October 28, 2025 • 46 mins
It’s an international Happy Hour this week as the guys sit down with one of the Roadrunners’ Finnish standouts—who’s also celebrating life as a first-time dad! From balancing family life and hockey to adjusting to the desert and sharing a few laughs about life back home. Did Miko peak in high school? Enjoy this easygoing chat with one of the team’s newest fathers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's five o'clock on your Tuesday night. This is Tucson
Roadrunners Happy Hour from Fox Sports fourteen fifty A YEA
with James Mackey, David Moradi, and then Kim Conor road Blaze.
It's our usual Tuesday night get together right here on
Tucson Sports. Stay shit, Fox Sports fourteenth fifty A YEA.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Happy Hour, our weekly
get together with David Brady and Kim Coda Roadblaze and
our guests this week, Miko Matica. And Miko just recorded
his first AHL goal against the Calgary Wranglers on Sunday,
October nineteenth, so very exciting there. There's been a lot
of milestones for the Roadrunners in general. But we'll jump
right in here and get to our guest, Miko, how
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did it feel to register your first AHL goal and
what did you think of the opening weekend here for
the Roadrunners?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean, for the first goal was I was good
at fall? I feel like it's been a long time coming,
and you know, try to enjoyed as much as I
can and as a as a whole weekend, I feel
like the whole place was buzzing and it felt good.
And it was awesome playing in front of fans again,
and fucking team got it a pretty good start too.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And I was wondering and coach Potvin mentioned this preseason,
are the crowds that are played in front of in
the AHL and just generally in the US, is that
larger than what you were used to in Europe or
it's kind of similar?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I feel like where I
played in Europe, it was like more junior so it
was like not too many big crowds. But uh ah,
definitely in here it's been it's been great crowds, and
uh it's been fun playing in front of here. But
I feel like college and and you know, a in general,
it's pretty good fans compared to Finland. But it's it's
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it's it's really good in Europe too.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Listen, Miko, you and I need to talk. We have
we have beef.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Because we've had this conversation multiple times. What I'm about
to talk to you about right now, and that is
how to pronounce your name. I know you, I know
you know what to talk about a few times. We've
talked about a few times and I've never get it right.
And so, and then people ask me, fans ask me,
how do you say his last name? And I just
throw my hands up. I don't know this because.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Right so I don't. Personally, I don't care how how
do I said?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's every time I go to New City, the announcers
always ask me, how do you say your name?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm like, this is the thing.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
How would how would your grandma want me? What would
want to hear your name said in this place?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Probably just like Metica. I feel like that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's pretty good because I know you guys can't say
the way in Finland decided that's fine.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm so used to it's fine. Like I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I know, but that's not. That doesn't make it right.
So say it the way that they would say it
in Finland. See, I'm not close. I know.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It's a double it's a double K in the middle.
It's hard. I have to like it's I will stop.
It's good. It's a little stop in the mode. But
is that better?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's pretty good though, that's close enough because I don't know.
I'm be honest, I don't. It's not too typical a
deal for me. It's funny how you guys like a
lot though you always talk about it.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It's so important, it's always.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Brought it's always brought up.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah, well because it looks easy. And then people say matica, mytika.
I know the boys call you teks like you and
Julian Lutz yeah, or lots.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sometimes they call.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's just that's the hero's all the names.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Nol To know what his name is, Loots, right, but
they call him Lutzi. How does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I don't know. I don't know. I'm being honest. I
have not came up with a single nickname so far.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
So and then nol how do you say Noel's name?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Nord no?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
My key there is to just go fast nor right,
nord no Nord.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I don't actually know what to say. Swedish but isn't
in Finland?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Don't they don't? You guys speak a little Finnish but
also Swedish.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Everyone always thinks it's just the same, but it's so different.
It's completely different.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's there isn't a Scandinavian country. They don't speak the
same language as the rest of Scanninasia yea.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So there's so it's uncommon to hear Swedish spoken in Finland.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
No, so that's very common. Finland is to language country
Swedish and Finnish, but.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The languages themselves are very.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Like speaking them it's so different, Like I don't like Nord.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You will not understand a word I was saying, but
I speak Swedish, so I don't understand what he's saying.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I understand, but he doesn't speak.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Finnish, he doesn't speak Finish. It's very hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How many languages do you speak?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I speak three, so English, Swedish, Finis. I'm trying to
learn French, but it's hard. I'm getting though, And what
do you think?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So this is going to be a little bit off topic,
but we're in language, right. So I play golf. You said,
you said off the air that you have a tea
time coming up, and I was kind of trying to
intimidate Kevin Rooney on our last interview by telling him
my handicap is lower than his. But anyway, that's neither
here nor there. In golf, there's a certain vernacular or
language spoken. There are raises that only makes sense on
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the golf course, and they're in English, obviously, but there's
really nothing to do with the English language. I'm just
wondering if you've adapted to that, and if you have
some golf terms that you feel like you know in
English that you never thought you would know. But who
you are saying that when you're out on the course, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'll tell you this much. For the first time I
went to the course, I had no clue what half
the guys were saying. I was like, it was completely
gibberous to me, but I picked it up a little bit.
But I'm so, I'm so bad in golf.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So if you hit a bad shot, and we'll try
to keep it clean. But if you hit a bad shot,
what will you say after that? Like I chunked it
or I saw that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
If I hit a bad shot, I can't say it
on air.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I can't hit it on air what.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I would say? But it's something crazy and definitely didn't
finish as well. But the guys do have a lot
of funny lingo.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I don't. I still don't know all of it, but
I'll figure it out.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Do you have to ask them to translate it for you?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Sometimes? What do you mean? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's more to scramble one. They're like you'll try to
hit that flopshot of it there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm like you flop what?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And I'm like what you're saying, Like what do you
want me? To tell me what you want? And I'll
try to put it there.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But that's not like yeah, but at least when you
play like once or twice a round, well you hit
that one shot where you're like, Okay, I'm coming back
next time.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's a three D if I would have given a
quick golf last summer if I got to hop every every.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Round I play.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So what do you think is the best shot you
ever hit?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Actually was in Utah? Boy saw it? It was. It
was a crazy chip for Bertie.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You chipped it in.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It was a chipped in. It was like a thirty
five and you're up in Utah up in. I was
a part. It was a part of three or so.
Its cheap.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I had to really bad t shot and I and
I said, ton't know, had a nice Bertie you want
chip Chuck.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That was good.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
So as we record this, it is actually the week
before we're going to air it, because we're going to
we're speaking to you early because because we have a
Tuesday game and we're gonna air this on Tuesday Afterober
twenty eight, so between now and then, it's actually your birthday.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
No, you're right, I forgot about what what are you
gonna be turney, migo, I'll be turning twenty so twenty
two on Sunday, I think, do you think?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Do you know what it's Sunday? Do you know what
a prefrontal cortex is?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I send your brain in the front.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yes, that is that one that actually developed twenty two
at twenty time.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You're almost there. You are so close. You're closer than David.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And that's right. And what does what does that court?
What does that one to do? Is that memory or no?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
That is that is when your brain is fully developed,
you are ready to go. You're ready to like you
can make the good decisions that aren't gonna like you're
not gonna you know, are you right? Like you're not
gonna floor it when you're in the go kart?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Are you implying that up until this point, Miko has
made poor decisions.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I'm not implying anything. Miko. Do you think you've made
poor decisions?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I feel like it's been good.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Okay, it's good.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I haven't I have a few extra years on my
front's a little bit what we definitely got in there.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I can feel it feeling okay. I feel smart, And
do you, David?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Do you I think I generally made reasonable decisions? Yeah,
I mean mego, I we must be doing something right
because we're here together, right, and we to be happy.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You're good to go.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's for every decision we've made has taken us to
be exactly here right now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Right.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah. Do you have any birthday plans? I mean it's
news to you that your birthdays on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So I actually did forget about it for a few weeks.
I was like, my mom called me. It was like,
you know, your birthday and Sunday doing anything? No, actually
don't have nope, ponds probably just gonna grab some dinner.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You're not gonna play golf. You guys have an off day?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, no, no, I can't. I can't ruin my birthday
by having a bad round, have good food and actually
enjoying my day rather than being depressed all day for
having a bad round.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So you've been in Tucson now for a little you
have some familiarity between some stints last year and now
the beginning of this year. Do you have a couple
of courses that you're starting to get familiar with or
you just go wherever your buddies tell you.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Actually, the good one that once ass ha, Now it's
Corey Pons like Cory is good. It's always, it's always good.
I like the scenery and then probably though it is
actually the background is actually really hard.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What are some other ones you like to play?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Guess me really hard? Twin Peaks or links whatever it
is omnia.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
That.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, that's very nice, both of them. Both of the
courses are very nice. I see there's a couple of
up and or a valley over there. I haven't been there.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But and when you guys play, is there some sort
of action the winning team for twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Or it's a little more about it's a good amount
of money on the line.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, And do you feel like your game is developed
enough to have that kind of pressure or you just
don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I just played with lipp Or, so I'm good. Oh wait,
he's really good. He said, he chased me. That's why
I'm comfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
How does he feel about that? Like you're kind of
dead weight and he has to carry you? Throughout the man.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I bring good vibes to the golf car. I definitely
run the vibes.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So you're there for contribution is not golf related.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I bring this you're hearing a couple of peers and
it will be good. There you go, bring my beats
fill all be good.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Okay, we've talked about so much golfe we need we
need to talk about more important things like what's the
song that you want to hear during warm ups? What's
your song? Yeah, tell me your song?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do anything like Madonna probably and gets me kind of
going old Madonna, like.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Like a virgin of some stuff like did you really.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That was?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
That's like the first Madonna song that like popped into
my head.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So yeah, But like, is American music in Finland very okay? Y,
that's huge? And is English spoken generally?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Or people said they didn't keep the teacher to very early.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
So therefore so you understand the music and it's culturally
you learn.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
You learned through music and like movies and stuff. That's
how I learned not to speak.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
What were some of your favorite movies growing up that
were American?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Probably say like Fight Club, Interception and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
How do you say fight club and finish.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
We just got clubs. If you want this straight translation,
be Ahlby or something like that. But it makes no
sense again, bellow cluby, it makes no that makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's like a straight translation. I don't think that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Really, he's a trans fight and then club.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Like that's funny.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So okay. But the real answer, Kim would be there
is no fight club, so there's nothing to talk about
right now.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
What you're talking about exactly?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
What about Inception? It's the finish for Inception?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't know, be honest, and I remember the movie
name and finished. I will want to see it in
in English.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, all right, okay, so we've got American movies are
generally present. You know, you have the culture music. How
about hockey? Were you watching the NHL as a younger guy.
I'm assuming that you were a pretty good player as
a young kid, So were you also following the NHL?
Do you have a favorite player growing up or not
really the case?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They were all European guys that I used to look
up to, like Avechkin and a bunch of Swedes, A
lot to finished guys.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
How about Henrik Lundquist?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I did, but his goalies he really hided me up
too much. But uh, but I know he has a
good style, like all those guys I always liked.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I always have a little extra for all the Euros.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Is that your boy? Is that where you are?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay, well I'm a huge Rangers fan, That's what I say.
So I was, what do you mean we're in a
suitent tie like I always anyway, Yeah, yeah, no, I
got a little mix thing on my jack of lapel. Anyway,
I was talking to Kevin Rooney because he was a
Ranger player. I'm a big Rangers fans, that's I figured.
And he said, one of the better players he's ever No,
(12:48):
no offense here, he said, one of the better players
he's ever played alongside was our Timmy panerin No you
know European. So you're a fan of his at all?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh, all the Russians a vegan took all those guys
who are always big on me and and still you know,
all those Russian guys still are still really really silk
and I always love watching how they play.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But Kevin said, and this is growing up in Boston,
that he didn't really follow the NHL as a kid,
but it seems like you were more interested in watching especially.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'm be honest, I didn't even watch games that much.
Like I always watched like if I went like watched games,
I watched Finnish games. But like player wise, like I
always added lost like American Bob, have never aladed lost
to finish player, very very little. Few guys I actually
look up to like who were finished Infintland.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
How did you take some of the Finnish team struggles
in the Four Nations last winter?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But did it?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Did it hurt you personal bets?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You had to have bets on those games.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I did have a lot of bets, and I don't
think I want to single one of them my best
Finland and that didn't go well. Yeah, but it's you know,
you're playing against Canada in the US. Yeah, it's understandable.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
If you I'm gonna pivot really hard. If you were
in a heist, do you know what that is? Okay,
what would you roll on the heist be?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I'd probably be a ghetto we driver. I'm behind the wall.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
You're huge. I drive like crazy though crazy good or crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's that's something I had to learn to come into America. Like,
you guys drive so faster here, so fast in Finland.
I feel like I'm driving so slow.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
But you guys have a very big bike culture we
do in here. Also, you guys have so many saunas,
and like, I feel like just that would like if
we had saunas here, I feel like things would slow down.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I don't want to get political, but you guys definitely
chill a little more here. Yeah, I feel that. Maybe
not in there just saying we need to chill. Maybe
not so it's so high.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's a sauna every day, but it is maybe the
colder maybe the colder steak could use it a little more.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wait, I didn't follow that point, So you're what does
the sauna have to do with with chilling and also
being political?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I was saying that we need more saunas here so
that people can just go and relax, And.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Then I said, I don't want to get political. It
would help. We're just getting more saunas here.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, everybody's blood pressure would lower if we just had
a few more sons kids probably.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So we had a friend who's who lives in Estonia
for a really long time, and he would tell me
that he was taking meetings in sauna.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
The culture is like he loved it, and he said
it was like very very relaxed, like he loved you know,
just you know.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's funny. Is So, I'm coming from the East coast
right where things are even faster. Have you ever spent
You've mostly been you were in you.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Played juniors in Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in Arizona, right, So I've
lived in a in a bunch of places because it
was Iowa, Iowa, Colorado.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And then so I think I'm in Arizona and then
in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So I think I'm gonna blow your mind a little bit.
So coming from the East coast out here, I think
everything here is slow, and you'd think this is fast.
So I'm telling you, Miko, if you ever find yourself
playing for an Eastern club, it's a whole nother level
of cultural speed. And I think even more so, you're
going to be surprised because the West coast is like
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the chill version of.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
The East, coldest cold.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Everybody's going.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
At the point, That's what I'm saying, Like, you guys
need a couple of saunas in there.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, that's what I think too.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Probably not a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Maybe that's why we drive so much lower here on
this coast than we do because I lived in DC
for a.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Long time and they're moving.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Yeah, I loved it. That's my speed, So you're a
fast I love East Coast driving. It's the best.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And I will say Tucson drivers are not exactly like Chill.
I mean they're they're also, but it's not here's my take,
and this may not be popular here on the Tucson airwaves,
but it's not that they're necessarily fast. I just think
they're kind of foolish. I think some of the drivers
here they're not quick. They just do weird things that
really have no purpose. You agree with that, Yeah, very
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strange strategies implemented sometimes. But anyway, did you have a
team Miko coming from Finland that you're like, all right,
I kind of want to play here, you know, I'd
like to be maybe a Washington Capital or you know, Montreal,
Canadian anything like that, or it really didn't imagine.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I was Washing Capital, So is it really? I was
watching That's straight because of it. I always wanted to
wear the right butt as I got older. It doesn't
mean it doesn't matter it's anything like I still love
Coyotes more than anything. They got drafted, drafted, but you know,
as a kid, you always want that's not one team,
that's the team I had for.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Sure, Right and Kim just off topic? The heist question?
Was that related to Seth meyers interview with Larry David
a few days ago? I'm a huge Larry David. Yes,
I think I know where this question is coming from.
And Larry and Mayo, he said that he would be
a planner, but also he would be a distraction, And I.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Think maybe you could be distraction.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You go up to like the bank teller, and maybe
you're charming them, or you fake a heart attack, or
you're just loud, or you're being difficult yelling at them,
like why can't you process what I have to do?
Do you think that you could do well if you
had to distract in a heist? How would you do it?
Are you dropping down and grabbing your chest and.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Put on like a DiCaprio style, like I go in
there and have a heart attackers something like that.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
What do you think would be on the team? Who
do you think would be the best it being a
good distraction?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Probably so loud of yeah, you guys haven't picked it
up yet. Oh yeah, yeah, I love that guy. But
he's uh, he'd definitely be a really good distraction. He's
definitely a distraction in the locker room for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Do you think you think when Owen got his report
card from school, the teacher would be like a distraction
in class? Distracting others had to be to ather option.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I was really quiet in class.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I never liked to mind because I got whooked at
home if I if I misbehaved in class. Did you
get your grades or actually did have really good grades
until high school and of high school.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And then all the way through high school you're saying.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
First year of high school is solid, but then so
you peaked there. I definitely peaked in high school.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Right to that peak tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I peaked in high school.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Academically, Goddess wanted she was in college. I did not
peaking college academically.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, we'll leave it at that. I think I think
that your hockey aspect of your life, you're still very
much on the incline.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
It's definitely going up right now.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But I think maybe academically i'd have to look at
the numbers.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
But the judge socially and academically. It was high school
for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, so, speaking of parents, you recently became a parent,
right if we talked about it a little bit, David,
When did we talk about that, like a couple of
weeks ago?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, I can't. We just we just heard somebody told
one of the players. I think it may have came up.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Yeah, somebody. He's a new dad, right, okay, So tell
us about your daughter.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
My daughter, my daughter, my daughter? Yuh, she's she was
so she was month old yesterday? Oh wow, what day
is the No, A lot of two days ago?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
So what was your birthday?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Twenty first September?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That's the changing of the season. Uh so the first
day of fall is your daughter's birthday?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So yeah, it's been Uh, it's been something, and it's
been new and all exciting and scary and it's it's
been great.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
How would you assess your performance one month in as
a father? Are you are you getting buried? Or you're
you're doing all right?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I feel like I'm doing actually really good right now.
I got the touch right now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So if you were if there was a game played
and it was and the criteria was being a father
one star, two stars, three stars.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I give me a two star stars. Yeah, there's still
some work on the changing the diaper and stuff. It's
still it's.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Are you changing number one and number two? Do you
know what that means?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I changed? I can tell you this. I changed one time.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
This is the ideal. I changed one time of day.
I changed the diaper before we go to b No.
I put her to bed every night, so I changed
the diaper and give her a bath, feed her.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
She sleeps like an angel when I do. We switched
it around. I don't sleep because.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
She's trying on the right for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Thank god we got two floors so I can go
downstairs and sleep in our guest room like I did
last night with my with my headphones on.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
But it's uh taking sure?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Are we sure? You're two stars?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Might might be first? Might be first?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I have wait, what's her name?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Monroe?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, that is nice?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
What would be what would be a common finished name
for a baby girl?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
What's your mom's name?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
My mom is Mary, is Maddie, and my assisted Mellie Migo.
So it's all mm lots of that's why, that's why,
that's why, Monroe Monroe Matica because you're keeping it going.
I'm definitely keeping it going. That was my one request,
which her being born. House needs to be m m
you can pick.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
What do you guys have backpacks or clothing or anything with.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
M m on.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh my god, tell me about if we have so
almost so many clothes in our house right now, it's
not even funny and I don't want to figure it
out because it's every corner in the house filled with clothes.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Were your parents able to come out?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They're coming in a month or so, okay, so that's
that's gonna be nice. They're going to see her for
the first time. Oh yeah, including her godfathers, who are
my best friends from my old team. So they're also
coming here.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I think be able to stay for a little while.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, they're stay in my house for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I think do they get to go downstairs or do
they have to listen to the baby?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I think I think they get they get the downstairs
and aisle just soaked upstairs upstairs and sleep in the
same same bedroom.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
My girl.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I feel like maybe you need one more floor, like
one more floor.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
For I was asking. Yeah, I feel like it wouldn't
be too bad.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, you need the road runners to hook you up, right,
like when I started to come in.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And it's gonna you're gonna see strollers up here stored.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Or maybe our good friends watch what I'm going to
do here, Kim. Maybe our good friends double Tree Gold
to hook us up, right. I don't know. That's one
of our one of our sponsors. Right, they're out there
somewhere on the boards. Definitely if you got family coming in, right,
use double Tree?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yes? Is hockey fun or is it serious?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Hockey? Seriously fun? I said that that's pretty good, right,
that's pretty good. That's that's the best I can put.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Okay, who taught you that? Who taught you that trick
to get out of that question? Was it one of
your teammates or you just came up with that on the.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Spotall is pr You can't be you can't be saying
wild stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
You go in for national television.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So you get to college, they say, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Don't Well, first of all, first of all, I don't
think I want interview. You just didn't let me do one. Wow,
So I'm kind of surprised you guys let me here?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And how is it going. Do you think that Kim
and I are very scary or do.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You think we're just very hard and it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Did your media training prepare you for what we asked
or not?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Really?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So, even though we're trying to be kind of chill
with you, you're still relying on what they taught you
for media training.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You got to think these are the most random questions
I've ever gotten in an interview so far. They have okay,
must be different. So I liked it, and it feels
like a podcast, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
We'll send you a link to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, would you see yourself actually listening to it?
If we send it to you it? Would you just
say okay, thanks, I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I listened to a lot of stuff like podcasting.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
What do you what do you like to listen to?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well? They all finish finished podcast?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
See the finished podcast so much.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Maybe if Kim wants to learn how to pronounce some
of the things just five minutes on a finished podcast,
then you'll be you'll be an expert.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I've always wondered, so I tend to ask this question,
uh to anybody that's not from the US. So is
hockey number one if it isn't? Or what are some
other sports that maybe as a kid or are being
played in high school but also watching on TV? What
are some popular sports in Finland?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I probably do, like, well, hockey one for sure, and
then be like football, So soccer for you guys, that's
number two, probably definitely number two, and then probably all
the winter Olympic sports all like the skiing and all
stuff like that, Like I feel like that's very popular.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
And the summer sports.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, I mean you guess, yeah, like actually it's actually
the come up right now, Like we were in the Euros.
We went to semi finals, best ever so far.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
So what did you play before I was?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Obu was a huge soccer guy. When I was, I
was going off, So I just gotta play soccer. I
grew up too much. It's too big to get him
on the ice, get him on the skates, and that
guy in here, and then all of a sudden, I
was a forward.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Not not a d just need to stick in your
hands not pretty much. Yeah, that's awesome. So we have
what like maybe five minutes left or so. I have
a joke that I want to save to the very end.
But I have one more random question for you, but
I need need a reason. Okay, So if you could
time travel, are you going backwards or are you going forwards?
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And why?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Uh? Now we're going to see if he was a
good student, because maybe some history knowledge.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'd probably go I'm a nostalgia for fag. I'll probably
go backwards. Yeah, I don't want to know what's in
the future. That's kind of crazy. I feel like it's scared.
I don't want to see that past.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Like how far back are you talking about going?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'll go like fifty years back seventy, like like where
you're going. I want to live the fifty sixty seventies,
like all those earth like I feel that i'd be
gonn of fun. I wouldn't want to go that much
far in the background and we were like using horses
and stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I don't want to go there when nobody was bathing.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I don't want to be yet. I don't want to
be in there in sixteen hundreds now.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
So indoor plumbing you need.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, plumbing, that's a good point. So you're in the
fifties and the sixties, you're going to Finland or wherever.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I go to defend. I'm going to find album with America.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Probably fifties America.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
No, maybe nineteen fifties. Maybe I'll give you nineteen eighties
America'll come. Oh, that sounds like a good party. We
were nineteen eighties America.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah, but we're in America.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Miami or probably Cali or Scary.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I'll probably go through Los Angeles, Hollywood. That's my stuff,
and Miami is not too bad.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Other than that, I think Miami is more of a
modern kind of I don't know how big it was
in the seventies. I could be wrong, or seventies eighties.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I don't know. I'm trying to think. I have no idea,
but I feel like California, like well, wait a minute,
like Miami vice. Have you guys ever heard of that
TV show Miami that was like nineties Miami eighties I think.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Or so maybe make your spot on maybe you nail.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So you're wearing like a suit, you wearing like a
man's like like a linen suit with like a T
shirt or nothing underneath, and like driving around in a
convertible like.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So anyway, maybe can we got a little bit more
time if you want to get your final joke oak
slash question in for Miko. I'm sure he's probably ready
to catch his tea time.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, it's a fast it's a dad joke. Okay, so
ready jokes. Yeah, and I looked this up and it's okay,
it's a Scandinavian joke, even though I know you're not
from Scandinavia.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Actually actually be honest, like Finland is Scandinavia though it's
the language. It doesn't it doesn't say, but it is
pretty much.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Denmark, Denmark.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Right there they say Scandinavia down below.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I understand again it but Finland is right there.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It's like it's because in the middle it's split.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But there's something about the language that's different than those
you understand.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, you understand each other.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, they can.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Pick it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Finland not at all, but it's that that doesn't It
only works with Estonia a little bit. Still in the
language in the world not sweet even.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So, are you guys closer? It's maybe Russian or no?
Off on your own off.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I mean I either connected to Russia, but we're like
we're Europe and their nos doesn't he.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, I mean, I mean the language wise.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Oh no, not at all. Zero, no correlation. All right,
you ready?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Do you know why the Norwegian Navy has barcodes pended
on the sides of their ships. Wow, so they can Scandinavian.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I had it.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. It's been awesome.
I have my team in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That on that very on that very high note.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
You know you're gonna use.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
And the Navy and then consider the Navy scanned in
and we thank Migo for scanning in with us up
here in the box at the TCC. Lots of action
coming up to Manitoba Moose, that's the next opponent Tuesday
six thirty Wednesday six thirty, And Migo, we know he's
about to have a huge spree of good luck because
we interviewed Austin Paganski, scored a game winning goal, the
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next goal the next game after we interviewed Kevin Rooney,
and right after that he is up in the NHL
with the Utah Mammots. So we know Migo is destined
for great things following this interview, and we thank him
for joining us on Happy Hour on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty am Tucson Sports Station and welcome back to Happy
Hour on Fox Sports fourteen fifty Tucson Sports Station. We
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just heard from Miko Mitika, the young forward who logged
another point this weekend against the Bakersfield Condors. Miko threw
in and assist his second assist of the year on
top of his first AHL goal which he scored in
the previous series. And Kim it was a fun interview
with Miko. He certainly had some jokes. He also gave
us some good insights into Finland and some Finnish culture
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details that I certainly didn't know before. And that's really
the fun thing about following the American Hockey League is
we do get players from all over the world, especially
in parts of Western Europe. And I thought we had
a good time with Miko.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Is it Matika had.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
There somewhere?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that's it. I think that's right,
And that's honestly, David, Like, that's always one of my
biggest struggles is just making sure that Miko and like
so many of the guys who had their names butchered
their entire lives like they don't care, but to me,
like names Carrie Waite and I just like if their
grandma is sitting in the stairs, I just want her to
be proud of hearing her name over the PA system,
(31:26):
you know. So that's always a big deal to me.
But yes, I have never been to Finland, have you?
Have you ever been up to that part of the world.
That's like on my bucket list is would be like Helsinki, Copenhagen,
just that entire region. It has to be gorgeous, like
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Yeah, I know. I know.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
My parents did a Norwegian cruise which is obviously similar
but different, and they loved it. But the furthest east
I've been is Scotland, so I haven't quite made it too.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Oh, you were almost there.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I guess it's not Scandinavia, which we discussed in the interview,
but Scandinavia, Jason.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I realized after we talked to Miko that I was like,
why am I trying to teach him about Scandinavia when
he is from there and I am telling him what
I heard or what I read on Wikipedia.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, I brought to that. Therefore, therefore I have a
degree on this matter exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
I am a subject matter expert, even though I've never
experienced it. Yeah, I realized that afterwards. I was like,
good lord, Code Ruble, let's get it together. What are
you even thinking?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So, yes, but I respect that. And as a broadcaster
now I'm starting to feel similar to you that I
don't really want to be a part of americanizing their names, right.
I don't think that we should accept that. Especially it's
our job to be in the top percentile of broadcasting,
and therefore we should be able to pronounce a name.
(32:57):
I mean that seems like a very basic prerequisite. So
if his name is Matika, like he wants, then I
think that that's doable.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
One hundred percent. And and like when we were talking
about not before we started taping this segment, Danielle, but
I absolutely love saying his name. It's so much fun.
There's some names that are a little bit more tricky
to get out, especially like if I'm trying to like
pronounce them really long, if they're like a starter or something.
But I just love names that I've never heard before
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that maybe look a little bit different than they sound
than what they end up sounding like. I just really
have a lot of fun with it. But I, like
I said, I give a lot of weight to names,
and I think that's because Welso, my last name is
cod Robluss and that's very americanized. It's actually Gottavs, which
like ninety percent of people cannot say and they get
(33:51):
very scared to try. But your last name meridian, right,
a meridian meridian Meridian Okay, okay, Moradiuan, So wait, what
is the heritage of your name?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
So this is also there's an interesting story. So it's
an Armenian last name. Okay, now it's Americanized, but it's
still people still have a hard time pronouncing it, which
is ironic because it's already been americanized. So basically, I
think it would have been my grandfather's parents. So my
grandfather's father it was immigrating, so my great grandfather immigrating
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from Armenia to Ellis Island, and the Armenian ending is iaan,
sometimes y an, but usually i an. That's kind of
a so most Italian names end in some sort of vowel,
whether it's an I or an o, And for Armenians,
pretty much across the board, if you see a last
name that ends i an or sometimes y an, you
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can tell that that's an Armenian name. So that's a
little trick. So generally they stuck to that. But more
in some language translation just means other. So when they
were classifying people, are you German no, are you Italian No?
Are you British No? Are you Asian No? So then
your other right, so basically you're you're none of the above.
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Therefore you get the you know, the beginning of more.
So a lot of times I think that's what that means.
If you have any name that has more in it,
it usually means you don't fit into a clean box somewhere,
so you're like an other. And then the so the
more is the other and then the I A N
is the Armenian designation, so therefore you get Meridian. It's
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a very common Armenian last name, so it's many people
have the same story. And then my grandfather was Myron,
but he went he would just he initially went by Mike,
which but he eventually got away from it because Myron
is really not that hard, Okay, but that's kind of
the story there. So so I guess on my paternal side,
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I do have some history of americanizing names, but that's
that's my knowledge of it.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
That's really really interesting. Well, and I confessed to you
that I made a mistake over this last weekend also
when Bakersfield was with us. And I know that the
people who are listening to this podcast probably heard it
on Friday night and were probably either laughing at me
or just shaking their heads at me. But Danielle Bout
got his visitors first goal.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
No, he scored his first goal the weekend before, but
it was his first three Okay, Yeah, he scored against Calgary.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Okay, gotcha. I called his goal on Friday night, and
for some reason, my brain just shut down and I
got his first name wrong when I called that goal,
and I called him Michael. So I got his number
right and I got his last name right, but for
some reason, I said Michael, and I was so mad
at myself, so so so mad, like that's it was
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like playing on repeat in my brain over and over
and over again. And then he got another goal, and
I was so happy because then I had a chance
to read gal Yes, thank god.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
So then I leaned pretty heavily onto the Daniel when
I made that call, if anybody was paying attention, because
I realized what I had done the first time. Yeah,
and I was.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I have two thoughts on your story. Tell me so,
I think I know why you got confused, right, because
there's two names that I can think of that first
names that aren't pretty basic to pronounce. Across our team. Generally,
first names are pretty easy because Zuber we just call
the Max. So that's that's fine, right, every other one
is not that hard, with the exception of you can
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go back and forth on Michael Kuntz or Michael Kuntz
or I think maybe it's supposed to be the kind
of like Miko where there's a pause in there somewhere.
I think that's like Miguel Kuntz. That's the I think
the correct way to say it. Uh So, again, the
two players that have tricky first names are Daniel Boot
and Michael Kuntz. Right, so maybe in your head you're thinking, Okay,
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here's a tough one. I'll just go with Michael. But
that's actually the story for Konsen, not Boot. What do
you think. Do you think that's a good theory or
do you think I'm wrong?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
That's actually probably exactly it. I think I feel pretty
comfortable with everybody else's name on the team, but the
two of them and maybe, Well, no, because I was
gonna say maybe Scott prudaviationally because I don't know him
that well.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I haven't had at least name.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
His first name is Scott, but he also he's I've
been saying his name a lot lately. Yeah, So no,
I think I think that's it. I think I don't
know why. My brain just it just made that switch.
But the funny part is I read the reads before
I say them out loud, you know, and I still
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made I still made the mistake. We do have a
lot a very very I don't want to say generic,
but we do have a lot of very common first names.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, the first name. The first names are not tricky,
with the exception of the two that I think you
mix up. And then my second thought, why I think
you like to say why Boot is a fun person
to an noow is? I think short last names are
fun because you can go all in on that. You
can go all in on the first name and then
just very succinctly punctuate the last name like then'll Boot
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you know, boom boom, which I think makes it makes
it fun. But usually last names are longer, and then
you have to kind of change.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
How you really, Yeah, maybe that's it. You know who
you want to take a guess who I think is
the trickiest name to say just when I'm when I'm
like reading starters, No, not me, Micosstica, Yeah, that's but
when I like put when I'm yes, it is sorry,
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I scared my dog. Yes, Kevin could not because it
ends with such a hard sound at the end, and
there's nothing really in there lyrically that I can like
glom onto and like kind of draw out. It is
a very very both it and at the end of
his name, and they at the first name and last
name just they're really really hard sounds.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, I have an unfair advantage because the first away game,
we're in the iHeart Studio and I was like walking
to the bath I had to use the bathroom probably,
I don't know. Happyfore Puck Trup and I was going
over the names and I feel pretty good. I was
going over names and numbers, and our producer Michael recalls
me making flash cards. I don't need. I have our
team memorized now, pretty because we've now had six games.
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But this is the opening weekend, so I wanted to
really get comfortable with our team. So I made flash cards,
and I was worried about some pronunciations, and Kevin Connaughton
was tripping me up even before I even said it,
just in my head. I was struggling getting around Connonton.
So I was like walking to the bathroom and I
was going Canton, Canton, Kevin Conoughton, Come on, Kevin Conoughton.
So I think I struggled with it. So I'm not
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surprised that you have the same story.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Well, and I wanted to tell you too. Okay, So
Miko's birthday was on Sunday. He is now twenty twenty two,
twenty three. What do we what do we like it?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Twenty two?
Speaker 5 (40:57):
He's twenty two now happy to know. We don't have
any November or December birthdays so on this team. So
I will not be bringing birthdays up again until January
when we have a slew of birthdays. January and Jebruary birthdays.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah, I'd be curious to know what the the most
What is the most common? Is there a month that
that where more people are I mean naturally there has
to be, right.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
You mean, like just in January in the team, you
know what, I think it's probably November because of Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day and and Christmas, so whatever, like September. I
think that those are the two most.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Do the like New Year's Do the road Runners have
a lot of November?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
No? No, November?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
No, no Nomber you said November. I'm sorry, I was
thinking October?
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (41:48):
November? How many in September? Is that what you're said
to check?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
I don't know if you just want just one.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
One in September? Do you want to guess who it is?
He's not a player, Steve? No, that's really good, guess
Steve is in No, you're right, it is Steve. How
did you do that? Oh my god? I was looking
at the wrong month.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
It is. Well, it's not a player, and you know,
I don't think you're gonna know, like, with all due respect,
I don't know if you would know the video coaches birthday,
but Steve.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Podvins Steve and Stewart's actually are both September birthdays.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Signs though, by the way, startini, I don't he must
be Italian with that which we just went over with
the vowel last name, yeah, the all. Did you see
his outfit on Saturday? He had the black pants.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
The blacks so stylish, like he can't help it.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Red tie.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
He has custom suits. They're from a place ep fetix souse.
I've stopped him before. If you ever ask him to
like show you the inside lapel of his suit, it's gorgeous,
absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Well, well, I went to interview Steve Podvin for pregames.
So I go walking through the tunnel into the locker room.
And anybody who's familiar with sports at all knows that
players can get a little bit touchy about the locker room.
That's kind of their their mecca or their temple, the spot,
and any non player or coach that comes walking in
is usually not very well received. But naturally that's where
I interviewed Steve Poppins, so there's really no way around that.
(43:12):
So I came walking in and Startini is one of
the first people I see, and it's still new. It's
only my third or my fourth interview there, so there's
still not exactly sure maybe who I am or what
I'm doing there. So walking through and Startini's got you know,
the black dress shirt and that very ostentatious look.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
It's a crushed velvet.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
It's so gorgeous, and he didn't say anything, but he
made a face like he was not pleased with my presence.
His face combined with his outfit, it was intimidating.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
I have to be honest, if you ever get a
chance to look up his stats from when he played,
he is definitely not somebody that you would want to
meet toe to toe when you were on the ice. Yes,
that is what I've heard from multiple players who had
to play against him during their time.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
I can see that. Yes, so yeah, sure, maybe I'm
not gonna say it's too small, but it's if it
were either going to be too small or too large,
it's on the it's not too large, right, and he's
he's well built, So that combination also adds to the
same kind of intimidation factory. You're following what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (44:20):
I got you, I'm getting what you're laying down. It's good,
it's I never realized before that actually Zach and Steve
are born in the same month, but they are different signs. Yeah,
I hadn't put that together before. But the most the
most signs on this team right now, we have more
Aquarius than any other sign, which is so Aquarius is
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late January, early February. Okay, we're gonna start racking him up,
like we're gonna hit Cameron he BIG's birthday on one
twenty one, and then it's like every other day somebody
has a birthday. Yeah, it'd be.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Funny if the mayor was on inauguration day one twenty
he's one day off, that would be kind of a ironic.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
Oh, that would be fun. Well, he's Canadian, so that's true.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
What would be to him? But he's still the mayor
of Tuoson whether.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
He likes it or not.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
I think we have to grab a break. We'll have
the final say when we come back. Stay with us
on Happy Hour on Fox fourteen fifty and welcome back
to Happy Hour. You just heard from Kim and I
and also earlier in the show our interview with Miko Mitika,
who just turned twenty two years old. Hey, if you
have an input on somebody we should interview next. Then
Kim and I told you that we've certainly been good
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fortune for some players, whether they get called up to
the NHL or score game winning goals, that's been the trend.
If you see us at the arena, feel free, to
let us know. We know that the Mayor of Tucson,
Cameron Hebig, is a popular candidate. We all already interviewed
the Captain, Austin Paganski. But if you have an opinion,
maybe a player you think isn't on our radar, but
somebody you want to hear from and you see us.
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Usually he can find me wearing some sort of suit
and you know, guys know where to find Kim. Let
us know. Tell us who you think should be on
the show. We'd love to hear your input. But as
of now, in about an hour and a half, we're
gonna have puck drop from the TCC. If you're hearing
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few seats left, so you can watch the game between
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the Tucson Roadrunners and the Manitoba Moose and then it
will be the same deal tomorrow six thirty puck drop
between Manitoba and Tucson. You can also listen to my
podcast with the broadcaster for the Manitoba Moose, Daniel Fink,
if you want to be more of an expert on
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matchup on both sides. You can be educated on the
same podcast network here, iHeartRadio. My interview with Daniel will
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Happy Hour, our weekly
get together with David Brady and Kim Coda Roadblaze and
our guests this week, Miko Matica. And Miko just recorded
his first AHL goal against the Calgary Wranglers on Sunday,
October nineteenth, so very exciting there. There's been a lot
of milestones for the Roadrunners in general. But we'll jump
right in here and get to our guest, Miko, how
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did it feel to register your first AHL goal and
what did you think of the opening weekend here for
the Roadrunners?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I mean, for the first goal was I was good
at fall? I feel like it's been a long time coming,
and you know, try to enjoyed as much as I
can and as a as a whole weekend, I feel
like the whole place was buzzing and it felt good.
And it was awesome playing in front of fans again,
and fucking team got it a pretty good start too.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
And I was wondering and coach Potvin mentioned this preseason,
are the crowds that are played in front of in
the AHL and just generally in the US, is that
larger than what you were used to in Europe or
it's kind of similar?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I feel like where I
played in Europe, it was like more junior so it
was like not too many big crowds. But uh ah,
definitely in here it's been it's been great crowds, and
uh it's been fun playing in front of here. But
I feel like college and and you know, a in general,
it's pretty good fans compared to Finland. But it's it's
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it's it's really good in Europe too.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Nice.
Speaker 5 (01:42):
Listen, Miko, you and I need to talk. We have
we have beef.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Because we've had this conversation multiple times. What I'm about
to talk to you about right now, and that is
how to pronounce your name. I know you, I know
you know what to talk about a few times. We've
talked about a few times and I've never get it right.
And so, and then people ask me, fans ask me,
how do you say his last name? And I just
throw my hands up. I don't know this because.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Right so I don't. Personally, I don't care how how
do I said?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
It's every time I go to New City, the announcers
always ask me, how do you say your name?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
I'm like, this is the thing.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
How would how would your grandma want me? What would
want to hear your name said in this place?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Ah?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Probably just like Metica. I feel like that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
That's pretty good because I know you guys can't say
the way in Finland decided that's fine.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
I'm so used to it's fine. Like I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I know, but that's not. That doesn't make it right.
So say it the way that they would say it
in Finland. See, I'm not close. I know.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It's a double it's a double K in the middle.
It's hard. I have to like it's I will stop.
It's good. It's a little stop in the mode. But
is that better?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's pretty good though, that's close enough because I don't know.
I'm be honest, I don't. It's not too typical a
deal for me. It's funny how you guys like a
lot though you always talk about it.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
It's so important, it's always.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Brought it's always brought up.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah, well because it looks easy. And then people say matica, mytika.
I know the boys call you teks like you and
Julian Lutz yeah, or lots.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Sometimes they call.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It's just that's the hero's all the names.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Nol To know what his name is, Loots, right, but
they call him Lutzi. How does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
I don't know. I don't know. I'm being honest. I
have not came up with a single nickname so far.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
So and then nol how do you say Noel's name?
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Nord no?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
My key there is to just go fast nor right,
nord no Nord.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I don't actually know what to say. Swedish but isn't
in Finland?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Don't they don't? You guys speak a little Finnish but
also Swedish.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Everyone always thinks it's just the same, but it's so different.
It's completely different.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
It's there isn't a Scandinavian country. They don't speak the
same language as the rest of Scanninasia yea.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So there's so it's uncommon to hear Swedish spoken in Finland.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
No, so that's very common. Finland is to language country
Swedish and Finnish, but.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
The languages themselves are very.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Like speaking them it's so different, Like I don't like Nord.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You will not understand a word I was saying, but
I speak Swedish, so I don't understand what he's saying.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I understand, but he doesn't speak.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Finnish, he doesn't speak Finish. It's very hard.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
How many languages do you speak?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I speak three, so English, Swedish, Finis. I'm trying to
learn French, but it's hard. I'm getting though, And what
do you think?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
So this is going to be a little bit off topic,
but we're in language, right. So I play golf. You said,
you said off the air that you have a tea
time coming up, and I was kind of trying to
intimidate Kevin Rooney on our last interview by telling him
my handicap is lower than his. But anyway, that's neither
here nor there. In golf, there's a certain vernacular or
language spoken. There are raises that only makes sense on
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the golf course, and they're in English, obviously, but there's
really nothing to do with the English language. I'm just
wondering if you've adapted to that, and if you have
some golf terms that you feel like you know in
English that you never thought you would know. But who
you are saying that when you're out on the course, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I'll tell you this much. For the first time I
went to the course, I had no clue what half
the guys were saying. I was like, it was completely
gibberous to me, but I picked it up a little bit.
But I'm so, I'm so bad in golf.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
So if you hit a bad shot, and we'll try
to keep it clean. But if you hit a bad shot,
what will you say after that? Like I chunked it
or I saw that.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
If I hit a bad shot, I can't say it
on air.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
You can't.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
I can't hit it on air what.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I would say? But it's something crazy and definitely didn't
finish as well. But the guys do have a lot
of funny lingo.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I don't. I still don't know all of it, but
I'll figure it out.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Do you have to ask them to translate it for you?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Sometimes? What do you mean? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's more to scramble one. They're like you'll try to
hit that flopshot of it there.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm like you flop what?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
And I'm like what you're saying, Like what do you
want me? To tell me what you want? And I'll
try to put it there.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But that's not like yeah, but at least when you
play like once or twice a round, well you hit
that one shot where you're like, Okay, I'm coming back
next time.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's a three D if I would have given a
quick golf last summer if I got to hop every every.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Round I play.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So what do you think is the best shot you
ever hit?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Actually was in Utah? Boy saw it? It was. It
was a crazy chip for Bertie.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You chipped it in.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
It was a chipped in. It was like a thirty
five and you're up in Utah up in. I was
a part. It was a part of three or so.
Its cheap.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I had to really bad t shot and I and
I said, ton't know, had a nice Bertie you want
chip Chuck.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
That was good.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
So as we record this, it is actually the week
before we're going to air it, because we're going to
we're speaking to you early because because we have a
Tuesday game and we're gonna air this on Tuesday Afterober
twenty eight, so between now and then, it's actually your birthday.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
No, you're right, I forgot about what what are you
gonna be turney, migo, I'll be turning twenty so twenty
two on Sunday, I think, do you think?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Do you know what it's Sunday? Do you know what
a prefrontal cortex is?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I send your brain in the front.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yes, that is that one that actually developed twenty two
at twenty time.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
You're almost there. You are so close. You're closer than David.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
And that's right. And what does what does that court?
What does that one to do? Is that memory or no?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
That is that is when your brain is fully developed,
you are ready to go. You're ready to like you
can make the good decisions that aren't gonna like you're
not gonna you know, are you right? Like you're not
gonna floor it when you're in the go kart?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Are you implying that up until this point, Miko has
made poor decisions.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I'm not implying anything. Miko. Do you think you've made
poor decisions?
Speaker 2 (07:47):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I feel like it's been good.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Okay, it's good.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
I haven't I have a few extra years on my
front's a little bit what we definitely got in there.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I can feel it feeling okay. I feel smart, And
do you, David?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Do you I think I generally made reasonable decisions? Yeah,
I mean mego, I we must be doing something right
because we're here together, right, and we to be happy.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
You're good to go.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
That's for every decision we've made has taken us to
be exactly here right now.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Right.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Yeah. Do you have any birthday plans? I mean it's
news to you that your birthdays on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So I actually did forget about it for a few weeks.
I was like, my mom called me. It was like,
you know, your birthday and Sunday doing anything? No, actually
don't have nope, ponds probably just gonna grab some dinner.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
You're not gonna play golf. You guys have an off day?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No, no, no, I can't. I can't ruin my birthday
by having a bad round, have good food and actually
enjoying my day rather than being depressed all day for
having a bad round.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So you've been in Tucson now for a little you
have some familiarity between some stints last year and now
the beginning of this year. Do you have a couple
of courses that you're starting to get familiar with or
you just go wherever your buddies tell you.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Actually, the good one that once ass ha, Now it's
Corey Pons like Cory is good. It's always, it's always good.
I like the scenery and then probably though it is
actually the background is actually really hard.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
What are some other ones you like to play?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Guess me really hard? Twin Peaks or links whatever it
is omnia.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
That.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, that's very nice, both of them. Both of the
courses are very nice. I see there's a couple of
up and or a valley over there. I haven't been there.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
But and when you guys play, is there some sort
of action the winning team for twenty dollars.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Or it's a little more about it's a good amount
of money on the line.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Yeah, And do you feel like your game is developed
enough to have that kind of pressure or you just
don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I just played with lipp Or, so I'm good. Oh wait,
he's really good. He said, he chased me. That's why
I'm comfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
How does he feel about that? Like you're kind of
dead weight and he has to carry you? Throughout the man.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
I bring good vibes to the golf car. I definitely
run the vibes.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
So you're there for contribution is not golf related.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
I bring this you're hearing a couple of peers and
it will be good. There you go, bring my beats
fill all be good.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Okay, we've talked about so much golfe we need we
need to talk about more important things like what's the
song that you want to hear during warm ups? What's
your song? Yeah, tell me your song?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Do anything like Madonna probably and gets me kind of
going old Madonna, like.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Like a virgin of some stuff like did you really.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That was?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
That's like the first Madonna song that like popped into
my head.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So yeah, But like, is American music in Finland very okay? Y,
that's huge? And is English spoken generally?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Or people said they didn't keep the teacher to very early.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
So therefore so you understand the music and it's culturally
you learn.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
You learned through music and like movies and stuff. That's
how I learned not to speak.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
What were some of your favorite movies growing up that
were American?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Probably say like Fight Club, Interception and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
How do you say fight club and finish.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
We just got clubs. If you want this straight translation,
be Ahlby or something like that. But it makes no
sense again, bellow cluby, it makes no that makes no sense.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
That's like a straight translation. I don't think that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Really, he's a trans fight and then club.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Like that's funny.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So okay. But the real answer, Kim would be there
is no fight club, so there's nothing to talk about
right now.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
What you're talking about exactly?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
What about Inception? It's the finish for Inception?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I don't know, be honest, and I remember the movie
name and finished. I will want to see it in
in English.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Okay, all right, okay, so we've got American movies are
generally present. You know, you have the culture music. How
about hockey? Were you watching the NHL as a younger guy.
I'm assuming that you were a pretty good player as
a young kid, So were you also following the NHL?
Do you have a favorite player growing up or not
really the case?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh yeah, one hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
They were all European guys that I used to look
up to, like Avechkin and a bunch of Swedes, A
lot to finished guys.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
How about Henrik Lundquist?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I did, but his goalies he really hided me up
too much. But uh, but I know he has a
good style, like all those guys I always liked.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I always have a little extra for all the Euros.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Is that your boy? Is that where you are?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay, well I'm a huge Rangers fan, That's what I say.
So I was, what do you mean we're in a
suitent tie like I always anyway, Yeah, yeah, no, I
got a little mix thing on my jack of lapel. Anyway,
I was talking to Kevin Rooney because he was a
Ranger player. I'm a big Rangers fans, that's I figured.
And he said, one of the better players he's ever No,
(12:48):
no offense here, he said, one of the better players
he's ever played alongside was our Timmy panerin No you
know European. So you're a fan of his at all?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Oh, all the Russians a vegan took all those guys
who are always big on me and and still you know,
all those Russian guys still are still really really silk
and I always love watching how they play.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But Kevin said, and this is growing up in Boston,
that he didn't really follow the NHL as a kid,
but it seems like you were more interested in watching especially.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'm be honest, I didn't even watch games that much.
Like I always watched like if I went like watched games,
I watched Finnish games. But like player wise, like I
always added lost like American Bob, have never aladed lost
to finish player, very very little. Few guys I actually
look up to like who were finished Infintland.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
How did you take some of the Finnish team struggles
in the Four Nations last winter?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
But did it?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Did it hurt you personal bets?
Speaker 5 (13:36):
You had to have bets on those games.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I did have a lot of bets, and I don't
think I want to single one of them my best
Finland and that didn't go well. Yeah, but it's you know,
you're playing against Canada in the US. Yeah, it's understandable.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
I get that.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
If you I'm gonna pivot really hard. If you were
in a heist, do you know what that is? Okay,
what would you roll on the heist be?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I'd probably be a ghetto we driver. I'm behind the wall.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
You're huge. I drive like crazy though crazy good or crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
It's that's something I had to learn to come into America. Like,
you guys drive so faster here, so fast in Finland.
I feel like I'm driving so slow.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
But you guys have a very big bike culture we
do in here. Also, you guys have so many saunas,
and like, I feel like just that would like if
we had saunas here, I feel like things would slow down.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I don't want to get political, but you guys definitely
chill a little more here. Yeah, I feel that. Maybe
not in there just saying we need to chill. Maybe
not so it's so high.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's a sauna every day, but it is maybe the
colder maybe the colder steak could use it a little more.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Wait, I didn't follow that point, So you're what does
the sauna have to do with with chilling and also
being political?
Speaker 5 (14:50):
I was saying that we need more saunas here so
that people can just go and relax, And.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Then I said, I don't want to get political. It
would help. We're just getting more saunas here.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
Yeah, everybody's blood pressure would lower if we just had
a few more sons kids probably.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So we had a friend who's who lives in Estonia
for a really long time, and he would tell me
that he was taking meetings in sauna.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's crazy.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
The culture is like he loved it, and he said
it was like very very relaxed, like he loved you know,
just you know.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's funny. Is So, I'm coming from the East coast
right where things are even faster. Have you ever spent
You've mostly been you were in you.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Played juniors in Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in Arizona, right, So I've
lived in a in a bunch of places because it
was Iowa, Iowa, Colorado.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And then so I think I'm in Arizona and then
in Dallas.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
So I think I'm gonna blow your mind a little bit.
So coming from the East coast out here, I think
everything here is slow, and you'd think this is fast.
So I'm telling you, Miko, if you ever find yourself
playing for an Eastern club, it's a whole nother level
of cultural speed. And I think even more so, you're
going to be surprised because the West coast is like
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the chill version of.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
The East, coldest cold.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Everybody's going.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
At the point, That's what I'm saying, Like, you guys
need a couple of saunas in there.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, that's what I think too.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Probably not a bad idea.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
Maybe that's why we drive so much lower here on
this coast than we do because I lived in DC
for a.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Long time and they're moving.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
Yeah, I loved it. That's my speed, So you're a
fast I love East Coast driving. It's the best.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
And I will say Tucson drivers are not exactly like Chill.
I mean they're they're also, but it's not here's my take,
and this may not be popular here on the Tucson airwaves,
but it's not that they're necessarily fast. I just think
they're kind of foolish. I think some of the drivers
here they're not quick. They just do weird things that
really have no purpose. You agree with that, Yeah, very
(16:44):
strange strategies implemented sometimes. But anyway, did you have a
team Miko coming from Finland that you're like, all right,
I kind of want to play here, you know, I'd
like to be maybe a Washington Capital or you know, Montreal,
Canadian anything like that, or it really didn't imagine.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I was Washing Capital, So is it really? I was
watching That's straight because of it. I always wanted to
wear the right butt as I got older. It doesn't
mean it doesn't matter it's anything like I still love
Coyotes more than anything. They got drafted, drafted, but you know,
as a kid, you always want that's not one team,
that's the team I had for.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Sure, Right and Kim just off topic? The heist question?
Was that related to Seth meyers interview with Larry David
a few days ago? I'm a huge Larry David. Yes,
I think I know where this question is coming from.
And Larry and Mayo, he said that he would be
a planner, but also he would be a distraction, And I.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Think maybe you could be distraction.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You go up to like the bank teller, and maybe
you're charming them, or you fake a heart attack, or
you're just loud, or you're being difficult yelling at them,
like why can't you process what I have to do?
Do you think that you could do well if you
had to distract in a heist? How would you do it?
Are you dropping down and grabbing your chest and.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Put on like a DiCaprio style, like I go in
there and have a heart attackers something like that.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
What do you think would be on the team? Who
do you think would be the best it being a
good distraction?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Probably so loud of yeah, you guys haven't picked it
up yet. Oh yeah, yeah, I love that guy. But
he's uh, he'd definitely be a really good distraction. He's
definitely a distraction in the locker room for sure.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Do you think you think when Owen got his report
card from school, the teacher would be like a distraction
in class? Distracting others had to be to ather option.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
I was really quiet in class.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
I never liked to mind because I got whooked at
home if I if I misbehaved in class. Did you
get your grades or actually did have really good grades
until high school and of high school.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
And then all the way through high school you're saying.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
First year of high school is solid, but then so
you peaked there. I definitely peaked in high school.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Right to that peak tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I peaked in high school.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
Academically, Goddess wanted she was in college. I did not
peaking college academically.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, we'll leave it at that. I think I think
that your hockey aspect of your life, you're still very
much on the incline.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
It's definitely going up right now.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
But I think maybe academically i'd have to look at
the numbers.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
But the judge socially and academically. It was high school
for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Well, so, speaking of parents, you recently became a parent,
right if we talked about it a little bit, David,
When did we talk about that, like a couple of
weeks ago?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, I can't. We just we just heard somebody told
one of the players. I think it may have came up.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Yeah, somebody. He's a new dad, right, okay, So tell
us about your daughter.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
My daughter, my daughter, my daughter? Yuh, she's she was
so she was month old yesterday? Oh wow, what day
is the No, A lot of two days ago?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
So what was your birthday?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Twenty first September?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
That's the changing of the season. Uh so the first
day of fall is your daughter's birthday?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Pretty much.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
So yeah, it's been Uh, it's been something, and it's
been new and all exciting and scary and it's it's
been great.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
How would you assess your performance one month in as
a father? Are you are you getting buried? Or you're
you're doing all right?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I feel like I'm doing actually really good right now.
I got the touch right now.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
So if you were if there was a game played
and it was and the criteria was being a father
one star, two stars, three stars.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I give me a two star stars. Yeah, there's still
some work on the changing the diaper and stuff. It's
still it's.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Are you changing number one and number two? Do you
know what that means?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
I changed? I can tell you this. I changed one time.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
This is the ideal. I changed one time of day.
I changed the diaper before we go to b No.
I put her to bed every night, so I changed
the diaper and give her a bath, feed her.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
She sleeps like an angel when I do. We switched
it around. I don't sleep because.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
She's trying on the right for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Thank god we got two floors so I can go
downstairs and sleep in our guest room like I did
last night with my with my headphones on.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
But it's uh taking sure?
Speaker 5 (21:13):
Are we sure? You're two stars?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Might might be first? Might be first?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
I have wait, what's her name?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Monroe?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, that is nice?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
What would be what would be a common finished name
for a baby girl?
Speaker 5 (21:32):
What's your mom's name?
Speaker 3 (21:33):
My mom is Mary, is Maddie, and my assisted Mellie Migo.
So it's all mm lots of that's why, that's why,
that's why, Monroe Monroe Matica because you're keeping it going.
I'm definitely keeping it going. That was my one request,
which her being born. House needs to be m m
you can pick.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
What do you guys have backpacks or clothing or anything with.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
M m on.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh my god, tell me about if we have so
almost so many clothes in our house right now, it's
not even funny and I don't want to figure it
out because it's every corner in the house filled with clothes.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Were your parents able to come out?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
They're coming in a month or so, okay, so that's
that's gonna be nice. They're going to see her for
the first time. Oh yeah, including her godfathers, who are
my best friends from my old team. So they're also
coming here.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I think be able to stay for a little while.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Yeah, they're stay in my house for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I think do they get to go downstairs or do
they have to listen to the baby?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I think I think they get they get the downstairs
and aisle just soaked upstairs upstairs and sleep in the
same same bedroom.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
My girl.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
I feel like maybe you need one more floor, like
one more floor.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
For I was asking. Yeah, I feel like it wouldn't
be too bad.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yeah, you need the road runners to hook you up, right,
like when I started to come in.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
And it's gonna you're gonna see strollers up here stored.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Or maybe our good friends watch what I'm going to
do here, Kim. Maybe our good friends double Tree Gold
to hook us up, right. I don't know. That's one
of our one of our sponsors. Right, they're out there
somewhere on the boards. Definitely if you got family coming in, right,
use double Tree?
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Yes? Is hockey fun or is it serious?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Hockey? Seriously fun? I said that that's pretty good, right,
that's pretty good. That's that's the best I can put.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Okay, who taught you that? Who taught you that trick
to get out of that question? Was it one of
your teammates or you just came up with that on the.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Spotall is pr You can't be you can't be saying
wild stuff.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
You go in for national television.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So you get to college, they say, okay.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Don't Well, first of all, first of all, I don't
think I want interview. You just didn't let me do one. Wow,
So I'm kind of surprised you guys let me here?
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And how is it going. Do you think that Kim
and I are very scary or do.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
You think we're just very hard and it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Did your media training prepare you for what we asked
or not?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Really?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
So, even though we're trying to be kind of chill
with you, you're still relying on what they taught you
for media training.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You got to think these are the most random questions
I've ever gotten in an interview so far. They have okay,
must be different. So I liked it, and it feels
like a podcast, but it's good.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I like that.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
We'll send you a link to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, yeah, would you see yourself actually listening to it?
If we send it to you it? Would you just
say okay, thanks, I'll see you later.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
I listened to a lot of stuff like podcasting.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
What do you what do you like to listen to?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Well? They all finish finished podcast?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
See the finished podcast so much.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Maybe if Kim wants to learn how to pronounce some
of the things just five minutes on a finished podcast,
then you'll be you'll be an expert.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I'm working on it.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I've always wondered, so I tend to ask this question,
uh to anybody that's not from the US. So is
hockey number one if it isn't? Or what are some
other sports that maybe as a kid or are being
played in high school but also watching on TV? What
are some popular sports in Finland?
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I probably do, like, well, hockey one for sure, and
then be like football, So soccer for you guys, that's
number two, probably definitely number two, and then probably all
the winter Olympic sports all like the skiing and all
stuff like that, Like I feel like that's very popular.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
And the summer sports.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, I mean you guess, yeah, like actually it's actually
the come up right now, Like we were in the Euros.
We went to semi finals, best ever so far.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
So what did you play before I was?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Obu was a huge soccer guy. When I was, I
was going off, So I just gotta play soccer. I
grew up too much. It's too big to get him
on the ice, get him on the skates, and that
guy in here, and then all of a sudden, I
was a forward.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
Not not a d just need to stick in your
hands not pretty much. Yeah, that's awesome. So we have
what like maybe five minutes left or so. I have
a joke that I want to save to the very end.
But I have one more random question for you, but
I need need a reason. Okay, So if you could
time travel, are you going backwards or are you going forwards?
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And why?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Uh? Now we're going to see if he was a
good student, because maybe some history knowledge.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
I'd probably go I'm a nostalgia for fag. I'll probably
go backwards. Yeah, I don't want to know what's in
the future. That's kind of crazy. I feel like it's scared.
I don't want to see that past.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Like how far back are you talking about going?
Speaker 3 (26:30):
I'll go like fifty years back seventy, like like where
you're going. I want to live the fifty sixty seventies,
like all those earth like I feel that i'd be
gonn of fun. I wouldn't want to go that much
far in the background and we were like using horses
and stuff.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
I don't want to go there when nobody was bathing.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
You're not.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I don't want to be yet. I don't want to
be in there in sixteen hundreds now.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
So indoor plumbing you need.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, plumbing, that's a good point. So you're in the
fifties and the sixties, you're going to Finland or wherever.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
I go to defend. I'm going to find album with America.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Probably fifties America.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
No, maybe nineteen fifties. Maybe I'll give you nineteen eighties
America'll come. Oh, that sounds like a good party. We
were nineteen eighties America.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Yeah, but we're in America.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Miami or probably Cali or Scary.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
I'll probably go through Los Angeles, Hollywood. That's my stuff,
and Miami is not too bad.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Other than that, I think Miami is more of a
modern kind of I don't know how big it was
in the seventies. I could be wrong, or seventies eighties.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I don't know. I'm trying to think. I have no idea,
but I feel like California, like well, wait a minute,
like Miami vice. Have you guys ever heard of that
TV show Miami that was like nineties Miami eighties I think.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Or so maybe make your spot on maybe you nail.
Speaker 5 (27:46):
So you're wearing like a suit, you wearing like a
man's like like a linen suit with like a T
shirt or nothing underneath, and like driving around in a
convertible like.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
So anyway, maybe can we got a little bit more
time if you want to get your final joke oak
slash question in for Miko. I'm sure he's probably ready
to catch his tea time.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Yeah, it's a fast it's a dad joke. Okay, so
ready jokes. Yeah, and I looked this up and it's okay,
it's a Scandinavian joke, even though I know you're not
from Scandinavia.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Actually actually be honest, like Finland is Scandinavia though it's
the language. It doesn't it doesn't say, but it is
pretty much.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Denmark, Denmark.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Right there they say Scandinavia down below.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I understand again it but Finland is right there.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
It's like it's because in the middle it's split.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
But there's something about the language that's different than those
you understand.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, you understand each other.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Yeah, they can.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Pick it up a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Finland not at all, but it's that that doesn't It
only works with Estonia a little bit. Still in the
language in the world not sweet even.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So, are you guys closer? It's maybe Russian or no?
Off on your own off.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
I mean I either connected to Russia, but we're like
we're Europe and their nos doesn't he.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
No, I mean, I mean the language wise.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Oh no, not at all. Zero, no correlation. All right,
you ready?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Do you know why the Norwegian Navy has barcodes pended
on the sides of their ships. Wow, so they can Scandinavian.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
I had it.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. It's been awesome.
I have my team in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
That on that very on that very high note.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
You know you're gonna use.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
And the Navy and then consider the Navy scanned in
and we thank Migo for scanning in with us up
here in the box at the TCC. Lots of action
coming up to Manitoba Moose, that's the next opponent Tuesday
six thirty Wednesday six thirty, And Migo, we know he's
about to have a huge spree of good luck because
we interviewed Austin Paganski, scored a game winning goal, the
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next goal the next game after we interviewed Kevin Rooney,
and right after that he is up in the NHL
with the Utah Mammots. So we know Migo is destined
for great things following this interview, and we thank him
for joining us on Happy Hour on Fox Sports fourteen
fifty am Tucson Sports Station and welcome back to Happy
Hour on Fox Sports fourteen fifty Tucson Sports Station. We
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just heard from Miko Mitika, the young forward who logged
another point this weekend against the Bakersfield Condors. Miko threw
in and assist his second assist of the year on
top of his first AHL goal which he scored in
the previous series. And Kim it was a fun interview
with Miko. He certainly had some jokes. He also gave
us some good insights into Finland and some Finnish culture
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details that I certainly didn't know before. And that's really
the fun thing about following the American Hockey League is
we do get players from all over the world, especially
in parts of Western Europe. And I thought we had
a good time with Miko.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
Is it Matika had.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
There somewhere?
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that's it. I think that's right,
And that's honestly, David, Like, that's always one of my
biggest struggles is just making sure that Miko and like
so many of the guys who had their names butchered
their entire lives like they don't care, but to me,
like names Carrie Waite and I just like if their
grandma is sitting in the stairs, I just want her to
be proud of hearing her name over the PA system,
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you know. So that's always a big deal to me.
But yes, I have never been to Finland, have you?
Have you ever been up to that part of the world.
That's like on my bucket list is would be like Helsinki, Copenhagen,
just that entire region. It has to be gorgeous, like
twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Yeah, I know. I know.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
My parents did a Norwegian cruise which is obviously similar
but different, and they loved it. But the furthest east
I've been is Scotland, so I haven't quite made it too.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Oh, you were almost there.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I guess it's not Scandinavia, which we discussed in the interview,
but Scandinavia, Jason.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
I realized after we talked to Miko that I was like,
why am I trying to teach him about Scandinavia when
he is from there and I am telling him what
I heard or what I read on Wikipedia.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, I brought to that. Therefore, therefore I have a
degree on this matter exactly.
Speaker 5 (32:27):
I am a subject matter expert, even though I've never
experienced it. Yeah, I realized that afterwards. I was like,
good lord, Code Ruble, let's get it together. What are
you even thinking?
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So, yes, but I respect that. And as a broadcaster
now I'm starting to feel similar to you that I
don't really want to be a part of americanizing their names, right.
I don't think that we should accept that. Especially it's
our job to be in the top percentile of broadcasting,
and therefore we should be able to pronounce a name.
(32:57):
I mean that seems like a very basic prerequisite. So
if his name is Matika, like he wants, then I
think that that's doable.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
One hundred percent. And and like when we were talking
about not before we started taping this segment, Danielle, but
I absolutely love saying his name. It's so much fun.
There's some names that are a little bit more tricky
to get out, especially like if I'm trying to like
pronounce them really long, if they're like a starter or something.
But I just love names that I've never heard before
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that maybe look a little bit different than they sound
than what they end up sounding like. I just really
have a lot of fun with it. But I, like
I said, I give a lot of weight to names,
and I think that's because Welso, my last name is
cod Robluss and that's very americanized. It's actually Gottavs, which
like ninety percent of people cannot say and they get
(33:51):
very scared to try. But your last name meridian, right,
a meridian meridian Meridian Okay, okay, Moradiuan, So wait, what
is the heritage of your name?
Speaker 2 (34:04):
So this is also there's an interesting story. So it's
an Armenian last name. Okay, now it's Americanized, but it's
still people still have a hard time pronouncing it, which
is ironic because it's already been americanized. So basically, I
think it would have been my grandfather's parents. So my
grandfather's father it was immigrating, so my great grandfather immigrating
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from Armenia to Ellis Island, and the Armenian ending is iaan,
sometimes y an, but usually i an. That's kind of
a so most Italian names end in some sort of vowel,
whether it's an I or an o, And for Armenians,
pretty much across the board, if you see a last
name that ends i an or sometimes y an, you
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can tell that that's an Armenian name. So that's a
little trick. So generally they stuck to that. But more
in some language translation just means other. So when they
were classifying people, are you German no, are you Italian No?
Are you British No? Are you Asian No? So then
your other right, so basically you're you're none of the above.
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Therefore you get the you know, the beginning of more.
So a lot of times I think that's what that means.
If you have any name that has more in it,
it usually means you don't fit into a clean box somewhere,
so you're like an other. And then the so the
more is the other and then the I A N
is the Armenian designation, so therefore you get Meridian. It's
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a very common Armenian last name, so it's many people
have the same story. And then my grandfather was Myron,
but he went he would just he initially went by Mike,
which but he eventually got away from it because Myron
is really not that hard, Okay, but that's kind of
the story there. So so I guess on my paternal side,
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I do have some history of americanizing names, but that's
that's my knowledge of it.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
That's really really interesting. Well, and I confessed to you
that I made a mistake over this last weekend also
when Bakersfield was with us. And I know that the
people who are listening to this podcast probably heard it
on Friday night and were probably either laughing at me
or just shaking their heads at me. But Danielle Bout
got his visitors first goal.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
No, he scored his first goal the weekend before, but
it was his first three Okay, Yeah, he scored against Calgary.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
Okay, gotcha. I called his goal on Friday night, and
for some reason, my brain just shut down and I
got his first name wrong when I called that goal,
and I called him Michael. So I got his number
right and I got his last name right, but for
some reason, I said Michael, and I was so mad
at myself, so so so mad, like that's it was
(36:51):
like playing on repeat in my brain over and over
and over again. And then he got another goal, and
I was so happy because then I had a chance
to read gal Yes, thank god.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
So then I leaned pretty heavily onto the Daniel when
I made that call, if anybody was paying attention, because
I realized what I had done the first time. Yeah,
and I was.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I have two thoughts on your story. Tell me so,
I think I know why you got confused, right, because
there's two names that I can think of that first
names that aren't pretty basic to pronounce. Across our team. Generally,
first names are pretty easy because Zuber we just call
the Max. So that's that's fine, right, every other one
is not that hard, with the exception of you can
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go back and forth on Michael Kuntz or Michael Kuntz
or I think maybe it's supposed to be the kind
of like Miko where there's a pause in there somewhere.
I think that's like Miguel Kuntz. That's the I think
the correct way to say it. Uh So, again, the
two players that have tricky first names are Daniel Boot
and Michael Kuntz. Right, so maybe in your head you're thinking, Okay,
(37:58):
here's a tough one. I'll just go with Michael. But
that's actually the story for Konsen, not Boot. What do
you think. Do you think that's a good theory or
do you think I'm wrong?
Speaker 5 (38:05):
That's actually probably exactly it. I think I feel pretty
comfortable with everybody else's name on the team, but the
two of them and maybe, Well, no, because I was
gonna say maybe Scott prudaviationally because I don't know him
that well.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
I haven't had at least name.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
His first name is Scott, but he also he's I've
been saying his name a lot lately. Yeah, So no,
I think I think that's it. I think I don't
know why. My brain just it just made that switch.
But the funny part is I read the reads before
I say them out loud, you know, and I still
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made I still made the mistake. We do have a
lot a very very I don't want to say generic,
but we do have a lot of very common first names.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, the first name. The first names are not tricky,
with the exception of the two that I think you
mix up. And then my second thought, why I think
you like to say why Boot is a fun person
to an noow is? I think short last names are
fun because you can go all in on that. You
can go all in on the first name and then
just very succinctly punctuate the last name like then'll Boot
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you know, boom boom, which I think makes it makes
it fun. But usually last names are longer, and then
you have to kind of change.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
How you really, Yeah, maybe that's it. You know who
you want to take a guess who I think is
the trickiest name to say just when I'm when I'm
like reading starters, No, not me, Micosstica, Yeah, that's but
when I like put when I'm yes, it is sorry,
(39:40):
I scared my dog. Yes, Kevin could not because it
ends with such a hard sound at the end, and
there's nothing really in there lyrically that I can like
glom onto and like kind of draw out. It is
a very very both it and at the end of
his name, and they at the first name and last
name just they're really really hard sounds.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well, I have an unfair advantage because the first away game,
we're in the iHeart Studio and I was like walking
to the bath I had to use the bathroom probably,
I don't know. Happyfore Puck Trup and I was going
over the names and I feel pretty good. I was
going over names and numbers, and our producer Michael recalls
me making flash cards. I don't need. I have our
team memorized now, pretty because we've now had six games.
(40:20):
But this is the opening weekend, so I wanted to
really get comfortable with our team. So I made flash cards,
and I was worried about some pronunciations, and Kevin Connaughton
was tripping me up even before I even said it,
just in my head. I was struggling getting around Connonton.
So I was like walking to the bathroom and I
was going Canton, Canton, Kevin Conoughton, Come on, Kevin Conoughton.
So I think I struggled with it. So I'm not
(40:42):
surprised that you have the same story.
Speaker 5 (40:45):
Well, and I wanted to tell you too. Okay, So
Miko's birthday was on Sunday. He is now twenty twenty two,
twenty three. What do we what do we like it?
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Twenty two?
Speaker 5 (40:57):
He's twenty two now happy to know. We don't have
any November or December birthdays so on this team. So
I will not be bringing birthdays up again until January
when we have a slew of birthdays. January and Jebruary birthdays.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Yeah, I'd be curious to know what the the most
What is the most common? Is there a month that
that where more people are I mean naturally there has
to be, right.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
You mean, like just in January in the team, you
know what, I think it's probably November because of Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day and and Christmas, so whatever, like September. I
think that those are the two most.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Do the like New Year's Do the road Runners have
a lot of November?
Speaker 5 (41:43):
No? No, November?
Speaker 2 (41:44):
No, no Nomber you said November. I'm sorry, I was
thinking October?
Speaker 4 (41:47):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (41:48):
No?
Speaker 5 (41:48):
November? How many in September? Is that what you're said
to check?
Speaker 2 (41:52):
I don't know if you just want just one.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
One in September? Do you want to guess who it is?
He's not a player, Steve? No, that's really good, guess
Steve is in No, you're right, it is Steve. How
did you do that? Oh my god? I was looking
at the wrong month.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
It is. Well, it's not a player, and you know,
I don't think you're gonna know, like, with all due respect,
I don't know if you would know the video coaches birthday,
but Steve.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
Podvins Steve and Stewart's actually are both September birthdays.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Signs though, by the way, startini, I don't he must
be Italian with that which we just went over with
the vowel last name, yeah, the all. Did you see
his outfit on Saturday? He had the black pants.
Speaker 5 (42:33):
The blacks so stylish, like he can't help it.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
Red tie.
Speaker 5 (42:37):
He has custom suits. They're from a place ep fetix souse.
I've stopped him before. If you ever ask him to
like show you the inside lapel of his suit, it's gorgeous,
absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Well, well, I went to interview Steve Podvin for pregames.
So I go walking through the tunnel into the locker room.
And anybody who's familiar with sports at all knows that
players can get a little bit touchy about the locker room.
That's kind of their their mecca or their temple, the spot,
and any non player or coach that comes walking in
is usually not very well received. But naturally that's where
I interviewed Steve Poppins, so there's really no way around that.
(43:12):
So I came walking in and Startini is one of
the first people I see, and it's still new. It's
only my third or my fourth interview there, so there's
still not exactly sure maybe who I am or what
I'm doing there. So walking through and Startini's got you know,
the black dress shirt and that very ostentatious look.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
It's a crushed velvet.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
It's so gorgeous, and he didn't say anything, but he
made a face like he was not pleased with my presence.
His face combined with his outfit, it was intimidating.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
I have to be honest, if you ever get a
chance to look up his stats from when he played,
he is definitely not somebody that you would want to
meet toe to toe when you were on the ice. Yes,
that is what I've heard from multiple players who had
to play against him during their time.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
I can see that. Yes, so yeah, sure, maybe I'm
not gonna say it's too small, but it's if it
were either going to be too small or too large,
it's on the it's not too large, right, and he's
he's well built, So that combination also adds to the
same kind of intimidation factory. You're following what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (44:20):
I got you, I'm getting what you're laying down. It's good,
it's I never realized before that actually Zach and Steve
are born in the same month, but they are different signs. Yeah,
I hadn't put that together before. But the most the
most signs on this team right now, we have more
Aquarius than any other sign, which is so Aquarius is
(44:44):
late January, early February. Okay, we're gonna start racking him up,
like we're gonna hit Cameron he BIG's birthday on one
twenty one, and then it's like every other day somebody
has a birthday. Yeah, it'd be.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
Funny if the mayor was on inauguration day one twenty
he's one day off, that would be kind of a ironic.
Speaker 5 (45:00):
Oh, that would be fun. Well, he's Canadian, so that's true.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
What would be to him? But he's still the mayor
of Tuoson whether.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
He likes it or not.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
I think we have to grab a break. We'll have
the final say when we come back. Stay with us
on Happy Hour on Fox fourteen fifty and welcome back
to Happy Hour. You just heard from Kim and I
and also earlier in the show our interview with Miko Mitika,
who just turned twenty two years old. Hey, if you
have an input on somebody we should interview next. Then
Kim and I told you that we've certainly been good
(45:31):
fortune for some players, whether they get called up to
the NHL or score game winning goals, that's been the trend.
If you see us at the arena, feel free, to
let us know. We know that the Mayor of Tucson,
Cameron Hebig, is a popular candidate. We all already interviewed
the Captain, Austin Paganski. But if you have an opinion,
maybe a player you think isn't on our radar, but
somebody you want to hear from and you see us.
(45:51):
Usually he can find me wearing some sort of suit
and you know, guys know where to find Kim. Let
us know. Tell us who you think should be on
the show. We'd love to hear your input. But as
of now, in about an hour and a half, we're
gonna have puck drop from the TCC. If you're hearing
this and you're close to the arena, why don't you
just go to the game. We know that there's a
few seats left, so you can watch the game between
(46:12):
the Tucson Roadrunners and the Manitoba Moose and then it
will be the same deal tomorrow six thirty puck drop
between Manitoba and Tucson. You can also listen to my
podcast with the broadcaster for the Manitoba Moose, Daniel Fink,
if you want to be more of an expert on
the game and know the ins and outs of the
matchup on both sides. You can be educated on the
same podcast network here, iHeartRadio. My interview with Daniel will
(46:34):
always have interviews with the opposing broadcasters, so be on
the lookout for that. Tickets available Tucson Roadrunners, dot com,
Moose and Roadrunners. Thank you so much for listening to
Happy Hour on Fox Sports fourteen fifty
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