Why are we Flames Fans? – Flames Unfiltered – Episode 244

Why are we Flames Fans? – Flames Unfiltered – Episode 244           
Hosts- Brad Burud @BradBurud and Kyle Lewis @vanlewis14 
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Why are we fans of the Calgary Flames.  Hosts Brad Burud and Kyle Lewis discuss why they became fans of the Flames and why they have continued to stick with this team.  Have they ever considered changing their favorite team?  The questions are answered on this special edition of Flames Unfiltered. 
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Hey, Flames fans, Welcome to another special episode of Flames
Shouldered with your host Broadford and myself Kyle Lewis. These
are really fun because we don't fall I mean, we
don't fall him much on the format anyway, but these
are always said, these are always different. So Brad tell
us what we're talking about today.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Oh, Kyle, We're going to talk about why in the
world were Flames fans.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
That's a great question, because we it's not because we
have mental health issues and love living with an obscure
hockey team as much as money.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
You might think that of the things. I mean, let's
preface this just slightly. It is slightly odd that we
are Flames fans number one, and slightly odd because of
where we live. Like Kyle and I do not live
in Calgary. I am very I am from North Dakota,

(01:18):
which is just I live in a town just about
an hour and ten minutes from the border, so I
am very close to the border, very close to me.
I'm right south of Brandon, Manitoba, so I'm close to Canada.
I spend a lot of time in Canada growing up.
I was up there a lot for hockey, So I
mean we're about it's close. I'm out as close to
Canadian as I can be now. Kyle lives way out

(01:40):
on the on the East coast.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, I'm in, as many of you know, in the
Monkton area of New Brunswick, which is actually the fastest
growing city in Canada. And uh yeah, I couldn't be
much further from Calgary. I do spend quite a lot
of time there and also in Edmonton. But yeah, it's
very It's it's funny how many people think that. I'm

(02:03):
sure they think the same to you that we actuallyare
in Calgary. And when I tell people my podcast co
host is in North Dakota, they're like what why.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
And a lot of people I know, and I've had
people say to me like, not why are you Flames,
and but they're like why do you how well, I've
been asked this, how can you do a podcast not
being in Calgary? And you know it is. It is
a little tricky and I and I will admit we
would probably be open to more resources had we lived

(02:32):
in Calgary, but you can't, Like, I hope people respect
us as Flames fans and as Flames podcasters not being
from Calgary, because I mean, we are as passionate as
you can be about the team and study the team
as much as you possibly can. Uh So I hope

(02:54):
people respect the fact of that that we were able
to do this remotely. I do try ivel up to
Calgary lately, not as much as I should be. You've
been a little bit more fortunate to get to get
to Calgary get a little bit easier than I have lately.
I'm hoping that we can change that, and I'm hoping
that we can be there next year together yea, to

(03:15):
not only watch the Flames of promote the podcast, and
talk to the friends that we do have in Calgary.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
I'm up to like three four times a year at
least that I'm there. It's kind of crazy. But and
this is interesting too, because I don't know if I've
shared I feel like maybe I have. Maybe I have,
but I don't know if I shared some of my
theories about why I think you became a Flames fan.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
But I would love to hear why you think I
became a Flames fan, because I know why I became
a Flames fan, and that's what we're talking about today.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
So yeah, so we're gonna start with you because I
want to throw this theory out there, and I think
I mentioned it before, like I said, but I can't
quite recall. But based on where you are demographically, uh
and geographically, I think a big part of what may
have drawn you to the Flames was that they were
one of the first teams, if not the team, to

(04:00):
really really scour the US college hockey ranks for talent
in the eighties and they get a lot of great
players from the States as a result of that approach.
Is there any truth to that?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
I would like to say, yes, that is the reason.
It's probably more the reason I continued to be a
Flames fan. A player that you that's a player that
that sticks in my head when you brought that up,
is James Patrick. Remember James Patrick number three, baby, He
was a stud at the University of North Dakota.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And yes, he was a stadium a stud defenseman for
the Flames and the Sabers.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yes that So I don't think you got to remember
when I became a Flames fan, I was thirteen years old.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
So just really that's actually that's unreal because that's about
the same age I was when I became a Flames
I was I was I was twelve of thirteen, for sure,
for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, I wonder if that's like when we are mentally
capable of developing a favorite And I just I know
before that I was a hockey fan, and like most
people are like, what do you mean you're not a
Minnesota north Stars fan? Or well now they say Minnesota
Wild fan, which is really slightly crazy because if you
think about it, geographically, I'm closer my closest as Winnipeg.

(05:23):
My second closest is is Minnesota. My third closest is Colorado,
and then Calgary's right about the same as Colorado. If
I got into a car and drove to Denver, it'd
be about the same time it would be driving Calgary. Now,
a lot of people in Montana, which there is not
a lot of hockey in Montana and hardly any hockey fans,
but the ones that are are usually Calgary Flames fans. Yeah,

(05:44):
why that is, you don't know, Because I think a
lot of the a lot of people from Montana spent
a lot of time in the in the mountains and
right between Calgary and Montana, So I think that's probably why,
But I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, yeah, I mean out here it's it's Toronto on trail.
Boston fans typically, because of geography, a fair amount of
Autowa offense, now, which is cool. Auto was a great city,
and we've often talked about our fondness of the Senators.
Very few Flames fans, and I can tell you I
pretty well know them all quite well. But I digress.

(06:18):
Let me, uh yeah, fill in here, let me know,
let me know what the story is. How how did
you become a Flames fan.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
It's it's a little embarrassing, but oh, this is gonna be.
In nineteen eighty five, right, I was thirteen years old.
I was playing hockey, and then we're years and in
eighty four the north Stars, the Minnesota north Ears came
to my town and played against the US Olympic team
at the time with Chris Chelios and stuff. I think
I mentioned that on an episode just not that long ago.

(06:46):
So I was I was a north Stars fan. The
year prior to that, they came to town and played
the Philadelphia Flyers. Don't remember really anybody on the Flyers.
The only north Star that I really remember was Dino
Ciccarelli and Bobby Smith. Bobby Smith was like the guy, right,
so you would think that that would lead me to

(07:06):
just say, hey, I'm a Minnesota North Stars fan and
that's what it is. But a year later, I'm this
is embarrassing. But this is why I'm a flame signed.
I'm out shopping with my dad at a store that
and this is one thing that is a little bit
embarrassing about the States. But you gotta remember this is
the state's back in nineteen eighty five, there was no

(07:26):
real hockey stores. I remember one hockey store where it's
just all hockey stuff, and that was in Grand Forks,
which is about three hours from where I lived. But
we would you'd have hockey kind of like you know
what you guys have. I believe it's like in your
Canadian tire stores. Oh you guys have like a little
hockey section. Am I wrong about that? Oh?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Yeah, no, every Canadian. So I actually the company I
work for, a home Hardware, has, especially in smaller towns,
they have hockey sections as well. We carry a lot
of hockey equipment through a distribution centers.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So that's kind of how our stores were. But we
had a store called Home of Economy, which is actually
based out of Grand Forks, which is a really that's
where the University of North Dakota is. It's a big,
big hockey town. World Juniors were there in five yep.
So anyways, I'm at this whole of economy store and
I'm getting I can't even know if I was getting
a sticker skates or I don't remember, what doesn't matter.

(08:14):
And I said to my dad, Hey, like, can I
get Can I get a jersey? And he was like no,
And I don't know why. I remember prices like back
then for a jersey was like sixty bucks, which if
you correlate that to now, that's it was pretty expensive, right,
And he's like, oh, we're not We're not getting a jersey,
and so I'm like crap. So I didn't. I didn't
let up on it, right, I kept pushing and he's like,

(08:36):
all right, you can get one off this rack. And
it was like a clearance rack there. And this is
scary that at thirteen years old, Like I remember the
teams that were on the clearance rack. Yeah, right, it
was Quebec, Nordik's on there. Nice, it was a Minnesota's
some Minnesota North Stars jerseys, which I'm surprised I didn't
pick one of those there was no Winnipeg Jets stuff.

(09:03):
There was a couple old Montreal Canadians jerseys and some
Boston Bruins stuff, and then there was believe it or not,
the home and away for the Calgary Flames, and I
grabbed the white home jersey and I thought, all right,
this is what I'm going with. And now I don't
know if that clinched me to being a fan, but

(09:24):
it clinched me for that year and led me up
till nineteen eighty six when they went to the finals. Yeah,
it I think that bridge the gap, right, and then
I'm watching them in the finals and I and they
end up losing that year to Montreal. But it was,
it was. It was a fun run. And in the States,
in the in the in the mid eighties, like the
amount of hockey that we got was it was embarrassing, really.

(09:47):
I mean we got like the Stanley Cup finals on
ABC and that was right, Like I so I got
to watch just bits and pieces. They end up losing.
I remember ESPN kind of getting some of it in
the years after that. So in eighty nine when they
make the Cup run, I was a sophomore in high

(10:07):
school and I was able to watch the games. Some
of the times I would have to believe it or
not go to this Mexican restaurant and watch the games
because they were the only place in town that had
what was called the Center ice package back then. And
so I wouldn't get all the games, but I would

(10:29):
get most of the games, and I would go watch
at this restaurant if I had to write. And I
remember I had just gotten my driver's license. I was
able to go do those things. But they go on
this cup run. I watched the old Flurry was what
Just those big goals he scored was just, I mean,
just amazing. He was a smaller player at the time.

(10:49):
I was a smaller player, so I looked up to that.
I loved Gary Roberts and Al mckinnis and those guys
carry me over well. In the nineties was when I
had graduated from high school. I would go with my
college friends, many of which were from Canada, because our
college just we just bring in a ton of Canadians.
And we would go up to Winnipeg and go to

(11:12):
Jets games, and we'd go to Brandon and watch the
Weekings play and we do all these things. And and
when I would go to Winnipeg. We'd always make sure
that it was the Flames trip there, right, and so
we'd always stay at the West and Downtown and that's
where the teams would stay. And so I I got
to meet Flurry and Chase On and German Titoff and uh,

(11:34):
you know all these guys at this hotel too, and
and get autographs and stuff like that, and it was
just super, super fun and that just kept the ball
rolling with the Flames. It got me through those really
bad years. And then the old four Cup run just
sent my fan love for the Flames to another level.
And it'd stayed at that level, if not growing, since then.

(11:56):
But that that that's what it is. And you know,
I've been to every major Canadian city to go to
NHL games. We'll follow the Flames through all of them.
And I've got to live what hockey is in Canada.
And yes it is different than the United States. It is.
And if you don't believe me, like just look at

(12:18):
the crowds outside during the playoffs each and every game.
It doesn't happen in the US. Yeah you did. I
wish it did. It just doesn't.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, different story, But that's how.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
I became a Flames fan, as weird as that is,
obscure as that is, but more importantly, why I stayed
a Flames fan and got to the level that I
am right now. Nice.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, I actually learned a lot from that, and I
knew some of it, but it's interesting kind of dive.
Do a deep dive into it.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Right, Yeah, So, so indulge me with your story thirteen
years old. Same, that's great. I did not know then
we talked today.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah. I started dabbling in hockey actually, like right around
the your two thousand it was two thousand playoffs when
I got really into it. It's kind of funny, I remember,
at least this is my memory of it. I saw
on the front page of the sports section of our
local newspaper at the time a picture of Peter Forstburg
in the away Avalanche jersey, like defending off a defenseman,

(13:17):
and I just I loved Forstburg and loved that jersey,
and those late Colorado jerseys are still my favorites from
that era, like late nineties, i should say. And I
always loved the color red, so I always kind of
thought the Flames were kind of cool looking. But I
thought I was going to be a Colorado fan, and
my parents actually got me a white pedestal jersey, which
is still hanging up in the closet here. And I

(13:41):
remember it was weird because in two thousand and two
thousand and one when this would have happened, I think
it was that Christmas I got the jersey. I watched
the December thirty first New Year's Eve game between Calgary
Montreal and Calgary is wearing a completely different jersey than
the one that I had, because they had switched to
blasty on the shoulders with that white jersey, right, sounds
like what the well, like my jersey's irrelevant? And then

(14:01):
I started playing a ton of the video games Njil
two thousand and two thousand one, blah blah, And it
was always like my thing because like I stayed up late.
This is what I really enjoyed as a kid. I
was nowhere near as social as I am now, so
that the Flames games are always on so late where
I'm on the East Coast, it's like the whole house
was asleep, and it was just my time to watch
my hockey team, right, And I remember I would go

(14:23):
back and watch old fold flury stuff because I heard
his name was just anambirth. The way he played. That's
why I took number fourteen when I played, So it's
kind of like a retrospect. And I remember a game
between the Rangers and Flames, and Flury was with the
Rangers and like he almost scored the winner overtime, and
I remember Glenn say, they're like almost falling into his
chair with the cigar in his mouth, and it's weird.
He remember stuff like.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
That, right, yeah, odd stuff.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
And I was like a big, big fan. I remember
I get a pay advance at my first ever job
so I could go to sport check to pick up
my first Blasty jersey. So I get my boss get
like an extra fifty bucks so I didn't have to
wait to pick it up. It was on lay away
for me.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
On lay away.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah. And then a few years of watching some really
terrible Flames teams in that time period of Gamblain became
a superstar, which was huge. Then he had the Olympics
in Salt Lake City and O two where he was
a huge piece of that. And then I remember in
two thousand and four, actually right after That'd say that
when they beat Detroit, people were like, oh my god,
this team might actually pull it off, and everybody's like, oh, yeah,

(15:23):
you're on the bandwagon, like friends of Mine'm like, no, dude,
like he's been an insane Flames fan for years now,
like this is his team. And then that summer after
I'm still jersey yeah exactly right. And then that summer
those Flames jerseys, Like in here in Monkton on the
East Coast, it was Flames jerseys in every sports store.
The red with the black sea was like there was
like twenty in stock everywhere. It's like the whole country

(15:45):
kind of embraced them. And also just the fact they
were such underdogs of that team, and you know, the
four Flames like they really realistically they get as much love,
if not more than the eighty nine Cup winning team, right,
And you said it yourself where they you know, it
was like steroids to your fandom. It was the same
thing for me. It's like all of a sudden, everyone
and their dog cares about a team I've carried about
for years, and it's like it was very validating for

(16:06):
me because everybody here like since Charronto, Montreal, Boston and
this was like and now it's really unique because it's
like you mentioned this at the outside of this episode.
We had a fan I think it was John actually
that sent us.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Yes, he put a.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Basically injury how he thought it was like a unique
perspective that we're not from Calgary. And I can tell
you when I go to Calgary, it's I would I
certainly wouldn't call it in an event, but like I
get messages on X and like you get time for
a beer, like a you're gonna meet the game, and
it'd be great to meet you. And I've met so
many people there, and it's like it always feels like
a special occasion obviously for me to go to Calgary,
but I feel so overwhelmingly welcomed when I get there.

(16:42):
It's like it really has become a home away from
home for me. And man, some of my closest friends
even from high school, actually moved to Calgary and and
the rest is history. But yeah, it's just the color,
the color red, and just some circumstances at the time.
And I remember like thinking, like Derek Morris was such
a good up and cooming defenseman, and and val bur
and again La and Savard, Phil Howsley, Mike Vernon. I

(17:06):
loved that blasting mask that he wore. Actually, I have
an autograph photo of it behind me when he's wearing
number twenty nine when she talked about before on the show.
So it was just it was a lot of weird circumstances.
And then like my dad became kind of a he's
a Bruins fan, but kind of a closeted Calgary fan,
and my brother was My brother, who doesn't know hockey
from football, was super stoked and oh four and yeah, when.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
When was your first trip to Calgary?

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Nine?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Nine?

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, So I guess an interesting question because have you
ever thought about not being a Flames fan or ditchy?
In the Flames h franchise has went through some real
ups and we talked about that in O four and

(17:53):
eighty nine and he went through some real downs. And
oh yeah, for for a person not living in Calgary
and have that invested interest of being a member and
a citizen of that town or city, I mean, it
would seem to be easy to jump ship, right have
you ever considered it or thought of it?

Speaker 1 (18:16):
I always said I couldn't because I had too much
invested and people. I thought that, and at one point
I might have meant it to me like merchandise, but
it's the emotional investment. You just can't do it. And
like even going to see like our you know, our
our local team, to wok To Waldcats are the best
team in junior hockey this year, and I still can't
get as into them as I do the Flames, right, yeah,

(18:36):
and I mean and even yeah, and like an even
bigger I guess an even bigger reason is like I
you know, I've been in love with somebody who's an
Oilers fan for most of my life, and I've gone
to Oilers' games, I've supported her and her fandom, and
even that I don't think could ever be enough, certainly
not to make me an Oilers fan, but could never

(18:58):
pull me away from my love the Flames. Like it's
just I could move to Edmonton, I could move to
North Dakota, I could move to California. I could move
to Ireland. It doesn't matter where I go. And as
as I've found too, and we've talked about this, there's
some really great Flames fans in Australia and Sweet Finland,
like all over the England, like all over the world.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
And some of our listeners for as a matter of fact.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah, we got a we got a bunch in Australia,
New Zealand. Actually, and it's like it's just not an option,
it's not on the table. It's like it's it's it's
actually more important to me and less likely to change
than any other belief I hold, whether it's religious, spiritual, political,
you name it. So what about you? What's yours? What's
your response to that question?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
The only time and I and I will I do
have to admit that there was one time, and it
wasn't that long ago. Actually, do you remember a couple
of years ago when there was the big this team's
going to Houston talk? Yeah.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Eric Francis was largely responsible for that, but yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
And mostly just talk to manipulate the situation on the
arena and a whatever. But anyways, it was talk. And
you know, as a fan and as someone who's invested
as much as we are into a show and into
everything that we do, it crossed my mind to the
fact of what would I do if the Flames moved
to Houston? And I and I and I and I

(20:18):
accepted the fact that I just couldn't do it. If
they leave Calgary, they leave that team is dead to me,
and I would have had to move on to a
different team, and that would be the only way and
the only time, honestly since I started becoming a Flames
fan that I even considered it was that when there
was talk of, yeah, well Houston's a realistic option and

(20:40):
something that could happen. That's the only time I remember
that if they would have went to Houston, what would
you would you have stayed with them?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
I don't know that I could have. I actually I
think my brother asked me that the time. A lot
of people were ask me that question. It's like, oh,
what would you do? What would you do? And it's like,
I really it was hard for me to answer, because
my friend, straight, with the politics around that arena and
the some of the deception that I feel went on
and the back and forth and the reporting, I probably

(21:09):
would have become a Jets fan.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
That's what I would have done too. Yeah, the route
for me, right.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
Yeah, they're very they're very close to you. And and
you know, I watched the game seven this year between
Saint Louis and the Jets, and like just that small
arena just being so loud, and I like the Jerseys.
I do like the city Winnipeg. I've been there, I
did some work there that would that was probably what
was going to happen. But I was so adamant that

(21:36):
there was And I thought at the time, whether it's
Francis whoever else report, I'm like, it's not it's not realistic.
Team's gonna leave. Like it's at this point, I.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Thought, you know, there's a chance that they would leave.
But I always knew that Calgary was a strong enough
market that someone else would go there. Now, if they
would have went there and been the Flames, then I
would have just been a Flames fan. But you know,
I sat and I thought about the team in the
way I believe this is what was this two or
three years ago? This happened.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
Uncle, I was about Yeah, it was probably three years now.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
But I remember sitting there thinking like, I didn't have
a Meka Kippersow or a Jerome Gindler or a Theofloria
or Hella Sean Donovan to hold me to follow them
to Houston. I didn't have that because and I think
me and you have talked about this a few times,
and I know I did a Flames unfiltered shorts on
it or like, right now, if you ask me who

(22:30):
my favorite flame is, I'm like, I don't know. Can
I let them grow into the position and then I'll
assume them as my favorite. Right now, it just seems
like there's not that guy that stands out to me.
I got a couple of guys that are in the
works on it, But you know what, Like we didn't
have that during the Houston talk. We didn't have that
guy that would it would drag me to Houston to
be a fan. Plus I would have been so pissed off.

(22:52):
I don't know how in the world. And plus I
don't really like Texas. I don't know how in the
world I would have been able to do that.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
I don't know how I would have navigated. And it's
funny to think about now, because up until you brought
it up, I totally forget about that that time period.
It's that whole like Rider's eye statement, right is like
you say about a person, and I'll say about the Flames, Like,
but again, if they left, if they rebranded, whatever could
have happened, it would have I could I could have

(23:21):
realistically become a guy who like just divested myself of
hockey largely I'd still be a fan, but nothing like
I was and say, hey, you know, it was a
good run, but it's time to move on. And I never,
like I said, I never felt it was a realistic possibility.
But not having the Flames in Calgary, knowing the city
of Calgary, the people of Calgary, the rivalry with Edmonton,

(23:42):
you know, it's like I just it would I don't
think it worked for me. I can't imagine.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I know it would have been a tough it'd have
been a tough thing. It's funny though, when I sit
and I look at the years that I've been a
Flames fan, and I look forward to the future. But
I you know, I remember when they won the Cup
in eighty nine, and I was a sophomore in high school,
and I'm young and dumb and sixteen, I believe, and
like you know, you're like you're I just thought it
was gonna happen all the time, right, And I mean

(24:09):
in O four, I was off the charts, like my
days revolved completely about that playoff game that night, Like
literally that's what my life was. And and I've longed
so much for those that intensity, and I think we
got it a little bit in that Dallas Edmonton run

(24:30):
maybe a little bit. And the year we knocked off Vancouver,
what year was that year? You're a wizard in that
fifteen fifteen. Uh, there's been glimpses where, you know, it's
been amazing, But all in all, if you think about
the time period that we've been Flames fans, it's been

(24:51):
pretty lean. I mean, we were diehards of an organization
that has won one Stanley Cup. Now I know that's
more one more than Vancouver, so all my Vancouver friends
can think about that, but it is not you know,
it's not a storied run for this organization. And you know,
we sit and we talk about this weekly, and we
talk about where we're going with this organization, and I

(25:15):
think both of us are pretty positive on the direction
we're going. And I just hope someday that we're able
to I don't know, a lot of people ask me, like,
what would you do if they won the Stanley Cup?
Would you like? And honestly, I said, I'd probably sit
there and cry.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I'd probably expire. I thought, my brother, I wouldn't really
have a reason to exist anymore, so I just I
wouldn't I wouldn't die I would just cease to exists
as people know me, because it's like, all right, the
journey's over.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's it's it's it's been a big part of our lives,
you know. And I couldn't I couldn't imagine what a
winter would be like, not having eighty two nights of
games to forward to. Right.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Well, it's funny when you treat it almost like a
job that you love, where it's like, oh, like, what
are you doing tonight? All I gotta watch the Flames
game like I got it.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
It's on my and for me.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
Whether it means watch it in the morning or watch
as much as I can before I'm just too exhausted
to keep my eyes open on the East Coast. I mean,
the answer will sometimes differ, but yeah, it's a it's
a huge part of my life, and that's I guess
that's why I joined you on this show.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah that's funny, isn't that. And and we've been doing
it together. I've been doing This is Her. We're just
finishing your six of the show. And I think you've
been along for the ride for three now. Yeah, yeah,
it would be two or three. Yeah, jeez, it's been fun.
But it's also been fun of being a Flames fan
and and good times ahead. But it was nice to

(26:46):
visit today and talk about all we got to the point.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
Where we're at right Yep, absolutely absolutely, and uh, you know,
I think over time we'll uncover maybe more reasons all
we feel the way we do about this team. But
it's uh, it's a gift that keeps on giving despite
and you alluded really well to this too, like all
those years of mediocrity and just the one Stanley Cup,
the three Cup finals appearances, for some reason, we keep

(27:10):
coming back from more.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
So that's right. Well, thanks Flames fans for joining us
on another special episode of Flames Unfiltered, and we haven't
those throughout the summer sprinkled in with some kindly regular
homes Unfiltered episodes. Have a good week, Flames fans. As
we leave today, another band out search you for Scarlett

(27:31):
A good band. Check them on Apple, Apple, to iTunes
and Spotify. They are out there.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Give them a listen and a shout out. Good music
and hopefully everybody's having any good opso's in good summer, Kyle.
We will talk again next week. Have a good week,
Flames fans, all right touch.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
You talk to you guys soon and hopefully guys have
nice weather wherever you are.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
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