WEBVTT - HR. 1 – Secret Clock 0:00:00.110 --> 0:00:01.910 The ratings just came in for last month. 0:00:02.350 --> 0:00:03.910 We are number one. 0:00:03.950 --> 0:00:07.820 We just grabbed every key demographic. Super duper, Gary. 0:00:07.830 --> 0:00:08.650 Super duper. 0:00:08.730 --> 0:00:09.459 That's nice. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:10.680 Way to go. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:11.520 Neato, Gary. 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:12.100 Yes, boy. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:13.460 That is good news. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:15.280 It is the 11th day of September, 2026. 0:00:15.260 --> 0:00:15.310 9-11. 0:00:18.260 --> 0:00:18.960 Good morning, everybody. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.619 It's Friday. My name is Chris Hockey. Welcome to the 0:00:20.660 --> 0:00:23.360 Power Trip Morning Show. Obviously, today is the finals of 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.960 the initials game tournament, so that'll be done after today. 0:00:25.980 --> 0:00:27.320 It's going to be a big one. I can't wait 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:29.860 to see what happens here. We'll have Marnie Glarner for 0:00:29.900 --> 0:00:31.610 a little bit. We'll have Mark Parrish in just a moment. 0:00:31.620 --> 0:00:33.930 Miss his face. So that and a cast of thousands, 0:00:33.970 --> 0:00:35.530 and we'll break down last night's game and get you 0:00:35.570 --> 0:00:41.070 ready for Packers-Vikings Sunday, 325. This radio station pregame starts 0:00:41.090 --> 0:00:45.290 at 1.30. Let's get it started. Comedy with Josh Sneed. 0:00:45.490 --> 0:00:45.790 Mr. 0:00:45.830 --> 0:00:49.110 Sneed, please. Josh Sneed. On the Patrick Morning Show. 0:00:49.430 --> 0:00:50.130 Come on in. 0:00:50.510 --> 0:00:52.309 It's going to be a great weekend. And I am 0:00:52.350 --> 0:00:53.520 glad you are here. 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:55.560 There's way too many fat kids, you guys. I don't 0:00:55.580 --> 0:00:57.280 have numbers, but there's got to be a ton of them. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.760 And the only reason I say that is because the 0:00:59.900 --> 0:01:02.980 USA Today had an article recently that said dodgeball is 0:01:03.060 --> 0:01:05.819 gone from schools now. Dodgeball is gone. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.959 And when I found out why, I got even more upset. 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.550 Not because it's violent or because kids were being killed 0:01:10.590 --> 0:01:13.730 by dodgeballs. It's only gone because it made fat kids 0:01:13.770 --> 0:01:15.509 feel unwanted and inferior. 0:01:15.630 --> 0:01:16.009 And I'm like. 0:01:17.630 --> 0:01:20.390 What about the stuff that made me feel unwanted and inferior? 0:01:20.550 --> 0:01:24.050 Okay, like math. All right, there's one. All right, my mother, 0:01:24.110 --> 0:01:27.090 there's two. You can't just get rid of stuff. Everybody 0:01:27.110 --> 0:01:27.690 would be dumb. 0:01:30.220 --> 0:01:31.959 And you can't blame the kids for what they weigh 0:01:31.980 --> 0:01:33.600 because you have to look at the toys they have. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:36.680 My little cousin owns a Chuck E. Cheese pizza oven. Now, 0:01:36.780 --> 0:01:39.620 I wish that was a joke, but that's true. In 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.860 eight minutes in his bedroom, he'll get you meat lovers 0:01:41.900 --> 0:01:42.720 with extra cheese. 0:01:43.300 --> 0:01:48.270 And that's not healthy, you know, or fair. It's not fair. 0:01:48.290 --> 0:01:50.640 I had a Snoopy snow cone machine. In four hours, 0:01:50.670 --> 0:01:51.750 you could crush one cube. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:53.240 Right? 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:54.620 And have a Dixie cup. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:56.560 Right? 0:01:57.340 --> 0:01:59.760 You get a Dixie cup half full of cherry-flavored ice. 0:01:59.780 --> 0:02:02.720 If you're lucky, your sister would bring you a cake 0:02:02.770 --> 0:02:04.130 she baked with a damn light bulb. 0:02:04.170 --> 0:02:07.030 That was a good day in 86. 0:02:23.330 --> 0:02:25.209 I know. 0:02:25.250 --> 0:02:28.030 The finish line is waiting. 0:02:28.330 --> 0:02:30.370 What? Fate is on your side. 0:02:30.430 --> 0:02:31.910 What? 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.480 You hear the distant thunder. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.480 There's lightning in your stride. 0:02:37.500 --> 0:02:37.660 Nope. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.480 I know. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:45.040 I know. 0:02:55.490 --> 0:03:03.989 To take it to the top. 0:03:04.010 --> 0:03:05.090 There's only one way out. 0:03:05.110 --> 0:03:08.000 You're never going home. Power Trip Morning Show, Friday, September 0:03:08.220 --> 0:03:11.940 11th of 2026. The 25th anniversary of September 11th. John Creasel, 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.820 isn't that nuts? 25 years ago today. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:20.079 Crazy. Nuts, man. It goes fast. It does. At moments, 0:03:20.100 --> 0:03:23.900 it feels like it was two minutes ago. and other moments, it. 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:27.040 Feels like it was 25 years ago. Well said. Yeah, 0:03:27.090 --> 0:03:30.030 well said. I'm Corey. That's Chris. That's Paul. There's John Creasel. 0:03:30.570 --> 0:03:32.150 Who's back there? Is Sam back there still, or is 0:03:32.190 --> 0:03:32.630 it Nick? 0:03:32.669 --> 0:03:33.490 No, no, no. It's Brett. 0:03:33.810 --> 0:03:36.150 Oh, Brett's back there. Look at Brett back there. 0:03:36.370 --> 0:03:36.850 It's Brett. 0:03:37.670 --> 0:03:39.830 Brett, did you get it figured out? I think so. 0:03:40.270 --> 0:03:42.950 I'm hoping so. I think we're live. You sound great. 0:03:43.470 --> 0:03:45.470 You talking about the stream, though? Yeah, my stream. Yeah, 0:03:45.500 --> 0:03:46.090 you'll figure it out. 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:47.540 You piss a long stream of excellence. 0:03:47.820 --> 0:03:48.340 Thank you. 0:03:48.900 --> 0:03:49.220 You do. 0:03:50.470 --> 0:03:53.030 How would you feel if most of the Twin Cities 0:03:53.070 --> 0:03:54.470 understood the strength of your stream? 0:03:55.550 --> 0:03:56.369 I'd be okay with that. 0:03:56.390 --> 0:03:57.190 I think they do, Corey. 0:03:57.790 --> 0:03:57.890 Oh. 0:03:58.070 --> 0:03:59.910 I know when he's worked with Barrero, they talk about 0:03:59.930 --> 0:04:00.290 it all the time. 0:04:00.350 --> 0:04:02.750 Yeah, they do talk about urination all the time. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:04.880 About Brett putting dents in the porcelain. 0:04:06.260 --> 0:04:08.240 And they talk about how both of them hate strollers 0:04:08.300 --> 0:04:09.220 at the state fair. 0:04:09.460 --> 0:04:10.220 And cookies. 0:04:10.260 --> 0:04:11.600 Let's just get right to it. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:12.500 Come on, Brett. 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.720 Today is 9-11, and we are absolutely 25 years into it, 0:04:15.740 --> 0:04:18.320 respecting that. We'll talk about it throughout the morning, I'm sure, but... 0:04:19.339 --> 0:04:23.080 You know, let's go down the most controversial thing that 0:04:23.100 --> 0:04:25.940 Brett's ever said. Too many cookies, huh? 0:04:26.980 --> 0:04:28.460 The cookies or the strollers? 0:04:29.180 --> 0:04:29.680 The cookies! 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:30.960 I mean, either. 0:04:31.140 --> 0:04:34.140 The strollers, I mean, you know, whatever. I mean, how's 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.380 there too many cookies ever? Because I don't. 0:04:36.900 --> 0:04:39.870 Want to perform a circus act and have to balance 0:04:39.900 --> 0:04:40.690 them around. 0:04:41.250 --> 0:04:42.440 Just, if I ask them to.... 0:04:45.570 --> 0:04:47.180 Just for the cup of cookies, then just give me 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:47.560 the cup. 0:04:47.580 --> 0:04:48.580 Why is that such a problem? 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.060 I think they want to have the spilled cookies so 0:04:51.100 --> 0:04:53.539 that when everyone's walking around, they see them smushed on 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.630 the floor and go, oh, what are we doing? 0:04:55.770 --> 0:04:59.290 We got zero logic and all that last bit. 0:05:00.130 --> 0:05:03.440 But you should treat those cookies like I treat soccer. 0:05:04.180 --> 0:05:05.860 I'm glad you like it, but I don't care. 0:05:07.490 --> 0:05:12.110 Yeah, he's acting like it's an immunity challenge in Survivor. No, 0:05:12.150 --> 0:05:15.430 just sit down on a bench and eat some. Well said, yeah. 0:05:15.630 --> 0:05:19.070 And then you're good. In this economy, you're getting more 0:05:19.180 --> 0:05:20.010 for your money. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:20.880 Let's talk about that. 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.460 And you're going to complain about it? Yeah. Come on, man. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:25.540 What the hell is going on? 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.960 You're young enough. Your metabolism is still working. Or do 0:05:29.980 --> 0:05:30.660 what I do, right? 0:05:31.220 --> 0:05:34.180 You get a bucket of cheese curds, a bucket of fries, 0:05:34.700 --> 0:05:35.710 a bucket of cookies. 0:05:35.750 --> 0:05:37.810 And then you do the whole, Hey, you guys want any? 0:05:38.170 --> 0:05:38.370 Yeah. 0:05:38.510 --> 0:05:40.190 And it's a win-win because if they take it, it 0:05:40.210 --> 0:05:42.770 looks like you're sharing. And that's the, that's the goal here. 0:05:42.890 --> 0:05:43.169 Sure. 0:05:43.730 --> 0:05:44.530 But if they say. 0:05:44.470 --> 0:05:47.890 No, if they don't want any more fries for you, 0:05:48.010 --> 0:05:50.980 more fries for you, more cookies for you. So it 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.640 can look like, Oh, I would never order this for myself. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.500 I can't get through all of these fries. And then 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:57.760 people are like, Oh, I just have a couple of fries. 0:05:57.779 --> 0:06:00.539 And you're like, I just ate this entire bucket by myself. 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:01.240 Yeah, correct. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:02.980 Brett, the joy you're going to get when you just 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.320 decide to give up on yourself. 0:06:04.700 --> 0:06:05.640 Oh, dude. It's great. 0:06:05.660 --> 0:06:08.200 And you're going to. 0:06:07.260 --> 0:06:08.520 Be like, man, I don't know why. 0:06:09.190 --> 0:06:10.230 You're going to go up and be like, hey, a 0:06:10.450 --> 0:06:12.770 couple times I asked for not all the cookies. I 0:06:12.790 --> 0:06:13.670 want those now. 0:06:13.750 --> 0:06:16.239 I'm happy that you don't think I'm there already. No, 0:06:16.270 --> 0:06:16.980 you're already there. 0:06:16.980 --> 0:06:17.640 2016 was a blast. 0:06:18.620 --> 0:06:20.560 Parrish, you played in the NHL. You had to keep 0:06:20.660 --> 0:06:22.580 working out. But what point did you just say, I'm 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:23.500 going to eat whatever I want. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:24.700 I give up. I quit. 0:06:24.940 --> 0:06:27.190 That was the beauty of being in the NHL. 0:06:27.370 --> 0:06:28.950 Oh, because you could just burn it off. 0:06:29.110 --> 0:06:31.210 Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Whatever you wanted. 0:06:31.750 --> 0:06:34.190 The hard part is when you retire and you go 0:06:34.230 --> 0:06:37.060 to dinner the first time, you're ordering like an appetizer, 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.339 you order a salad, you order this big steak. 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:40.880 And by the time the steak shows up, you're like, 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:41.820 I'm full. 0:06:42.060 --> 0:06:42.520 Oh, no. 0:06:42.540 --> 0:06:45.640 I can't eat anymore of this. Of course, you still 0:06:45.660 --> 0:06:49.040 stuff it down. But, yeah, that's kind of the hard part. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.160 It's great when you're playing. You can eat whatever you want. No, 0:06:51.180 --> 0:06:52.600 you can't just eat all crap. 0:06:52.779 --> 0:06:54.760 But if, you know, it doesn't cook. 0:06:54.850 --> 0:06:57.310 I beg to differ. It's worked for 46 years for me. 0:06:57.510 --> 0:07:00.050 If it doesn't, that's true. If it doesn't, cookies kind 0:07:00.110 --> 0:07:02.170 of pass by. You're probably going to eat half of them. 0:07:02.330 --> 0:07:04.490 I'm going to put these down here with my sadness. 0:07:04.570 --> 0:07:06.970 You guys want any of these cookies? 0:07:07.010 --> 0:07:08.390 That game sucked. That was terrible. 0:07:08.510 --> 0:07:09.810 Give me a dozen cookies. 0:07:09.980 --> 0:07:12.060 Damn right. So there you go, Brett. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.540 There you go, Brett. Just next year, just... Eat all 0:07:15.580 --> 0:07:15.860 of them. 0:07:15.940 --> 0:07:16.160 Yeah. 0:07:16.540 --> 0:07:20.050 And understand that you get to live in the great 0:07:20.110 --> 0:07:21.590 country of the United States of America. 0:07:21.630 --> 0:07:22.430 Right, John Creasel? 0:07:22.470 --> 0:07:23.890 Greatest country in the world. Amen. 0:07:24.310 --> 0:07:25.090 Eat those cookies. 0:07:25.150 --> 0:07:27.810 I know that, obviously, 9-11 had a huge impact on you. 0:07:28.230 --> 0:07:30.150 Please correct me if I'm wrong. Was that the thing 0:07:30.170 --> 0:07:32.730 that spurred you towards joining the service? I can't remember. 0:07:32.810 --> 0:07:33.190 I'm sorry. 0:07:33.370 --> 0:07:34.990 I joined on my 17th birthday. 0:07:35.070 --> 0:07:35.850 17th birthday. Okay, right. 0:07:35.870 --> 0:07:39.230 But that is what spurred me to want to get 0:07:39.250 --> 0:07:45.200 some revenge. And so that's obviously when it became... the 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.570 National Guard switched from being fighting, you know, dealing with 0:07:49.670 --> 0:07:54.950 floods and sandbagging to becoming part of the active military. 0:07:55.090 --> 0:07:59.100 And especially in Minnesota, we have the 34th Infantry Division, 0:07:59.130 --> 0:08:02.880 which is the greatest infantry division in the National Guard. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:07.480 And since 9-11, I would, I think it'd be impossible 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:12.310 to find a division that sent more soldiers overseas, so. No, 0:08:12.430 --> 0:08:15.630 I didn't. Yeah, it was part of it. Obviously, that changed. 0:08:16.650 --> 0:08:19.830 But Tim Nelson's the one that actually was involved. He 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.300 was on active duty in D.C. They were training for 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:29.140 riot control because there was the G8 summit coming to town. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.740 And then when the plane hit the Pentagon, they sent 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.870 them there to do recovery operations. So he was actually... 0:08:38.429 --> 0:08:40.000 Taking on site. Yeah. 0:08:40.220 --> 0:08:40.660 Yeah. 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.500 So it went from golf sauces, golf game to Johnny 0:08:43.540 --> 0:08:44.400 Randall's golf game. 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.600 Yeah. Sandbag into real golf. Yes. Yes. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.979 Oh, that's, that's a, that's good. 0:08:49.020 --> 0:08:49.179 Yeah. 0:08:49.740 --> 0:08:52.140 Um, where had you been deployed anywhere yet before nine 11? 0:08:52.130 --> 0:08:53.109 Nope. Okay. 0:08:53.290 --> 0:08:53.550 Got it. 0:08:53.850 --> 0:08:54.010 Nope. 0:08:54.450 --> 0:08:54.550 Yeah. 0:08:54.570 --> 0:08:58.110 You know, uh, uh, strange, um, uh, connection here, but 0:08:58.170 --> 0:09:00.130 this is, uh, I can, uh, to what you were 0:09:00.150 --> 0:09:02.030 just saying, I never thought about this before. But if 0:09:02.050 --> 0:09:04.449 you remember the movie Rambo, when they send out the 0:09:04.490 --> 0:09:07.229 National Guard to find Rambo, and they're all kind of like, 0:09:07.290 --> 0:09:09.390 I think we know how to use this thing. The 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.290 National Guard used to be on the weekend. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:14.360 Yeah, ate up like a soup sandwich. You know, right, yeah. 0:09:14.580 --> 0:09:18.160 And then suddenly, National Guard became like, there's a chance 0:09:18.179 --> 0:09:20.340 you're going overseas here pretty quick, so you best be 0:09:20.380 --> 0:09:20.780 ready to go. 0:09:21.500 --> 0:09:24.460 They activated us for Kosovo shortly after. When we got 0:09:24.500 --> 0:09:27.240 the call, when we heard that there was a deployment 0:09:27.260 --> 0:09:28.840 coming up, we just assumed it was going to be. 0:09:30.710 --> 0:09:33.130 Or Iraq at that point was also going on. 0:09:33.170 --> 0:09:33.490 Gotcha. 0:09:33.870 --> 0:09:38.100 But it was Kosovo, and the unit we brought to Kosovo, 0:09:38.140 --> 0:09:40.540 there were quite a few guys that were left over 0:09:40.660 --> 0:09:43.300 from what the National Guard used to be. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:44.060 Oh, okay. 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.460 If we had brought that unit to Iraq, we would 0:09:47.500 --> 0:09:51.410 have suffered a lot more casualties. So it turned into 0:09:51.490 --> 0:09:54.430 a lot more of a professional fighting force, and that's 0:09:54.490 --> 0:09:57.450 exactly what it is today, is you could activate the 0:09:57.470 --> 0:10:02.080 Minnesota National Guard without it. up at camp Shelby or 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.660 any of the others and send them over and they 0:10:03.700 --> 0:10:07.720 would be every bit as effective as an active duty unit. 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:08.580 Yeah. Wow. 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:10.360 Crazy. 0:10:10.820 --> 0:10:12.560 Yep. And a lot of those people are listening today. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:17.110 So yeah, we appreciate you for standing up for us. 0:10:17.210 --> 0:10:19.010 Now that I'm an old man, I look back on 0:10:19.050 --> 0:10:23.360 it now. I'm like, I couldn't do that. Just like 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:24.079 a retired athlete. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.160 You had some assets you don't have now. 0:10:26.540 --> 0:10:28.180 That's right. 0:10:28.300 --> 0:10:29.970 I get the good parking spots. 0:10:30.020 --> 0:10:32.250 I think that's the thing that's sticking out the most 0:10:32.270 --> 0:10:33.430 to me in the last couple of days is people 0:10:33.450 --> 0:10:36.410 have talked about the 25th anniversary coming up. When you're 0:10:36.450 --> 0:10:39.059 growing up and you're kid in the 80s or early 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.820 90s and you're hearing about things like D-Day or Pearl 0:10:41.860 --> 0:10:46.490 Harbor or even JFK's assassination, like big cultural moments or tragedies, 0:10:46.970 --> 0:10:48.490 you're like, that was so long ago. 0:10:48.510 --> 0:10:50.089 What does it have to do with me? Because you're 0:10:50.110 --> 0:10:50.670 a dumb kid. 0:10:53.830 --> 0:10:56.390 It just trips me out that kids that were born 0:10:56.650 --> 0:11:00.380 after 9-11 don't understand what we all went through and 0:11:00.420 --> 0:11:03.140 you hope they never have to go through something like that, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.710 but they're going to, right? There's going to be something 0:11:06.890 --> 0:11:09.410 that they'll have to fight through. 0:11:09.190 --> 0:11:12.090 And unify as a country. And it'll be their moment. 0:11:12.590 --> 0:11:13.230 And it sucks. 0:11:13.510 --> 0:11:17.689 It literally throws your world upside down. The world feels 0:11:17.730 --> 0:11:22.080 different the next day. It's bizarre. But we live through it. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:26.620 Everybody else that's born since 2001 just is walking around 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.660 in a post-9-11 universe. This is their reality. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.140 When I wake up or when I start seeing the commercials, 0:11:32.179 --> 0:11:33.059 I get taken right back. 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:34.560 It's like it was yesterday. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:35.620 You were in New York, right? 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:36.600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:36.620 --> 0:11:40.000 I was out there and it was, it's still hard 0:11:40.059 --> 0:11:42.620 to kind of find the right words to say what 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.800 it was like. It was just, it was, you know, 0:11:45.380 --> 0:11:48.280 literally the world stopped and especially obviously in New York 0:11:48.350 --> 0:11:49.910 and I still reach out to a bunch of friends 0:11:49.950 --> 0:11:52.490 of mine this time of year and check in on 0:11:52.510 --> 0:11:54.990 them and see how they're doing, you know, because the 0:11:55.050 --> 0:11:57.829 effects are still felt just as heavily today as they 0:11:57.870 --> 0:12:03.580 were with the moment that it happened. You know, it was, Yeah, like, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.449 you know, Corey put it great there with that cultural 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.410 kind of tragedy. There was nothing, you know, dear God, 0:12:10.429 --> 0:12:12.130 I hope it's the worst thing we ever see in 0:12:12.170 --> 0:12:15.490 our timeline in this country. But at the same time, 0:12:15.510 --> 0:12:18.210 you know, I kind of get taken back to the 0:12:18.270 --> 0:12:22.360 way New Yorkers and the whole country, you know, came together. Actually, 0:12:22.660 --> 0:12:24.600 lawyer Lambert kind of sent a great text. We were 0:12:24.620 --> 0:12:26.559 talking to him the other day. And, you know, it 0:12:26.580 --> 0:12:29.490 was an incredible time to be a New Yorker. Um, 0:12:29.910 --> 0:12:32.469 you know, obviously sad and tragic, but at the same time, 0:12:32.510 --> 0:12:36.830 the way the city and everyone came together was absolutely incredible. 0:12:36.910 --> 0:12:39.569 I was, I was thinking about it last night. Um, 0:12:39.710 --> 0:12:41.880 you know, and we got, we were the, the day 0:12:41.929 --> 0:12:45.120 or we were in Lake Placid for training camp and, 0:12:45.220 --> 0:12:46.740 you know, we woke up and all of our phones 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.420 were just blowing up, you know, and, and, uh, I 0:12:49.460 --> 0:12:51.800 woke up, turned on the TV and the second, second 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.720 plane hit the tower. uh, you know, on that day, 0:12:54.770 --> 0:12:57.280 walking around Lake Placid and, and even that whole week 0:12:57.300 --> 0:12:59.900 for us in practice was just, you know, obviously solemn. 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:02.140 Like we, we weren't saying a word, nobody really knew 0:13:02.179 --> 0:13:05.620 how to process what was going on. Uh, you know, 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.199 and this is back in the days when us pro 0:13:07.220 --> 0:13:09.300 hockey players would, you know, have to practice, go to 0:13:09.340 --> 0:13:11.339 lunch and have a couple of beers. And I'll, I'll 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.420 never forget being in Lake Placid and kind of the 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.760 whole town, uh, being in this, this small bar, uh, 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.520 this afternoon and everybody's just quietly watching the news and 0:13:20.580 --> 0:13:24.400 seeing what's going on. And, There was a former military 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.260 guy there that was just in tears, absolutely in tears. 0:13:27.300 --> 0:13:30.020 And he wasn't even an Islander fan. And he came 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:31.980 up to us. He's like, you guys got to win. 0:13:32.380 --> 0:13:33.860 I don't care if you guys win the Stanley Cup, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.939 but you guys got to win for us right now. 0:13:35.980 --> 0:13:38.780 We need something to celebrate, something to pull us together 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.380 that's besides all this tragedy. And his face has just 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.780 stuck with me. The people in New York and my 0:13:45.850 --> 0:13:49.430 friends that had to walk home over the Brooklyn Bridge 0:13:49.450 --> 0:13:52.479 because they were down there. so many things come rushing 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.520 back this time of year. But the one thing that 0:13:54.580 --> 0:13:57.390 really stands true is the way that not just the 0:13:57.429 --> 0:13:59.949 entire country, and it almost felt like the whole world 0:14:00.790 --> 0:14:03.849 supporting us, but the way the New Yorkers really came 0:14:03.890 --> 0:14:07.510 together and saw the unity of a population like that 0:14:07.570 --> 0:14:08.730 was truly incredible. 0:14:08.790 --> 0:14:11.110 They said that last night on the Netflix broadcast, because 0:14:11.130 --> 0:14:14.740 they had that little quick documentary with Tagliabue and Goodell, 0:14:14.820 --> 0:14:16.839 and they were talking about how Tagliabue had to make 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.520 the call to cancel the NFL games that weekend because 0:14:19.540 --> 0:14:20.560 they're like, we just can't do this. 0:14:20.620 --> 0:14:21.360 But then even. 0:14:21.220 --> 0:14:24.260 Goodell last night said there was that weird, like we 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.320 need some kind of a distraction, some kind of a moment. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:29.570 And then I think it was the Cowboys and Giants 0:14:29.620 --> 0:14:32.130 played like the next week and They're running out with 0:14:32.150 --> 0:14:35.360 the flag, and it was just a massive moment. And obviously, like, 0:14:35.460 --> 0:14:38.360 George W. throwing the strike. Was it the Rangers game 0:14:38.380 --> 0:14:40.580 or the Yankees game? It's just right down the pipe. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.880 That's an unbelievable moment. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.300 There were a whole bunch of moments in those following weeks. And, Chris, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.760 I know you've talked about this a million times, and 0:14:49.780 --> 0:14:52.670 you're dead right. The whole, like, the world changing on 0:14:52.690 --> 0:14:55.880 September 11th and what the kids don't understand is, We, I, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.060 we thought that was going to be somewhat of the 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.080 new norm. Like every couple of years we were going 0:15:00.100 --> 0:15:03.450 to have to face something. And are we going to 0:15:03.590 --> 0:15:05.850 get planes hijacked every once in a while? Are we 0:15:05.890 --> 0:15:10.250 going to have terrorist attacks now frequently or semi-frequently on 0:15:10.350 --> 0:15:13.210 us soil? And in the last 25 years, outside of 0:15:13.250 --> 0:15:16.290 a handful of minor incidents, we've had nothing. I mean, 0:15:16.330 --> 0:15:20.130 and that's a shout out to our military, our intelligence, uh, 0:15:20.670 --> 0:15:23.130 Military intelligence, not just our general intelligence. 0:15:23.150 --> 0:15:24.050 You know what I'm saying? 0:15:24.250 --> 0:15:25.670 We thought it was going to be like, this is 0:15:25.710 --> 0:15:27.810 our new normal. We're going to have to dodge some bullets. 0:15:27.890 --> 0:15:29.610 And we really haven't. 0:15:29.950 --> 0:15:33.510 My favorite moment of that year actually happened in preseason. 0:15:33.530 --> 0:15:36.390 And I hated playing in preseason games, let alone watching them. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.480 And our last preseason game, we were playing on Long Island. 0:15:39.500 --> 0:15:43.620 We played the Rangers. And the crowd, I mean, for warm-up, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.380 it was packed. It was crazy. It's a preseason game. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.080 You're lucky to get half the fans. And it was 0:15:49.220 --> 0:15:54.580 absolutely jam-packed. The Rangers all had NYPD hats on, and 0:15:54.620 --> 0:15:57.960 we had fire department hats on for warm-ups and They 0:15:57.980 --> 0:16:00.260 brought out the big flag and everything, and we all 0:16:00.300 --> 0:16:04.540 kind of went, every other Ranger Islander player holding this 0:16:04.620 --> 0:16:08.300 enormous flag. And the way the crowd was, usually at 0:16:08.340 --> 0:16:11.260 an Islanders-Rangers game, it's a flip a coin. Is there 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.920 going to be more fights on the ice or in 0:16:12.940 --> 0:16:16.990 the crowd? That's kind of what made it fun. But 0:16:17.030 --> 0:16:20.850 the way everybody was coming together, and everybody obviously still 0:16:20.890 --> 0:16:23.590 just so emotional about it. The anthem was the loudest 0:16:23.670 --> 0:16:26.850 anthem I've ever heard. Everybody was just at the top 0:16:26.890 --> 0:16:29.730 of their lungs. And seeing all those fans and all 0:16:29.770 --> 0:16:33.110 those people just come together in that moment was truly incredible. 0:16:33.150 --> 0:16:34.950 And I will never, ever, ever forget it. 0:16:35.130 --> 0:16:37.360 Here's something you guys might not know. There's a little 0:16:37.380 --> 0:16:41.960 town not far from St. Cloud called Rockville, Minnesota. And 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.340 if you go down to St. Cloud and you go towards, say, 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.520 Cold Spring, on your right-hand side there, literally you start 0:16:47.540 --> 0:16:49.610 seeing some giant rocks that don't look like they belong 0:16:49.630 --> 0:16:51.170 in lakes and just on the side of the road. 0:16:51.190 --> 0:16:54.770 There's a little town there called Rockville. Rockville has not 0:16:55.270 --> 0:16:59.410 just a 9-11 memorial, but there's a monument featuring a 0:16:59.500 --> 0:17:02.900 nearly 1,000-pound steel beam that was recovered from the World 0:17:02.940 --> 0:17:05.340 Trade Center in Rockville, Minnesota. It's a tiny little town. 0:17:05.619 --> 0:17:05.919