1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:00,520 Speaker 1: I had. 2 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 2: I got a American pride. I'm flying the flag on 3 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 2: my hat right now. That was really really cool. I'm 4 00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 2: normally I'm not happy when my son's golf tournaments are 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,160 Speaker 2: really early in the morning, but this made me happy 6 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 2: because I got to I was like, I had a 7 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: reason to get up watch some hockey, got all fired 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,279 Speaker 2: up with the win before we headed out to the 9 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 2: golf tournament, and just just just incredible. 10 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: Man. 11 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 2: The first thing that jumped out to me Hugh and 12 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:29,479 Speaker 2: watching that game was, you know, you're gonna listen to 13 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: a podcast like on different speeds, right, you can have 14 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: one point five speed. 15 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: Two two x speed, four x speed. 16 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: It felt to me since it was the greatest players 17 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 2: in the world playing in the biggest game of their life. 18 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: Plus it wasn't like you know, game one hundred and 19 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 2: ten of a NHL hockey season where they're like dead. 20 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: It just felt like I was watching like one point 21 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,000 Speaker 2: five speed as fast. 22 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:58,600 Speaker 3: As the NHL is and it's fast. 23 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,520 Speaker 2: This was in incredible hockey on television. 24 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 4: Well, isn't the rink a little smaller? That's a great question. Yeah, 25 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 4: when he joins us. 26 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 5: I don't know, it just seems eyeballing it. I know, 27 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 5: it seemed like when I was a kid, they used 28 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 5: to say the Olympic ring was bigger. But at any event, No, 29 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:20,320 Speaker 5: you're you're absolutely you had the best players. You know, 30 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 5: everybody knew it was the showdown. It was easy for 31 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 5: the United States to say after the fact that you 32 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 5: would have wanted to go through Canada, just like you know, 33 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 5: the Seahawks corner to go through the Rams. 34 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 4: To get to the Super Bowl. 35 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 5: But just to uh, to bring up that that nationalism, 36 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 5: you know, there's some tensions. It's not like what it 37 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 5: once was. And they'll compare that to nineteen eighty. But yeah, 38 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 5: just the idea that that most all the best players 39 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 5: in the world were on that ice and it was 40 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 5: the equivalent of a Game seven. But depending on how 41 00:01:56,280 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 5: you want to put importance on the Olympics, I don't know. 42 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 5: I would think Connor McDavid at this point doesn't have 43 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 5: a Stanley Cup. 44 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 4: Would he rather have a gold medal or would he 45 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 4: rather have a Stanley Cup. I don't know. 46 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 5: I can't speak for him. I don't know has he 47 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 5: spoke on that, But it felt seventh game of Stanley 48 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 5: Cup ish. 49 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 3: Oh, it certainly did. 50 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,919 Speaker 2: There's no question about it, and it takes me back 51 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,080 Speaker 2: to nineteen eighty. I don't want to use the word 52 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 2: comparison because I don't think there is a comparison to 53 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 2: be made with a bunch of college kids beating the 54 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 2: greatest team on planet Earth in nineteen eighty versus a 55 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:33,679 Speaker 2: bunch of NHL guys beating a bunch of other NHL guys, 56 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: even though we were probably the underdog going into this one. 57 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 2: But it does bring back my memories. Now, they're not 58 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: very strong, I'll give you that, Hugh. I was six 59 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 2: years old, but I do remember the win. I do 60 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 2: remember being able to stay home from church on Sunday 61 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 2: morning when we won the gold medal because my folks 62 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 2: let me stay and watch the game because they were 63 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 2: so fired up about the the win over over Russia. 64 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 2: So I do have some of those memories. But I 65 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 2: know that your memories obviously much more, you know, much 66 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 2: more congealed than your brain because you were in your 67 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,280 Speaker 2: in your teens and in your formative years versus you know, 68 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: being just a little kid that just has spotty memories. 69 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 2: My first two memories in sports nineteen seventy nine championship 70 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 2: and all I really remember is winning it with Gus 71 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 2: Williams throwing the ball, and I remember being taken outside 72 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 2: and my dad was, you know, pointing out and listen 73 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 2: to the horns honking and that. 74 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 3: So it's just fleeting memories. 75 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: And then the miracle on ice, just fleeting memories, just 76 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: you know, a picture here, a picture there, and you 77 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 2: remember a lot more than that. 78 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 5: Well, I was sixteen. I was a junior in high 79 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 5: school when when the nineteen eighty teen played. So I 80 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,680 Speaker 5: have extremely vivid memories of all that. I've always said 81 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 5: at any time that it's come up relevant since I've 82 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 5: been on kJ R. It's the most significant sporting event 83 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 5: of my life. And I don't even know how. You know, 84 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 5: if you ask me to write a paragraph, what is icing? 85 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 5: You know, I have a general idea like I don't 86 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 5: know hockey, but I certainly understood then. And you know, 87 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 5: I think for those who want to say that this was, 88 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 5: you know, the equivalent, I just think I need to 89 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 5: just share what it was like to live that way, 90 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 5: at least. 91 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 4: From my perspective. 92 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 5: And I think at some people as well, you sound 93 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 5: like old man, I'm shouting at clouds. It may to some, 94 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 5: but if you just kind of give an honest let 95 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 5: me see if I can maybe convince you a little bit. 96 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,360 Speaker 5: Nineteen seventy nine was the worst year for the United 97 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 5: States in my life, in my opinion. Let me explain why. 98 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 5: Let's let's first talk about inflation. It was fourteen percent, 99 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 5: it's now three percent. Unemployment was one and a half times. 100 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 5: Interest rates were exactly twenty percent. They're eight and a 101 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,680 Speaker 5: half percent at thirty year mortgage was eighteen percent as 102 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 5: opposed to six or seven percent now. So this is 103 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:04,680 Speaker 5: what we call the misery index. And Carter would talk 104 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 5: about crisis of confidence in the malays So there was 105 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 5: there was total apprehension about the economy, the oil embargos, 106 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 5: what have you. Let's talk about the international front. The 107 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 5: thing about the Olympics back then is that the so 108 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 5: called Warsaw pac countries, the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, 109 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 5: that was the equivalent of NATO. They were in seventy 110 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 5: two and seventy six the Olympics leading up to that, 111 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 5: the Warsaw countries had one hundred and one golds versus 112 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:39,880 Speaker 5: the Western countries fifty two. 113 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 4: They doubled. 114 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 5: You would only see these guys for every four years 115 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 5: in the Olympics. They were literally like they were from 116 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 5: another planet because you only saw them every four years. 117 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 5: In nineteen seventy six, Warsaw countries had one hundred and 118 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 5: twenty eight gold medals, Western countries forty nine. I could 119 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 5: go on and on. So from a standpoint of at 120 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 5: athletic umstamped, they were dominating us. 121 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 4: The military. 122 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,440 Speaker 5: The concern there was a fear of a nuclear outbreak 123 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 5: at any time. The Soviet Union had advanced on had 124 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 5: taken Afghanistan. They were one border wave from the Persian 125 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 5: Gulf War, which we were told that the United States 126 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 5: would fight, and yet conventionally, the Warsaw pet countries had 127 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 5: fifty nine thousand tanks versus our only seventeen thousand. I 128 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,440 Speaker 5: could go through a lot of other conventional shortcomings. And 129 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 5: the warheads they had they had almost one and a 130 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 5: half times the nuclear warheads, and their warheads were stronger 131 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 5: with more weapons. So there was this unbelievable fear that 132 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 5: we were inferior. Yeah, we were inferior in many ways. 133 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:45,000 Speaker 2: So there was there's a good versus evil type thing 134 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:45,960 Speaker 2: too that was going on. 135 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 3: I know, I was taught that in the in the 136 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 3: late seventies and early. 137 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 5: Eighties, Lennard bresnav who was the president and his predecessor 138 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 5: in Nikita Khrushtev in the United Nations, took off his shoe, 139 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 5: pounded on the table, looked at the Western countries and said, 140 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 5: we will bury you. 141 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 4: This was an ideological war. This was the Cold War. 142 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 5: But it was as as scary and terrorizing as. 143 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 4: Any war you kind of can imagine. 144 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 5: And I would just say this, if you didn't live it, 145 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 5: to me, it would be like talking to somebody who 146 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 5: lived through the the nineteen thirties, the depression, right they say, 147 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 5: and they say, look, you don't know it unless you 148 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 5: lived it, or you know prohibition, you know during that time. 149 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 4: You don't know it unless you live in and you 150 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 4: know what, I'd say, you're right, tell. 151 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 5: Me about it, because I don't know what it was 152 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 5: like to be a kid in that time. And and 153 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 5: I will just say this Olympics represented immeasurably more then 154 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 5: than what they do now. And if you didn't live 155 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 5: through it, you just you just have to try and 156 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 5: read about it in history. 157 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 4: But it was so palpably. 158 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 5: Not just significant, it was it was like it almost 159 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:59,240 Speaker 5: felt mortally significant. Well, and so what that hockey team 160 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 5: did in nineteen was like watch the miracle and then 161 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,200 Speaker 5: watch the opening part of that, and then multiply it 162 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 5: by one hundred. Whatever you think the impact was, multiply 163 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 5: it by one hundred. 164 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:11,720 Speaker 4: And the numbers. 165 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 2: The numbers are hammering home your point view. And I've 166 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 2: got some some numbers here that were that were emailed 167 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 2: to me. I think the boss actually emailed them today. 168 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 2: It says while Americans over the age of fifty are 169 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 2: likely to say they watch the Olympics for both national 170 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 2: pride and supporting American athletes, national pride is a much 171 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 2: smaller factor for those under the age of fifty. We're 172 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 2: much more likely to say they watch sports simply because 173 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: they're the fans of the sports. Seventy eight percent of 174 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 2: Americans over the age of sixty five, You're almost there, 175 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 2: say Americans Olympic athletes make them proud to be an American. 176 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 2: And the younger the consumer, the less likely they are 177 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 2: to feel the national good. 178 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,599 Speaker 4: Right. No, I don't know. 179 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:57,719 Speaker 3: I don't think it's a good at bat. 180 00:08:57,800 --> 00:08:59,959 Speaker 2: I think it's because of what you're what we were 181 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 2: talking about, it was a different time in the world 182 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 2: when you and I were growing up versus when they 183 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 2: were growing up in like two thousand or two thousand 184 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 2: and five. 185 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 5: And just one one quick comp comparison before you get 186 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:12,679 Speaker 5: we gotta got a break. 187 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 4: Yeah. 188 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 5: Back then, fifty two hostages, eight servicemen died, essentially our 189 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,640 Speaker 5: helicopters pointd into each other trying to save them. 190 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:21,880 Speaker 4: Now, compare this. 191 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 5: Year to the absolute surgical decimation within Iran. So in 192 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 5: every way, in every sphere of life, the Warsaw Pack, 193 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 5: the Eastern Bloc, the Iron Curtain countries seemed so formal, 194 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,199 Speaker 5: they seemed superior to us. 195 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 4: They just did. 196 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 6: And so so that nineteen eightyeen, there's absolutely no way 197 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 6: what happened yesterday could ever come close to the significance 198 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,199 Speaker 6: in my opinion, and I bet in a lot of 199 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 6: the opinions of people who lived through that time. 200 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 3: That being said, it was really really cool and joined 201 00:09:58,200 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 3: every second of it. 202 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,440 Speaker 2: And I cannot wait to talk to Chris Eagan coming 203 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 2: up next, because he lived it in the flesh. He 204 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,200 Speaker 2: was in the building yesterday. Chris Eagan from King five 205 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: coming up next from. 206 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 7: The R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio. Now back 207 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,599 Speaker 7: to Softie and Dick on your home for the Huskies, 208 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,960 Speaker 7: Kraken and the twelfth Man Sports Radio ninety three point 209 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 7: three kJ r FL. 210 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:26,120 Speaker 8: Here's McDavid, We'll be get out, Jack Hughes practice, loan down, puck, 211 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 8: watch up behind the deck and it's Waretsky Now. 212 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 4: Jack Hughes pooks her around the car. 213 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,079 Speaker 3: Get out of States with numbers, walk across. 214 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 9: It comes Jack Gough's witcheck the Golder goal for the 215 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 9: United States. For the first time since the nineteen eighty arracle, 216 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:51,719 Speaker 9: the United States takes the goll Jack Gous been in Jordan, Pennicent. 217 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,120 Speaker 3: And welcome back on a Monday afternoon. 218 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:59,240 Speaker 2: What an unbelievable day in Milan yesterday as Team USA 219 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 2: gets it on against Canada in overtime. And Hugh, we 220 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 2: had to find a man that was in the building 221 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 2: and we have done it. Our friend Chris Egan, who 222 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 2: has been twenty five days in Italy probably feels more 223 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:14,840 Speaker 2: like one hundred. 224 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 3: Chris, thanks for joining us man. 225 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 4: How you doing you okay? 226 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:28,040 Speaker 1: Dick and Hugh, What what a moment, what a game. 227 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: It's once in a lifetime. And to be honest with you, 228 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: it was a span of about three days because I 229 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: was there for the women's game, to watch the USB 230 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: Canada overtime for that one, which was a historic game 231 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: in a great battle. But to watch that game yesterday, 232 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: to be there to see the goal, to fill the crowd, 233 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: and you knew right from the beginning the first ten 234 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: minutes these teams were coming out to play. They were 235 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: hitting each other hard. A couple of the guy who's 236 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: told me before the game that this could be the 237 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: greatest hockey game ever because their legs were so fresh, 238 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: they were playing for so much. There was so much 239 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:04,360 Speaker 1: talent on the ice, and when you get to the 240 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,839 Speaker 1: playoffs and the Stanley Cup sometimes you know the guys 241 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,720 Speaker 1: are tired, there's injuries. So you were seeing the best 242 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: in hockey go head to head for the gold medal 243 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: with two countries just battling out. It was It was amazing. 244 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 1: I mean, it just was absolutely incredible. 245 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 5: It had all the drama of a game seven obviously, 246 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,520 Speaker 5: and then some just kind of take us into the 247 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 5: building and some of your senses and what you saw 248 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 5: on experience that maybe we didn't see on TV. 249 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: Well, good question, Hugh, because a lot of times I'm 250 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 1: seeing these videos today of all these bars in the 251 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: United States just going crazy when the goal is scored 252 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: and everybody's watching it and the place is rocking. Early on, 253 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: we got there three hours before the game because there 254 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 1: was only so many immediate slots, so you had to 255 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: be there early to get your spot. You could tell 256 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: that this was going to be a big Canadian crowd. 257 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 1: You just had a feeling. And once the place was packed, 258 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: once it was sold out, it was it was anywhere 259 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 1: from seventy five to twenty five, you know, Canadian to US. Now, 260 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 1: I will give credit to the US fans and attendance, 261 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 1: because early on the US gets that goal and they 262 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: were louder. I mean, the USA chance were rolling, But 263 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: when Canada ties it up, I mean you could just 264 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: feel the momentum switch to Canada and there anytime the 265 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: USA chance would start going up, the Canadian crowd would 266 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: take over and try to overshadow them. And that's what 267 00:13:30,960 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: I think is the biggest thing, you is when I 268 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: look back at that game winning goal and you see 269 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 1: all these shots of people in bars watching going crazy 270 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,360 Speaker 1: at the venue there in Milan, it was like seventy 271 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: percent of the crowd was in shock, and then half 272 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,840 Speaker 1: the American crowd I think didn't know what happened, So 273 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: it was almost like a little bit of a silence 274 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,640 Speaker 1: in that arena when it happened, and the US crowd 275 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: doesn't actually start celebrating until you see all the guys 276 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: clear the bench and start celebrating on the ice. So 277 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 1: it was just the interesting, interesting ending there for sure. 278 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 3: Absolutely. 279 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:05,320 Speaker 2: I mean I felt the same way because I think 280 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 2: the puck kind of got stuck in the low bar. 281 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 2: It didn't hit the back of the net, so I 282 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 2: had I just had to wait for the call where 283 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 2: they where they said it was a goal, and and 284 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 2: like you, like you said, all the the US team 285 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 2: just streaming onto the ice. But uh, you know what 286 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 2: a job in net for Team USA? Was that the greatest? 287 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: I mean people are calling it the greatest considering the stakes, 288 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:33,560 Speaker 2: the greatest goalie performance in hockey history, just considering the 289 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 2: talent hell Buck was playing against and the stakes of 290 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 2: the game. 291 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: Dick, he makes this save early, and this is where 292 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: you know I love you, because he breaks down games 293 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: and he makes his save early and he just kind 294 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,400 Speaker 1: of puts puts it up there and just snags it 295 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: and somebody to the ride of me a big, big 296 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 1: hockey fan just looks at me, goes, this guy's on, 297 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,160 Speaker 1: this guy's on. And I actually chatted with Connor after 298 00:14:57,200 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: the game and and he said it. He goes, I 299 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 1: was in the zone, and if you get a goalie 300 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: in the zone, uh, it's just they're going to stay 301 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: in the zone. And and what he did in goal, 302 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 1: I mean it was just between you know, Celebrini and 303 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: Connor McDavid. I mean, they were firing hallitzer's at him 304 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: all night long, and what he just continued to do. 305 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 1: I mean, the first day of the Olympics, Canada has 306 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: a practice and i was there for the MiG zone 307 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: and I'm looking at these guys going hall of famer, 308 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 1: hall of famer, hall of famer, hall of famer, hall 309 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,320 Speaker 1: of famer. And besides, you know, said the kid. They 310 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: were all there on the ice last night, They're all 311 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: firing shots at him. And what Connor did was just 312 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: absolutely incredible. And I'll say this, Hugh and Dick. You know, 313 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: a couple of people have asked me today, was that 314 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: the greatest sports you know, event you've ever witnessed. And 315 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,359 Speaker 1: I've I was at you know, the Seahawks Super Bowl championship. 316 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:52,440 Speaker 1: You know, in New Jersey. I missed this latest Super 317 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: Bowl championship, and those are huge, you know, shout out 318 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: to the Seahawks and what they've done in those titles. 319 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 1: I was not there in seventy nine when the Sonics 320 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: won their title. I've been with the Storm for several 321 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: of their titles, and they're all great, but it's one 322 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: city and one sand base basically coming together the roots 323 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: of that team. When I watch the US women win gold, 324 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,560 Speaker 1: and I watched the US men win gold, you sit 325 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,360 Speaker 1: there and you look through the left of you and 326 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: there's a sports reporter from New York. There's a sports 327 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: anchor from Boston. There's a news anchor from Chicago. There's 328 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 1: a sports reporter from Los Angeles. There's a morning news 329 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: anchor from Atlanta. There's somebody from Philadelphia. And you realize 330 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:33,400 Speaker 1: they're all, you know, reporting for their area, and you 331 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: realize everybody's there for this one team, rooting on Team USA. 332 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: And it's just until you cover an Olympics, you just 333 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 1: you don't get that feeling in any other sporting events 334 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 1: that everybody's coming together to root for one cause, one team, 335 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:51,840 Speaker 1: one nation. And I think that's what makes it just 336 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:54,480 Speaker 1: so special. And then when those guys go up with 337 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: the stand and you hear the national anthem, I mean, 338 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 1: if you don't get goosebumps, human dick, I just if 339 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: you're here is not sticking up, then something's wrong with you, 340 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 1: because you know, I'm fifty two and I was crying 341 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,399 Speaker 1: last night. Man, I'm fifty two and I was bawling 342 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: my eyes up because it was just something very very special. 343 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 4: Good on you. 344 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 5: Chris Egan with US Live from Italy. He was in 345 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,520 Speaker 5: the building yesterday with the United States stunning defeat of Canada. Chris, 346 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 5: I want to ask you a question. I suppose it's 347 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,360 Speaker 5: in two parts, but let's let's put the spotlight on 348 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 5: the the overtime format, three skaters versus three skaters, Maybe 349 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:35,159 Speaker 5: thoughts you have about that, you know, strategically, the fairness, 350 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 5: and then I guess coma The second portion would be, 351 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 5: is that a source of consternation? You said it's about 352 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:46,680 Speaker 5: seventy percent Canadian fans in the building. Is that something 353 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 5: kind of in the aftermath that that people were decrying 354 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 5: and denouncing the format? 355 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 4: What's the give us a take on that? 356 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,320 Speaker 1: One hundred percent? I mean you leave the venue after 357 00:17:58,320 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: you're done getting all your interviews and you head back 358 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,280 Speaker 1: on these trains that take you throughout Milan, and we 359 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:08,560 Speaker 1: were around a lot of Canadian fans and pissed off. 360 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: Yes they were. I mean, let's be honest. This was 361 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: their super Bowl, this was their Game seven, this was everything. 362 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,680 Speaker 1: And I think that the hockey purists just think it's 363 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: it's just going to three on three is just kind 364 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:24,080 Speaker 1: of cheating in it. Why why would you do that? 365 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: Why do you need to do that? So I think 366 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 1: there was some concerns there. I mean there was throughout 367 00:18:31,040 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: these games, there was some concerns about that. We saw 368 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,879 Speaker 1: that three on three, you know, with with the women's 369 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,119 Speaker 1: game too. I do appreciate honestly that they don't go 370 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,320 Speaker 1: to a shootout. I'll be honest there guys just like, 371 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: thank God, they don't go to a shootout. But yeah, 372 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: a lot of the Canadian fans were upset with that. 373 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 1: But at the same point, you as you say that, 374 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: anybody that knows hockey and looks at that Canadian roster 375 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: would say their three players that they're gonna put out 376 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: there are way better than. 377 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:59,600 Speaker 4: The three Americans. 378 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,159 Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna put third best three against 379 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 1: our best three. The Canadians not only have the edge 380 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:07,679 Speaker 1: on the first line, they got the edge on the 381 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,479 Speaker 1: second line, the third line, and the fourth line. So 382 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: it's three on three, it's on the ice. But yeah, 383 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,600 Speaker 1: there's some old school purists. We were sitting next to 384 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: a guy that grew up with Gretzky and he told 385 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: us about it every five minutes, and he was upset 386 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:22,919 Speaker 1: about it the whole night. But you know, it's in 387 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: the end. They had their best three and they couldn't score, 388 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: and Connor McDavid tried to do everything he could, but 389 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 1: Connor wasn't letting anything by him last night. And luckily 390 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: we had the right Conor. 391 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 3: Yes we did. 392 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:37,200 Speaker 2: Chris Eagan joining us after midnight his time in Milan 393 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 2: after an unbelievable event that he had got to witness 394 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 2: yesterday with Team USA beating Canada, and I just want 395 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:46,560 Speaker 2: to go to the post game. 396 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 3: You alluded to it. 397 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 2: How awesome that was like when a game's over, even 398 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, Chris. I mean I stayed in the 399 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:57,479 Speaker 2: in the building for maybe five ten minutes, you know, 400 00:19:57,560 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: watched a couple of speeches, then like all I'm gonna 401 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,239 Speaker 2: head out and get ri do the postgame show, but I 402 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:06,800 Speaker 2: was locked onto that post game. I watched Jack Hughes's 403 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:12,160 Speaker 2: very patriotic message on NBC and you don't hear that 404 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,640 Speaker 2: very often in sports anymore. The way the team honored 405 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 2: Johnny Gudreau and his family on the ice, I mean, 406 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,240 Speaker 2: I didn't think the post game could have been more 407 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 2: perfect than it was. 408 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 1: Well, and then you see a lot of the post 409 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: game that the NBCs are getting dick and then I'm 410 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: I'm kind of backstage and funny story here. Al it 411 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: works is the silver medalist will come first. Usually it's 412 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 1: the bronze medalist. But Finland played the night before, had 413 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,120 Speaker 1: a couple of seattle cracking on that top of coaco. 414 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:40,959 Speaker 1: Elie told it, and that won the bronze. They got 415 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,080 Speaker 1: the bronze the night before and actually got on planes 416 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 1: that got out of there. So the only medals they 417 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,640 Speaker 1: handed out last night were the silver and the gold. 418 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: So Canada is coming out first, and there's you get 419 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 1: a lot. It's a mix of sports reporters and sports 420 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: akers and newspeople. And so I told all the news 421 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,520 Speaker 1: people do not do not mile at the Canadians. Do 422 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: not laugh here, don't it? Just let them walk by. 423 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 1: You're not going to interview. I guess you're gonna get 424 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: You're gonna get jumped, somebody's gonna go over. They were 425 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 1: not in a good mood. They did not want the 426 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: little uh, they did not want the little team at 427 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: Teddy Bear, and they did not want that silver medal. 428 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: But then, Dick to your point, when the Americans came through, 429 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,040 Speaker 1: it was a party. They were grabbing beer, they were 430 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: having fun. They were talking about just how great it was. 431 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 1: And I think the word is unite, and it was 432 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: great to see these Olympic Games kind of bring people together, 433 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,639 Speaker 1: put politics aside and just enjoy sports, enjoy rooting for 434 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,720 Speaker 1: the Red, white and blue. And did I think Mike 435 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: Erico said the best last night during the broadcast, Sports 436 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,520 Speaker 1: as a way of bringing people together. And that's exactly 437 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 1: what the US hockey team did during these Olympic Games. 438 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 1: And you know, you learn a lot of lessons during 439 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: these games from a lot of these athletes that have 440 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: babbled a lot of trials and tribulations to get here. 441 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: And some of them get here and you know, fail, 442 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 1: but they keep battling and some of them get a 443 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: gold medal, and it will stay with them for the 444 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: rest of their lives. 445 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,919 Speaker 5: It will and as will we they everybody asked to 446 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:13,159 Speaker 5: kind of process, Okay, what does this. 447 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,640 Speaker 4: Mean in relation to forty six years ago? Right? 448 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:20,840 Speaker 5: And and we want to put it in its proper place. Uh, 449 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 5: you know the nineteen eighty the miracle team in some 450 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 5: ways that that there's no chance that could ever be duplicated. 451 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,480 Speaker 5: But what's the sense from the players, the atmosphere there, 452 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 5: your own thoughts. How do we position this relative to 453 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 5: that nineteen eighty game? Then I should so a lot. 454 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think to a lot of people will talk 455 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: about that. You know that that eighty team was a 456 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 1: miracle because you know it was a bunch of kids 457 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 1: coming together, non professional players and you know you've brought 458 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, the pros back and you know we we've 459 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: heard that from Herb Brooks. You know, how do you 460 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: call it a dream team when the professionals and then 461 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,320 Speaker 1: you know you're not really dreaming. But I'll be honestly, 462 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: you know, the Olympics has got to the point where 463 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,879 Speaker 1: you put the best athletes on the court, on the ice, 464 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: you know, in play, and for me this was just 465 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,399 Speaker 1: as big because those were the best athletes in the 466 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 1: world out there on the ice last night, and Canada 467 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:23,679 Speaker 1: had arguably you know, five to six Hall of famers, 468 00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 1: future Hall of famers out there, and to get that 469 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: win to you know, look back at that eighty team. 470 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: I think that's the other cool story about this, Hugh, 471 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: is that what have we done the last three years, 472 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,800 Speaker 1: you know, last three days, we've just sat back and 473 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: revisited that nineteen eighties team and what they did, and 474 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: it's brought those great memories back. And so for them 475 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: to complete it like they did last night, I think 476 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,479 Speaker 1: I think it's just as special not to mention, Hugh, 477 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 1: A lot of us, uh don't remember that many people 478 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:58,159 Speaker 1: team and there's a lot of people, a lot of 479 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: people alive that that weren't that. And to hear stories 480 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: of people getting up at four in the morning, five 481 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: in the morning, churches canceling, you know, services moving them late, 482 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,200 Speaker 1: you know, to hear the stories of people up in Alaska, 483 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: why you know the bars are open early in New York. 484 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: I mean a lot of people were watching that game 485 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:17,080 Speaker 1: last night. 486 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 5: You well, you and I are gonna have to have 487 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 5: a couple of beers and a and a long debate 488 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 5: about this because I'm gonna push back hard on this 489 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 5: is just as big. 490 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 4: Now. 491 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,919 Speaker 5: Uh, there's nobody I like in Seattle sports media as 492 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 5: as as much or better than Chris Egans. So I 493 00:24:34,600 --> 00:24:36,480 Speaker 5: love you, but you and I are going to have 494 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,680 Speaker 5: a deep arm wrestle about this one. 495 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 4: But that's okay, Okay, I want you to rethink. I 496 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,880 Speaker 4: want you to rethink that one. But you know, uh, 497 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:46,679 Speaker 4: here's the different. 498 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,680 Speaker 5: But I'm gonna I'm gonna fight you on the beach 499 00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 5: on this one. 500 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: Well, and your your point is that one was a 501 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 1: lot bigger because the amateurs in the you know, and. 502 00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 5: The politics uh uh, and the Warsaw Pact, the the 503 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 5: Cold War was just pervasive. 504 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:03,959 Speaker 4: It was ubiquitous. 505 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,320 Speaker 5: It was something way beyond anything that anybody could understand. 506 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: Well, you throw all that, yeah, Hugh, you throw all 507 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 1: that in. It's hard to argue with you. It's also tough, 508 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:18,320 Speaker 1: you know how sports work. Since Dick knows how this is. 509 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 1: I wasn't there at that eighty game. I was at 510 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,040 Speaker 1: this one from start to finish. So I'm kind of 511 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: flying high with this the emotions of being there, being 512 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: being surrounded by this one. So it may take a 513 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: little bit of time for this one to digest and 514 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: for me to sit back and yeah, when we have 515 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: that beer, I think you're probably gonna win that arm 516 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: wrestling argument. But I mean, and here's the thing, you, 517 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 1: it's been an emotional drain, which has been awesome. I 518 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: went from that women's game to the next day, Hugh, 519 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,160 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you a quick story here. Karin 520 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: Stoddard from fedua A, Washington. Her first day at the Olympics. 521 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,679 Speaker 1: She came into these Olympics as the number three ranks 522 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 1: beat short track speed skater in the world. She fell 523 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:03,120 Speaker 1: three times in two events on the first day. Two 524 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,879 Speaker 1: days later she's in another event, she falls on the ice. 525 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,119 Speaker 1: Another day later she's inn relay. They fall on the 526 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 1: ice again. This is a girl I've been coming for 527 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 1: over ten years from Feduay. That has put her entire life, 528 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: Her family has put their investments into. This girl's a 529 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:20,520 Speaker 1: short track speed skater. She's done four events and has 530 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: failed to make it to the finals of any of them. 531 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:25,960 Speaker 1: She came in as the number three ranked short track 532 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,240 Speaker 1: speed skater in the world and was told by everybody 533 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:32,680 Speaker 1: she's gonna meddle. She goes on Instagram apologizes she just 534 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 1: couldn't handle the pressure. I didn't think she was even 535 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 1: gonna show up her final race, Hue, the fifteen hundred meter. 536 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 1: I say to myself, I gotta be there if she's 537 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,879 Speaker 1: gonna be there, Hugh. That night, before the US wins 538 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: the goal, Karenna is on the ice and skates the 539 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: best she has done during the Olympics. She brings home 540 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 1: a bronze medal. It's not a gold, but when she 541 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: comes around the mix own smiling, I'm in tears of 542 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,480 Speaker 1: that night too, And I think that's what the Olympics do. 543 00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: They just they embrace you, because here's the story of 544 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: a girl that was just kicked, knocked down to the ice, 545 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,399 Speaker 1: could have given up, could have quit, could have walked away, 546 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,959 Speaker 1: and she said, you know what, No, I'm gonna try it. 547 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna battle. And she got back out there and 548 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: she won the first Olympic medal for women's in short 549 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: track speed skating in sixteen years. Grew up training at 550 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,239 Speaker 1: Pattison's West in a special way. And you know what, 551 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: it's just stories like that that I just love being 552 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,119 Speaker 1: here and love sharing them because it's pretty cool stuff. Well, 553 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 1: you went at fifty two. I'm still learning you and 554 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to learn more about the eighties team when 555 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: you and I have a beer. 556 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,960 Speaker 2: I love it, Chris. We really appreciate you do such 557 00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,160 Speaker 2: an awesome job. And you know my eyes have been 558 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,360 Speaker 2: locked on NBC for the last two weeks. It's been 559 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,399 Speaker 2: phenomenal from afar. I'm sure it's been even better up 560 00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:54,360 Speaker 2: close for you, and we really appreciate it. And get 561 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 2: some sleep, get home, hopefully you get a couple of 562 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,360 Speaker 2: vacation days and safe travels to you back to Seattle. 563 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:01,720 Speaker 1: All right, you guys, have a great day, A. 564 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:05,200 Speaker 2: Great stuff from Chrissy again, love his passion, no question 565 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 2: about it. You and I be back right after this. 566 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:12,359 Speaker 2: On ninety three point three KJRFM. 567 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,639 Speaker 3: It's now time for Safty and Digg's Fun with Audio. 568 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 3: Jimmy g Pall Star, Jimmy mister Garoppolo. 569 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 4: Now let's have some fun with audio. 570 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,400 Speaker 3: Oh, it's gonna be a fun one today. Fun with audio. 571 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,640 Speaker 2: It's always fun, but this one's gonna be a themed 572 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 2: fun with audio. Hugh, because there was a huge international 573 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 2: sporting event that took place yesterday, and so hey, Hugh, 574 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 2: did you hear that that forty six years ago, yesterday 575 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 2: to the day the US men's hockey team pulled off 576 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 2: the miracle on ice. Let's revisit it, just because that's 577 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 2: kind of the mood we're in. 578 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,360 Speaker 3: As called by Al Michaels and Ken Dryden on ABC. 579 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 10: Thirty three seconds for day, Borrow kick into the boy, 580 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 10: Get comes back with pin of life thirty eight thirty 581 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,880 Speaker 10: seven is left in the game? Pet rob with at 582 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,840 Speaker 10: the Americans down top four to three, long shot, Pray 583 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 10: give it the get a piece of it, the sleeping 584 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 10: away twenty eight seconds, the crowd going insane, Carlo Man 585 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 10: shooting at m the American end again. Morrow is back there, 586 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 10: down tousin nineteen seconds. Jnsin over to Ramsay here you're 587 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 10: looking off, get checked by Ramsey. 588 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:24,280 Speaker 8: The ton of Hea is there. 589 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: The puck is still loose. 590 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 10: Eleven seconds, You've got ten seconds. 591 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 3: The countdown going on right now. Borrow hooks to show 592 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 3: five seconds left in the game. 593 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 11: Will you believe in Bell hopsable? 594 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,320 Speaker 3: The perfect call by L. Michael's on the perfect day. 595 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: And then yesterday again, forty six years to the day 596 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 2: after the miracle on ice, the US men's hockey team 597 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 2: does it again. 598 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 3: They beat Canada to to one. 599 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 2: Here's Kenny Alberts call of Jack Hughes's overtime game winner. 600 00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 8: Here's mc david moving off Jack Hughes practice long down puck, 601 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 8: Watch up behind the dead add it's Wrensky. Now Jack 602 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,120 Speaker 8: Hughes poks around mccar the United States with numbers walk across. 603 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 3: It comes Jack Hugh's white look all the goal for 604 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:13,400 Speaker 3: the United States. 605 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 9: For the first time since the nineteen eighty Barracle, the 606 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,880 Speaker 9: United States takes the goal. 607 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 2: Jack Who's fit in? Jordan pennyquent I love it when 608 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,040 Speaker 2: broadcasters rise at the moment Hugh. And I obviously, I 609 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,160 Speaker 2: mean al Michaels, you know, that's that started his whole career. 610 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 2: And and I thought Kenny Alberts call is excellent as well. 611 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think it was. It's hard, you 612 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 4: know to just kind of the l Michaels. 613 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 5: I mean, you know he uh that that launched an 614 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 5: entire career for him, right, he can't go anywhere, you know, 615 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 5: do you believe in miracles out you know, they could 616 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 5: just get a Starbucks or something, you know, So so 617 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 5: it's it's hard to compare those, right, And I'm a 618 00:30:58,040 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 5: I'm a fan of Sean McDonough who as uh. I 619 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 5: think hockey the best of of anybody in the modern 620 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 5: game now, but I'm parcel. But but any you no 621 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:10,200 Speaker 5: I thought, I thought, Kenny Albert, that's a nice call. 622 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 5: It's a very good call. 623 00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 2: Well on the other side of things, Hey, Hugh, did 624 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 2: you hear that with that dick the overtime game winner 625 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,960 Speaker 2: called by Chris Cuthbert on CBC in Canada? 626 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 3: Stick turn by, Oh, let's huts it again? Those turned 627 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 3: over the three win the kid of the cup, shut stage, 628 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 3: chickus he's win it to the United States. What was 629 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,600 Speaker 3: incredible there? Hugh and and Chris Egan spoke to it. 630 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:49,240 Speaker 2: I mean you normally when you sign like the Lake 631 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 2: Placid one, when you when you saw the game was over, 632 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 2: you just saw the entire crowd just standing up going crazy. 633 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:56,120 Speaker 3: This was weird. 634 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:59,920 Speaker 2: I mean, it felt like you were watching a row 635 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,840 Speaker 2: o hockey game in the Stanley Cup Finals. It felt 636 00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:06,400 Speaker 2: like Game seven Stanley Cup Finals and the road team 637 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:07,600 Speaker 2: wins in an overtime. 638 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:08,680 Speaker 3: Because there was just a. 639 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 2: Few, you know, a few flags over here and a 640 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 2: few people standing up over there, but most of people 641 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,400 Speaker 2: were sitting down in that arena. 642 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, seventy percent. Look, Hockey's Canada's game. It 643 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:23,200 Speaker 5: would be more important to them, you know. I try 644 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 5: to imagine, you know, the rest of the world kind 645 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 5: of looks at us like we look at the Yankees, right, 646 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,800 Speaker 5: they're just you know, you know, just kind of bigger 647 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,360 Speaker 5: and and and and you know, more powerful and in 648 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 5: many many ways. And so I can imagine, you know, 649 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:42,560 Speaker 5: that underdog mentality, and then it's your sport. I think 650 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 5: that who's that broadcaster? 651 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,040 Speaker 3: I had not heard him as Cuthfert CBC. 652 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,840 Speaker 5: I felt like there was an energy level that he 653 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 5: had in the seconds leading up to it that you know, 654 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 5: exceeded Marv Alberts or sorry Kenny, and and and so 655 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 5: I feel like he the Canadian was on the verge 656 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 5: of a much more epic call had it. 657 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 4: Gone man in his way. Does that make sense? 658 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,560 Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, it And of course you know he's gonna 659 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 5: have a deflation in how he calls that final goal. 660 00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,239 Speaker 4: But I feel like that guy was sitting on an 661 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 4: epic call had it gone his way. 662 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:22,920 Speaker 3: Hey, huge, you hear that? 663 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 4: What's that? Dick? 664 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 2: Moments after leaving the ice yesterday and we kind of 665 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,720 Speaker 2: spoke to Chris Siguan about this in the last segment, 666 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 2: how I thought that the post game was absolutely phenomenal 667 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,320 Speaker 2: and Jack hughes interview was phenomenal. 668 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,040 Speaker 3: Where here it is. 669 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,680 Speaker 2: Jack Hughes talked with NBC's Catherine Tapping about scoring the 670 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:39,480 Speaker 2: overtime winner. 671 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 1: Jack the first gold medal for the United States in 672 00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,240 Speaker 1: forty six years, and you delivered it. 673 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 3: Can you just describe the emotions of this moment right now? 674 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 12: All this is all about our country. I know, I 675 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 12: love the USA, I love my teammates. That's unbelievable. The 676 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 12: US or hockey brotherhood is so strong, and we had 677 00:33:58,280 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 12: so much support for next players. 678 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:02,080 Speaker 4: I'm so proud to be Americans. 679 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,080 Speaker 3: This was such an incredible game to grind out. I mean, 680 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,720 Speaker 3: you're bleeding right through it just looking at you right now. 681 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,319 Speaker 1: Can you just talk about how difficult this gold medal 682 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: was to win. 683 00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:14,800 Speaker 12: Unbelievable game by Hallibuck, he was our best player tonight 684 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 12: by mile. Unbelievable game, unreal game by our team. That's 685 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 12: just a ballsy, guts you win. That's American hockey right there. 686 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 12: That's a great Canadian team. 687 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,719 Speaker 4: But were USA. We're so proud to be Americans said, 688 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,120 Speaker 4: I was all for the country. How about that. 689 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:32,399 Speaker 2: I mean, you don't hear athletes say that very often 690 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:34,920 Speaker 2: the only Olympics. You know, I'm so proud to be 691 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 2: an American. He said it twice in forty nine seconds. 692 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,120 Speaker 2: It was pretty cool, Hugh. 693 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:39,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I loved it. 694 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,160 Speaker 5: I think somebody told me it's really making the rounds 695 00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:47,440 Speaker 5: on social media. You know, you heard the president. Maybe 696 00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 5: you heard the president and in. 697 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 2: Finding him to the State of the Union address, he 698 00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,640 Speaker 2: said he's sending a military plane to pick up the team. 699 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,960 Speaker 5: Well, you know, I'm gonna just try and thread the 700 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,920 Speaker 5: needle here and be a political I can just say, 701 00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,120 Speaker 5: regardless of who's in the office, when you have a 702 00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,800 Speaker 5: win like that, I like that there's a connection that 703 00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 5: the president can call and and you feel this kind 704 00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,080 Speaker 5: of respect for you know, the pride for being an 705 00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 5: American for the office. And I thought that was really cool. 706 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:24,000 Speaker 5: And I would say the same thing. The parties were switched, 707 00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,680 Speaker 5: I doubt, you know, And you know what, it's nice 708 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,680 Speaker 5: to feel that that energy in that conversation. 709 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,480 Speaker 2: Maybe we should put that on phone with audio on 710 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:34,919 Speaker 2: Wednesday or something. Jackson, because what was cool about that call? 711 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,320 Speaker 2: Is there was not one of those guys in that 712 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 2: in that locker room that was listening to the president. 713 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,680 Speaker 3: They gave a damn what side of the aisle he 714 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,400 Speaker 3: was on. They were thrilled that they were. 715 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 2: You could just tell he was like he was like, 716 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:49,720 Speaker 2: I'm gonna invite you to the State of the Union 717 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 2: if you guys won, and like everybody's like yes, yes, yes, 718 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 2: Like they're screaming it at the telephone. So it was 719 00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:57,080 Speaker 2: very very cool. 720 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,480 Speaker 4: Hey, Hugh, did you haven't always heard that from the champions? 721 00:35:59,600 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 1: Right? 722 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,640 Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right, that dick. NBC's Mike Dirico, I 723 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 2: have not heard this yet. I have read all about 724 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:08,520 Speaker 2: it on social media for the last twenty four hours. 725 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:13,040 Speaker 2: Mike Dirico closing out NBC's coverage of the Olympics yesterday 726 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:14,360 Speaker 2: with this sign off message. 727 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 11: Because of a drought that almost lasted a half century, 728 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,080 Speaker 11: those teams are revered, they are held on to forever. 729 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,760 Speaker 11: And what happened today doesn't take away from the greatness 730 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 11: of those teams or the meeting that those teams have 731 00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 11: in US hockey. But what you saw today was the 732 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 11: build of a generation, inspired perhaps by that team that 733 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 11: lost in twenty ten in Vancouver, to the Sydney Crosby 734 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,960 Speaker 11: golden goal in overtime, or the team where tj Oshan 735 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 11: all those shootout goals in twenty fourteen. That's when these 736 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 11: guys were doing what you're doing watching on TV. And 737 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,600 Speaker 11: they were young and they were living the dream. So 738 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,080 Speaker 11: for all the young people out there, not just the 739 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 11: hockey but all the Olympics you've watched, those dreams are formed. 740 00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,560 Speaker 11: Now go chase them and go get them. Because our 741 00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,919 Speaker 11: country loves sports and it brings us together like anything else. 742 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,239 Speaker 11: And if you didn't know that, if you haven't been 743 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 11: watching the last two weeks, you saw it in Team 744 00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,280 Speaker 11: USA hockey winning the goal over there are travel Canada 745 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,040 Speaker 11: here in Milan's to wrap up these twenty fifth Olympic 746 00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:12,760 Speaker 11: winner games. 747 00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 3: What does it mean? 748 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,000 Speaker 2: I mean, what's it gonna mean for the you know, 749 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,239 Speaker 2: the ten year old hockey player or the ten year 750 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,720 Speaker 2: old kid that's not a hockey player that might become 751 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:22,600 Speaker 2: a hockey player because because of. 752 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,480 Speaker 3: This, I don't know. I guess we'll find out in 753 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:25,600 Speaker 3: fifteen years, right. 754 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think every time there's this you 755 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,240 Speaker 5: know kind of bounce, you know, did did Women's soccer, 756 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,320 Speaker 5: girls soccer, get a bounce. 757 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:39,040 Speaker 4: Rab women in the World Cup. You know, you know 758 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:40,320 Speaker 4: to what can you attribute that. 759 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:44,760 Speaker 5: I think Tariko not surprisingly really had great point in words, 760 00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:46,879 Speaker 5: you know, but you know, I think I think we're 761 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:51,120 Speaker 5: talking about US versus Canada. The difference was, you know, 762 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,840 Speaker 5: back then, you know, there was just like crazy rule amateurs, 763 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,959 Speaker 5: whether it's a basketball team from America or the hockey team. 764 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:01,720 Speaker 5: You know, it was a different idea. That the Olympic 765 00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:06,840 Speaker 5: motto is sidius altius fortius translated faster, higher, stronger. For me, 766 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,959 Speaker 5: I like knowing when I see somebody on the gold 767 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 5: medal platform and they bend over and and that metal 768 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,520 Speaker 5: gold medal goes around their neck. I like knowing that's 769 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,320 Speaker 5: the best dude in the world or woman in the 770 00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 5: world at that particular event. And I think that this 771 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 5: unquestionably this portion, you know, they the fact that you 772 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,960 Speaker 5: do have the NHL All Stars, the best players from America, 773 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,480 Speaker 5: regardless of economic system. You know, you're trying to before 774 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 5: decades before, you're trying to match an economic system. Well, 775 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,799 Speaker 5: we're a capitalist, you're you're a communist. You're sending your 776 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,759 Speaker 5: pros and we're sending our amateurs, like. 777 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 4: None of that. 778 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 5: That was the best in the world, the best in 779 00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,480 Speaker 5: the world. Now, as it pertains to rivalries, it's a 780 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 5: rival over sport. You know, the Canada and US have 781 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,920 Speaker 5: the longest un undefensed border, like like we're allies, right, 782 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,920 Speaker 5: like we're we're you know, Canada was a founding member 783 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 5: of NATO in nineteen forty nine. Like we we're going 784 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,000 Speaker 5: to go to country to war for one country, it 785 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 5: would be for Canada right above all others. 786 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 4: Like so there's that part of it. 787 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:20,880 Speaker 5: But yet hockey makes this, Hockey uniquely makes this intense 788 00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 5: rivalry because it's their sport. 789 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:24,560 Speaker 3: No question, no question. 790 00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 2: And we'll talk more about it, but we've got to 791 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,080 Speaker 2: turn the pages. Some college basketball coming up next Mike 792 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,319 Speaker 2: de Corsi his first of eight conversations with us, brought 793 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 2: to you by Northwest Handling Systems. An amazing couple of 794 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,759 Speaker 2: games Number one, number two, Number three, and number four 795 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,640 Speaker 2: all played in two games over the weekend. We'll talk 796 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:43,720 Speaker 2: about both of them and more with Mike de Corsi 797 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 2: from The Sporting News next on ninety three point three KJRFM,