Best of the Bus: Roman Josi Joins The Boys

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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: You might be thinking to yourself, there's a person sitting in the guest chair already, and when you guys do promos, they're usually not sitting there. Well, our guest today is the very handsome, the very talented two time All Star Olympic. Did you go to the medalist? No?

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Speaker 1: Well, I hate.

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Speaker 2: To say yea, but here we are, went to the Olympics, played in the NHL finals and is the captain of the Nashville Predators. Our boy Roman Yo, see right of applause with a boy right now. Just a round of applause.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely happy to have the boy.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, oh, thank you, thank you. Very excited today, little puppies. As always, I'm joined by my boy Willie see the wolf, will Compton.

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Speaker 1: The boy. How do you feel to day, my baby?

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Speaker 3: I feel great, man. I'm excited about I'm excited about interviewing our.

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Speaker 4: Boy Row, excited to be here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be an exciting day. It's an exciting day. We got all our puppies now that we're getting our dan all figured out and we're laying out that hey, like we promised, we lay out the hay so the puppies can lay down and get comfy. We got them a nice thirty five inch plasma screen TV because puppies don't eat big screen. They have beautiful, beautiful blue eyes and they can see perfectly, all right, And they're watching us right now and they're loving it. And if you're not watching us, and it's ripping through your cerebellum walking down that highway, you get to listen to the puppies, and you might think to yourself, Oh, Daddy, send a little sick right now?

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Speaker 1: What's wrong?

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Speaker 4: Dad?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I got some of that throat stuff going on right now. But guess what. A grinder gets up and it goes to work, all right. I get up and I grind for the boys. And when my guy Roman Yosi comes on, I'm thinking, I can't miss this.

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Speaker 1: I can't miss.

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Speaker 2: Another opportunity for our foundation to grow and be best friends because we have each other's number. Roman and Will they don't have each other's number, all right, And is it ever gonna get worked out? Probably not, because Roman and I are best friends, all right? Sit back, some sit back, relax and please enjoy the show. After following us on busting' oh yeah, you always forget you always, I always forgus WTB on social media. Just writer on Instagram. Subscribe review. We love all the reviews.

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Speaker 3: The support has been amazing that so far you're Busting with the Boys all the time, like the Wolves, the Puffs, the babies. We get you got that. You got all of us here. This isn't possible without you, guys, so follow us. Subscribe to the pod and also subscribe on YouTube Busting with the Boys subscribe to the channel. A lot of great content, having a lot of fun with you all, but without further ado.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I enjoy the show, my babies. What a great weekend.

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Speaker 2: And plus you we walked in and fucking kid Rocks there and everyone like literally the owner of the bar like, you know, Steve right, Steve's like texting me like, hey, kid Rocks coming in, blah blah blah. Make sure everyone's cool. So I'm like, hey, will be cool, which which.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about how inappropriate you were.

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Speaker 2: And I know a bunch of other people were there, so I was like, all right, everyone just fucking relaxed. When he gets here. So fucking Bob walks in, Yeah you're gonna do that's gonna give you the jitters. Yeah, But anyway, Bob walks in and he literally goes starts going through. Everybody's like, hey, Bob, nice to meet you, Nice to meet you, Nice to meet you. And within three minutes, Will goes all I'm thinking about is Joe dirtlines.

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Speaker 1: Like loud as fuck everybody.

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Speaker 2: I was just like, god, damn it, dude, stupid joke.

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Speaker 1: There's a dumb joke. My bad bad. Anyway, we get we get, we get Zach in there, and Zach's like he like, remember, hey, we didn't tell Zach his real name is Bob.

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Speaker 3: We said, hey, we got a potential podcast guess that we've been trying to get on, but we're not gonna tell you who it is. And he got there and remembers.

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Speaker 2: Zach, Zach, Yeah, Zach's. Bob's like, hey, I's going. Bobby goes kid rock, and Zach Will goes, God damn it, Zach might be cool.

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Speaker 4: Be cool.

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Speaker 1: There's a mic in front.

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Speaker 2: Of your face like I did.

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Speaker 5: Like I was not expecting it and like I was the star Stunn like that that's who it was because I just thought it was whatever it's called. I just thought it was gonna be like another football player and like no, offense, but okay, okay, and I'm shaking all your buddies hands and then I just get to this guy wearing the trucker hat, Bob, see your T shirt and cowboy boots and starts jeans, and I look up and I'm like, it's kid Rock.

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Speaker 4: It Will is like Zach.

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Speaker 6: Damn it man cool, No, it is we I mean it is like I just think in my mind, like if if me personally found Bobby my mom.

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Speaker 1: Kid Rock, you know you're way too old to be Bobby Now.

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Speaker 4: I didn't even know his name was Bob.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Either, I'm like ready for him to be like, Yo, what's up man, I'm kid Rock, Like, just just be fucking kid.

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Speaker 1: He's got He's got a line in one of his albums, Devil with Out of College he's like talking about you too old, a kid, too soft the rock, and I saw. I'm like, yo, he's both those right now.

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Speaker 2: But he's still he's a fucking badass till Yeah, dude, kid rocks the fucking man.

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Speaker 3: We're like thinking this stuff and what's up man, I'm Will, well, what's up, man, Bobby? He's thinking your name is Bobby?

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Speaker 1: Did he introduce himself? As Bobby to you, or Bob Bobby, Bobby, Hello Robert. He introduced himself to me as Bob.

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Speaker 4: But do you last name rock?

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Speaker 3: Yo?

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Speaker 1: What is his last name? He's already did I remember?

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Speaker 2: I grew up on a ranch in Cave Creek, Arizona, like like a thirteen acre like horse ranch. And I remember like I won this like stereo out of a raffle and the first the first.

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Speaker 1: CD I had was Devil.

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Speaker 2: Without a Cause by Kid rock dude, and I pop that thing in there and I beat my room just so anti everything but kid everything, just like just I will not succumb to the man type of a that was such a skid.

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Speaker 3: Dude in a nighttime you're searching the Pamela Anderson videos.

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Speaker 1: No, I had never seen.

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Speaker 2: I never even know. We didn't really have internet. We had there was like a there's an office at the front of the ranch. We had office the front of the ranch, and there was one computer and it was my mom's work computer.

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Speaker 1: And we didn't have internet. We didn't have internet in the in the house.

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Speaker 2: So when I figured out this friend named Whalen and I figured out what porn was, he showed me like he was that friend. I had my first chew with him. You know what I'm saying. All that shit did a couple of other things whatever, and uh he was like he was like a super bad influenced kid. And I get to I figure out what porn is and I'm like, I'm walking past the office one day and I'm like, YEO is that a computer? And I'm in there, dude, I swear to god, I was in there for four days straight, twelve hours every all day, and my mom would come in and be like, what do you do? Just like hitting the minimize button as fast as possible, like lower the volumes like nothing, mom, and relevant no. Pop ups were everywhere, and the most disgusting pop up.

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Speaker 1: I just didn't know, dude.

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Speaker 2: It'd be like a girl on a snake all of a sudden, like, Yo, what what? I'm just looking for the regular stuff. Yeah, I just want to I'm twelve thirteen. I want to see missionary, dude. I want to see missionary. I want to see missionary. I want to see her on bottom and me on top. I want to see those kinds of things. But then a snakes get popped up, dud. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, the animal thing?

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Speaker 1: Was that about? Long story short? Youde took four days that computer dead, couldn't fuck My mom went up there and like went to look at emails one day. Thing wouldn't even fucking start. Dude. That thing put a gun to its own.

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Speaker 2: Head and shot itself.

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Speaker 1: It was so.

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Speaker 2: Done, Roman, you got any good ones in the what's the first time you watched porn romany from Sweden?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? I don't know, probably say mates to be honest.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, same time.

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Speaker 3: How old is that? How old are you saying?

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Speaker 1: I was about twelve or thirteen years old?

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Speaker 2: That sounds about dude. I remember did your parents give you the talk about it? Like, did you talk about porn?

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Speaker 4: No? Never say, And still.

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Speaker 1: They never talked to you about it, dude.

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Speaker 3: So my dad here's what happened with me. My dad got like pissed off, and because you know, pop ups were happening, and you know, you're like young, you don't you don't think that they know, but they know. And he's like, uh, well, let me talk the outside for a minute.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea like what he's about to say. All right, hey dad, what's up? He's like, what is tits? And ask Lord dot com.

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Speaker 1: No, he did not say that word to God.

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Speaker 3: Immediately, I'm thinking of the buddy you were talking about. I'm thinking of my friend. I'm like a son of a bitch, Trim, Trim Montgomery. He was on the computer earlier and I was I was telling them to get off.

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Speaker 2: Of it because I didn't, you know, Wyatt, I didn't want to hold your boy out. Yeah, he was never allowed to come out the house again.

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Speaker 3: What a terrible that when fear is happening. Yes, he's under the bus.

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Speaker 2: He was like, he was like, he wasn't like that good of a friend anyway, but anyway, throw him under the bus. And he's like, if I ever catch you on the porn side again, I will box your jaws.

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Speaker 1: Your dad said that that was my talk.

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Speaker 3: So me, I was just a kid that you know, you stay at your buddies out like, hey man, you got to send them macts you get HPO. No, No, I did all the time.

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Speaker 1: You guys got it. You look at his phone right now. He is crazy.

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Speaker 2: Dude, dude, Oh man, I got so many getting caught watching porn videos?

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Speaker 4: You did?

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Speaker 3: Would you always have it on the previous channel like you have it on ESPN?

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Speaker 1: And that that's the oldest trick in the book, the oldest trick in the book.

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Speaker 2: I remember that. Fuck it, dude, it's our podcast. I said, I want the first time I like jerked off, Like, dude, dude, but everyone, you guys all remember the first time you.

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Speaker 1: Guys jerked off?

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Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, my left leg went shake.

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Speaker 2: Okay, don't even so, dude about thirteen Like so like, by the way, the story I just told, like, didn't jerk off once. I'm just staring at it, dude, like literally twelve hours.

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Speaker 1: Of my day, I'm just watching porn. Like I'm not even I'm like, yeah, it seems like something's going on down there. But okayh like so sexually frustrated around like punching other d It's whatever.

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Speaker 2: So I figure out, dude. I'm on the bus. I go to Desert Canyon in middle.

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Speaker 1: School and I go on this bus.

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Speaker 2: And these seventh these eighth graders, I'm in seventh grade, these eighth graders are talking about jerking off, and I'm like in my head, like I've literally googled, like how do you make yourself do it? Because I think to myself, I'm thinking at this age, I'm like, oh, it only works if a guy and if a girl does it for you, Like that's the only way it happens, because.

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Speaker 1: That's how babies are making.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: So I'm like lost, and I hear these kids about, yeah, jerked off last night, Yeah get that, like they were talking about all that stuff all the time. I'm like, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you're time this week like all that krads. I'm like yo, and I'm i'ma sit like two rows in from I'm like, Yo, my mind is blown dude.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, my mind is blowing up. I'm like, holy shit, you can do it yourself. You can do it yourself.

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Speaker 2: So I rip over to the house as fast as I can, dude. I get home, parents aren't home, and I start to start to watch them porn. But I'm like, ah, dude, I don't want to get caught, So I like wait till my I wait. My mom like comes home fifteen minutes and I was like, dude, you're on top of it. You knew she was coming home. Yeah, So I'll wait till she goes asleep. I'm in the living room. Do we have one computer in the living room? In the living room now and moved and I'm watching do you remember LimeWire frost wire? Yeah, just like just like HIV and AIDS for all computers everywhere, and I was downloading some shit. I don't even know what I was looking at, dude, but I'm kind of like just like just tugging at it. I'm not really doing nothing. I don't really know what's going on, dude. And all of a sudden, like I'm sitting there and I'm like watching it all right, cook in my leg starts like going like shaking like this. I'm like, yo, what is what is what is happening? And I just made a mess? Dude made an absolute mess. Keyboard was never the same. Hey, dude, that that was. That was the first time dude been chasing that high ever since.

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Speaker 1: Chasing that high. Dude out there, like God, I gotta get back on to get back on that train.

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Speaker 2: Had I get back on the train where you can do multi every once in a while, Every once in a while you get one back back.

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Speaker 1: That was time of like it. That was like an You're just like you're stoked about it.

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Speaker 3: You're distraught about the first time it happens.

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Speaker 1: You're like, what ye did I just do clean this up now, dude, I have.

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Speaker 2: Some funny stories. Man, we can do it. We can ruttle that off onother podcast.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear your story.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, we got wrong, We got wrong. Yeah, he wants to hear it, but rom hey, you better think of yours too, because we're coming.

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Speaker 3: To your next You got you gotta think of yours. You gotta have something, so I uh, he's kind of the same. His coach gonna get pissed. I'm sitting there figuring out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, my buddies told me this is how I do it. So I'm gonna get you your buddies, Yeah, my buddies, Yeah, my buddy. So sitting in the bathroom, Run the shower, obviously taking a shower, get out the lotion, make a little scene about it.

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Speaker 3: Start, you know, going to work. Boys starts going to work pretty quick, and obviously you know it doesn't It doesn't last long for a young, youthful dude.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, or twenty seven years old and something like that. If they keep going d my leg like yours did.

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Speaker 3: My left leg starts like twitching, and it starts like leaning up like on the counter, and it's just like ah, and it just goes everywhere fastward. The next night, can't wait to do it again. I already start taking a shower. I'm like, I'm gonna do this, do this in the shower. That's why I had to learn the hard way about shampoo. So I'm like, oh, what can I use in the shower because the lotion was falling off way too quick the same work, and I gotta I can think, come think shampoo. So I start going to work a shampoo. Well, this one's hilarious because I didn't go the second time calls a shot.

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Speaker 1: This one's.

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Speaker 3: I thought I was about to a and then I just started pissing. Oh no, no, that wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: That, that wasn't it. That wasn't And as I.

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Speaker 2: Started going, that's when I started burning the shampoo.

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Speaker 3: And that's why. That's when you knew soap was just off limits. After that point, I used to do some weird ship though. Back in my day.

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Speaker 2: Man like, yeah, I feel like when you're that young of an age, you'll try anything.

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Speaker 3: You're just an animal.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh dude, no question, You'll go dude, and you'll just look at stuff. I remember being like eight and looking at a shoe box and the little hole in the shoe box being like I could that could be saying like I'm like in my head, like that could be something like I don't know or I don't know, just a pillow laying there helplessly like there is stuffed animal, Like, oh you're in what's happened to you?

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Speaker 3: Dude?

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Speaker 2: I'm tearing up, man, dude, So who you got taken this thing? In Game seven?

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Speaker 3: Now, obviously by the time this releases, it's gonna be over, Like, are gonna be decided Game seven tomorrow?

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Speaker 7: I think Boston Honestly, yeah, I think Boston's going to win. They just have so much experience with game sevens and a bunch of guys have been there.

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Speaker 3: How much strategy is involved in like how much strategy plays into hockey, because we were talking about one game in a seven game series, Like, dude, if we played seven game series, there would be so much frustration seven because it's such a strategic game in football, like game preparation everything on, like being on your p's and q's, Like I don't know what you guys look at, but I know from a defensive perspective, like it's all like for what formations are coming out of what personnels, what are their tendencies in this formation? YadA, YadA, YadA to where you can kind of narrow some stuff down, and by game seven, it's just like how many fucking trick players are they gonna have or just tendency breakers that they're gonna have?

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Speaker 2: Now, Like what is that?

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Speaker 7: It's a lot different in hockey. It's a it's a lot more instinct. There's obviously some strategy, there's systems and stuff. Funny, you try to trust your team, but honestly, like once you're out there, you're just playing like you you know the system because you play it all year, and then once you're out there, it's all instincts, like you're just trying to read the game and trying to read and react and like just talking to a bunch of you guys, Like the our meetings are so short to compare to you guys. Yeah, yeah, we have a meeting eting, like we have a yeah, oh yeah we don't. We we have like on game days we have a maybe half an hour meeting and that's about it. Like we we meet about the other team and it's pretty much half an hour, not even sometimes and.

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Speaker 2: Then you're sharpen your skill. You're like your skills up and I had to work on this, I work on that. Yeah, that's crazy. I can't imagine playing as many games.

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Speaker 1: You guys. How many we play?

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Speaker 4: Eight eighty two?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, how many?

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Speaker 3: How much in between each game?

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Speaker 4: Two days normally?

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Speaker 3: And you guys just have like a thirty minute meeting.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well we have like we have meetings some on practice days and we just go over the game for like twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Just play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gonna be so much more fun than like football.

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Speaker 2: Like football, you're like, okay, boys, like the Monday meeting, Kay, we played awesome or we played shitty and we had to work on this. Tuesdays off, Wednesday practice, Thursday practice, Friday practice, Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Walking and you guys are there from what we're eight to five every day.

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Speaker 2: It's like it for us, it's really like seven seven to five. Yeah, and like there's so much taking here your body because you're banging all the time. Like we got to hit I mean fun, but you guys hit all time too.

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Speaker 4: We do.

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Speaker 1: But field, like April May, how's that feeling?

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it just depends on the games.

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Speaker 7: It's a it's not playoffs is playoffs is tough, Like you get beat up in playoffs, but during the year it's it's I mean, there's guys who play a different way too.

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Speaker 4: There's guys who hit all the time.

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Speaker 3: Here's your here's your first train.

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Speaker 1: This should be an honor. Like every Bust with the Boys podcast was always always a train that goes by. Dude, we just fight through adversity around here.

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Speaker 7: But I'm sorry to interrupt you, but yeah, there's just I mean, like I said, like on a on a practice that we barely practice anymore. We just play games and then the next day we might practice, but we practice for them half an hour with the rink for two and a half hours max. And then you can get to go home and relax. So it's it's a lot of games and not a lot of practice.

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Speaker 1: So your your days aren't very full.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 7: We we get to rink and maybe like ten the day after a game and practice at twelve get out of there by one.

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Speaker 4: Dude, Jesus, that was great.

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Speaker 3: Fun too, because like he said, instinct like you're trying to kill myself right now, dude, because for us, he's like a different Wednesdays. The focus is like first and second down Thursdays is what third down, third down Fridays, Red Days is red zone in some two minutes Saturdays. Like you put it all together through walkers and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: If your first top ten players or whatever, yeah, your top ten calls.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's impressive how many players you guys have to know? It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: It's dude, it is, but like you can do like it's just like any studying anything, like the word association.

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Speaker 1: Like these these players are all grouped together in a certain way.

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Speaker 2: Like all these are all outside zones. A couple of nuances here the inside zones. Okay, these are the unique pin poll schemes or the like the taxis and everything like that. That's the stuff that's crazy. But do you do you guys like have like defenses they obviously you do, like power players. The guy chilling down there.

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Speaker 7: We got systems like and and our systems are all like whoever, there's five guys on the ice, so there's the system is like for the five guys, Like we don't have like a defense and an offense. Obviously the defense plays a little different than the offensive players.

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Speaker 4: But our city a team make sure behind our.

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Speaker 7: System is all team based, so it's like whatever we do, like like playing defense, our forwards have to play defense too. They they can't just play offense. Once we get the park, they play offense. But if the other a team has the park, everybody plays defense. So it's not just a defend that played defense.

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Speaker 2: What was your what was your process like getting to the league. Like my brother, My brother played juniors, he got drafted by Corpus Christie. It was like playing for Metro Moose and a bunch of stuff like that. And then my brother in law he played juniors pay for like the the Colowna Rockets. Oh he did, Yeah, he played for the Colna Rockets, which he wheber. He also played for them too, Right, So I kind of get it. I've been around for hockey my whole life. My dad's from me Diyna, Minnesota, And so I played hockey as a mite.

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Speaker 1: I was eight. It was a stud dude. I could dangle. Yeah, I was dec I was like, I was like, I was the most coordinated eight year old. How's that sound?

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Speaker 2: And then we went to pee wee or whatever it is? And I got we went to like do a travel team and I got checked.

00:21:23
Speaker 1: I got hit. You I got de iced, ord skated or whatever.

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Speaker 2: I was out of there. I quit never played because I got hit. Now I get it, it's awful. I quit, dude. I quit football when I was younger too, for the same reason. I got tackled. I was like, I'm out here done.

00:21:40
Speaker 4: You don't like getny hit?

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Speaker 1: I love it now. I don't mind it now, I know. I think. I think it's all relative. I don't mind. I think I like.

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Speaker 2: I like hitting someone way more than getting that is not for But yeah, dude, when I was younger, I was a little bitch. I would like I got hit. I was like, fuck this, dude, I'm out of here. I don't want I want nothing to do with this, so I quit.

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Speaker 7: Well, hockey is different though. Hockey you can like kind of you guys don't get hit. Yeah, you do, but there's a couple of big hits once in a while. But there's also games where you like, depending on the situation, like you have to hit one a guy like every play, Like we don't have to do that. Like there's some place where you have to hit a guy or you get hit, but it's it's not as often.

00:22:18
Speaker 3: So your process growing, your process growing up.

00:22:21
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I played. I played in Switzerland my whole life. I grew up in burn, Switzerland, not Sweden.

00:22:26
Speaker 2: Yep, excuse me, Yeah, made that mistake before the podcast. Never do that again.

00:22:31
Speaker 7: But yeah, I grew up there and played for my hometown team pretty much my whole life and played there till I was sixteen, and then I turned pro in Switzerland, played for my hometown team.

00:22:42
Speaker 1: Again sixteen years old. You turn pro?

00:22:44
Speaker 4: Well, seventeen was my first season, Yeah, jesus.

00:22:46
Speaker 2: It happens young, like if you're not a hockey young like, yeah.

00:22:49
Speaker 4: But it's different over here.

00:22:50
Speaker 7: It's like like you said, like they played juniors over here, and then you get drafted and then you make the NHL or go to the AHL.

00:22:57
Speaker 3: But so when when you said it's different over here, you get and then they get drafted, what age are they getting drafted to? The eighteen high in your pro at like sixteen seventeen over seventeen?

00:23:07
Speaker 7: Yeah, but then I got drafted. I was eighteen too, and then once you drafted, you can play in the NHL. But I played, uh two more years after that in Switzerland and then I came over.

00:23:17
Speaker 3: After getting drafted. You played two more years of Switzerland. How did that work? How does that work?

00:23:21
Speaker 1: It's is it similar to like like an go ahead?

00:23:25
Speaker 7: I know, well, the leagues are good over there, like the European leagues. The hockey leagues are pretty good. I don't know if you know. Austin Matthews played in He was the first oral pick. He played in Switzerland the year before before he got drafted. Because it's a really good league. It's fast and and you're playing against man so it's they're all strong and it's a it's a really good league. So I for me, I was gonna make it right to the NHL. So I decided to to play there one I think it was one more year or two more years and and just try to work on my game, get better, get stronger, and then then I came over. But I mean, some guys make it right to the NHL. But it's probably similar in football, like it's only the real talent guy that make it right away, like it takes time.

00:24:03
Speaker 2: The difference between hockey and football is hockey, you get drafted at a high school or when you're eighteen seventeen, eighteen years old, and then you have the choice.

00:24:10
Speaker 1: You can go.

00:24:11
Speaker 2: You can go to the league, right, and then try to make a team or go down to their minor league teams. Or you can go to college and play. And if you go to college, you can only play one year and then you can go play NHL and football.

00:24:22
Speaker 1: You have to be three years removed from high school.

00:24:25
Speaker 2: So I so when whatever, I was seventeen when I graduated high school, so when I was twenty, I was eligible to play football. But like the dudes in the States, because like in Canada, like you just play where you're from, right, and you just do your thing. In Europe, like you do this, like you play where you're from, and then you you go pro there and then you do the process you just said. Like in the States, like I know some kids that are from Arizona that like fourteen fifteen years old had to go move to like Michigan or minnesot because I think the USA team plays in Michigan in and our breast, so which is where the school I went to. And so you're living with a billet family, yeah, and you're like you live with a different family at fourteen fifteen years old, and like your boys, your hockey guys, and that's it. Then you go play college, Yeah, and then at any time in college you can just dip.

00:25:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:25:10
Speaker 3: And like NHL, it sounds like you can have more development, more of a developmental stage because in the NFL, like if you're not ready to go once you're ready, once you enter the draft, like you're not gonna there's only gonna be very few guys who are on a practice squad, Like I couldn't have been drafted by somebody and then played somewhere else for a year, so they can kind of, I don't know, they get better. Did that team help you? Like when they drafted you, they knew you were gonna play in Switzerland for another year or two and wanted you to develop more and work on certain aspects of your game.

00:25:36
Speaker 7: And then I came over and I played in Milwaukee for a year in the AHL. So for me, it was like that's in hockey. It's it's pretty nice because you can, like you can play if you don't make it the NHL, you can play in Europe and it's a pretty good league, or you can play in the AHL and the AHL is good too, like it It was great for me because I came over from Switzerland and the game is a lot diff from over there because it's a bigger ice rink and stuff. So there's so many things I had to learn and just get stronger and get used to the North American game.

00:26:03
Speaker 4: And for me, playing the walker from for one year was huge.

00:26:08
Speaker 2: That's a wild game. And so you from Milwaukee went to the Predators. Yeah, and you've been here the whole time? Yeah, how has that been like when you're your first year?

00:26:16
Speaker 1: What was that like?

00:26:17
Speaker 4: It was awesome.

00:26:17
Speaker 7: Well, when I got drafted, I got drafted by Nashville, I was like, where's Nashville?

00:26:24
Speaker 4: Like never so.

00:26:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then I came my first year he was it was unreal, Like, to be honest, like everybody thinks hockey is only growing the last couple of years because he made it to the finalists. But even even my first year here playing at bridgetone was was unbelievable. Like it was loud, it was wild. The fans, the fans are unreal. And obviously with making it to the finals, we got the whole city kind of came behind us.

00:26:48
Speaker 4: But even before it was awesome, Like.

00:26:51
Speaker 2: You guys are studs, dude, the way you guys like, I don't know, you guys got this energy about you, like the well, the first off, all the fans are crazy, like they're they're unbelievab.

00:27:00
Speaker 1: They're all so cool.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: How everyone's so close, and like if you go and talk to somebody from Nashville, they have no idea what hockey even, like you know what I'm saying, But they've educated themselves and they know, like, hey, well the puck goes pesta blue line, everyone's gotta go back. You got to shill for a second and then they gotta go back, you know what I'm saying. And it's just like it's wild and like growing up watching hockey like that was a sport to me, Like that was my favorite sport to watch. And to come and watch you guys and kind of get to know you guys a little bit. That's been that's been the coolest thing. Like my dad and my brother are like, okay, you know Romanosi.

00:27:32
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, we're actually boys. Got his phone number right here, dude, Yeah, am I going to his wedding?

00:27:38
Speaker 2: I can't make it. I must have got lost in the mail. Took my AOL account.

00:27:42
Speaker 3: Yeah to me, I was like, I'm like, the guys, you explained like I didn't most I know about hockey is like playing it on the video game and just kind of learning and bandwagon rooting for freaking Alex Ovechkin being up and out in DC. So, dude, being in hockey games are It's my favorite sport to watch live. I mean the energy like it.

00:28:01
Speaker 2: It's fast paced, like dude, you get.

00:28:04
Speaker 4: But Bridgestone is not a level too like Bridgetone. Yeah, it's like it's Andrea.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: Like, have you played?

00:28:10
Speaker 3: Have you played in Washington? And Bridgetone is better?

00:28:13
Speaker 4: I think?

00:28:13
Speaker 7: So, Okay, Washington's good too, but Bridgestone is just it's a different atmosphere, like it's it's like a college game like deaf Chance and everything.

00:28:21
Speaker 4: That that doesn't have.

00:28:21
Speaker 2: Awesome, man, I haven't been to one yet in Bridgestone.

00:28:24
Speaker 4: Oh you haven't.

00:28:25
Speaker 3: No, I haven't been. When you haven't slept the catfish? I have watched the boy role.

00:28:29
Speaker 1: Play given what a cat fish?

00:28:33
Speaker 3: The catfish? Catfish? Ain't that what you do?

00:28:35
Speaker 1: You slap them? You slap them?

00:28:37
Speaker 2: Do you you chucked from the catfish?

00:28:39
Speaker 3: What you're talking about?

00:28:40
Speaker 4: Go fish? The catfish with the term ironic on time?

00:28:42
Speaker 1: Dude, that was the coolest thing ever. Well, No, we had like a we had like an already dead one in there.

00:28:46
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, And like with that pond where we were out outside of the tits facility, the whole facility used to be a dump, like there's like trash and they turned into a pond. And I guess there's like a rumor like they paid in off its alignment, like fifteen K to swim across the pond and ain't it ain't no like basic swim, like you got to know your ship a little bit to get across that thing. And the guy swim across it and he was like dead, Like he was like so sick for weeks because that water is so contaminated really, and so like they're like they're like, hey, they want you because we just did the the catfish thing with the I think it was the first time we already we only did it once. It was before like we chugged it off the catfish or whatever. And they like they're like, hey, NHL is coming for the finals. They want to do a thing with you and Ronick. And I'm like, Jeremy Ronick, you mean the guy who played for the Coyotes, who was like I mean he played for the Fly the Flyers Philip phil Flyers for a little bit. Yeah, and he's like a legend. Yeah, and so I was like, yeah, I was fired up about it. But this dude was started like uh, he gets into it. And we were out at the pond. I'm like, hey, you should, uh just just know that that's some dirty water.

00:29:57
Speaker 1: Be careful.

00:29:58
Speaker 2: And he was like I appreciate ate that. And the guy's like, all right, here's what we're gonna do. You're gonna get in the water. And they said action and Ronick dives into the water. Dude like mouths the water and like spits it up at home and I'm like, this man is gonna die, dude, He's gonna and I'm gonna be.

00:30:15
Speaker 1: And dud. It was fun, dude.

00:30:16
Speaker 2: He like he gets into it. He's a fun time for sure. Yeah, he definitely gets after it, dude. I do you know a guy named Bob Corkham. He was like a fourth line guy for the for the Coyotes forever. But like when I was really young, his hint, his kid, his family lived in our neighborhood and we'd play like roller hockey every single day together after after school.

00:30:37
Speaker 1: It was the best. It's like one of Dude.

00:30:39
Speaker 2: I went to a couple, went to a couple of Coyotes games, went to Roadrunners games, like, we had a lot of fun out there. But I never like really invested into hockey until I got to Nashville. And when I got to Nashville, I mean, we did the Catfish thing and that was awesome.

00:30:54
Speaker 1: Like I remember.

00:30:57
Speaker 4: The Finalists, wasn't it.

00:31:01
Speaker 2: No, the I think the Finals was the That was the loge thing we did. Do you guys watch that stuff? Do you realize you guys, guys the boys up, they're just pounding beer?

00:31:13
Speaker 1: Dude?

00:31:13
Speaker 4: I had that's for sure.

00:31:15
Speaker 1: Do you guys really dude?

00:31:16
Speaker 2: Because I was stay in my head, I'm like, yeah, I gotta get these boys, like, you know, you gotta pump yourself up, like give yourself a reason. I mean, I get so fired enough to pump you dudes up. And we're like, I remember, we're sitting back there and it's all the boys and they're like wives or girlfriends, and really it was like, a we want Marcus to be there, but Marcus is not the most outgoing guy in the world. So we'll bring the off to line. And like, as soon as I knew we were in it. Well, I bought a catfish. I'm gonna go through security and I'm talking to the boys and I'm like, all right, boys, Like what do you guys want to do?

00:31:44
Speaker 1: And like, well, maybe we should just wave towels like everybody else.

00:31:47
Speaker 2: And I'm like, let's go, like, we're not gonna do that, like y be basic af Like let's get this thing going. It's like we're chugging. I'm gonna, we're gona, I'm gonna hold this thing up. We're gonna, we're gonna slap the twenty four ounces and we're gonna put those things down, dude, as fast as we can. And they were kind of iffy about it. And then they bought in dude, and it just it totally took.

00:32:06
Speaker 1: Off after Yeah, it kind of did.

00:32:09
Speaker 4: Remember we came to your game, dude, I was gonna bring that up. They all brought catfish up, you.

00:32:14
Speaker 1: Guys will I remember it was like it was right before you renounced captain.

00:32:17
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, the next season right after it, because yeah.

00:32:21
Speaker 2: What fish or not Fish and Weber were gone right or maybe fish before and and so I remember, like you guys came out. I was kind of watching on you like put the sword down, And in my head, I'm like, Yo, that dude, he's gonna be captain. Like he's going to for sure be captain. That you guys already knew, didn't you. No, you didn't know, you lion.

00:32:40
Speaker 1: Cent, We didn't know. But I remember, like, was it like halftime or something like that. It wasn't halftime.

00:32:45
Speaker 4: It was before the game.

00:32:46
Speaker 7: It was it was before you guys up in the Yeah, it was like during the game, I think, yeah, because it all brought Catfishop and we're all like getting.

00:32:55
Speaker 3: They did they did? They display it on the screen.

00:32:56
Speaker 1: They put it on the screen and they were all like holding the calf fish up and the boys are slamming and I'm like, I'm gonna fucking run through. That's what I'm gonna do for the boys right here.

00:33:06
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying.

00:33:07
Speaker 4: I was so fired up. That's what it is.

00:33:09
Speaker 7: Though, How like how sick is it if you see like we see you guys yeah in our suite, like just finding the boys up and we come to your game like it's the best, Like when you see our athletes there and like you appreciate like the boys coming out and because.

00:33:22
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, did you see that? I'm just thinking, bro, we were sitting on the I guess you guys already did, but if we were sitting on the on the bench and look up and the freaking hockey teams are pounding beer, like yeah.

00:33:32
Speaker 4: You're.

00:33:33
Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. And then we did it again. Yeah, dude, I got me so fired up.

00:33:38
Speaker 2: I was so stoked you guys did it because in my head, I'm like, yo, the boys, like we got a little thing going. That's pretty cool now, and so we did it like for the finals year, we did the catfish lose thing and like we like they they put the beers on top, and I'm like drowning literally that catfish was like I didn't drink one ounce of that beer, dude. I was just like trying to breathe the whole time. And finally I get the fish. I'm like holding it up and I'm so fired up, but I'm also like trying to catch my breath and I see their goalie and I just give them the bird. And I gave him that bird so hard and I came off, and uh, one of our PR guys goes texts me, goes a little too much. And I was like, dude, got the GM gave us a talk, Rabel gave us a talk.

00:34:22
Speaker 5: Dude.

00:34:22
Speaker 2: They were like, hey, maybe just tone it down a little bit, a little too much WWE or whatever. And I was like, I don't know, man, I kind of love it, love but there's like there's a there's a big difference in like hockey etiquette and football etiquette.

00:34:35
Speaker 1: I feel like for you guys to be able.

00:34:37
Speaker 2: To fight and come off, go to the other box, get out, like, that's gotta be like you gotta have some self control to not just go back at that dude and fight them again. And football, like, I don't know if it's where like like a lot of dudes in football, like we like everybody came from a different part, you know what I'm saying. I feel like hockey, I don't know, it's it's a different situation, you know what I'm trying to say.

00:35:00
Speaker 7: But well, the fights are kind of like the fights are more part of the game than aggression. Sometimes they're aggression, like sometimes you I guess like the guys who actually fight a lot, it's kind of part of the game.

00:35:11
Speaker 4: They're trying to get the momentum for the for the team or the boys. Yeah.

00:35:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, they try to get the momentum, like you down, like you're fighting someone you win to fight, it's like something everybody gets fired up. And but but there's definitely fights from aggression. Like there's some some players who don't fight a lot. Sometimes they get into it with a guy and and you fight. But that's I mean, that's what's good about hockey, Like you can settle it right there. Yeah, it's it's one against one. It's all like it's it's not like both both guys have like a fair like the same the same rules and stuff.

00:35:40
Speaker 3: So they square.

00:35:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, how's that's done? Like you go to the box and implement it's pretty much sell.

00:35:47
Speaker 3: That power play stuff like that. How is that coached? Like how is that in the room coach? Because like when we're coach, they're like not fight, not that guys want to scare up and fight. Yes, yeah, yeah, but you know what I mean, Like when you're guys are shoving after the play and basically can get a penalty. We go through situations where you know he's basically you'll walk away like you're not gonna do anything here besides make it worse, like, how is that coach? How was fighting coach and implemented in like a strategy or as his locker room.

00:36:15
Speaker 7: Well, it depends, like you you normally know the guy. The guys who are fighting know when a good time is to fight. Yeah, And it's always like if you have a tough guy on the team, it's he's fighting another tough guy. Like he's not gonna go after some guy who never fights. Yeah, so he's going after the other tough guy. And they're they're pretty much know when when a good time is to fight. And it depends on big games, the playoffs, there's not as many fights because you want to you don't want to take a penalty just for a fight and then then you're on the box play So but yeah, are you a fighter or you do?

00:36:46
Speaker 3: You fight on?

00:36:47
Speaker 1: Too skilled? Too skilled to fight one fight.

00:36:49
Speaker 3: You gotta keep him sharp, man, you gotta keep him short. Who's the who's the I hate that I don't know this tough guy on the Predator, who's the one who.

00:36:55
Speaker 7: Fights well, I would say Austin Watson, Cody McLeod. Last year Austin Watson.

00:37:02
Speaker 2: Brian Man. That guy was legendary.

00:37:05
Speaker 4: Brian mcgrant. That's he used to be like really really tough, like.

00:37:09
Speaker 3: The Yeah, is there conversations on the bench like, hey man, we might need you to whoop somebody's ask to get this thing going.

00:37:15
Speaker 1: Like that, dude, if you guys have an opening, I would absolutely love.

00:37:21
Speaker 3: Are you coming for finding like happy Gilmore?

00:37:23
Speaker 1: Well, have you ever seen the documentary Ice Guardians?

00:37:26
Speaker 4: No?

00:37:27
Speaker 1: Have you seen it?

00:37:28
Speaker 2: No? It's unbelievable. It's about hockey like enforcers and how like literally they'd be sitting there like their only role like is the fight and then once once you get to the playoffs or games that matter, you're at hs.

00:37:38
Speaker 1: Yeah you're healthy.

00:37:40
Speaker 4: Scratch, that doesn't happen.

00:37:41
Speaker 7: There's there's not many guys like that anymore. Now everybody has to play like everybody. There's a lot of like tough guys like yeah, probably not documentary. Those guys were like the cats.

00:37:52
Speaker 3: Tom Wilson fights a lot.

00:37:54
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's tough too.

00:37:54
Speaker 3: Yeah he swings.

00:37:56
Speaker 4: He's a really good player too.

00:37:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, is there ever like, uh, you know, I should funk with him because when you're at the games and in between whistles, that's when guys are kind of trying to off each other.

00:38:06
Speaker 4: A little bit.

00:38:07
Speaker 7: But it's almost like you like, guys know who's tough and who's not. So it's like somebody if I go up to a tough guy and go like he's gonna know, like okay, like you're not going to fight me.

00:38:20
Speaker 3: Or like a tough guy picks on you, not saying you're not tough, but so the tough guy on the team, he hey, like, you know, don't be a bitch like you want to fight somebody fight me?

00:38:28
Speaker 2: How did you?

00:38:29
Speaker 1: How did your fight out? But how did your first fight go?

00:38:31
Speaker 7: It was okay, actually did you Yeah, I don't know, it was it was more like wrestling match in the fight. I didn't get any punched in but he didn't either.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: Did you win the takedown? Did you win the takedown?

00:38:43
Speaker 1: That's how you would go?

00:38:44
Speaker 2: And you you were never a big fighter, Like do you get after the gym or anything like that?

00:38:48
Speaker 4: What fighting in the gym? No?

00:38:50
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, you know, you gotta get in the gym a little bit if you want to know.

00:38:54
Speaker 7: But I was always I'm I was always kind of weak a little bit, you know, I was I was never strong guy, never strong guy, So I just never and growing up in Europe, fighting is not like it's more in North America than it is in Europe.

00:39:07
Speaker 1: Americans, this is you, this is your fighting.

00:39:09
Speaker 3: This is your fight.

00:39:11
Speaker 1: Let's see, dude, let's see yos throw something bows here.

00:39:15
Speaker 3: He's back there is it gonna go back?

00:39:19
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:39:22
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: Boy there he's got him up against the boards.

00:39:30
Speaker 4: Dude, that's.

00:39:34
Speaker 3: Came over with a little chuck late dell over the top.

00:39:36
Speaker 1: Of the tail of the tape. Yosi six one two one five eight.

00:39:42
Speaker 2: That's that sixty three guy that he talks about ship he does yeh, he talks a lot of ship out there.

00:39:47
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:39:48
Speaker 1: Do you chup?

00:39:49
Speaker 3: Yeah? Do you chure?

00:39:50
Speaker 4: Not really, dude, you got terrible.

00:39:53
Speaker 1: What do you mean you're terrible at all?

00:39:54
Speaker 4: I can.

00:39:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, big, I'm big into I love it.

00:40:00
Speaker 4: You're quick. You're probably just quick.

00:40:02
Speaker 2: And like, yeah, well, dude, I get a lot of my my ship from videos like this. I'll watch it because my wife's from Canada, my brother and I've said the whole thing. I literally grew up like watching hockey and like football players like just say like rich like n word, I'll shoot you. That is little I've been told that I probably weak ass.

00:40:21
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly. I'm like, okay, whoa a little aggressive?

00:40:25
Speaker 2: But like hockey players, dude, they say the fun they call people wagons, like hockey lingo is the best, dude, but they're like guys are wearing advisors back and then they're like, hey, roll down your window before you talk to me, bud, like just saying stuff like that, Oh dude, it's so funny.

00:40:39
Speaker 1: But everyone wears a visor.

00:40:40
Speaker 4: You gotta have to quick like to be you kind of have to be funny.

00:40:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, so many I'm just.

00:40:44
Speaker 2: Like, well, I mean it's a second language too, right, English, Like you gotta like, I'm sure you get some Russian guyut there you're like, hey, what's up your pileon Guy's.

00:40:53
Speaker 1: Just like dah, yeah, this guy doesn't want to talk at all.

00:40:56
Speaker 2: You're noble, somebody who probably thinks about it, not thinks about it, but you just kind of know what you're.

00:41:01
Speaker 1: Gonna go to.

00:41:02
Speaker 2: I feel like, if you're gonna chirp, you gotta have a couple in the back pocket.

00:41:04
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know, I'm not a big like.

00:41:06
Speaker 4: You just to like she says something you gotta come back, have something.

00:41:11
Speaker 3: You know.

00:41:12
Speaker 1: You got a couple who chirps in the team.

00:41:17
Speaker 4: Austin Watson.

00:41:18
Speaker 1: Watson sounds like a boy.

00:41:20
Speaker 4: PK is good too?

00:41:21
Speaker 1: Does he chirp?

00:41:21
Speaker 4: He's quick?

00:41:22
Speaker 1: Is he quick? Way?

00:41:23
Speaker 3: Quick? And waity?

00:41:24
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:41:24
Speaker 3: Did you say something good? One pussy?

00:41:28
Speaker 1: Who's this just fighting?

00:41:30
Speaker 4: That's Watson? Ye?

00:41:32
Speaker 5: So yeah, this is Austin Watson fighting and it's a video. They go to the box and they start hanging out like or they start having a good conversation and there the words come up on the screen.

00:41:42
Speaker 1: Dude, it's the best water buddy, he was, We're gonna work on our cardio this summer.

00:41:55
Speaker 3: I'm dying after like ten seconds.

00:41:56
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah, that's so funny, dude. They were really going at it though. They were kind of like.

00:42:05
Speaker 4: They know, it's kind of like.

00:42:07
Speaker 7: It's it's just a fight, and it's not like I'm sure there's aggression sometimes, like sometimes you get into it, but a lot of times they fight to get the momentum and stuff, and I remember then it's it's not after the fight.

00:42:19
Speaker 1: Oops.

00:42:20
Speaker 2: No, I was just gonna say too.

00:42:21
Speaker 8: It's like part of the culture to protect your like you're like you guys Like I heard, uh what we were talking. Wayne Gretzky was talking about his enforcer, that mc sorlely guy, and he's like, I wouldn't have been Gretzky without this guy.

00:42:36
Speaker 3: You know, he protected me on the ice the whole time.

00:42:38
Speaker 7: No, it's that's what it is, like, you like they protect the star players, like they make sure everything everything is like in order. Like guys don't like do any cheap shots on on the star players. And I mean, I have so much respect for those guys. It's it's I mean, they're tough, and you're out there on the ice and you see them fight, You're like, wow.

00:42:57
Speaker 2: Dude, there's there's such a respect factor in hockey that I pre shades so much. Like I love it when guys will skate up on the goalie ica gooy a little bit, and you guys are just on them.

00:43:06
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how big the dude is. You guys just take care of your boys.

00:43:09
Speaker 2: At the quarterback, they hit the quarterback, everyone's around them, dude. You gotta look out for the boys, dude. That's that's one thing.

00:43:17
Speaker 1: Dude.

00:43:17
Speaker 2: This is a lung buss. That's one thing you gotta uh yeah, long train. Sorry, dude, I am literally CT right now.

00:43:26
Speaker 1: It's bad, dude.

00:43:28
Speaker 2: You gotta like, I don't know, it's just crazy how you guys look out for your own out there and like the boys are always looking.

00:43:33
Speaker 4: Out for the boys.

00:43:34
Speaker 2: What uh did you see that video in the finals a couple of years ago when p K was just like jabbing Crosby in the head in the back of the What was going on with that?

00:43:44
Speaker 7: They were, Yeah, they're going at it for a couple of times, and a couple of big name guys too, because he said something about I don't know if you guys saw that about his like he p K said something that Crosby called him out that he has brath and.

00:44:00
Speaker 4: If he got shot up.

00:44:01
Speaker 3: Amen, amen, you want to men?

00:44:05
Speaker 4: Then they had like the whole they were kind of going at it.

00:44:08
Speaker 1: Oh sh no, it was opposite. It was super getting.

00:44:11
Speaker 4: But is good he gets like like I said, he's good at chirping to.

00:44:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you not beat the ship out of that guy for that? Dude? You can't be fucking tired man loom hold him in the headlock. Yeah, I'd be so mad if I was supern was he going? That was a tough series to watch, man.

00:44:30
Speaker 2: I was there for all those games, every game you guys had a Yeah, well all all these final games for sure, because I got those the I got season tickets, and I'm like two rows behind the bench. Every once in a while, we walk on, I know. Yeah, we gotta give each a little nod.

00:44:44
Speaker 1: We do, we move on.

00:44:45
Speaker 7: I remember that picture you posted a butt when you're standing behind Phil and you were staying like this.

00:44:50
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, just like just staring at Phil.

00:44:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, dude, he's he good, dude, Yes, yeah, he's awesome.

00:44:57
Speaker 1: That's a couple of years ago. Dude.

00:44:59
Speaker 2: I didn't make it one game this year. I know, I know I'm a bastard, but I should have definitely made it.

00:45:06
Speaker 4: Will have got one? Yeah, we gotta. I know.

00:45:08
Speaker 3: I want to go to one.

00:45:09
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:45:09
Speaker 2: I love the hockey environment.

00:45:11
Speaker 3: Do you also?

00:45:11
Speaker 1: You make it to a lot of Titan games.

00:45:14
Speaker 4: I tried to at least once or twice a year. Did you this year?

00:45:20
Speaker 5: No?

00:45:20
Speaker 4: I didn't. I didn't last year either, actually, but we tried to.

00:45:23
Speaker 7: But it's tough for our schedule because you guys play what eight home games, so sometimes we're on the road or like we play Saturday night. But I love watching you guys play. It's awesome. Yeah, I mean I want to come to a couple more if if you have a chance, for sure, Dude, you.

00:45:38
Speaker 1: Ever need tickets, you let me know. I got you. Are you? Do you understand the game? I do?

00:45:43
Speaker 3: Ye?

00:45:44
Speaker 2: Did you know before you came over here? I did not?

00:45:47
Speaker 7: Actually, well, we we used we used to watch the super Bowl in Switzerland. It's like a thing to watch the super Bowl. Does it come on there like three am?

00:45:55
Speaker 1: Perfect time.

00:45:56
Speaker 7: We would only watch the super Bowl. We didn't see any other games. And then I came over and uh, like I said, I played in Milwaukee and that year playing in Milwaukee Green Bay on the.

00:46:04
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, which is pretty cool.

00:46:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.

00:46:05
Speaker 7: Yeah, so yeah, I started watching football more and more and then yeah, I'm pretty I don't know all the rules, but I would say.

00:46:12
Speaker 4: I'm pretty good at it. Now. That's awesome. Yeah, it's fun to watch. I love it. It's carot red Zone on Sunday. It's just really Yeah, it's.

00:46:19
Speaker 2: A relatively easy game to watch. Like, you understand the concept pretty fast. Yeah, it doesn't take very long to learn. Hockey is it's definitely tough to pick up, like when when you're icing, like it takes a while.

00:46:31
Speaker 1: Why is it? Why is the ref just blowing it dead?

00:46:34
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:46:34
Speaker 2: And then there's so many lines involved. I feel like it's kind of like soccer, but I don't even understand the soccer.

00:46:39
Speaker 4: But it took me as I.

00:46:42
Speaker 2: Don't really know soccer. I know hockey decent, but like I wouldn't know how to play.

00:46:46
Speaker 7: But football is hard for like for me to understand like all the plays a different plays and like and why you run the ball right now or why you're drawing it?

00:46:53
Speaker 4: And then yeah, that took me a while too, Like.

00:46:55
Speaker 3: He's watching somebody, he's watching us running on like third and long. We're like, you know, backed up or just get better.

00:47:02
Speaker 5: Do it?

00:47:03
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:47:03
Speaker 3: You have a fantasy team? Do you play fantasy?

00:47:05
Speaker 1: Yeah?

00:47:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I played the last year for the first time.

00:47:08
Speaker 1: You guys playing with the offensive lenman or No, No, there's no offensivement in fantasy football.

00:47:15
Speaker 3: Did you have anybody from the Titans on your team?

00:47:19
Speaker 4: No? I have Mariota, Yeah, get married.

00:47:23
Speaker 1: Have you met him?

00:47:24
Speaker 4: No, I've never met.

00:47:25
Speaker 1: It's an awesome guy, dude, I've heard we got it.

00:47:27
Speaker 2: Like that's the thing. I love, Like that little community has got going. We got going on, like the Prads and the Titans. I feel like we got a little something.

00:47:33
Speaker 4: I know. I agree. Yeah, it's awesome.

00:47:35
Speaker 2: I was talking to we're talking to Butch, who was a guest. We haven't really state yet or maybe we have it this time. We're all over the place. But I was talking to him about doing like a softball game like Predators versus Titans. And then I know, like Caleb's really close to you guys, and so like, do you like the Kings of Leon like to on your side? And then I'm close to Jared, so do too. And that's that as captain's and we do like a do a sloping softball game. You guys are like kick your ass, your hands coordination is crazy the Europeans.

00:48:05
Speaker 4: No, there's no way we played.

00:48:09
Speaker 2: I think it'd be I think it'd be a close game because because football players ego everywhere. Dude, we would try to go yard every time, No doubt that is over. But you guys, like I've seen like dudes take the stick and like just bake it in.

00:48:22
Speaker 4: But I don't know we played. We played.

00:48:24
Speaker 7: We played a baseball game at Bandy this year at the beginning of the year and we played Europe against North America and we got no chance. Like it was baseball, you guys played a base guys oping, but like not ripping it.

00:48:38
Speaker 4: It was more like a home run derby kind of like the coach was, do you get.

00:48:42
Speaker 3: Some kegs there?

00:48:43
Speaker 1: I think, dude, that's what we gotta do is gotags. I think it'd be awesome. But what's a good time for you guys?

00:48:50
Speaker 7: Probably well it probably guys right well, guys are not in town. Guys don't get into like end of August.

00:48:56
Speaker 1: But terrible for we would never be able to do it.

00:49:00
Speaker 3: But if you guys, like do you guys, do you guys thro right away right after the seasons over?

00:49:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, like most guys leave like a week after.

00:49:08
Speaker 2: What we should do is feel it out, Like if you guys are doing really well and we know, like hey, like they got a chance, then we should do it like around this time. You know what I'm saying, because all the football players are in right now, Like we're all here, and you get enough guys to come back, nine to ten of your guys, like, we're.

00:49:25
Speaker 1: Be so much fun.

00:49:26
Speaker 2: It'd be so much fun because I've been I've spent a lot of time with you guys, but I've been around a couple of you guys, and you seem like good dudes. But hockey has always been a super tight community at my house. Uh in college, we we're on State Street and like Yost Arena was right across the streets, So the hockey boys were my next door neighbors. And like it'd be spring, Like it'd be like maytime. We all be hanging out and we play poop dollar. You el play poop dollar?

00:49:49
Speaker 1: Dude? You're missing out, dude. You guys ever heard poll Dude?

00:49:55
Speaker 2: We would literally so like, well, you take a ship and then you like take a little bit of it out and you put it on a dollar, and then you go across the street and you put it face down, and then you and the boys, a couple of thirty packs just.

00:50:10
Speaker 1: Hang out and wait for people to pick up the dollar. And that's and that's poop dollar, dude, the hockey story.

00:50:18
Speaker 4: Well and the boys.

00:50:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, so me and the hockey boys would just sit there, dude. It just be like literally me and all those guys and like a couple of the dudes from the track ting because I live with track guys in college, and we just we'd wait and we'd like hide under everything, and like some old man and his like granddaughter would be walking by, just enjoying their Saturday afternoon.

00:50:40
Speaker 1: And then old man we.

00:50:41
Speaker 2: Get super greedy. Dude, you get greedy, swipe it up, poop all over his head. So we'd start yelling at him. He'd start yelling back at us.

00:50:53
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. I played poop dollars. I played in Nashville.

00:50:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, just get the cardboard out, we get the get the film crew out, play poop dollar What do you think? I know?

00:51:06
Speaker 3: You definitely played invisible rope?

00:51:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I played invisible rope.

00:51:09
Speaker 3: Have you played in visible rope? We're like a car is coming up on like a stop sign, and like say, me and Taylor out in the middle of the road, and you're like, by the stop Sidney, come and me and Taylor act like we're getting this rope set up. And we stand there and act like we're pulling on each end of the road and the car comes to a complete stop. Well, I guess it's not a stop sign just in the middle of the road. Yeah, wouldn't be a stop just be like ongoing traffic and you act like you're pulling this rope and they all stop and then we you know, you act like you dropped.

00:51:33
Speaker 1: Oh, there's no rope.

00:51:34
Speaker 3: It's invisible losing.

00:51:35
Speaker 1: I would just be shaking a damn kids, what's that?

00:51:41
Speaker 4: Don't they see that there's no rope?

00:51:42
Speaker 2: No?

00:51:43
Speaker 1: But they all they see is two people like just pulling super hard.

00:51:46
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, and you're like pulling on each side and they just come to a stop and you drop the rope.

00:51:51
Speaker 4: Hot got you never played that?

00:51:53
Speaker 2: Did you guys have anything in Switzerland? Did you guys have anything any games like that?

00:51:58
Speaker 3: Any ding? Dunk ditch?

00:52:00
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:52:01
Speaker 2: What do you call it?

00:52:02
Speaker 3: Over there?

00:52:05
Speaker 2: What do you really call what do we call it?

00:52:09
Speaker 4: Louty ste that's the one you go off? Yah?

00:52:16
Speaker 1: What do you go?

00:52:19
Speaker 4: You a good king? Yeah? I would say so. I was.

00:52:25
Speaker 7: I was always kind of like I knew when there was time to stop. Like so my mom always told me, like, see, like I never got in trouble because I always knew like when to stop.

00:52:35
Speaker 2: But I don't know, you'd be a class clown. I guess it was time to stop being a class clown.

00:52:41
Speaker 7: U till I knew I was gonna get in trouble. I was like, Okay, I'm gonna stop.

00:52:44
Speaker 3: He's definitely probably a good dude.

00:52:45
Speaker 1: Di Roma is the best, the nicest guy in the world.

00:52:49
Speaker 3: Didn't get too much trouble.

00:52:51
Speaker 8: I was just gonna ask the difference between uh, like the transition from Barry trot to uh, you know, love love you lit Yeah, and what like, how how are they different coaches?

00:53:06
Speaker 7: Well, I don't know. Trozzi was my first coach. He was, I mean, he was awesome for me. He's uh, I don't know if he ever met Rozzi, No, but he's he was like the best guy ever.

00:53:16
Speaker 4: Like, he was awesome and.

00:53:19
Speaker 7: He was a he was a great coach too, he was I I only had him for two years, I think, and he was awesome and I mean he was in Washington they won the Cup. Yeah, and he's a great coach. He's been in the league for so long. And I think there's a lot of similarities. I think Lav's more. He's he's really intense. He's he's great with pregame speeches. He gets the boys fired up, which is not easy. We're playing eighty two games and the coach has to come in there like every day and say something, and he's unbelievable. Like he he always finds something to to get the boys going. And I mean they're in a lot of ways, they're they're really similar, but they're they're still a little different, but they're they're great, both great coaches and like I said, Trotty was my first coach and he helped me get in the league. So yeah, they're they're both awesome, but they're definitely a little different.

00:54:11
Speaker 3: What year did you come in the league?

00:54:13
Speaker 4: That was twenty eleven.

00:54:15
Speaker 3: So you're part of the lockout?

00:54:18
Speaker 4: Yeah?

00:54:19
Speaker 3: How was that? What was that like?

00:54:21
Speaker 4: Two years? Two years before the lockout?

00:54:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you were a part you were in the.

00:54:25
Speaker 4: I played one year and then the lockout happened.

00:54:28
Speaker 3: Right, What was it like going through the lockout?

00:54:29
Speaker 2: Like, what was that?

00:54:30
Speaker 3: What was that? Yeah?

00:54:32
Speaker 7: It was it was I mean I only played one year and I got to play in Europe after that, I played in I played in Switzerland, So you were able to I went back to my hometown team and played in vern Yeah, which was which was really good for me. But there's there's a lot of guys who didn't play, so they just kind of worked out and skated on their own and for those guys, it was it was long.

00:54:52
Speaker 3: Like what was the big reason for the lockout? I forget was it getting like contracts guaranteed or.

00:54:57
Speaker 7: No, all our contracts are guaranteed. It was more at the share between players and owners.

00:55:02
Speaker 3: But your contracts were already guaranteed before the lockout. I got you, I got you. That's always interesting because you guys went into season with that stuff.

00:55:08
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:55:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, we we we messed half of the season and then we started in Channel and played forty eight games.

00:55:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, going through a lockout.

00:55:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you get paid the same amount?

00:55:20
Speaker 4: You don't get paid?

00:55:20
Speaker 1: Well, I'm saying when you went.

00:55:22
Speaker 4: Back Oh no, no less, Yeah that's a bummer.

00:55:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get it.

00:55:26
Speaker 4: It was.

00:55:26
Speaker 7: It was for me it was tough because I only played one year in the league, so you just want to, like you just get into the leagues even to play played play, Yeah, and there's a lockout.

00:55:34
Speaker 4: But for me it was good.

00:55:35
Speaker 7: I mean I got to go back home and play in the Swiss League, which was good for me. But there's a lot of guys didn't play, so you.

00:55:41
Speaker 2: Can go and play somewhere else while things are going on.

00:55:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome.

00:55:44
Speaker 2: That's something that they're able to do that. If the NFL ever did, like guys are able to do that.

00:55:49
Speaker 1: Well, you would.

00:55:49
Speaker 2: You also wouldn't want to because in the NFL, the season so short and the injury rate is so hot. True, you're not gonna go get play for pay on the dollar. You would get paid like like an AFF or whatever Candada League or something like that. That's way different. I don't think I don't think football will ever get to that point where they have like a minor league like hockey or baseball or anything like that. It's just because that's what college is, and it's free, and it's a billion dollar business that somehow they've the NCAA has gotten away with for such a long time. Like we you're a professional athlete, dude, and not a professional I'm sorry, you're an amateur athlete. And I was getting like twelve hundred bucks a month and my rent was like five fifty six hundred bucks, you know, and so like you're you're playing for nothing and you get you know, free meals. You can't even have cream cheese on a bagel. It's a violation. It's just crazy. And so with that and like you're not. I feel like if you were allowed to go right from high school to the NFL, then there would be an opportunity for like a minor league. But if you already everyone's already going to college, then like we've got it, you know what I'm saying.

00:56:56
Speaker 3: And you only have so much milea jone the tires anyway in the football career, like you you get banged up a lot easier, sooner faster if you're playing amateur right out of so you've got a fifth year senior, it goes to an amateur league and plays like three years. Then he's like, what twenty six years old, trying to be trying to make the minimum more be a rookie. Yeah, trying to be a rookie.

00:57:14
Speaker 1: I'm twenty seven, like like I got in the league last year.

00:57:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you what you have the average career anyways, only like three and a half years is the average career in the NFL.

00:57:25
Speaker 7: So it's like I feel like that's just a lot of guys who play and then they can't play, Like they're really talented, but all of a sudden they don't play football anymore because there's no league for them.

00:57:34
Speaker 5: Right.

00:57:34
Speaker 3: I think you're talking about after three and a half years.

00:57:36
Speaker 4: Like let's say they're playing college and they don't make it the NFL, and then what do you do?

00:57:39
Speaker 2: Like you you have to quit pretty much, right, Yeah, Well you can go different paths, like there are leagues like the CFL, the Canadian Football League. Yeah, you can go to there's an arena football league, like the XFL has been a thing and not been a thing about forty times.

00:57:52
Speaker 3: They've always been trying these leagues.

00:57:53
Speaker 2: They try a bunch of leagues for guys to get opportunities. There's a spring league this past year. It was like four weeks.

00:57:59
Speaker 3: Long, and you would have bought it. It was gonna potentially be something.

00:58:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it just tanked springly be it would probably be the best bet.

00:58:06
Speaker 4: Yeh.

00:58:06
Speaker 1: Like something that's honestly like that. Oh yeah, go ahead, Well are you do you need that? Is that another phone call?

00:58:13
Speaker 2: It's my it's a Redskins strength coach?

00:58:17
Speaker 1: Oh is its weird flex?

00:58:20
Speaker 3: Was gonna say, it's chat.

00:58:22
Speaker 1: It's a really weird thing to say.

00:58:24
Speaker 2: All right, who's Chad Redskins strength coach?

00:58:27
Speaker 3: Weird flex? What the fuck?

00:58:30
Speaker 5: So I got a question if if you're done to go ahead. So I want to ask about like traveling. I mean, you're playing eighty two games this season, but more I want to look at the twenty sixteen Stanley Cup Playoffs Round one, you're playing Anaheim. That game goes to seven games. Well, the last four games of that series, you're going back and forth from Nashville to Anahem, Nashville to Anaheim. Traveling wise, is that pretty like tough on you because I mean they're in uh, they're in a different time zone than that's two different time zone, so I think puck was dropping here at like nine or eleven o'clock at night. Then you all have to come back after games and then play a day after next.

00:59:05
Speaker 4: So yeah, that was that was tough. You're right.

00:59:07
Speaker 7: I mean we like it's a four hour flight every day, and so we pretty much we played two games there. I think we won the first two, lost two at home, and then you play like you play every other day. So every other day, so you play at home, you go to bed pretty late because I don't know how you guys, I can't sleep after games.

00:59:26
Speaker 4: Well, you guys play earlier, which is nice.

00:59:31
Speaker 7: Yeah, we played at seven, so I can't sleep after games, so you go to bed late, get up, travel four hours to Anaheim, play the next day, fly back again four hours again. And then the second round we played San Jose.

00:59:41
Speaker 5: Hey, and they only played five games the first round.

00:59:44
Speaker 7: Yea, And I remember we played game seven in Anaheim and the Islands were only playing their second round match, so we we were like the last first round match up to finish. So two days later we played in San Jose. We didn't even go home after the m series playing San Jose and then when not the saving games, and that was that was hard. I mean, it's just I feel like traveling is just it's it's hard on your body.

01:00:08
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, dude, it is being up in a plane. How how important or how serious is like the performance side recovery side for like you guys individually, or how much of a priority does the team make that Like when you guys have a quick turn around, like are they in your face and in your ear about doing the right things.

01:00:25
Speaker 7: To Yeah, yeah recover, Yeah, it's it's for us. It's all about recovery. Like that's why I said, like we don't practice much anymore, like even the coaches, like it's all about the games, like you can practice once in a while, but it's it's pretty easy. Like the the days we don't play, it's it's pretty much just to recover and work on some system stuff. But on that it's especially like traveling like that, it's huge, like getting getting a lot of water and you getting a lot of sleep and all that stuff. And I mean, it's it's probably the most important part in the playoffs filed.

01:00:52
Speaker 3: Out is your guys, do you do get your recovery through a lot of stuff at the facility or do you source a lot Do guys like kind of source people around Nashville or cities.

01:01:00
Speaker 4: They go to both.

01:01:02
Speaker 7: Yeah, we get it through the facility, but a lot of guys have half their own people for for massages or treatment.

01:01:08
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's a little bit both.

01:01:11
Speaker 3: I mean, you know Bobo, do you use Bubbo?

01:01:13
Speaker 4: No, you don't know, you're yeah, yeah, I used I used him one time.

01:01:20
Speaker 2: But it's a it's a it's a preference, yeah, right, I mean getting stuck all the times tough.

01:01:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:01:26
Speaker 2: I love the ivy stuff. I like that stuff.

01:01:28
Speaker 1: I got like trendmarks, definitely a heroin addict.

01:01:31
Speaker 2: You guys, you guys, you can take when you talk about not sleeping that you take a lot of like pre workout and some uppers before the game.

01:01:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, the boys all about that.

01:01:40
Speaker 4: Yeah you got who's got the pre workout? Do you guys say that?

01:01:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, take some pre workout for sure.

01:01:47
Speaker 4: You guys doing coffee before games?

01:01:49
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, sau we hit Starbucks on the way to the stadium.

01:01:53
Speaker 1: If we played it in noon, we go like what seven thirty in the morning. Yeah, we go to the facility seven thirty already.

01:01:59
Speaker 4: Yeah.

01:01:59
Speaker 2: Well we go cold tub, hot tub, cold tub, hot tub, like contrast for probably forty five minutes. Yeah, roll out a little bit and then.

01:02:06
Speaker 1: Stop at the Starbucks, get myself in a mil there. We go, no sugar and just bang some music.

01:02:14
Speaker 3: On our way to the facility or going a little. Taylor got me on mess up because with the Redskins, our games are in d C. But we would are where we lived in our practice facility. It was like an hour away, so I never we never had access like that. We'd just be in the hotel before a game, even on home games. So Taylor got me on the bid of going in the facility like hours before and it's a lovely dude, have playing for a team that's in town.

01:02:33
Speaker 4: Like, I mean, what time, what time you guys have to be there.

01:02:36
Speaker 2: It's usually if it's two hours before a game starts. So if it's at noon, you had to be in the stadium at ten. Yeah, checked in to go out of your clothes and ship changed, and we have like a little team meeting, and then you kind of go about your business like I'll go on the field for a little bit, kind of do a couple of things, make sure I feel good, go up and I don't usually and Ivy. I get Ivy the night before, Yeah, with Bobo because you're just, dude, I can't like I can't imagining eighty six games and like just skating all that wear and tearing the legs. But I mean it's but you get to a certain point of the season. It's just like at week eight, you're just like, all right, get myself to the next game. Make sure you feel good at the next game.

01:03:14
Speaker 7: It's almost when you don't play for a couple of days, you get tight because you like get in the rhythm of playing every other day and you just keep playing.

01:03:20
Speaker 1: That's like people like bye weeks.

01:03:22
Speaker 2: I'm not like I don't know how I would actually feel about it, But if there was no bye week, it almost be easier for me because I could just I could just transition and like just because eventually, like you take enough hits, your legs get sore enough, like it just kind of gets stagnant. It's like plateaus and you're solid. But I don't know, I mean, people might kill me for not wanting to buy a week get killed out there.

01:03:43
Speaker 4: We just got a bye week like three years ago.

01:03:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, we at the Full Star Break too, you.

01:03:48
Speaker 7: Know, but they started to have a bye week now, so you get either like three days off after game or before.

01:03:54
Speaker 2: So it's your guys, is bye week's a three day off thing?

01:03:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, three or four days?

01:03:58
Speaker 2: Yeah that's crazy.

01:03:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's so much.

01:04:02
Speaker 7: It's yeah, it's like with the also game it's like seven. It's like a week pretty much. But guys love it. It's like a little break and kind of seas do the boys go out when hears to Vegas after game?

01:04:13
Speaker 4: We did?

01:04:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, Vegas will steal a soul. Dude, what hotel do you guys stay in? Uh?

01:04:18
Speaker 4: Blacho? Yeah?

01:04:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, will?

01:04:21
Speaker 1: Do you know who the Blago is?

01:04:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, I know where it is.

01:04:30
Speaker 2: I feel like because like the Raiders are going to the Vegas dude, people are gonna lose some paychecks. Things are gonna go down. Vegas is a tough state. It's a place that will steal your soul. I'll spend I'll spend three days there.

01:04:43
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, get me the fuck out of Vegas.

01:04:46
Speaker 5: Dude.

01:04:46
Speaker 1: Unless you're winning, dude, Well, I mean yeah, but like sometimes you're just so hungover, you're like, I.

01:04:53
Speaker 2: I gotta go home when you guys get their whole entire life.

01:04:56
Speaker 7: Do you guys get there the night before the game? Well, we don't, they don't have a but you would get there tonight before games?

01:05:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, and guys, will you get there at like four o'clock. You can go out for a couple hours and go down what they want.

01:05:08
Speaker 3: But you know, like the coaches, everybody would be pretty up. You know, they're probably be a little more strict.

01:05:13
Speaker 2: A little more strict for sure, But like living there, like outside the strip, there's not a lot like in Vegas and like really there's nothing.

01:05:21
Speaker 7: Yeah, but James Neill played there last year and he said it was awesome. He loves it like there's so many nice neighborhoods and like he lift right on a golf course.

01:05:29
Speaker 4: He said, it was pretty nice.

01:05:30
Speaker 1: Actually, you play a lot of golf.

01:05:32
Speaker 3: That's awesome.

01:05:32
Speaker 4: I'm starting to.

01:05:33
Speaker 7: Yeah, I started like two years ago, so now I'm terrible, but getting lessons right now.

01:05:39
Speaker 3: It's fun, though, man, Just get out, get some beers, cigars, play some music.

01:05:42
Speaker 4: Yeah. Not take it too serious, I know, but it's hard not to take it serious.

01:05:47
Speaker 5: It is.

01:05:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, where do you guys play?

01:05:51
Speaker 1: No, I don't go.

01:05:52
Speaker 3: I haven't. I haven't played here. I would play with I would play when I was on the skins all the time, like in the off season around this time. But I mean, I'm not that good. I got my I got my own clubs and stuff, and you'll hit shots that keep you coming back. Yeah, but I'm not like some scratch golf or.

01:06:06
Speaker 2: Anything like that.

01:06:07
Speaker 4: No, I'm terrible.

01:06:08
Speaker 3: It's fun though, I enjoy it. I like the camaraderie around the boys.

01:06:11
Speaker 4: And it's nice being outside for five or six hours. And for sure, just golf. You gotta we gotta get you into golf.

01:06:18
Speaker 1: I say, I don't know, dude, Like I have this weird thing like you'd come with us.

01:06:22
Speaker 2: I just remember, like I grew up poor and now I'm watching and I watch all those assholes part of country clubs.

01:06:29
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want to be a part of that.

01:06:31
Speaker 2: I was at a country club a couple, like a couple of years ago, and the guys like and the guys like, oh, you should be you should.

01:06:36
Speaker 1: Be a member. And I was like, can I just like this?

01:06:38
Speaker 2: And I was wearing a T shirt jim shorts. He goes, you gotta wear a collared shirt, you gotta wear kakis. I'm like, get me out of here, dude, I don't want to be a part of it.

01:06:46
Speaker 1: Golf. I had this stupid joke that like golf.

01:06:49
Speaker 3: Before I grew up.

01:06:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to be in a country club. I don't want to be in a country club. I'll be a sellout if I ever joined a country club.

01:06:56
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:06:56
Speaker 1: Don't even want to live on a golf course.

01:06:58
Speaker 2: That'd be nice, though, I mean, you're gonna live on the continent.

01:07:01
Speaker 1: What's that.

01:07:01
Speaker 4: I would love to live on the golf of course, would you? Yeah?

01:07:04
Speaker 1: I think it'd be Where are you gonna live after you're done playing? Your wife?

01:07:09
Speaker 4: She's she's a steady Yeah, it looks like Nashville.

01:07:12
Speaker 1: No way. How do you feel? How your family feel about that?

01:07:16
Speaker 7: My mom isn't happy about it, but she should just come over, I know, bring the over. They love it here, like their family loves it here. But yeah, like I mean, we met here and she loves Nashville. I love Nashville. So we'll see.

01:07:32
Speaker 1: But have you seen a lot of spots besides Milwaukee and Nashville? Besides Milwaukee around.

01:07:38
Speaker 2: The un.

01:07:41
Speaker 1: Like you spent time and not just like flowing for games. Yeah, not really. There's a lot of private out there, man.

01:07:47
Speaker 3: I mean you're trying to get them away, not away where.

01:07:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, like golf Arizona. Arizona's got great golf. And then California. I love California. Yeah, I mean you're you're you're that big sir.

01:08:02
Speaker 4: Way better than a country dude.

01:08:03
Speaker 2: I don't know, that's a good question because I don't know what it is about this city. But for some reason, they love me and I love them back, and I think it's a great city. And I'm building a house boy, But uh, I mean, I'm from Arizona. I was born in California, all West Coast and then my my wife's from British Columbia, Canada, She's West coast, and so I feel more naturally drawn to that part of the country.

01:08:26
Speaker 7: Like like I said, and that's what people were so nice, Like you come here and everybody's so nice to you, and like everybody's so open and and they help you out, and it's I mean, it's been awesome.

01:08:37
Speaker 4: Honestly, that's awesome.

01:08:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree with that. Yeah, being in DC and shit like that, everybody's all about going from A to B and already not like asshole, but there's just people prioritize like it's all like business out there.

01:08:50
Speaker 1: Dude.

01:08:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, Nashville, I don't think anybody has a job. Like, dude, it's Tuesday and I'm I'm like, drive past the Mumbrian Yeah, and it's tin roof is packed.

01:08:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I'm hand losers just pat like, yo, guess you have to go to work. Yeah, Like what's going on now? It's just so unique?

01:09:06
Speaker 3: Did I love it? Yeah?

01:09:07
Speaker 1: I like, but uh about that about that skate dude, I'm down to go skate.

01:09:12
Speaker 4: You're in I'm working right now.

01:09:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll do We're done on Thursday.

01:09:17
Speaker 4: Okay, so and I'm here.

01:09:18
Speaker 3: Oh we do. It's just like, yeah there are football is done on Thursday. But like all you do in the summer is just work out. So we have like a lot of the day free.

01:09:26
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, are you good at.

01:09:27
Speaker 3: Skating, dude?

01:09:28
Speaker 2: I used to like I used to skate quite frequently. Well, I just know I have my first date on skates.

01:09:34
Speaker 3: Really, Like, I know I'm not gonna be that solid, So I'm just trying to gauge how something.

01:09:37
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be. I'm gonna be trash. It's not like riding a bike. Dude. If you don't stay on it, you're gonna be no.

01:09:42
Speaker 4: Come on out, come on skate next week. It's letty to me and Watson out there.

01:09:46
Speaker 1: Dude, I'm.

01:09:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, get me a stick though, Yeah, alright, alright, alrighty, I'm gonna I want a bucket to to give me a good bucket your c CM. Yeah all right, I'm a Joe Fi guy, but alright, I'll do I want to do it like one of those old old Joe I'm like, cut it into a bullet, dude.

01:10:03
Speaker 1: I'm on the line up forty sticks and just pick out the right one. Yeah, you would peek out there or we're done skating.

01:10:10
Speaker 3: Skates, just pick a stick, comp like you don't play.

01:10:15
Speaker 2: Check it out the bend in the stick. Yeah, listen a little too stiff, dude, I'm down to get out there.

01:10:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, Austin, don't do it?

01:10:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, of course, all right. Deal, have you skated.

01:10:26
Speaker 3: I've skated before, but like it's like one of those deals. It's one of those deals where it's like it'd be a field trip one time a year in Missouri, you know what I mean. So not that much like if Taylor and I are doing a face, I was gonna be comp like, stop moving forward.

01:10:38
Speaker 2: I don't know what the fuck you guys want me to do, like just stay still. Fuck man, dude, I'd have to take it though. I would have to take my ankles really like a scrub. Yeah, dude, I be ankle bending.

01:10:50
Speaker 1: Hell, I don't know.

01:10:51
Speaker 3: I'll do whatever it takes.

01:10:52
Speaker 1: These flat flippers, dude, I got some flat feet.

01:10:54
Speaker 4: Do you have skates? We would have what's your feet size?

01:10:58
Speaker 1: Like fourteen or fifteen?

01:10:59
Speaker 3: I'm twelve.

01:11:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably I'm mount Now give me.

01:11:04
Speaker 1: Some figure skates, dude. Have you seen the movie goon.

01:11:08
Speaker 2: Oh you asking everybody this question. The most inspirational sports movie of all time? Sean William Scott. Have you seen American Pie Stiffler Cay? So he's in the movie and it's like a based on true story about a guy who's an enforcer, but he's like kind of like simple and he just beats the ship out of guys and they watch him like he's gonna learn how to skate and stuff like that, and he's wearing figure skates and.

01:11:31
Speaker 3: So it's a hockey. It's a hockey.

01:11:33
Speaker 1: It's a hockey movie.

01:11:33
Speaker 2: Dude hasn't seen it, so it's probably not.

01:11:37
Speaker 1: Dude, I watched this movie before every single game. Look at him.

01:11:44
Speaker 2: Oh this is no, no, no, this is the second one. It's almost trash.

01:11:51
Speaker 3: What is this one's back in twenty twelve? This might be it.

01:11:55
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll let you go after this rum, but you're gonna you're gonna sit and you're.

01:11:59
Speaker 4: Gonna watch this to watch the movie. It's on Netflix.

01:12:03
Speaker 3: Never made it the theaters, so it's never made it to theaters, and it's are you being serious when it's your favorite sports movie.

01:12:09
Speaker 1: I watched this movie every single game before the game.

01:12:11
Speaker 8: Swear to god, it's way better than it's really good.

01:12:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really good when you watch it the night before, night before, dude, and I just sit there and I'm just like fucking fired up.

01:12:20
Speaker 1: Dude.

01:12:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he's this was he's a protector, and this guy named Xavier laflem Is, he's like this number two overall pick and then ross the boss Ray who's a who's an enforcer, knocks him out like his second game in the league. This guy right here just start watching them. Boom, see a nerd.

01:12:40
Speaker 1: That's how he.

01:12:40
Speaker 2: Knows that I should that I should be a hockey player.

01:12:44
Speaker 1: Look at him coming as they're talking ship to him.

01:12:50
Speaker 2: Look at him. He just beats the ship out. The whole hockey team starts doing the skit skate at him or the stick. Siria learns how to skate or whatever. It gets the number sixty nine because it's hilarious. Their words, not mine.

01:13:05
Speaker 1: He's got the elbow pads outside the jersey.

01:13:08
Speaker 3: And then he becomes a pro hockey No, this.

01:13:10
Speaker 2: Is below that the Halifax Highlanders. Dude, East Coast Canada.

01:13:13
Speaker 4: So you've seen this movie like sixty times, Dude.

01:13:15
Speaker 1: I've seen this movie so many times.

01:13:17
Speaker 2: He's got two rules, man, don't touch my percocets and do you have any fucking percosets? You got a couple of European dudes always just talking about banging his mom. This guy just beats the shit at e That was Xavier la Flem the guy with the hair. Such a great movie. Dude falls in love with the scrol that's Ross the Boss Ray.

01:13:39
Speaker 1: We're basically watching this movie. Dude, I'm actually saying.

01:13:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ross the Boss Ray is like my hero, and he's like this just tough bastard that beats the ship up people there he is, dude, like you see me. He just beats the hell out of everybody. Got that fu Mancheu. Dude, he's sitting there at a diner ats three am and he goes. He tells him, he goes. If you and I ever go toes, I will lay you the fuck out. And at the end of the movie, at the end of the movie, the whole the stadium goes crazy or the arena goes crazy, and they get out the center ice dude, and they just go at it.

01:14:11
Speaker 3: Dude, don't run it.

01:14:13
Speaker 1: I will tell you what happens. I'll tell you what the ross the boss Ray that guy was a real hot hockey player. Is that their tough Yeah he was. He was a goon, wasn't he.

01:14:24
Speaker 4: Yeah he was really he's one of the toughest.

01:14:26
Speaker 3: Yeah.

01:14:27
Speaker 2: He's got a video on YouTube that's like, uh, he's like sitting there before face off and he goes like you want to go? Guy's like sure, he goes, good luck, man, and they dropped the puck and then square up and just get after it.

01:14:38
Speaker 1: That fires me up.

01:14:39
Speaker 3: Dude, I'm actually gonna watch this now.

01:14:41
Speaker 2: It's you both tonight separately and I'll let you guys know, make sure all right, well I think that's a perfect time to end this podcast now, absolutely perfect. Make sure you watch good and next week, dude, I'm down to good skate