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coming to you from all over

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the world. We just are boots

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on the ground everywhere. The chat

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is filling up. Welcome, welcome everybody.

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Shawn Apuvo working the controls, Mikey

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Grinnell pounding away over there. We're

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making it work all over the place.

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And I recognize that background, Merls. Welcome,

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Merls. I recognize it. I'm here. This

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is Chik-Lits, the Chik-Lits control room, Grinnell's

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spot. I got three different screens going

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here. So I shouldn't screw up this

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outline or any stats. I got everything

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for us today here. Is it really

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like, are you, he really has

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like screens in there, like he's in the matrix

1:04

or something? Yeah, I got some, I set up

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super amateur. He's got a TV over here. I

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brought my laptop. So I actually got four screens

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going. Holy shit. I got

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nothing. I'm like, I'm

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like in medieval times here. I just got my

1:18

one computer popped up. I'm a loser, but I

1:20

don't even know what I'm doing. He's got the

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first ever bottle of pink Whitney here. First ever.

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Oh, no way. I don't know.

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If I drink a shot of that, I'll

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end up. Yeah, that's like getting screeched in

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out in Newfoundland. Oh, you drink that. I

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saw you. I saw Merle's in Newfoundland.

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The first time we ever went there, I was

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on George Street at a bar in there for all the

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people from Newfoundland in the chat. And

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I look outside of the bar window. It's

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a snow storm and Merle's is in his

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suit, walking down the middle of George Street

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through this storm. The wind's blowing his face,

1:52

his jackets flailing back like Michael Jackson in

1:54

a music video. And he has a little

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certificate in his hand all rolled up and

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he's trudging. around looking for where the

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boys are with a couple other people and

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they all had their certificates. They went and

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got screeched in. That was unbelievable sighting. I

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went with the coach Glenn Patrick. He called

2:10

me down. Girls get down here. You got

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to get screeched in. All right. The

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good old days Murman. Yeah, my career. You

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had to kiss the cod and take a shot. Yeah, you

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did the whole thing. It was unbelievable. I missed out on

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that. I didn't do it. I went right to George Street.

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I'm like, I got to see this place. What

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a week it's been actually

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a week. We got to cover everything

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that happened, Murls, with the Alt-Cast,

2:36

the Chiclets cast, the TNT work,

2:38

going to Atlanta. What'd you

2:40

make of that? I want to

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know what you thought. Like going in a studio like that and doing

2:44

all that stuff. It was wild.

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It was amazing. I couldn't believe how many

2:48

workers there are. There

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was somebody for everything down there. I couldn't believe there.

2:54

There was people that were just getting coffee.

2:57

There was another guy just getting food. There

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was four makeup girls. It

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was insanity. The amount of food

3:03

that was in that cafeteria room

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could have fed an army. I

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see someone says, RA look buckled

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on the cast. I so

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watched him because well you guys were doing the cast.

3:14

I was doing the panel. Like

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I filled in for Biz. So Biz could be

3:19

with the Chiclets crew obviously. We had

3:22

the screen up while we were watching the game where we had

3:24

you guys up in our room in

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this viewing room where they have all these. Yeah,

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there's so many people there. It's

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insane how many hands they have

3:32

on deck. Everybody was on deck.

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Especially for your show, I give

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TNT a ton of credit

3:38

because they didn't just go, oh here's Jimmy,

3:41

an intern, and a couple camera guys.

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Have at her tonight boys. It

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was everybody

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on deck. Billy

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and the boys who ran

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that put it together. They

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dialed it in. The women

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and men there at TNT. They put a

3:58

lot into that. It was unbelievable. It

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was an army. It was an army of people like I

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walked in there murals I was amazed

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but I was watching an RA was just like He

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had his ISO cam like his little square in the corner

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of the screen Oh, they set it up But he's just

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like it looked like he was watching like a tennis match

4:13

I think he was looking at the game and looking at

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like wit and biz and he just kept and Whitten biz

4:17

were just like chillin, but he was like all sketchy like

4:19

he was like going back and forth Like he didn't know

4:22

what he's doing, but it was hilarious RA

4:25

getting makeup and everything like it was

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Unbelievable It was

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awesome even doing the shoot before with

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those guys in the tuxedos that whole

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day That was a whole nother crew

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filming that and sound guys and and

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that was just an amazing production They put that together

4:40

like that for us. It was sick. Yeah,

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I mean they make it look so cool They do such

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a great job. So it was probably the perfect People

4:47

to actually go out on them. I

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was I was so proud after too Because

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I was like man we just like you

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guys like that was that was history for

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hockey and TV TV hockey

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history right there was made with the with

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the chicklets cast. So Shout-out.

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I loved you up there in your little booth.

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What do you think of that murals? Did you

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do you like? Yeah, I loved it up there.

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I was up there with jazz the T&D jazz

5:11

guy So he was

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great But I like being there where

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they could shoot it up to me when they

5:17

wanted I didn't have to be on there I

5:19

didn't want to take airtime away from from those

5:22

guys I was a perfect little spot for me

5:24

could throw some picks around the picks weren't

5:26

great. Of course Sid scores

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Last night he couldn't score that night for me

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I would have hit both goal scorers and the

5:33

draw just didn't have a chance the Penguins were

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just oh I

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guess if they scored that that first goal counted

5:40

then maybe it would have changed things But once

5:43

they went to nothing it was done Oh

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Buddy they had they went over three on the peepers

5:48

in the first period they could have got up one

5:50

nothing and changed the game They would have been chasing

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things. He's in the chat. I see sing Z.

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Welcome to the chat sings. He's a captain He

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made it on to TNT G He

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made his debut and I have to talk

6:03

about besides. So I was in the control

6:05

room for Ah for the broadcasts. I was

6:07

helping produce the show and. When. We

6:09

we decided get the hashtag chiklis cast out

6:11

there so people could get in the mix

6:13

get in the conversation our fans could chime

6:15

in. And. Out right away. First

6:17

sweet things he. And I'm in the

6:19

confront on like we gotta get the sings, each weed

6:21

up, get the things you tweet up in there and

6:23

Billie. Turns really the cool is this who

6:25

is things. You know Mike I'm telling you

6:28

things he will play if we lead with

6:30

a suite at half the missing the it

6:32

will play and right away bid is really

6:34

sweet and I'm like in his ear and

6:36

like the things he thinking that it. Is

6:39

another that of that such a better way to

6:41

start this show. They just some random tweet that

6:43

shudder to think the forget in their right off

6:45

the bat. I. Always thought that

6:48

was the great thing to. I loved the

6:50

set up. Of like the rolling

6:52

tweets are rolling comments or questions at the

6:54

bottom of the screen like it had like

6:56

everything on. like the whole setup of it.

6:59

Was. So well thought out, like

7:01

presented. So awesome. G. Come

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back on for second one. Ask you. I know you're

7:05

trained in this stuff, but like. What? Was

7:07

it like behind the scenes for you? Like

7:09

doing not in that in that space with

7:12

at a major studio in that control room.

7:14

As. Have you seen anything like that like

7:16

I know you have some background and news

7:18

rooms or in Seattle. So the latter and

7:21

I was in escrow and on I was

7:23

in a newsroom army I was ah so

7:25

I used to do the color prompter. For.

7:28

Arsenal Seven News. When I first got a

7:30

job at Cichlids, I needed all these like

7:32

part time jobs so I would scroll the

7:34

teleprompter a Channel Seven News for the Acres.

7:37

And. One time I was scrolling a teleprompter

7:39

in the i don't know if I

7:41

dozed off or something like I might

7:43

it.it too fast but I would also

7:45

do the late night so this is

7:48

one to am sometimes. And our

7:50

one of the news anchors with like insisted on

7:52

teleprompter stupid and I was I guy and that

7:54

was the last time I was ever in a

7:56

newsroom. I quit after that. Are so

7:59

see it in the. Repeating the control room

8:01

it was I brought me back down

8:03

memory lane. It was awesome being in

8:05

there though I think specially working with

8:07

Billie Jean. he made it so evil

8:09

and they. It. Was

8:11

awesome that they relied on me. It was awesome

8:13

but they they put trust in me because. I.

8:16

Went in with a little bit of a

8:18

worry like I don't have much T v

8:20

experience. how are they gonna use me Because

8:23

I was pretty involved in the pre show

8:25

and planning everything in. Philly. Just

8:27

put me in a perfect position to succeed

8:29

in. I. Just it. it was awesome

8:31

Man I thought the and that control moment the

8:33

all the Tnt execs were in their to there

8:35

were so happy with how everything was going in.

8:38

Yeah. Was called. Be able to talk you guys and

8:40

sure you guys on in. Yeah. It was

8:42

a blast when he was a good the

8:44

i know just like overwhelming in that room

8:46

with all the bodies and people and chaos

8:48

of like do an aunt lives to like

8:50

that that wasn't like a pod those due

8:52

to live watching the game and like reacting

8:54

in the moment didn't try to catch it

8:56

all and than running all the social stuff

8:58

and handling not it was unbelievable. I love

9:01

that I could grow me I thought that

9:03

was so cool is like thing they really

9:05

trust laws in let us do our thing.

9:07

There was never a point where there were

9:09

like hey like. We want it

9:11

done this way and we would say no

9:13

We want them this way. Like every every

9:15

suggestion we made every like the are a

9:17

shooting hoops eight. when we pets that I

9:19

was kind of like there's no way they're

9:21

gonna accept this. We pitch are a shoot

9:23

hoops or powerplay. they're like yeah we're in

9:25

So it's like how how much they trusted

9:27

us and they they let us do our

9:29

thing on this. Me: A shout out

9:31

totally to them and be a Billy's

9:33

personality like the way he is. He

9:35

so com and like collected and and

9:37

creative but like yeah he's he's great

9:40

teammate. He's just a great teammate to

9:42

have Like above. Yeah, like. Pulling.

9:44

Your longer including you or whatever So

9:46

it was an awesome experience Murals I

9:48

gotta say what was up with the

9:50

Arab? the Valentine's day wardrobe change to

9:53

the cupid and than the arrow shot

9:55

did use rope I try to see

9:57

deduce and of just throwing that arrow.

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Yeah, well, it was Valentine's Day. So

10:02

I was trying to send some love

10:04

around everybody, especially your penguins because they

10:06

were so bad. And I,

10:08

you know, I had all written on the

10:10

arrow and I tried to shoot it, but it

10:13

was a much arrow. I bought and it didn't

10:15

make it. It took a dive just like your

10:17

penguins did that night. It was just brutal.

10:20

But the thing is about that pick,

10:22

if I can just say guys. So the

10:25

plan was I was in Murrell's ear and

10:27

I'm like, Hey, next whistle, we're coming to

10:29

you, we're coming to you, have it ready

10:31

for next whistle. His pick

10:33

was penguins goal. Well the

10:35

next whistle just happened to be Panthers

10:38

goal. So if we went

10:40

to him at the next whistle, which

10:42

would have been after the Panthers goal,

10:44

his pick, which was Panthers goal, I

10:46

mean penguins goal, which was the next

10:48

goal, you would have been right all along.

10:51

They sent you RA sent you kind of out of

10:53

nowhere, just sent it to you. So you kind of

10:55

just, just went out there with it. But if we

10:57

waited and stuck to the actual plan, your pick would

10:59

have been right. That is true.

11:02

I was trying not to make excuses. I didn't want

11:04

to blame anybody, but I did get kind of tossed

11:06

under the bus. It would have been a correct pick,

11:09

but that's just the way gambling

11:11

works. There's no excuses. It's a new day.

11:13

I see some guys chirping in the chat.

11:16

Don't worry. We'll get it going again.

11:18

Vegas insider got us a little warm last night

11:21

with a Mika goal. Everybody was crying on Mika.

11:23

He's not going to score. Guys,

11:25

follow the process. Yeah.

11:27

Hang in there with the MIRM. Like an hot

11:30

man. EBR. That's why it's called EBR. Not

11:33

EBH. Everybody hums. That was electric

11:35

last show. That was unbelievable. I'm

11:39

still getting comments about that humming the humming,

11:41

the MIR humming. I loved it. Everyone

11:44

loved it. We were humming. We

11:46

were humming. The chat lay though last week

11:48

on the show besides the humming. MIRLs. Yeah.

11:51

Mika did it for, he always does it for

11:54

us. We had Mika goal and Drycidal goal plus

11:56

4.53. I

11:58

don't know if there's rookie gamblers out there. But plus

12:00

four fifty three that means you can lose

12:02

four bets Before that

12:05

you lose the money from that one. That's a

12:07

huge win. So put that on on

12:09

there and You know, there's only

12:11

one game tonight So the chat lay was slim

12:13

pickings But we do have a couple options for

12:15

the crew out there to pick from can

12:18

we get those thrown up there? Sean

12:20

Oh throw up the chat lay for

12:22

our great chat. Everybody rides everybody's support

12:24

and there's option a murals Would

12:27

you throw Carolina? Carolina moneyline Carolina

12:29

got to get the first goal and then aho

12:31

if you like him and it's the same on

12:33

the other side But just with natures

12:36

goal who I love that guy. I

12:38

think that guy's a stud So

12:40

I think that's I think it's pretty

12:42

safe to say Carolina will win tonight But let's

12:44

get that first goal and then one of the

12:46

big boys score. Let's see what the chat tells us

12:48

by the end So pick

12:50

your poison a or B the the picks are

12:53

coming in. I love when we do this I

12:55

love the chat because that's so fun when everybody's

12:57

together. It makes it so much more fun I

12:59

think that's sick that our chat

13:02

just makes it makes it and let me

13:04

tell you army Those odds are straight from

13:06

the draft King Sportsbook Awesome.

13:08

Yeah new partnership with bar stool. That's

13:10

huge news. Absolutely huge Before

13:13

we get to the some of the stuff I

13:15

want to I put on a three-piece suit on

13:18

TNT I came in looking sharp. I knew I

13:20

was working with Hank. Um, I

13:23

seen I'm getting lots of comments about my shoot But I

13:25

like I had to match him turns out our suits were

13:27

like the same kind of color almost He

13:29

had the double-breasted I had the three-piece but I

13:32

was trying to just rival with Hank. I never

13:34

met Hank I never met I

13:36

was like first time ever meeting him and like

13:38

first time ever meeting him first time working on

13:40

live TV with Him also, so that was really

13:42

cool the Hall of Famer. Henrik Lundquist just all

13:44

class He came in with like a he

13:47

had like a like a garment bag

13:49

briefcase almost I don't know what he had in

13:51

there because he maybe he changed when he got

13:53

there I didn't see him exactly when he arrived,

13:56

but when he left he like took

13:58

his dress shoes off and put on on running shoes and

14:00

he was like, Oh, this feels so good. You know, I

14:03

was just like, man, that's like my

14:05

wife, when we go out all night and she's wearing

14:08

like really high healed shoes and her feet start hurting.

14:10

And she takes off her other shoes and puts on

14:12

like flip flops or something out of her bag, just at

14:15

the end of the night, like how many

14:17

women have done that? That's probably like a

14:19

regular jazz. He's in the

14:21

chat. It was a garment bag. He said,

14:23

he was a garment bag, but he slipped

14:25

out of his shoes and be like his

14:27

nice high end runners, like classy shoes. He

14:29

looked still looked like amazing. So it was

14:31

awesome being in the air with Ace and

14:33

Liam and, and, and, and the King working,

14:36

meeting him and just playing off of him with my

14:38

style and my suit and my hair, just trying to

14:40

match them. You got to live up to it when

14:42

you're on with him, a lot of pressure. He's so

14:44

good looking. So what'd you think of, you know,

14:47

Hank, I, I get to know Hoboken last night. I

14:49

go out to watch the Rangers game and he's

14:51

right there in the Rangers in New York doing

14:53

the intermissions there. So yeah.

14:55

Yeah. He's moving around like you and us. And,

14:57

uh, and he was in Vegas. He came from

14:59

Vegas from the Superbowl. He was out there for

15:02

like four days or something. So he just got

15:04

in. And so he, uh,

15:06

he is everywhere. He was burning at both ends.

15:08

He said in Vegas, I think too. So having

15:10

a time taking in all the events at the

15:12

Superbowl. Um, but,

15:14

uh, I guess let's get into,

15:16

what do we got here? Murrell's get some NHL

15:19

talk at my name. David the other night with

15:21

that six point night, got everybody

15:23

talking. Can he catch cooch? Can he

15:25

catch Nate dog? What do you think?

15:28

Yeah. Well, cooch got three points last night

15:30

and like, that's going to be the problem.

15:32

I put it out on social media. And

15:35

I, I think that I

15:37

think that he can just for the fact that, that

15:40

he can get like five or six points a game.

15:42

Like he can just do that, you know, and like

15:44

cooch, he can get a lot of points, but he'll

15:46

just keep ticking away. And he's going to have to

15:49

really work to get it. But I,

15:51

I don't know. What do you think? Do you think he's as

15:54

dangerous as that, that he could catch those guys? I

15:57

don't see him catch just cause it's those two guys.

15:59

It's not. just some guy having a

16:01

you know popping off one year it's

16:04

just these two guys are consistent they

16:06

have great line mates they have great power plays

16:08

so it's I think it's really hard to get

16:11

it's gonna be really hard to catch them what's

16:13

the old-time record for points in a game what

16:15

did sitler have is it 10 points nine

16:18

or ten yeah I think it's a

16:20

double-digit point night he had back in the day I

16:22

think that's still the record I don't know if research

16:25

can look that up as we don't have research we're

16:27

not TNT we don't have all these guys so Jazzy's

16:29

on the chat Jazzy'll Jazzy'll know that

16:31

there it is ten he did he had it before

16:35

I knew it was something like that like

16:37

is it crazy to say like how come

16:39

he hasn't broken that record yet with the

16:41

what he can do like it I could

16:43

see him easily getting a

16:46

ten-point game like I don't know like is

16:49

that other I think that's he that's his to

16:51

break isn't it that's ten

16:53

points is a lot but yet

16:55

six and he didn't even have a power play point yeah

16:58

and no goals yeah I guess but I don't

17:01

know tens a lot like

17:03

if that anyone's gonna do it it's gonna

17:05

be him it's right yeah of course that's

17:08

that's and no it's

17:10

not gonna happen ten no way ten can

17:13

happen Sam Gaunier had nine I

17:15

remember that one game didn't he have like he

17:17

had like eight wasn't wit in that game goals yeah

17:20

I'd wait within that game goals it was eight

17:24

Bobby Schmurda oh it

17:26

was it was eight eight it was eight

17:28

points for yeah that like

17:30

Gaunier is good player like

17:32

McDavid's on another level but someone made a good

17:34

point to me and like people this will kind

17:37

of spur up some other stuff

17:39

is like you're not

17:41

gonna put him on if he's got eight points and

17:43

there's throttling a team eight to one and they get

17:46

a power play halfway through to the third like

17:48

do you think McDavid's getting out there I think

17:51

in the league now he might maybe just because

17:53

we're seeing some crazy stuff with like taunting

17:55

and like nobody cares anymore like slap

17:57

shots into the debt guys do it

18:00

Gritty all that crap which we'll get to but

18:02

do you remember terrian when another team would put

18:04

out their first power play? Oh, and they were

18:06

trying to play the coat He's like go out

18:08

there and take that guy's hand off and we

18:10

would go out and just try to to hand

18:12

them And then I remember being on the opposite

18:14

side when I was on the power play I'm like,

18:16

I'm not going out there now like put out put

18:18

the other guys out there I want

18:20

no one harder to take my tape off my

18:23

chin pads I'm not going out there take the

18:25

two points and just quietly go into the night

18:28

At that point if it's a blowout don't put your

18:30

a unit out there That's why it might be a

18:32

challenge for him in certain situations to get stuff

18:34

going and do it Oh

18:36

look at look at jazz ultimate stats guy

18:38

by the way Joe below had the most

18:40

goals Where do you go most goals in

18:43

a game with seven of Joe Malone? Yeah,

18:46

I want to talk about some goal scoring

18:48

I got some goal scoring stats from jazz

18:50

earlier as you know We

18:52

like we like to do the anytime

18:54

goal scores with with Miggsy and Vegas

18:56

insider so after a night

18:58

like that last night Matthews gets another hat trick

19:01

and Yeah, of course, he's

19:03

got the most goals in the league and I'm like,

19:05

but there it is 4539

19:08

look at these guys. Look at those all studs and

19:11

I think just outside of that. He's got 30

19:13

last night. Whoo, but I'm it. I'm a gambler

19:15

I need to know who's the best guy to

19:17

take who scores in the most games So

19:20

he got me those stats right away. So

19:23

we saw the guy up there Reinhardt

19:25

I scored in 31 different games where

19:27

Matthews has only scored in 27 different

19:29

games pasta 26 So

19:32

I just thought that was like a fun stat. It's

19:34

not always the guy with the most because these guys

19:36

score in bunches Yeah, you know

19:39

He had 22 goals in 22 games

19:41

going into that game on TNT the other

19:43

night and I think only one

19:45

of those games He didn't score or like two of

19:48

them. So he spreads it out He's

19:50

like chips away a goal a goal a goal

19:52

like he very consistently through if you look at

19:54

his game log and like the goals that he's

19:56

scoring like Matthew's a hat trick and Then

19:58

it's like no goals and then he has like Like one and

20:00

then he has one and then he has two goals,

20:02

two goals, two goals, hat trick again. So

20:05

he piles his goals. So when he gets hot in a game,

20:08

I mean, if he scores in a game, maybe,

20:10

maybe it's like net he'll score again, like pick

20:12

him for any time. Can you do that? That's

20:14

a good, that's a good idea right

20:16

there. Because I think when you

20:18

look at him, he has like four hat tricks and

20:20

like eight two goal games. Yeah,

20:23

I got that's right here from jazz on

20:26

that too. Jazz got all the stats. Oh,

20:28

he's a wizard. That guy would do an

20:30

13 multi-goal games and

20:32

five hat tricks. Like I think

20:34

he had like in five games at one point, I was

20:36

doing a game up on Monday night at sports that he

20:38

had like 18 goals

20:40

and like in like five or six games

20:42

or something like that. Just

20:45

because he slams goals and like it's just insane

20:47

what he does. So I'd look

20:49

for that. Matthews is absolutely light show. Do you see

20:51

that one goalie score that pole drag like

20:54

shot that he did? How do you shoot like that?

20:58

He's a freak. Like

21:00

I never learned to shoot like, like I can't even

21:02

pull the puck and shoot like that. I don't know

21:04

how these guys do that. Like the Badaard can do

21:06

it now. Like all these guys with that pole drag

21:08

shot. Ekblad did it in

21:10

that penguins game on Wednesday night

21:12

too. Like I don't know how

21:14

these guys get it in their feet like that,

21:16

like way ahead of them and can still get

21:19

like rip it off, rip that

21:21

shot off. I don't, I don't get the training

21:23

and how they work on that. It's just so

21:25

awkward. That's

21:27

the biggest thing. Like I played in my RPI alumni

21:29

game this weekend and I played in beer league once

21:31

in a while. But that's what

21:33

I've noticed the most is how like my wrist strength

21:35

is gone. Because you're not shooting

21:37

all the time. You're not working out with

21:40

weights. My wrist, my shot was never good,

21:42

but now it's a complete muffin. And like

21:44

it like hurts my wrist to shoot. Yeah

21:48

because you're, what kind of shooter were you? Like

21:50

a swiping rister guy? Little

21:52

snapper. I scored all my goals from the mix.

21:55

I didn't really shoot much. Just

21:57

like in our open on the game notes open.

22:00

You came in and snap that one off. You're like on

22:02

one leg just a little snapper lean on it a bit

22:05

That's how I kind of was to like a little

22:07

out front pop shot guy little pop

22:11

Well, um, I want

22:13

to get to this torch stuff to torts

22:15

had a comment the other day I loved

22:18

it and we've seen craziness obviously lots of

22:20

conversation guys in the chat and everybody I'm

22:22

sure everyone's been involved with the slap

22:24

shot into the net and then we

22:27

had the gritty thing Which is a door of

22:29

the other day and like warnings being dolled out

22:31

from the league about doing crazy Like what's going

22:33

on in the NHL? And I

22:35

don't know if booze can pull it up But

22:37

here's Torches comments on on the league right now.

22:40

It's a different week. It's a

22:42

it's a different league in We're

22:47

gonna be really careful III

22:51

III think there is Well,

22:57

it's a dumb league it

22:59

is it's changed for

23:02

coaches too And we've

23:04

had to make adjustments because there are so

23:06

many mistakes made and

23:08

I I guess the thing with the young athletes

23:10

is Sometimes you

23:12

have to wait your turn right

23:14

as far as gaining respect and

23:17

and not wanting everything right now We're not

23:19

expecting everything right now as far as nice

23:21

time as far as your contract whatever may

23:23

be Sometimes it's good

23:25

just to wait your turn and earn it I

23:28

think that's where I think the athletes have changed

23:30

they have entourages around them that I think correct

23:32

them the wrong way and The

23:35

hierarchy of a room the hierarchy of what it

23:38

is to be a pro the process you have

23:40

to go through as a pro I

23:42

think lost a little bit with with the athlete

23:44

now and It's something

23:46

I miss terribly in being

23:48

in the league for so long seeing where it's gone to

23:50

now great athletes great

23:53

skill great speed, but the

23:56

mental and understanding what

23:58

it is to be a pro and and

24:00

respecting the National Hockey League, that's

24:03

where I have some struggles. Oh,

24:07

wow. I thought

24:09

everything he said was awesome. He's

24:12

great. Like

24:14

respecting the league, like it's

24:17

kind of like the new age player and you

24:19

know, Torch is a great example, I think too.

24:21

He's got the Flyers just humming and like, you

24:23

can't do that. And everyone would think like he

24:25

wouldn't be successful. Everyone would think now and today,

24:28

2024, you

24:30

have a guy like that and he's

24:32

finding success because I

24:34

hear more than ever now in youth

24:37

hockey with my kids and every, you

24:39

can't do that anymore. It's 2024, like,

24:41

yeah, you can, yeah, you can. You

24:44

can hold a standard, you can hold

24:46

them accountable. You can expect a certain

24:48

style of play and this

24:50

is what's happening. And that's why I say

24:52

this, Merls, and I say it

24:54

and I say it again, it's gonna

24:56

get worse. It's gonna get

24:58

worse and worse and worse and worse with

25:01

players coming up because of the way they

25:03

train, the way they look at

25:05

the game, the way that the game

25:07

is now perceived in their eyes of

25:09

what's important and what's not and Torch

25:11

is right. It's even harder as coaches,

25:13

I think, because the stuff that's important,

25:15

that they deem important as coaches because

25:17

they're handling the team and yes, through

25:19

that individual players, it's

25:22

getting harder and harder as

25:24

a coach to implement certain concepts or

25:26

aspects of the game when these kids

25:28

never learned it, don't want to, they've

25:30

never been told and it's just the

25:32

way it is now in the game and

25:35

I imagine Torch's every day has to come in

25:37

there and put on the goddamn war paint. Every

25:39

day dealing with it. And the biggest

25:42

problem is the contracts. Every kid is

25:44

getting handed eight times eight two or

25:46

three years into the league. So

25:48

they, what are they, you can't talk to

25:50

them anymore. You can't threaten them with ice

25:52

time or getting them sent down anymore. They're

25:55

in complete control and it's like the

25:59

patients are running the. Asylum where when we

26:01

were players younger players you you respect

26:03

that those older players you respected the

26:05

game You'd never did anything out of

26:07

line like I I love Jack

26:09

Hughes But his act last night

26:11

was you can't do that in NHL. That's

26:13

that's the stuff used to do in Bantam

26:15

in junior Slam did that in the American

26:18

League? I did that American League. I

26:20

did it I remember I was like imitating guys

26:22

on the ice like whoo-hoo I like doing all

26:24

these like the Cam Jansen and stuff. I love

26:26

play him Oh, yeah, I was like imitating him

26:28

and stuff and like, you know who's all intense

26:30

and stuff and rightfully so his job

26:33

He had to be intense. He's an intimidating and

26:35

I remember after the game though. Taryon called me into his office

26:37

And I'm like, oh, what did I do now? I'm like, oh

26:39

my god. He's like you're out

26:41

there making fun of Janssons

26:46

and You know doing this and

26:48

making fun of him like acting like him

26:50

and imagine if you were in the NHL

26:52

on hockey night In Canada and the cameras

26:55

all over like something I totally didn't think

26:57

about because I'm in the mines ease But

26:59

I'm in the mines ease grind and I don't think about that

27:02

and it was like a lesson It's like you can't do that

27:04

shit in NHL But we're seeing

27:06

it like crazy because all young guys.

27:08

It's a young dumb league like torch said I Remember

27:12

last year when wallman first did the

27:14

gritty and he did it in Pittsburgh

27:16

against Crosby I said, you don't I

27:18

don't care if you do that another

27:20

the mine z's Yeah, don't do it

27:22

against Crosby like that would have

27:25

been like us doing it against Wayne Gretzky Yeah,

27:28

you're not Can

27:31

you imagine if Grets was on the ice and like

27:33

you did the gritty in front of arena

27:44

The whole bench would have cleared and came and just pummeled me

27:46

oh You would have got killed buddy

27:48

you would have got killed there been lumber all

27:50

over the ice wooden sticks flying everywhere It would

27:52

have been unbelievable Gretsus Gretsus Easton would have been

27:55

silver just shy to go the ice You would

27:57

have been throwing them on you, too don't

28:00

do the Macarena after you score. Do

28:06

the Macarena. That'd be the new platform

28:08

slide. But

28:11

I just thought that like, that was such a

28:14

good interview. I

28:16

thought, and I saw Singzi in the chat said,

28:18

Jack Hughes is not a torts guy or something

28:21

along those lines. I think he

28:23

is. Jack Hughes wants to win. Jack

28:25

Hughes is intense. Yes. He's like the

28:27

new age player, highly skilled. But I

28:29

think if you put him in torts,

28:31

his hands or a coach like that,

28:33

like ruffles can get, get feisty ruffles

28:35

can push, you know, I think

28:37

he's got that in them and he always

28:39

has, but I think, I

28:42

think he likes that. I think guys

28:44

traditionally, and I

28:46

think the more elite guys like that. I think

28:48

they want to be challenged. I think they want

28:50

to be pushed. I think they want to be

28:52

in environments where, you know, the expectation is high.

28:54

That's where you get the most out of these

28:56

guys. That's you have to have that it's 2024.

28:59

Yes. And okay. Yes. It's

29:01

different, but you still have to keep

29:04

your, you know, your finger

29:06

on them a little bit. You have to push them.

29:08

That's how you push guys to levels. They don't think

29:10

they can get to even as great as they are,

29:13

as good as they come in prepared. There has to

29:15

be something there for them. And I think, you know,

29:17

that's where torts has that like, he

29:19

just doesn't let it happen. And I

29:21

respect the hell out of it. And I love it. I

29:24

love that comment. I got this guy,

29:26

Blake saying it's a tough comparison Crosby

29:28

to Gretzky. Is that guy out of

29:30

his mind? Gretzky was

29:32

the best player playing when we played

29:34

or right when we were coming in.

29:36

Crosby is the best player now for

29:38

the last 20 years. The guy

29:40

just scored 30 what is 30th goal? 30th,

29:43

the 36th penguins ahead of Mario,

29:45

ahead of Yager now. Like that's

29:47

a perfect comparison. Someone put up a stat of

29:49

Sid too. If you look at his hockey DB,

29:52

he, I think one time at like

29:54

an Olympics and maybe one other time

29:57

he did, he wasn't a point per game. Like I think he

29:59

had like four. points in one Olympics

30:01

in six games or something like that but every

30:03

year of his entire life he's been well either

30:06

well over a point of game or just

30:08

at a point of game never under like that

30:10

is ultimate consistency G are muted I'd love

30:14

to hear your guys opinion do you guys put I

30:17

think this is a no-brainer question do you guys put

30:19

Sidney Crosby on the Mount Rushmore of hockey players yeah

30:22

I do 100% like who is it it's

30:24

who is it grain

30:28

Gordy Mario Bobby or

30:30

your you only get four

30:32

right oh yeah I got I got

30:35

crockett's Crosby tough

30:38

to think about Crosby and this is what I say

30:40

about him and you can tell me what you guys

30:43

think he is and I don't

30:45

know who else is close to him with

30:47

his production he's the best two-way

30:50

player to ever play hockey the

30:54

best and it hasn't been

30:56

easy I think he's worked at it but he but the

30:58

production at one end and the way he defends and plays

31:01

like he like this set it on the

31:03

all-cast he when I went on he should

31:05

be in for selkie conversations he doesn't kill

31:07

penalties but he probably should but

31:11

like what he does at both ends of the

31:13

ice is unbelievable and the only other guy I

31:15

can think of and he's here in Pittsburgh to

31:17

Hall of Famer Brian Trocce Brian

31:19

Trocce and his time was like an

31:21

ultimate up-and-down guy just really savvy smart

31:23

player and could produce like a beast

31:26

as well he's one of the top 100

31:28

players to ever play the game and

31:30

I that's the only guy I can think of that

31:32

was that kind of style of player with the production

31:36

so murals do you have Crosby on

31:38

there you seem hesitant yeah I think

31:40

yeah I think I'm gonna drop Gordy

31:42

he's just made way too long ago

31:44

I did it's I'm dropping him mr.

31:46

hockey mr. hockey I met him a

31:49

couple of times got his autograph I

31:51

actually I used to play hockey with

31:53

his grandson Travis how

31:55

and we would get summer hockey's and mark how

31:58

his dad would come and coach us And

32:00

we did that for a few summers

32:02

great people great family Awesome,

32:05

but I'm gonna go with the more recent

32:07

guys when there was a lot more competition

32:09

that these guys excelled above them So

32:11

you're going Gretzky or Crosby? Wow,

32:18

I think that's pretty good. I got it. What

32:20

it is. It is in debate I'm

32:22

with you on that. I got the same people

32:24

not a kind of agreeing also golden gold to

32:26

bring it up all Sid's things That he's done.

32:29

Some guy says Datsuke is better than Crosby

32:31

and not a global game now Where

32:33

you know Gordy Howe what it was probably

32:36

all Canadians back when he was playing now

32:38

It's your police the best in the whole

32:40

world. Like this guy's unreal. He's

32:42

not done You know 40

32:44

years at least he's on pace for 48 goals

32:47

jazz just put in the chat That's a second

32:49

most of his career at 36

32:51

years old like he is carrying

32:53

the penguins single-handedly He's just an absolute beast

32:56

like last night in that game boots

32:58

on the ground. I was I was

33:00

in Chicago I went from TNT to

33:02

Chicago, of course and like that game was kind

33:04

of sloppy there on a back-to-back They flew in

33:07

the night of after the Florida game and had

33:09

to get back in there, but Dard returned Murls,

33:12

I got to watch the Dard First

33:15

period little sloppy, you know He had a turnover

33:17

that led to a goal going the other way

33:19

on the Smith backhand or shelf He tried for

33:22

cross ice pass got picked off went the other

33:24

way second and third period

33:26

though Body he started to find

33:28

it like that puck just follows him and he

33:30

gets it and it changes when it's on a

33:32

stick The game just changes so dangerous everything great

33:35

assist. He had could have had a couple more

33:37

points maybe And and

33:39

he's back and he still leads

33:42

His team in points. He still leaves his team in

33:44

points. He missed 14 games. He still

33:47

leaves his team in points He leads rookies now

33:49

with his assist the other night in points and

33:51

in goals And he's

33:53

back. He's dying away from any contact at

33:55

all. No, he tried to split the D.

33:58

He tried to split the D Dole through Took

34:00

a big hit everyone went crazy in the rank

34:02

their golden boy got hit, but He's

34:05

back. He's so tiny though. It's crazy watching

34:07

him He's so tiny murals But just

34:09

electric good to have bard back and it's so cool

34:11

because we didn't expect him to be in a lineup

34:13

And then all those announcements came out last night and

34:16

it's like oh, yeah He might get in an

34:18

old shocker his idol Crosby's in the building Coming

34:21

in and he and he pushes

34:23

through a doctor's appointment or whatever to get cleared

34:26

We're waiting to hear all day and then all

34:28

sudden bard's in the their social media Blackhawk social

34:30

media is like posted a video of him like

34:32

being back. He's back So it was like Sid

34:34

versus bard opening draw is pretty cool to have

34:37

him back and see him back out

34:39

there again And like he has that

34:41

he can pull it back into a shooting position He

34:43

had a great assist murals he pulls it keeps it

34:45

in that shooting position He kind of glides in like

34:47

wide stance and then he can

34:50

like he hides it in just a little soft Chip

34:52

sauce pass to the back door for an

34:54

assist, but he can shoot too. So he

34:57

freezes everybody everybody's like, what's he doing? He's

34:59

so dangerous when he gets pucks in areas It's just

35:01

crazy the way he looks the way he thinks and

35:04

the way he sets up like everything is set up

35:06

like That's what I always thought was

35:08

said to is like his stick in his hands

35:10

to the ice and the way he was built It

35:12

was like perfect. Hey like watching him and Like

35:15

but art has that with that long stick and he

35:17

just the way he stands and where he holds a

35:19

puck is just is Just crazy.

35:21

So what's what's Jazzy got here if

35:24

he finishes the season? Averaging

35:26

a point per game would be tied

35:28

with Gretzky for the most consecutive seasons

35:30

Averaging a point per game the NHL

35:32

history 19. There you

35:35

go max I think his name was saying

35:37

my comparison was trash What

35:39

are we now? We're hockey guys. This is what

35:41

we do. This is our lives. Come on What

35:43

do you think we are you think we just

35:46

wake up and eat Cheerios and fucking put on

35:48

our fucking deodorant? Walk out the door and just

35:50

like turn on the highlights and watch is our

35:52

fucking lives here. We're dealing We live in this

35:54

shit. We bathe in this shit. We

35:56

sans ease in this shit Boys,

35:59

I've seen a couple people for the chat lay

36:01

you should uh Sean maybe you want to toss it

36:03

up there again oh yeah pop it back up again

36:05

got some late people coming in a or B there

36:07

it is the only change with murals is the gold

36:10

or a ho

36:12

and nature's a ho is

36:14

a nature's is B get your

36:16

votes in we're keeping we keep up we have

36:19

AI on this and we keep track of it

36:21

while we're doing that let's get to some picks

36:24

let's get the Friday's picks let's

36:27

go oh where's the rest of the games oh

36:29

yeah I guess I guess I got to take

36:31

that game there's only one game tonight so

36:35

a light light Friday night but that's not gonna

36:37

stop us that will not stop the EBR we're

36:39

gonna get on a run I do

36:42

always do better on game notes than I than I

36:44

do on the off days so this is gonna get

36:46

us going again I'm gonna

36:49

start with the NHL plays we're

36:51

gonna do Carolina three-way minus 140

36:53

for the rookies out there that

36:55

means regulation and I

36:57

love this next one aho power

37:00

play point plus 180 the

37:02

guys run in the half wall there they have

37:06

one of the best power play they might be the

37:08

best power play in the league so I think those

37:10

are great odds there and then

37:12

we're gonna switch course you see that

37:14

college I love it Benny Barr

37:16

what do you got for us yeah so

37:18

Draft Kings has the couple college hockey games

37:21

on there Benny just

37:23

signed a new four-year deal so

37:25

he's not going anywhere huge four-year

37:27

contract for Benny so game

37:29

notes bump congrats to Benny and to Maine

37:31

they got their guy for another four years

37:33

but we're gonna take them money line minus

37:35

160 a little stiff

37:38

there but that's that's that's a

37:40

winner I got a

37:42

few college picks if you guys

37:44

don't mind yeah so I love

37:46

BU money line against Providence on

37:49

tonight coming off a tough

37:51

beanpot loss BU is a good good

37:53

hockey team they lost to a far

37:56

less superior team in Northeastern for the

37:58

beanpot championship they're gonna to come back

38:00

hungry. So I love BU

38:02

Moneyline against Providence tonight. I

38:04

also like BC UMass. I

38:07

love the over over six.

38:09

So yeah, that's where

38:11

we're going. I love it. And

38:13

AG speaking of college, you got

38:15

anything coming up? Yeah,

38:17

well, actually, Chiclets U is taking

38:19

its taking its talents to North

38:22

Dakota next weekend. So we'll be

38:24

in North Dakota next Friday night.

38:26

Super, super excited. Saturday night, they

38:28

have the I forget

38:30

exactly what it's called. I think it's

38:32

called like the seventh player where a

38:34

former alumni guy comes in and skates

38:36

around the ice. They basically give them

38:38

like a victory lap all the way

38:41

around the ice, gets to get in

38:43

full equipment, all the fans cheer him

38:45

on. But we get to check with

38:47

the Ralph finally, probably the nicest facility

38:49

in college hockey. So many legends have

38:51

played there. I heard they just put

38:53

in the zero altitude room just for

38:55

their games against Denver and Colorado College.

38:57

It's just completely room that you know,

38:59

altitude. So very excited to get

39:01

to North Dakota next week. Well boots on the ground

39:03

Thursday will be at the game Friday. That's

39:06

unbelievable. And I remember when that when that

39:09

arena popped off, I think they did World

39:11

Juniors there years ago, like Crosby's year, I

39:13

believe. And that's when we

39:15

got to see like the rink. I think

39:17

they're like the flooring and there's like marble

39:20

like it's it's a palace. It's ridiculous. Yeah,

39:22

I heard it's insane. The floor. So the

39:24

floors, from what I've been told are this

39:27

is is the same marble from the Vatican.

39:30

So yeah, supposedly the floors can

39:32

last like thousands and thousands of

39:34

years. And the whole story about

39:36

I mean, the Ralph

39:39

is just insane. Ralph Engelstadt made

39:41

a ton of money in Las

39:43

Vegas, went to North Dakota, basically

39:45

left all of his money for

39:47

North Dakota hockey. So it's pretty,

39:49

it's pretty insane how they have

39:51

it where it's not the school

39:53

funding the rink. It's Ralph Engelstadt's

39:55

estate is paying for all this

39:57

like amazing hockey facilities, as opposed

39:59

to North Dakota hadn't paid for it. Yeah,

40:02

it's amazing. And it's like a spaceship in

40:04

the middle of nowhere too. And grand forks.

40:06

I used to drive from Wilkesbury, Merle's after

40:08

the season and just drive straight across rate

40:10

to grand forks. Go up

40:12

north up to Winnipeg and cut across

40:14

rate to Saskatchewan. That was like a

40:17

two and a half day driving straight

40:19

18 hours a day, blaring system of

40:21

a down crushing red bulls windows down,

40:23

just pounding the road, sleeping on top

40:26

of the sheets at like super eight

40:28

hotel on the side of the highway,

40:30

just disgusting, just grinding it out. And

40:33

like, I just, those little highway stop hotels. And

40:35

oh my God, just to get home and I

40:37

get home on like the neck that's later on

40:39

that night, a few days

40:41

later, I pounded out right to the bar,

40:43

Merle's with the boys, right to the bar.

40:46

Just put on like a five day ripper

40:48

with the boys. Like, yeah, home. Finally home

40:50

with the fellas. End of the season. And

40:53

there's nothing better. Nothing better.

40:56

Oh, I'm looking forward to that. I'm looking forward

40:58

to see that. Of course, they just had Brock

41:00

Besser on, on, on, on spit

41:02

and chiclets. Check out that episode. He's really

41:04

good interview on his success this year and

41:06

everything he's overcome and where his head space

41:08

is and how their team is doing, but

41:10

a North Dakota alumni with a cool story

41:12

of how he ended up going to North

41:14

Dakota as well. In that interview, you

41:16

got to check it out. Um, do we want

41:18

to touch on that Quebec Pee Wee tournament quickly? Yeah.

41:21

We got the Vegas insiders up there with

41:24

his team. I think they just lost in

41:26

the quarter finals. Me and

41:28

Whit watched the game the other day.

41:30

It was a Yandell, Brian Yandell's team,

41:33

the Boston junior Terriers. They

41:35

got this kid, uh, what's his name? Watson. He's

41:37

he's like that guy, the big guy when everybody

41:39

else is so small, he's just a force. So

41:42

we're watching this guy. Yeah. And,

41:45

uh, it was, it was, it goes one,

41:47

one goes overtime. Merley special is a draw.

41:50

And, and the other team from Sudbury had a

41:52

big guy too, which was a stud. He

41:55

went down and like Watson, like, kind

41:57

of like kept them off to the side, stole.

42:00

It and went end-to-end rush blew by the

42:02

defender cut in OT winner. So they looked

42:04

really good. I'm not sure They probably have

42:06

another game. I would guess around today or

42:09

tomorrow. So it's fun paying attention them Hope

42:11

we'll get Vegas insider next week with the full

42:13

recap. Yeah, we get a very at the recap

42:16

Vegas insider ran into our penguins Families they were

42:18

at a sugar shack up in Quebec. It's like

42:20

they have tours set up You go snow tobogganing

42:22

your booze and at the carnival the carnival ends

42:24

and there's other things to do And

42:26

you go up to where they make like syrup like

42:29

maple syrup up in the woods It's a different

42:31

kind of sugar than we usually hear about on

42:33

chicklets And

42:37

you like roll like little popsicle sticks in the

42:39

syrup they poured in the snow and then you

42:41

roll it up And then you have like a

42:43

little like syrup popsicle frozen

42:45

and you lick it and like they serve food

42:47

They show you how you do it there He

42:49

ran into like the penguins they were all at

42:51

the sugar shack together on like a tour and

42:53

he ran into all my buddies Pittsburgh that are

42:55

on this team that are up there right now

42:58

and he FaceTime me with Miggsy at the sugar

43:00

shack I saw him there Game

43:03

notes is everywhere. We got we got eyes

43:06

everywhere. Yeah, we do It's kind of a

43:08

small world this hockey world, but it's crazy

43:10

for people on the chat. These kids

43:12

are 2011

43:16

born that are there right now. So man, that's

43:18

just crazy and the world just keeps ticking by

43:21

doesn't it merman? Doesn't do we want

43:23

to get quickly touch on before we move on? To

43:26

some chicklets trips, which I can't wait to get

43:28

to the the free-throw shooting thing That

43:30

was like by the Chicago crew.

43:33

Everyone was there for this thing for the

43:35

draft Kings. It was unbelievable Unbelievable,

43:38

would you think it was ever gonna get done?

43:40

I I was watching it like

43:42

oh man What are these guys gonna do they

43:44

get they're gonna have to quit. There's no way

43:47

but I couldn't believe it I was so impressed with

43:49

some of the people that I was like, no way these

43:51

guys are gonna be good and Like

43:54

Kirk Minahan was like Draining

43:58

like there's a reason RA But

44:00

Kirk, Kirk Minahan was a

44:03

beast. He was going

44:05

to town. Um, that Mantis

44:07

guy came out of nowhere, you know, full

44:09

of brawn. This shooting him from here. Oh

44:12

my God. Pat Bev with the ultimate breakdown.

44:15

I saw that clip too of

44:17

Mantis and like him rolling in and like that

44:19

boy bent to tell that story, he was draining.

44:24

That guy came in from Ohio, drove

44:26

through the night, his job to get there.

44:28

He was draining buckets too. And I honestly

44:30

thought that they would be there forever. If

44:33

anyone in the chat was watching that, it

44:35

was, it was pretty fun to

44:37

tune in. And like, they would get to a big

44:39

thing that Dave would come up and I was just

44:41

like, Oh my God, Dave was such a liability with

44:43

his shot. But somehow he's like, give

44:45

a fuck is in a perfect spot where. He

44:48

just puts it up there. And then

44:51

last shot, the dramatic he's

44:54

like, wait, was asking him yesterday. Yeah.

44:56

If you haven't watched, watch the on name

44:58

show with wit and, uh, Minahan and Dave

45:01

and what was telling him, he, we want to do

45:03

a hockey one and we got to figure out maybe

45:05

we can get some good ideas from the chat of

45:07

how we do it where it's like, maybe

45:10

like G was saying hit posts posts. I

45:12

was thinking more of like a shooter tutor

45:14

could be like, you got to, you

45:16

know, I feel like post could be really hard because I

45:18

RA is going to have to make one or

45:21

like we have something in the head and

45:23

make them. We have like a, we have

45:25

a target that hangs down when you hit it, it goes

45:27

up and comes back and you

45:29

have to hit the target shooting. Just

45:32

the one target, a certain amount of times in

45:34

a row, because I feel like if we do

45:36

crossbar, like we'd be

45:38

there forever, forever. So

45:40

it has to be like a bigger target. I

45:43

don't know. We'd have to bring in some ringers too. Yeah.

45:46

I was thinking, yeah, like, I just, one guy

45:48

empty nets, like you could do like the whole

45:51

distance of the gym there in Chicago. And you,

45:53

I mean that, that would still be pretty hard.

45:55

Well, yeah, because you could have rules that like

45:57

certain guys have to shoot. Like, like, yeah, that's

45:59

what. You got RA you got biz big

46:02

cat Dave can shoot. He knows how you

46:04

thought he used to do the goalie challenge

46:06

Chief is hockey guy. He could probably rip it.

46:08

I don't know. Yeah, there's something

46:10

there we could do It could be fun But I

46:13

with with like the ringleader on this I think he's

46:15

gonna be the first guy to be like after a

46:17

couple hours I got I'm out of here. Oh, yeah,

46:19

he'll be the guy sleeping on the couch With

46:22

his feet twitching around like he has little ankle

46:24

things Unbelievable.

46:27

All right folks now it's time. We're gonna get to a

46:29

little segment called chiclets chirps I can't wait to bring this

46:31

up. We probably should have brought it up earlier Rumor

46:34

boys were in full effect murals You

46:37

have been critical of yourself and encouraged by

46:39

the other guys to throw it out there

46:41

Throw to you at the Patrick was scoop

46:43

you have you've had several scoops the

46:46

Monty scoop You've had other scoops that you haven't

46:48

gone with and on our group chat

46:51

Kicking your why why did I do it?

46:53

Why what am I doing? You're looking for

46:55

encouragement all of a sudden? I'm sitting there. I I'm

46:58

checking my social media waiting for the pens game to

47:00

start I don't have a hotel room just at the

47:02

bar murals throws it out there

47:05

Jake Allen I'm

47:07

hearing he's going to Colorado avalanche

47:11

Hashtag boys room or boy Oh

47:15

Yeah, so it was the exact same

47:17

way. I had the Patrick wah, but

47:19

I don't want to put that out there I had

47:22

the DJ Smith LA and Whitten

47:25

bits put it out there. We're the rumor

47:27

boys. Gee murals. Just do it. We're rumor

47:29

boys So same thing I got it like

47:32

a couple things it adds up. It's a it's a

47:34

good situation And

47:36

these big journalists come right at me over the

47:38

top Chris Johnson and

47:40

Darren dragger right away We're like they

47:42

they like went out and made some

47:44

calls and just put it to bed,

47:47

but they did They did I

47:49

was laughing. I started sending you screenshots of

47:51

those tweets But

47:56

I I I I sent them to you cuz

47:58

I'm like holy crap like When you sent

48:00

that and I retweeted it without

48:03

talking to you like how you know this like double

48:05

checking it But I'd like just trusted you because you've

48:07

been on all these and I

48:09

saw that and I sent him to you I'm like, oh

48:12

shit. This is heating up right now This is going because

48:14

those guys all jumped on your on your scoop You

48:16

had the PD scoop to this thing still waiting to

48:18

happen But what they did was at the end of

48:21

the thing they said, you know things

48:23

have died down or something They're not

48:25

happening at least right now. They

48:27

put that at the end Which

48:29

you kind of said that not over yet.

48:31

It's not over yet Look at Colorado gets

48:34

spanked last night because they had to play

48:36

that guy that's back up. That's not a

48:38

real backup So they

48:40

they're definitely in need of that They they got to

48:42

make sure they they want to get to the the

48:45

president's trophy They want to get that home

48:47

ice You can't be throwing games away without

48:50

a solid backup and then people are like,

48:52

oh man Did you see his last game for the

48:54

habs? Why would they want him? That's

48:56

the habs What the Rangers did

48:58

to them last night? It's not it's not just the

49:00

goalie's fault. That team is not good So

49:03

I think it's a good good thing. It's not

49:05

over. It's still there But yeah, that was it

49:07

was a tough day taking some heat yesterday. No,

49:09

it was awesome Do you do you trust the

49:12

source kind of thing? Do you did you did

49:14

you? Yeah, I think you're pretty sure

49:16

it seems pretty pretty legit Like

49:18

it either was right there that was on

49:20

the finish line. It didn't happen or It's

49:23

not over yet till he till he's not till the

49:25

deadline's over or Somebody else

49:27

goes there your boy flurry maybe goes

49:29

there then it's it's still live rumor

49:31

I love this all the insiders are

49:34

saying as of now. I'm this could

49:36

still very much happen I I still

49:38

I trust my guy murals. I trust

49:40

the rumor boys. I trust his source

49:42

I very much in team murals and

49:44

think this could still happen This

49:46

is like when that happened. I would yeah. Thank

49:49

you. G. I do too. I i'm like excited

49:51

about it now Yeah, it's like hey, it's so

49:53

fun. It's like it's like picking a futures It's

49:55

like, uh, you know when you're gambling you pick

49:57

a futures who's going to win a war Let's

50:00

just say that you got to wait all year to see

50:02

if it happened. Yeah, you know what I mean? I think

50:04

it's gonna be dead if nothing if Colorado doesn't

50:07

get a goalie or he doesn't get moved before

50:09

the deadline I'm actually gonna want to pay attention

50:11

the deadline shows for once because normally

50:13

all the good deals are happening before now Yeah,

50:16

things he has he says Murrell's a

50:18

source is the guy making the poot

50:20

making his poutine I just picture like

50:22

Murrell's like going up to like Ordering

50:25

food and the guy like giving him his

50:27

food like leans forward. He's like Alan just

50:29

Colorado Colorado Murrell

50:32

sits down with his routine. He's like Yeah,

50:35

I need a poutine. I could go for one

50:37

any good poutine and hobo can Murrell's

50:40

you're still grinding on the road Hey,

50:42

it's Wiggins has poutine murrell's right next

50:44

door. We could hit it. All right.

50:46

There you go. I feel the boiler

50:49

army I can segue that yeah, I'm still on the

50:51

road It's been a while I go

50:53

back Monday and that leads me to my show

50:55

so we can switch over to show and minds

50:57

ease If you want, let's go.

50:59

We're gonna start the segment show or minds

51:01

ease All right, it away

51:04

show obvious like we already touched on it one little

51:06

I had a few tonight First little

51:08

one was the TNT production staff taking care

51:10

of us getting our flights in our hotels

51:13

Chris Chapman set me up and then

51:15

just all the runners and and everybody everybody

51:18

you talked about already But I

51:20

got to give a real show. It's not a hockey show But

51:24

our wives our wives letting us go

51:26

on the road like this on Valentine's

51:29

Day My wife's

51:31

home alone taking care of a newborn

51:33

and a four-year-old So

51:36

the wives of all of us chicklets and in the

51:38

hockey world that let us travel You're

51:40

called up to the show this week.

51:42

Happy Valentine's Day. And thank you Unbelievable.

51:45

Hey, I second that I

51:47

second that as my wife has been home taking

51:49

care of four kids for the last three weeks

51:51

I've been all over the damn place eight

51:54

days in Toronto Ray to

51:56

TNT right to Chicago just got home. I

51:58

got home at 3 o'clock in the

52:00

morning last night, Merls, from that trip. Three

52:02

o'clock in the morning. I know I was so scared

52:05

I was going to sleep in for the show because

52:07

I was like so tired. I was

52:09

like crawling out of my skin tired. Have you ever

52:11

been that tired? And I know we've been that tired

52:13

on some chiclets trips. So yeah, shout

52:15

out to the wives, shout out to the ladies

52:18

holding down the fort for the boys while we're

52:20

out, you know, earning that,

52:22

earning that coin, earning that. Hockey

52:24

moms, all the hockey moms out there.

52:27

My show right now,

52:29

Merls, is I saw that clip and I

52:31

think nothing's more show than dominating,

52:34

lighting it up in Nashville

52:36

on the ice, and

52:39

then going to Tootsie's, one of the

52:41

marquee spots on Broadway in Nashville, and

52:43

up on stage singing

52:46

a song, a little country honky

52:48

tonk, Matt Duchain. And

52:51

I just think there's nothing more rockstar than

52:53

that. That's like probably every player's like kind

52:55

of like dream. Could you imagine being

52:57

a rockstar, like wheeling out there and every

53:00

rockstar wants to be an athlete. And

53:02

it's like, he did both. He

53:04

did both while in Nashville. His old three hour span.

53:10

How unreal is that to be able to do that,

53:12

to be that talented and be able to shout out

53:14

to Matt Duchain being up there. Dallas

53:17

doesn't get enough talk to just absolutely wipe

53:19

the floor with the parades. And

53:21

then he went to Tootsie's and dominated up

53:23

on stage, just shredding guitar. So

53:25

way to go. That's my show. That's

53:28

rockstar shit, as Heat Daddy

53:30

would say. And that is unbelievable. That

53:33

clip out there of him. So keep going Dallas,

53:35

fun to watch team, start watching them. Really

53:38

amazing what they've done and the consistency of

53:40

them too. So Dallas

53:42

team to watch, Duchain, watch him at

53:44

the honky tonks. Do

53:48

you have any show, you got any

53:50

shows over there? Yeah, I think I'm

53:52

going to call a Garbert, Gary Bettman

53:55

to the show. I think Gary let

53:57

us, you know, do the stream last

53:59

night. I know. He had a role

54:01

in that and in yep approving everything and

54:03

making sure everything went great. So shout out

54:05

to Gary I know people have been

54:07

super hard on him in the past, but the fact he

54:09

was he let us do this He had a say in

54:11

it. He was happy with it. I think it's uh, it's

54:13

awesome and we love Gary Yeah,

54:16

and and not Revoking any passes maybe

54:18

this week at the outdoor game and

54:20

everything too with RA like stumbling through

54:23

the players Room at the all-star game

54:25

like a lot of shit could have gone crazy So

54:28

shout out just for them putting up with us

54:30

We just appreciate the NHL just putting up with

54:32

us and dealing with us and and

54:34

it was actually funny We had Brady Kachuk on the

54:36

on the broadcast on the alt-cast and he talked about

54:38

he was right in the room when RA Stumbled in

54:41

and he talked about what it was

54:43

like seeing it firsthand So and I think

54:45

if I'm not mistaken you can go back on max

54:47

and watch the broadcast if you missed it I saw

54:49

some people in the chat asking where they can go

54:51

watch it So yeah, I'm pretty sure if

54:53

you go on stream on max, you can go check

54:55

that out So well, I got you here. Well, I

54:57

got you here. I had a lot of messages from

54:59

Canadians people from Canada They wanted to see it. They're

55:01

missing out on it We got

55:03

to do something in the future where it's like

55:06

totally open and it's hard when you

55:08

do network stuff because yeah It's geo locked or

55:10

locked and like app apps and being able to

55:12

get them and certainly like so There's

55:15

got to be a way we can think of doing something

55:17

really awesome like that where it's it's wide open on the

55:19

net I don't know if you if that'll ever happen, but

55:22

yeah We stand

55:24

the Canadian we like we we heard them loud

55:26

and clear and I think that was our message

55:28

to The higher-ups is how can we

55:31

figure out a way where Canadians can can view

55:33

this as well? So hopefully down the line

55:35

we can figure something out but Who

55:37

knows? Now we got

55:39

to help Canada. They need help right now. They

55:42

need the chicklets. They need a chicklets cast I

55:44

told a biome I just get in your car get to

55:46

the border just drive down. Yeah And

55:49

that clip of Brady talking about RA in

55:51

the room is on the internet like they

55:53

clipped it off You can find it probably

55:56

on chicklets, you know socials. I think I

55:58

retweeted it unbelievable story like from The horse's

56:00

mouth see an RA in there and like what

56:02

happened is unbelievable an RA peed it up Well,

56:04

you were in there when you saw me take

56:06

the little Dixie. He calls it a little bit.

56:08

Yeah, I Would

56:11

do anything for that security camera of that? I

56:13

know I want to do Unbelievable

56:17

guys unbelievable mine Z's

56:19

murals. What do you got? What do you got?

56:21

Mine Z's mine Z's? I thought of this one

56:23

yesterday. We just talking about the travel. I'm

56:25

sending the announcements on the plane to

56:27

the mine Z's You

56:30

get on there and you get up in the air

56:32

and like you're starting to fall asleep Why

56:34

does the pilot have to come on and tell

56:36

me how many feet we're cruising at and

56:38

what time we're gonna get there? I don't

56:41

care how high we are and I know what

56:43

time we're getting there It's scheduled on the flight

56:45

ticket and he wakes me up kind of

56:48

out of that and then I'm starting to

56:50

doze off again Next thing they want to

56:52

tell me how to connect to the Wi-Fi It's

56:54

20 24 if you don't know how

56:56

to get on Wi-Fi by now or you don't you can't figure

56:58

out to open the card That's in front of you and read

57:01

how to get on there Then don't

57:03

fly and don't be on the internet you can

57:05

you it's an hour and 40 minute flight Atlanta

57:08

to Newark you can survive without the

57:10

internet people but just Quiet

57:12

let it be quiet So

57:14

announcements on the plane that are not

57:17

important mine Z's We

57:24

are All

57:26

setting up for chick. Let's air baby. There we go Yeah,

57:33

I got annoyed canceling headphones it still

57:35

comes through guys it's just there's no

57:37

need for it the

57:40

chat Speaking of speaking

57:42

of you know people who are transporting you

57:44

from place a to be talking when they

57:46

shouldn't that kind of goes into my mind

57:48

these Kind of a crazy

57:51

situation. So last night I Took

57:53

my girlfriend out for Valentine's Day as you

57:55

know, we did the chicklets cast on Valentine's

57:57

Day So I had to push it back

57:59

a day. So my girl and I, we

58:01

find this really nice new sushi place in

58:03

Hoboken and you know we get

58:06

dressed up, we're going there, it's our Valentine's

58:08

Day date. So we have the Uber come

58:10

pick us up and he uh we get in the car,

58:12

we're driving for a little bit and he's like you

58:15

guys wouldn't happen to be going to Sakus Sushi would

58:17

you? And I was like yeah we are. My girlfriend's

58:19

like yeah we're super excited to try it like I've

58:21

been wanting to go here for a little bit. He's

58:24

like that place stinks,

58:26

that place is horrible. He's like

58:28

I gotta be honest I'm from

58:30

LA, I know sushi. I probably

58:32

know sushi better than just about

58:34

anyone you've ever talked to but

58:37

I would never go there again.

58:39

It was overpriced, the service was

58:42

terrible, the sushi wasn't great and

58:44

I'm like wow I'm like should

58:47

we not go there? Like what do we do

58:49

here? Like my girlfriend's looking at me being like

58:51

maybe we don't go here anymore. This happens right

58:53

as we pull up so we're like well we

58:55

can't make another reservation now. Let's just let's go

58:58

to the shitty sushi place and just it is

59:00

what it is. This

59:02

sushi place was incredible. It was some

59:04

of the best sushi I've ever had.

59:06

Service was incredible, the sushi was great,

59:08

it was cheap as fuck. I'm like

59:10

we have no idea what

59:12

the fuck this guy's talking about and

59:15

like as an Uber driver you can't

59:17

be doing that. Like we're all

59:19

excited for the date we're going on, we're

59:21

all like pumped and ready to go. We

59:23

even let the guy know how excited we

59:25

were to go. We dressed up too, did

59:28

you dress up nice? Oh we're all dressed

59:30

nice. We got her lip gloss on, she

59:32

did her hair. We're ready

59:34

to go for date night and this guy's

59:36

just like yeah that place sucks. For the

59:38

15-minute Uber drive there he's like that place

59:40

is horrible. He's just telling

59:42

us how bad it is so then we were

59:45

so rattled walking in there and then we walked out

59:47

and we're like that was an amazing meal. That was

59:49

crazy. What from LA makes you a

59:52

sushi expert? Oh I'm from

59:54

Japan maybe you can tell me that. Not

59:57

in LA. Yeah who's this guy?

59:59

Just an Uber guy? Like get out of

1:00:01

here. Don't quit giving false advertisements when

1:00:03

you don't know shit But you your

1:00:05

high society because you're from LA La

1:00:08

to the mine z's LA to the Morels

1:00:12

I always get shit too because I remember one

1:00:14

time we were eating sushi and you were telling

1:00:16

me how in Japan They actually eat it with

1:00:19

their fingers. They don't use the chopsticks Well,

1:00:21

I always use my fingers now and

1:00:24

every time my girlfriend's like I

1:00:26

don't give a fuck what merle said be

1:00:28

civilized Eat with the chopsticks. I'm

1:00:31

like, no, I swear this is how they do

1:00:33

it in Japan Yeah, and I'll give you another

1:00:35

another tip that Americans don't know about the sushi

1:00:38

They dip you don't dip the rice in

1:00:40

the soy you dip the the fish part

1:00:42

into the soy and the

1:00:44

whole wasabi thing You shouldn't have more wasabi

1:00:47

they that the chefs know exactly what it

1:00:49

not only Robbie on each piece That's underneath

1:00:51

the fish. So just that's the right way

1:00:53

in Japan Yeah, they smear it

1:00:55

on the rice and put the fish on top of

1:00:57

that right like it's already under there, right? Yeah,

1:01:00

what they do merle's like a little present

1:01:02

under there. They know the right amount how

1:01:04

to do it They've trained for years these

1:01:06

Japanese sushi chefs. I mean I

1:01:08

think it looks like a chirps about being at your

1:01:11

house Gee, they're like, oh EBR's and pups sledding. They

1:01:13

can't even get a hotel anymore. He's living out of

1:01:15

a suitcase We need good internet. Do you guys see

1:01:17

the last show? I was at a hotel I had

1:01:20

to switch to my phone murals was at his

1:01:22

house somewhere I don't know where in Troy, New

1:01:24

York and you couldn't get in both doing it

1:01:26

on our phone getting drop kicked out of there

1:01:29

We need a good setup for the people. I

1:01:31

came to the truck car in a room Yeah,

1:01:33

we tried to check. Let's control room over barstool

1:01:35

HQ any day of the week all day all

1:01:37

day Merle's living out of a

1:01:39

suitcase. He's wearing that pink Whitney shirt for

1:01:41

the last 10 days straight. He doesn't care

1:01:44

He's repping the brand. He's got a mugsie

1:01:46

jacket. He throws over that he goes to

1:01:48

all the things He's unbelievable living out of

1:01:50

a suitcase on the road Grinding for the

1:01:53

people grinding for chiclets fans grinding for the

1:01:55

game notes people a

1:01:57

big pet peeve for my wife G speaking

1:02:00

of the sushi finger eating thing is

1:02:02

is dipping it into you like do this

1:02:05

like did

1:02:08

you do that after no no fingers

1:02:10

are involved yeah I don't I don't

1:02:12

like the fingers that's something I don't

1:02:15

know I just I think it

1:02:17

might be different if I was living

1:02:19

in like a clean city but like

1:02:21

you're I'm right outside New York my

1:02:23

I don't trust my hands where they've

1:02:25

been what I've touched I clean my

1:02:27

hands and I'll never lick my fingers yeah

1:02:31

I mean that's my wife's pet peeve like if

1:02:33

I'm eating a bag of chips and I do

1:02:35

like a finger lick she snaps that's what I

1:02:37

get to do like a Cheetos how do you

1:02:39

not do it though in a bag of Cheetos

1:02:41

you got another all over the rollover yeah

1:02:44

but I know if I can't bag of Cheetos

1:02:47

it's probably at the Barcel Sports office if

1:02:49

I was at the Barcel Sports office that

1:02:51

means I took the subway to get there

1:02:53

that means I'm touching handrails the entire way

1:02:55

once I'm on the subway granted I'm gonna

1:02:57

clean my hands I'm gonna hand sanitize her

1:02:59

when I get there but still I still

1:03:02

do not trust licking my fingers that were

1:03:04

just touching a New York City subway

1:03:07

handrail this guy GF

1:03:09

Killa I eat Cheetos and

1:03:11

Doritos with chomp sticks that

1:03:16

might be the move my wife will like

1:03:18

text me though that she's like oh my

1:03:20

god I'm at this place this guy he

1:03:22

keeps eating chips and then sucking his fingers

1:03:24

and I just hear that sucking sound and

1:03:26

like licking his hands and shit she just

1:03:28

loses it so I don't think you

1:03:31

can be doing that in public maybe in your

1:03:33

own home but like you're just that's

1:03:35

just nasty so this reminds me I know we're

1:03:38

running late here but this so I got to

1:03:40

tell this story about we were in junior hockey

1:03:42

me my roommate Tom McMonegal and we're just like

1:03:44

we're too generous and we're trying to think of

1:03:46

inventions and one of them we came up with

1:03:49

was a cookie dipper we called it because you

1:03:51

want to dip your cookie in the milk but

1:03:53

not your fingers we couldn't get our hands in

1:03:55

the glass and then our fingers were a mess

1:03:57

so we're like we're gonna make the cookie dipper

1:04:00

I mean, I'm 17. We

1:04:02

think it's the greatest idea ever. So

1:04:04

we go out and we buy like these

1:04:06

little like tubes and we're cutting them up.

1:04:09

And then there's like all this like powder and

1:04:11

stuff around like, and we're building it on our

1:04:13

kitchen table. So there's all sorts

1:04:15

of paraphernalia around. We leave

1:04:17

like go to practice the same time. My dad

1:04:19

shows up to our apartment, didn't know he was

1:04:21

coming. He walks in and like

1:04:24

just sees all these like tubes and powder

1:04:26

and exacto knives and stuff on the table.

1:04:28

And he thought we were like getting into

1:04:30

drugs and stuff. We're like, no, no, we're

1:04:32

just making the cookie dipper. The

1:04:34

chops, the chop guys in the quarry. He's

1:04:36

like, you're going to love my nuts. He's

1:04:39

just doing the slap chop. You actually invented

1:04:41

the slap chop, Merls. Yeah,

1:04:43

I guess cookie dipper could have been a thing. Yeah,

1:04:47

it could have been a thing. You'd have been on those

1:04:49

infomercials. I had that one in my other invention was a

1:04:51

submarine with a screen door. Merls,

1:04:54

I feel like you're in the invention guy. I

1:04:56

feel like every couple of months you're like this

1:04:59

guy who's just like, guys, I got this genius

1:05:01

idea. We've heard it

1:05:03

with chiclets there. Now the cookie dipper submarine with

1:05:05

a window. You know what I am G. I'm

1:05:07

that guy too. I have like in my notes,

1:05:10

I have like, I have a titled ideas and

1:05:12

underneath that I have all the shit. I send you

1:05:14

like lots of random shit all the time about like

1:05:17

merch ideas or different things or we should do this

1:05:19

or that. And I mean, they're

1:05:21

crazy. I'm the idea guy. I do not

1:05:23

know how to execute though. So I could

1:05:25

be a failure. The other day though army,

1:05:27

you want to record game notes with the,

1:05:29

uh, like the apple vision pros. Yeah.

1:05:32

I want everyone to come in with, with, I

1:05:35

don't know, like virtual reality and

1:05:37

I don't know how you set it up. I don't know how the shit

1:05:39

works. This is just the idea I have

1:05:41

where we could do like a live show with

1:05:43

people actually sitting there with us, like

1:05:45

they're with us. I don't know how, I

1:05:47

don't know how you do it, but like you just

1:05:50

put on your dogs and there we are. We're

1:05:52

all together in this like room or you can come to

1:05:54

our show in this room. I went to a chain

1:05:57

smokers concert in virtual reality. I walked

1:05:59

into. a room with my, I had those

1:06:01

Oculus things. I went in there

1:06:04

and I'm watching that and I'm a, I'm a avatar

1:06:06

or whatever they call it. I look over and there's

1:06:08

these other guys like are dancing cause you can dance.

1:06:11

And I'm like waving at people and

1:06:13

stuff. There's other people that are chain

1:06:15

smokers were performing. I did. I was

1:06:17

imagine, imagine army's kids like walking into

1:06:19

the basement at one am after there's

1:06:21

like beer cans everywhere. And army's just

1:06:23

got these apple vision pros. Just like

1:06:25

fist bumping into people. Oh

1:06:29

God. Crazy, but I actually went on there

1:06:31

and I should do this. I played golf

1:06:33

with some buddies. You can like meet at

1:06:35

the same course, link up and play golf

1:06:37

together on the course and talk to each

1:06:39

other and all this shit. Yeah.

1:06:41

Merle's you can do that. Hosing you can drink and

1:06:43

I got the headset on. I even bought like the

1:06:45

attachment. That's a golf club that you hook the thing

1:06:48

to to swing. It's

1:06:50

unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Just going for a round in

1:06:52

the middle of winter with your buddies somewhere. It's

1:06:54

some sick course and virtual reality. It's awesome. It's

1:06:56

so realistic too. So hopefully we could get that

1:06:59

idea to go G. Yeah. That is a sick

1:07:01

idea. That is maybe 9 99

1:07:04

to come to the show too on virtual reality. I

1:07:07

love that. We'll get working on it. Yeah.

1:07:10

I will figure it out. I'm idea guy. I'm idea guy.

1:07:12

My mind's ease. I didn't get to it yet. What's

1:07:15

this special adapter for the vision

1:07:17

pros. So it fits that

1:07:19

nose. I know, I know I

1:07:21

got to get like a nose guard on

1:07:24

top of the virtual reality glasses, so

1:07:26

far I know so I can see properly. I

1:07:29

was going to send our aid to the miners for

1:07:31

hurting my pens the other night on the live cast.

1:07:33

Poos. I think we got the video. I'm

1:07:55

going to start paying this power play to lose another one. Yeah. No.

1:07:58

Just buried the. If it wasn't

1:08:00

bad enough it is

1:08:03

now with RA that cannot shoot a basketball

1:08:05

at all That was such a struggle fest

1:08:07

watching him I love when he misses a

1:08:09

shot murals and then he does

1:08:11

like the arm stretching after like that's gonna

1:08:13

help anything That's the problem

1:08:16

It's like a nervous thing that he does cuz he's

1:08:18

like oh shit Like I missed so badly and I

1:08:20

love before it even leaves his hand. He goes. Oh,

1:08:22

that's not gonna be good But

1:08:31

he drained it and he beat the Penguins power play that

1:08:33

was an unreal setup That's what she was talking about. They

1:08:35

let him do that. That was such a good idea I

1:08:37

thought highly entertaining RA is just

1:08:39

unbelievable unbelievable that he made a shot even

1:08:41

but I'm sending him to the Minds

1:08:44

use for the arm stretch thing. That's right

1:08:46

Steve the arm stretch after the basketball is

1:08:48

the equivalent of would you? Flub

1:08:51

a shot in hockey and then look at

1:08:53

your hockey. Yeah, you check your stick if

1:08:55

you flex it. Yeah, that's so true That's

1:08:58

great. That's what he does know off of

1:09:00

it. Yeah, you look at it Oh,

1:09:02

you test it you grab the blade you could pull

1:09:04

it to see if it's like broken. It's not it's

1:09:06

not the stick, dude So yeah,

1:09:08

that that was it. That's my mind He's

1:09:10

burying the pens power play on national TV

1:09:12

and he actually made a shot unbelievable. I

1:09:14

couldn't believe it Let's

1:09:17

head into the weekend here murals. We're heading to

1:09:19

the weekend Saturday

1:09:21

picks it's now time for

1:09:23

Saturday picks and oh baby

1:09:26

We went from one game and get

1:09:28

ready because we're action-packed murals

1:09:31

Yep, I'm I the Bruins let us

1:09:33

down last weekend with EBR rule number

1:09:35

two Bruins day home games So

1:09:38

we're right back on them on Saturday

1:09:40

against the Kings Kings Good

1:09:43

game last night by them. They played

1:09:45

well beat the Devils to one, but

1:09:47

I got a stick to my rules

1:09:49

rules are rules So Bruins Bruins money

1:09:51

line Saturday afternoon real early game Next

1:09:54

I like the over and the flames wings

1:09:57

the wings love playing to the over flames

1:09:59

can score out at home. I

1:10:01

see that game at least seven, eight goals

1:10:03

in that game. So over there. Next one

1:10:06

is the big one. I'll be boots on the

1:10:08

ground. I have to go

1:10:11

against the normal rules. Like I say, there's sometimes

1:10:13

there's, um, what is it called? Uh,

1:10:16

when the rule isn't always a rule in

1:10:18

like English and exception and exception

1:10:20

to the rule. Wow. My brain three weeks

1:10:22

on the road with chiclets exception, every rule

1:10:24

I always, I like the unders

1:10:27

and the outdoor games. I just don't trust the

1:10:29

ice. I just, it's all new. So the

1:10:31

devils I've been hearing from Pasha, how

1:10:34

good defensively they've changed their game since

1:10:36

all star. So devils flyers under

1:10:38

six and a half for the outdoor

1:10:40

game. But to make it

1:10:42

a little more fun, I'm going to take

1:10:44

cues anytime goal. I think all

1:10:46

this heat he's taking from all his antics,

1:10:49

the last couple of nights here, what

1:10:51

was that last night? Will, uh,

1:10:53

he'll show up in the big moment and get

1:10:55

a goal for us. He'll get one of the

1:10:57

maybe four or five goals in that game. So

1:10:59

that was Saturday for me. Yeah.

1:11:01

Husey. I don't know. Is he going to rebound

1:11:03

after the chirp session? You pay to watch people

1:11:05

pay to watch me play baby. Yeah. Guys

1:11:08

like him big, big time players

1:11:10

like that show up. Hughes

1:11:12

Haddie coming from sing. He's, he's saying

1:11:15

Haddie, but he's, he doesn't think with

1:11:17

his head. He thinks with his heart. He's a huge

1:11:19

devil's fan. Sing. Sing. Sing. He's in a meeting right

1:11:21

now, by the way, on

1:11:23

Saturday, there's 13 games, murals. I'll just give, I

1:11:25

can't wait to watch battle of Florida. That's

1:11:28

a five o'clock Eastern time start Tampa

1:11:30

against the Panthers. Panthers

1:11:32

are, are, are stacked. They're built. They're

1:11:35

nasty. We interviewed Matthew Kachuk

1:11:37

after the game. I asked him about his line

1:11:39

with, with cousins and Bennett called them lunatic and

1:11:41

what they, what they talk about before the game.

1:11:43

And he's like, we just talk about especially early.

1:11:45

It was a crazy, it was awesome. He said,

1:11:47

we just say there's no puck on the ice.

1:11:50

We don't care about the puck. We go out

1:11:52

there and we just run and we

1:11:54

run and we set the tone for the rest of the

1:11:56

game and wear them down and get it going. And

1:11:58

there was like, what, seven. shots in the first

1:12:01

period against pit. Like there was no puck out

1:12:03

there, like combined shots, seven combined shots. And the

1:12:05

first like they did Florida doesn't

1:12:07

care that there's a puck to start the

1:12:09

games, they don't care. So I'm looking forward

1:12:12

to watching that matchup on Saturday night, 13

1:12:14

games. The ticker was cruising. You got your

1:12:16

picks. Now we are

1:12:18

moving to Sunday, Sunday, Sunday,

1:12:22

three games. There they are going all

1:12:24

the little action. All of them. Can I add a little? Okay.

1:12:26

You do what you do. You go. You

1:12:28

go first. First one is the outdoor game.

1:12:30

We'll be there again, uh, three o'clock on

1:12:33

Sunday. I got,

1:12:35

I got to hit one of these draws and

1:12:37

one of these big games. I tried it the

1:12:39

other night and TNT didn't happen. I'm going forward.

1:12:41

Islanders Rangers. I liked that draw

1:12:43

there and, and we'll see how the ice

1:12:45

is tomorrow night. If the ice is really

1:12:47

bad and it does go under, we'll think

1:12:49

about adding the under there, but draw

1:12:52

Islanders Rangers. Let's each

1:12:54

get a point and play an OT for the second

1:12:56

point. Next up the avalanche abs.

1:12:59

They, they, I haven't been a little struggling

1:13:02

a little bit, but coyote stink. I love

1:13:04

betting against them. So abs minus one and

1:13:06

a half and McKinnon over one and a

1:13:08

half points. They get it done

1:13:10

on Sunday. And then I want to talk

1:13:12

about your pens. I got to

1:13:15

take the pens money line because somebody's

1:13:17

numbers going up in the rafters right

1:13:19

there. Oh, it's right in the ticker.

1:13:21

Who's got everything. So

1:13:23

Yoggard getting retired numbers

1:13:25

for that. I won't be calling the

1:13:27

game murals, but I will be doing

1:13:29

the pregame show and intermissions and

1:13:31

stuff on Yoggard night here in Pittsburgh. It's

1:13:33

huge. Yoggars in town. He turned 52 yesterday.

1:13:36

It was his birthday. Uh, he's still

1:13:38

playing. Yeah, still, he's still

1:13:41

playing in check. Check. Yeah. His

1:13:43

team's playing right now. They're losing. Glad.

1:13:46

No, they're down one. Nothing down

1:13:48

one. Nothing about Yarmir Yoggard going

1:13:50

to the rafters in Pittsburgh. There's only two

1:13:52

jerseys retired in Pittsburgh, Breair and Lemieux. Yoggard

1:13:55

will be the third to go up. This

1:13:57

is a big moment here in Pittsburgh. You

1:14:00

know one of the one of the legends of the game. I don't

1:14:02

know like what do you picture him as as

1:14:05

a player? I know he started in pittsburgh and

1:14:08

Success immediately their teams are really good, but he played

1:14:10

on a ton of teams Yeah, I always penguins and

1:14:12

then rangers. I remember when you're the rangers and that's

1:14:14

where I played against where we played against him I

1:14:16

think I have a hockey card. I think it's is

1:14:19

it my card or his card and we're in it

1:14:21

It's just me and him. I think it must be

1:14:23

my card and jager in there. So that's pretty cool

1:14:26

Yeah, I'll give you a little I'll give you a

1:14:28

nugget for your for your broadcast a little

1:14:30

nugget sure I've been watching this documentary on

1:14:32

the whole history of the penguins And

1:14:35

they got in there they talked about Briere who a lot

1:14:37

of people don't know about and then it got

1:14:40

into yogurt I guess at the draft He

1:14:43

was obviously the clear number one He should have been number

1:14:45

one, but he told all the teams that he won't come

1:14:47

over He told every team he met

1:14:49

with no, I don't come in a gel no

1:14:51

NHL But Pittsburgh he said yes to because

1:14:54

he wanted to be with Mario. So all those teams.

1:14:56

That's why what do you go five? like

1:14:58

the great Ryan Wigney, oh, yeah, all the best

1:15:00

players go five and That's

1:15:04

how it happened. He told all the teams he won't come

1:15:06

over but he wanted to come to Pittsburgh I

1:15:08

thought that was pretty cool. Yeah, amazing story

1:15:10

I think G maybe on Sunday post the the yogurt

1:15:12

interview you guys did with him I think it was

1:15:14

one of his best interviews. It was so cool the

1:15:16

inside how he grew up how he trained Just

1:15:19

he was awesome on that interview. It was cool to see

1:15:22

I've never met Yawger either so

1:15:24

I'm looking forward to it. There's a lot of

1:15:26

guys all coming back into town former teammates Guys

1:15:29

he played with special guests that are close friends

1:15:31

of his obviously it's gonna they're rolling out the

1:15:33

carpet for yogs bringing them back And there was

1:15:35

some kind of tension obviously in

1:15:38

Pittsburgh with Yawger Him

1:15:41

leaving and not resigning or like

1:15:43

we're in we're bankrupt We had

1:15:45

no money and I don't think they could

1:15:47

pay him and just I just didn't work out and

1:15:49

then he bounced around and Eventually ended up playing for

1:15:51

the Flyers and then ended up getting booed and I

1:15:53

think Yawger forever thought penguins fans hated him So

1:15:56

there was this kind of tension there. So it's been something

1:15:58

that they've had to kind of rebuild in

1:16:01

him coming kind of back and wanting to

1:16:03

retire his number and retire it as a

1:16:05

penguin. I've seen lots of people say they

1:16:07

should retire Yauger league wide, one

1:16:09

of those type of players that like he's

1:16:11

played on so many teams. But

1:16:13

it's, he left, he also

1:16:15

left the NHL like at a key time in

1:16:18

his career where he was, you know,

1:16:20

one of the best players in the league

1:16:22

and left and then came back and still

1:16:24

put up numbers and dominated. He was my

1:16:27

welcome to the NHL kind of moment. My first

1:16:29

game rules was against Broder and the Devils. I

1:16:31

got called up. That was my first game, which

1:16:33

was really cool. But my

1:16:35

on ice, like starstruck moment was playing

1:16:38

against the Rangers and lining up like

1:16:40

against Yauger and just how huge he was. He's

1:16:43

being like, Oh my God, he is huge. Like

1:16:46

I remember asking you protect the Hawks.

1:16:48

There was no chance you're getting it

1:16:50

from him. He is huge. He,

1:16:52

he, he today would be, yes,

1:16:54

one of the big, he'd be the biggest player in the

1:16:56

league. Like, I don't know about height wise, but like the

1:16:59

biggest he's, he's just a huge, huge man. I just remember

1:17:01

standing up with him when he's leaning on a stick off

1:17:03

a face off and like his pants and his legs were

1:17:05

so high and it was like his pants, the back of

1:17:07

his pants would like coming up. And like I was standing,

1:17:10

it's like up to my shoulder. I felt like he just,

1:17:12

he was so huge. So, and

1:17:15

he's a, he's a monster in the

1:17:17

game, uh, unbelievable, obvious career.

1:17:20

And so Sunday, great call on the Yauger

1:17:22

game. Yauger goes into the rafters tune in

1:17:25

for that. If you can get it, I'm

1:17:27

going to feel a little trivia for you.

1:17:29

Do you remember who Yauger got traded for?

1:17:31

Three players? Was

1:17:34

yeah. Toss. They all were.

1:17:37

Ross, Ross, Lupus, Chuck, Chris

1:17:39

beach and Michael civic. Yeah.

1:17:41

Yep. There it is. That was

1:17:43

the returned first rounder and

1:17:45

two second rounders for Yauger.

1:17:47

And both more about the contract. Yeah.

1:17:50

Yeah. It was, it was. Yeah. So we

1:17:52

just missed, I just missed him. Did

1:17:55

you, we were broken together.

1:17:57

Yeah. We just, yeah. Okay. Yeah. He

1:18:00

left like that year. Yeah. Cause

1:18:02

our first camp was all those guys's first camp coming into

1:18:04

on the trade. Beachy and Lupus, Chuck

1:18:06

and civic. That's right. Yeah. That

1:18:09

was crazy. That was absolutely nuts. Um, but

1:18:11

yeah, that's, that's Sunday, Sunday,

1:18:13

fun day right there. We got a little action.

1:18:16

Everybody's everybody rides and Yoggers going to

1:18:18

the rafters in Pittsburgh and

1:18:20

that'll do it. That'll do it right

1:18:22

there. Mer. That's it. Anything

1:18:25

else? What do we got tonight? All star vlog.

1:18:28

I think it's coming out Sunday. Is that correct G or Monday? I

1:18:31

know we were talking about it. Yes. The

1:18:33

all star vlog should be coming out

1:18:35

on Sunday this week. It's a, it's

1:18:37

pretty awesome. And just a reminder, we

1:18:39

are, uh, we were just giving our

1:18:42

picks. We are not suggesting or promoting

1:18:44

for you to take any of these

1:18:46

picks. We're just letting you know our

1:18:48

picks. We're not guaranteeing anything to

1:18:50

hit. We're just letting you know, this is what

1:18:52

I'm betting this weekend. That's what Merls is betting

1:18:55

this weekend and so forth and so on. Absolutely.

1:18:59

These are just our ideas. Um,

1:19:03

what are you thinking? Like are you an idiot?

1:19:06

And Hey, if you're in

1:19:08

New Jersey, New York metropolitan area tonight,

1:19:10

seven 30, Texas, Arizona

1:19:13

meet and greet. They actually get started

1:19:15

at seven. I believe

1:19:17

Merls get there at seven, whether it's seven or

1:19:19

seven 30, get there at seven. It's going to

1:19:21

be crazy. Texas, Arizona. It's right next to the

1:19:23

path for those in New York city. You

1:19:25

want to come over, jump on the path at

1:19:28

33rd street, 23rd street, buzz right over. Takes

1:19:30

10 minutes. It's the first bar right when

1:19:32

you get off straight ahead. We're going to

1:19:35

be pounding pink Whitney shots all night. So

1:19:37

come by Julia, Julia,

1:19:39

Julia, Julia, Julia.

1:19:42

She'll be running the show with pink Whitney

1:19:44

and the boys and the tour continues. It's

1:19:46

unbelievable run. We've been on from all start

1:19:48

a TNT now to these outdoor

1:19:50

games, guys. Good job. Great work.

1:19:52

Chat. Thank you for following

1:19:55

along. Gotlay. There it is.

1:19:57

Boom. The Google's read on it.

1:19:59

They went with the fin. the aho pick. There you

1:20:01

go. Everybody rides,

1:20:03

Merls. Have a great time tonight.

1:20:06

I got a couple buddies that want to get into that Pink Whitney thing.

1:20:08

I got to set them up with you. As I

1:20:10

know, it'll probably be lined up out the door. Chat, thank

1:20:12

you. We love you. Singzy, you're in a meeting and you

1:20:15

still got on. He doesn't care. He's on like a board

1:20:17

of something. He doesn't care. He just says, like, I'm on

1:20:19

the chat. I got to be in there. He's the captain.

1:20:22

Thanks everyone for participating. Awesome

1:20:24

stuff. See the boys tonight at this

1:20:27

Pink Whitney hangout.

1:20:30

And if not, we'll see you next week.

1:20:32

Have a great weekend, everyone. Good job, Merls. Safe travel

1:20:34

home. Ado.