see. Yeah,
No, it's a good idea.I like it. I'll check it out.
Cool all right, Kim, goodjob. Lights of Tucson a red
butter trock to take us out today, Lights of Tucson. Okay, gotta

(01:07:18):
see the lights of Tucson. Yougotta back, come on, get a
move on. Gotta see the lightsof Tucson and coming back wheels, get
a just when my little woman wasthere and said, you can't a little

(01:07:43):
one that's sweet together, but Tucson, my heart is yearning light Bronson,
my wheels are turning. Can't we'dbe there with her y in Carolinas,
the lights of tow sunshining in herill be alonea we all never soone,

(01:08:16):
thet it desert reaching the sky.Gotta see the lions of Tucson. I
gotta back. Come on, gethim home. Gotta see the lions of
Tucson coming back. We will geta new bar. Gotta see the lights

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of Tusume. I got it back. Come on, get the moon.
Gotta see the lights to sun andcoming back. We'll gotta as anyone