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Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on an NHL and Scripted were giving flowers

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Speaker 1: to Paul Maurice. Plus that's so guest Mike Scully, that's right,

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Speaker 1: former showrunner and writer of The Simpsons, a diehard Kings fan.

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Speaker 1: He's got stories for days with hockey and involving the

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Speaker 1: La Kings and the Simpsons. Plus Ovi's gold number one

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Speaker 1: thousand and turning cough Please interesting story involving Cole Coughfield,

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Speaker 1: and that would begin. Yeah, well that's kind of the

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Speaker 1: reference I think that was making. Do you have a

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Speaker 1: JD POV? I know it was a big hit last week?

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Speaker 1: Maybe a pov out of the gate.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it was an enormous hit. I mean I it

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Speaker 2: was an enormous hit. I have one of two, either

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Speaker 2: Darren Radish getting paid and Darren Radish not being Just

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Speaker 2: because he's playing with Kucherov doesn't mean Kutrov doesn't need

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Speaker 2: Darren Radish, And if not for Darren Radish, Koutrov wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be having the season he's having the fact that because

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Speaker 2: not anybody can just play on a top power play

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Speaker 2: unit and just be with the best players in the

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Speaker 2: world and be like, oh yeah, it's just plug and

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Speaker 2: play and it works. It's very difficult to play with

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Speaker 2: those guys. I go back to his goal last game,

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Speaker 2: picked it up off the left skate, beautiful top shelf shot.

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Speaker 2: So fuck all you guys saying that Darren Radish doesn't

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Speaker 2: deserve that money because he deserves the payper.

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Speaker 3: All right, A good POV out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: I just mentioned that I was at the Madison Square Guarden.

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Speaker 1: The loan game on the schedule on Monday was the

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Speaker 1: Ottawa Center's Face and the Rangers as a must win Nate.

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Speaker 3: The Rangers put up nine shots.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's the fewest shots I had since Gump

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Speaker 1: Worsley was playing in net Johnny Busick was back in

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Speaker 1: the day in the nineteen fifties. So it was an

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Speaker 1: awful game for the Rangers perspective. I am curious from

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Speaker 1: your perspective, how did you like playing at the garden,

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Speaker 1: because while we were there, I was staying to Chris

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Speaker 1: Pronger john Ford's lison every time I come to MSG

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Speaker 1: and it mainly go for Knicks games for my son.

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Speaker 1: But I said, it's love it or hey, really, so

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Speaker 1: I love it in some ways because I'm like, it

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Speaker 1: is massive Square Guard and you feel the history.

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Speaker 3: I love the open Bobb O'Riley hits, the Rangers come

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Speaker 3: out like it's it's great entertainment.

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Speaker 1: I do feel like I'm on Broadway, great anthem always,

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Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's old.

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Speaker 3: It's the crapit there's like one elevator. Who the hell?

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Speaker 1: Where do you think an elevator go to an arena?

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Speaker 1: Seats aren't as good decaying a little bit. Where are

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Speaker 1: you at when you played at Madison Square Guard? Did

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Speaker 1: you feel the chills or did you just say, eh, overrated?

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Speaker 4: No chills. It's MSG.

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Speaker 5: I there in Montreal are the two places that I

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Speaker 5: my first NHL goal at MSG, so on on Hank

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Speaker 5: So I mean that's yeah. The MSG's a special place.

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Speaker 5: I mean when you go when you go in there,

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Speaker 5: it feels like you're an auditorium.

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Speaker 4: I mean you look up and it's showing.

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Speaker 5: There's super and there's TV stars and I mean it's, uh,

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Speaker 4: It's a great place to be.

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Speaker 3: JD you with that. Do you like playing in New York?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: It's dark. It's yeah, the fans are far away. But

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Speaker 2: that's just me. Nate. You're new here. I'm a hater,

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Speaker 2: you know this. I hate on a lot of things.

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Speaker 2: I love the I'll say this, the walk up the

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Speaker 2: ramp does not disappoint. It is very iconic. There you

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Speaker 2: go and the walk into the rink and when you

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Speaker 2: and you just go check the ice. That is a

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Speaker 2: very cool, incredible moment. After that once around the ice

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Speaker 3: It's just tauch. How many players could you say?

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Speaker 1: You go into arena and you have to go to

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Speaker 3: And then floor ten is the press box and your

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Speaker 3: way the hell up.

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Speaker 2: There only New York, Yo, Frank, No, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: Gonna do it right now. Let's let's hand coach the

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Speaker 1: All season long, we've been talking about McDavid McKinnon Celebrinia

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Speaker 1: for the art. Nikita kucher Off has been listening the

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Speaker 1: AHL's first start of the week, fourteen points in his

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Speaker 1: last five games, now leads the league in points. Tuesday

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Speaker 1: Night became just the eighth player in hockey history to

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Speaker 1: injuries to Victor have been in braden Point, Koutrov has

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Speaker 1: led TAMPAA one of the best records in the league.

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Speaker 1: You've long said for years, now, Jad the Koutroff is underappreciated.

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Speaker 1: Is this the year he gets his second Heart Trophy?

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Speaker 2: If he doesn't get it, I stormed the capitol and

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Speaker 2: I riot. It's a full riot. I don't know where

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna storm what capital where, but I'm storming something

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Speaker 2: and I'm riding because too much disrespect on the name

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Speaker 2: of Nikita Koutrov, people even putting other guys in the category.

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Speaker 2: I get, you can, you can go to the Celebrini route.

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Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of Sealabrini. I get you can

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Speaker 2: go to the McDavid route. But what he does at

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Speaker 2: is absolutely astonishing. The pace he's on. This team was

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Speaker 2: missing every single player, it felt like, at the start

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Speaker 2: of the year, and he was just chugging along. He

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Speaker 2: gets he's very underappreciated, and I think he should have

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Speaker 2: got it last year. I think he gets it this year.

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Speaker 2: And if he doesn't, Nate, I'm I'm doing something to

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Speaker 2: something somewhere. I don't know where. I'll figure it out

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Speaker 5: I will join you. If that's the case. I'm not

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Speaker 5: gonna hate on you on this one, because I agree

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Speaker 5: he's the Yes, he has to be the MVP.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 5: Listen, I go back to my playing career and I

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Speaker 5: on his game. The little things like the drills that

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Speaker 5: simple things like rim around the boards. I'm sure you've

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Speaker 5: heard he works on that rim around the boards constantly,

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Speaker 5: over and over and over again. You know, OTS would

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Speaker 5: use him as an example and talk about him and

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Speaker 5: the way he adamotates a Hall of Famer talks about

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Speaker 5: every drill he's as examples. I mean, how players want

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Speaker 5: to watch him. He's he's a perfectionist. He is, you know,

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Speaker 5: I saw it when he came up as a young

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Speaker 5: he is, he is the MVP.

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Speaker 4: The way he makes everyone better.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned Taylor.

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Speaker 5: Radish JD and I agree with you on that, and

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Speaker 5: I think part of that is Cooch is making these

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Speaker 5: working on these drills in certain scenarios. Yeah, you know

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Speaker 5: he's doing that. So I think it's a credit to

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Speaker 5: those guys. But you know, Nikita Kutrov, he makes everyone

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Speaker 2: He's study I mean he sorry, he studies ad Man

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Speaker 1: And unfortunately he's not gonna have Victor Hedmon with him.

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Speaker 1: Thirty five or old last up year.

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Speaker 3: During March nineteen sixty two win of.

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Speaker 3: He also missed the last three games with the ailments.

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Speaker 1: So he's taking a temporary leave of absence from the

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Speaker 1: team for personal reasons. No further details to be shared.

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Speaker 1: The team asked has provacy be respected at this time.

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Speaker 1: He's only appeared in thirty three games this season. He

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Speaker 1: missed twelve games and then undisclosed injury November, another twenty

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Speaker 1: two games undergoing elbow surgery in December again, and it's

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Speaker 1: unfair to spect that exactly what's happening. But the bottom

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Speaker 1: line is this is a significant absence. I know they've

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Speaker 1: been very successful that in this season, there's second in

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Speaker 1: the Atlantic Division, two points behind the Sabers, but no headman.

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Speaker 3: That's concerning.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's their captain, he's their leader. I

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Speaker 4: But you know you said it.

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Speaker 5: Though, they were able to sustain a pretty damn good

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Speaker 5: their decore is I think one of the best in

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Speaker 5: and I hope everything's okay, I mean the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 5: Lighting will get arrested Victor Hedman in the playoffs and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is the only thing. And again

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Speaker 2: I hope he's okay, and you know, he's a great

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Speaker 2: does this does this Darren Radish season and JJ Moser?

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Speaker 2: Does this make Headman a little expendable in terms of

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Speaker 2: trading this offseason? You know Breezebaw has done it before

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Speaker 2: with Stamcos emotional leader or not. I think, like you know,

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Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that, like you know, I don't

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Speaker 2: know what he has going on, and hopefully he's healthy,

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Speaker 2: and like I said, everything is I'm just putting on

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Speaker 2: you know they have a chance to win a Cup.

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Speaker 2: But the season they've had in his absence is there.

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Speaker 2: You know, you pay Radish or you let him walk?

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Speaker 2: Do you maybe move Headman? I don't know, Just to

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Speaker 2: he's he's happy and healthy again. I don't know. This

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Speaker 3: That's listen.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think it's a little premature. JD had powerful

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Speaker 1: the Lighting. This feels a little premature to deal them.

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Speaker 1: It felt coming a little more.

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, premature ejaculation and premature takes. That's my thing. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I mean that's stop.

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Speaker 3: It's certainly one way of looking at it.

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Speaker 2: Stop. I don't do that anymore anymore.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't an issue. We got to see Alice on

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Speaker 1: the phone. Everything's okay now, Yeah, we're all right.

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Speaker 4: Just breathe, just breathe.

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Speaker 1: Meantime, McDavid mcdisappointed another likely heart filens this season. McDavid

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Speaker 1: reached two filists in one like Tuesday against Utah, four

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Speaker 1: hundred goals and twelve hundred points in the same game.

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Speaker 3: That not all as well to Oilers Land.

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Speaker 1: Following comments last week from McDavid referring to the Pacific

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Speaker 1: Division race as a quote pillow fight and heaping praise

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Speaker 1: on John Cooper and the Lightning for their perfect system,

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Speaker 2: No, never again.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll have them going all the way just to appeal.

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Speaker 2: We You don't talk shit against the Oilers because you

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Speaker 3: They don't have a nickname yet, maybe called Zukski.

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure that's gonna take. But no, they've been

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Speaker 4: They've been incredible.

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Speaker 6: They've been making like they're getting the number one defensive

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Speaker 6: It's just these guys and they're putting up huge numbers

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Speaker 2: Yeah, deservedly so, it deservedly so. The last eight nine games,

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Speaker 3: He's just keep going. I just like sometimes he was

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Speaker 4: And they've done that. I mean, they've been all world.

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Speaker 2: We're talking Rangers right now.

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Speaker 1: The fact listen, you played seven hundred NHL games imagine

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Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna say it right now I'm also gonna

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's low hanging fruit.

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Speaker 1: Three five into their last ten games, they've slipped on

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Speaker 3: How many years have to wait? If I'm from hockey.

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Speaker 4: Town, I don't know. This is time.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they they're they're finding ways to lose right now,

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Speaker 2: So what a story? Autawa is? What a story?

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Speaker 1: If they'd had Cooker Golton and they would easily be

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Speaker 2: Good. Good on them for I. That's a great story.

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Speaker 2: I think Detroit needs to miss again and just let's

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Speaker 4: They defend well. Autawa defends well, don't they.

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Speaker 2: Like it's so hard you're right, Travis Green shout out.

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Speaker 6: Well, let's let's be honest here. How many of you

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Speaker 3: Absolutely?

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Speaker 6: You know, they've had so many injuries on that back

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Speaker 1: I believe seven and two that Jake Sanderson one defenseman.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead.

435
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Speaker 6: I mean, who who picture that happened? What's been the obviously,

436
00:19:08,872 --> 00:19:11,352
Speaker 6: the goaltending has been the issue all season. That seems

437
00:19:11,352 --> 00:19:13,272
Speaker 6: to have tightened up, But just when they seem to

438
00:19:13,272 --> 00:19:15,592
Speaker 6: be rounding into form, they're ready to make a run

439
00:19:15,632 --> 00:19:18,272
Speaker 6: of the playoffs, and their top d man goes down

440
00:19:18,352 --> 00:19:20,272
Speaker 6: and they've just been having injury after injury on the

441
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Speaker 6: back end. I mean, what do you see has been

442
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Speaker 6: the key with all these injuries basically. Now, I mean

443
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Speaker 6: I I don't think anyone here has any doubt they're

444
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Speaker 6: making the playoffs. Like they have a full head of

445
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Speaker 6: team the postseason.

446
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Speaker 2: They have a tough schedule, yeah, coming down the stretch.

447
00:19:34,032 --> 00:19:36,912
Speaker 2: They have a tough tough schedule down the stretch.

448
00:19:37,192 --> 00:19:39,591
Speaker 1: Listen, I got Columbus third of the Metro and Boston

449
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Speaker 1: Ottawa of the wild cards.

450
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Speaker 2: Oh, Columbus third of the I have Columbus is two

451
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Speaker 2: in the Metro for me. Nice, They're gonna be firmly

452
00:19:45,832 --> 00:19:50,912
Speaker 2: two nineteen wins for Bonus already he matched Everson's nineteen

453
00:19:50,992 --> 00:19:55,712
Speaker 2: wins Nate and Columbus is two for me. Pitt I

454
00:19:55,752 --> 00:19:59,472
Speaker 2: want to say Pits three. Yeah, and then I'm gonna go.

455
00:19:59,552 --> 00:20:02,232
Speaker 2: It's a big game for Boston. Their next game here

456
00:20:02,232 --> 00:20:03,872
Speaker 2: against Boston tonight.

457
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Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm with you. I think it's gonna be

458
00:20:08,552 --> 00:20:14,032
Speaker 5: five Atlantic and three Metro. It's gonna be that exactly, Boston, Boston, Ottawa,

459
00:20:14,632 --> 00:20:18,992
Speaker 5: and Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Spot and Columbus no isles. I know

460
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Speaker 5: I hate saying that too.

461
00:20:20,472 --> 00:20:22,872
Speaker 2: But they're the worst defensive metrics hits.

462
00:20:22,832 --> 00:20:25,512
Speaker 4: Exactly, and watching last night against Chicago. I don't know.

463
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Speaker 5: I'm not a believer in them right now. I Columbus, Pittsburgh,

464
00:20:30,272 --> 00:20:32,912
Speaker 5: those teams, the way Columbus is playing right now, I mean,

465
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Speaker 5: once they get in they could go they can make

466
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Speaker 5: some hay like they could be going deep.

467
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Speaker 4: You never know what to say.

468
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Speaker 1: To Night's point, I like the teams that I know

469
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Speaker 1: can actually do something. If Columbus gets in there, they

470
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Speaker 1: could go on a run.

471
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Speaker 3: Ottawa could go.

472
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Speaker 4: In a run. Yeah.

473
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Speaker 2: Islanders, No, they're not going in to run. They just

474
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Speaker 2: had what a slow start last game. God, they're gonna

475
00:20:51,192 --> 00:20:54,512
Speaker 2: be kicking themselves for that. They had was it? They

476
00:20:54,512 --> 00:20:57,752
Speaker 2: had like twenty inner slot shots to five for Chicago.

477
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Speaker 2: It was, but they just bad start that'll kill you.

478
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Speaker 2: Took them lightly. You can't take them lightly, That's true.

479
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Speaker 1: Last here, then we'll get to our special guest Mike

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Speaker 1: Scully of The Simpsons, Alexander Ovechkin another day in the Milestone.

481
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Speaker 1: Just the second player in hockey history, Dwayne Gretzkin has

482
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Speaker 1: scored a thousand combined goals in the regular season in playoffs.

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Speaker 7: E J.

484
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Speaker 3: Raddick at the call with Kevin Weeks.

485
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Speaker 1: He'll also finish the season, Obi will more than twenty

486
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Speaker 1: five goals, tying Gordy Howe for the all time record

487
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Speaker 1: twentieth twenty five goal season. And a fun little detail

488
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Speaker 1: about that historic goal against the Avs, set up by

489
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Speaker 1: Washington defensive prospect Cole Hudson, who got his first career

490
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Speaker 1: assist on the play. I know it has n't been

491
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Speaker 1: a great season JD for Alexandervenchen. I know the Capitals

492
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Speaker 1: aren't going anywhere. I believe he'll retire after the season,

493
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Speaker 1: But a thousand goals combined sick.

494
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Speaker 2: Hey, he's the greatest goal scorer of all time. I

495
00:21:46,752 --> 00:21:49,552
Speaker 2: just think it ends on that, and I like that

496
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Speaker 2: you finally come around. I did say Ovi was retiring

497
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Speaker 2: at the end of last year. After this year, he's

498
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Speaker 2: going back to Russia. I think he got his thousand.

499
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Speaker 2: You could see the elation when he got that one,

500
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Speaker 2: Like it was kind I think it might have been

501
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Speaker 2: on his list. But you know, kudos to Washington for

502
00:22:05,072 --> 00:22:07,632
Speaker 2: seeing like what they had and being like, I don't

503
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Speaker 2: think we have enough in moving on from John Carlson

504
00:22:10,152 --> 00:22:11,952
Speaker 2: and kind of showing everybody this is the changing of

505
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Speaker 2: the guard. But ov Man, congratulations. I mean, he's he's

506
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Speaker 2: just he's the greatest goal sert of all time period

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Speaker 2: point exclamation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I second that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's just incredible that he's still able to.

510
00:22:26,032 --> 00:22:28,952
Speaker 5: I mean, he's still scoring this many goals every year

511
00:22:28,992 --> 00:22:31,112
Speaker 5: and the way he does it, And I mean, the

512
00:22:31,152 --> 00:22:32,992
Speaker 5: best part about it is what I love about Ovi

513
00:22:33,152 --> 00:22:35,752
Speaker 5: is even now when he scores, he still gets excited,

514
00:22:35,872 --> 00:22:37,472
Speaker 5: is as excited as he did when.

515
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Speaker 4: He first scored his very first goal. It's the same

516
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Speaker 4: reaction and I love that, and.

517
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Speaker 5: It is it's it's almost a little sad in a

518
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Speaker 5: way because you know, Washington with caps. You just think

519
00:22:47,792 --> 00:22:49,752
Speaker 5: of Carlson and Ov and all these guys and now,

520
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Speaker 5: like like Jad said, it's a changing of the guard.

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Speaker 1: Still to cout Mike Scully of The Simpsons, He's got

522
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Speaker 1: stories about Krusty the Clown, Lisa on Ice, and about

523
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Speaker 1: running for some of the most popular shows in the universe.

524
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Speaker 1: That's Mike Scully. Noady Kings Fan coming up next this

525
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Speaker 1: on NHL and scripted Our Next Guest, a legendary TV

526
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Speaker 1: writer and producer, served as executive producer and show warning

527
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Speaker 1: for The Simpsons from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand

528
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Speaker 1: and one and worked in other classic shows like Everyone

529
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Speaker 1: Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation. He is also co

530
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Speaker 1: creator of Duncanville and co developed the Napoleon Dynamite animated

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Speaker 1: series and as Other credits include Shifting Gears, Rail, The

532
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Speaker 1: Carmichael Show, The Pits, and The New Normal. More important,

533
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Speaker 1: he is a diehard Kings fan. It is Mike Scully, Mike, welcome, unscripted.

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Speaker 7: Great to see you, Hey, nice to see all you guys.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the important stuff. You're taking the Kings

536
00:23:53,192 --> 00:23:55,872
Speaker 1: this season? And where do they go? Once Andree Copetar

537
00:23:55,992 --> 00:23:58,352
Speaker 1: rides the zamboni into the sunset.

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Speaker 7: Where do they go?

539
00:24:02,432 --> 00:24:06,832
Speaker 8: Maybe into the first round after he's gone.

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Speaker 7: I think it's panerent tine man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this year, the like you said, it is probably

542
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Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty year a playoff team.

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Speaker 8: You feel like, honestly it's not looking great, you know,

544
00:24:19,072 --> 00:24:22,672
Speaker 8: but the whole division though, so it's it's you couldn't

545
00:24:22,672 --> 00:24:24,792
Speaker 8: you couldn't ask for like a more of a contest

546
00:24:24,912 --> 00:24:29,712
Speaker 8: to deliberately lose something. Uh so they might still squeak in,

547
00:24:29,832 --> 00:24:31,792
Speaker 8: but I don't know beyond that, it doesn't look good.

548
00:24:32,592 --> 00:24:35,432
Speaker 2: It's it's been coined a pillow fight, which is uh

549
00:24:36,112 --> 00:24:39,712
Speaker 2: was definitely uh it was. It was well categorized. But

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you last week, our colleague here,

551
00:24:42,832 --> 00:24:47,512
Speaker 2: Nate Thompson said, without hesitation, mind you, and with the

552
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Speaker 2: biggest balls I've ever seen, said that Count Copeatar was

553
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Speaker 2: the greatest king of all time. Where do you stand

554
00:24:53,672 --> 00:24:56,192
Speaker 2: on that? And give me some Copeitar memories?

555
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Speaker 1: Just blasphemous, by the way, to Marcel Dion, Go ahead, Mike.

556
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Speaker 7: First of all, I think I would agree with Nate

557
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Speaker 7: on that.

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00:25:06,912 --> 00:25:11,071
Speaker 8: Whoa yeah, yeah, you know, over like the scope of

559
00:25:11,112 --> 00:25:14,152
Speaker 8: a twenty years. Yeah, in terms of what he meant

560
00:25:14,152 --> 00:25:18,272
Speaker 8: to the team. I remember actually seeing him at his

561
00:25:18,352 --> 00:25:21,831
Speaker 8: first camp and I didn't know anything about him, and

562
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Speaker 8: I just saw him out in the ice without knowing

563
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Speaker 8: who he was, and I asked the guy sitting next

564
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Speaker 8: to me. He's like, who's that kid out there? He's

565
00:25:28,712 --> 00:25:32,912
Speaker 8: really good, and he explained to me who he was.

566
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Speaker 8: But it didn't seem like he was a lock to

567
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Speaker 8: make the team the first year, if I'm not mistaken.

568
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Speaker 8: But yeah, he's meant so much to the team. I

569
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Speaker 8: think just the kind of quiet leadership and class and

570
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Speaker 8: you know that he plays that very like Patrice bergeron

571
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Speaker 8: game and you know he's been kind of a just

572
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Speaker 8: a steady, calming influence on the team. You know, has

573
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Speaker 8: there been flash year that have come and gone. Probably,

574
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Speaker 8: but you know, the Ziggi Palfy years were certainly a

575
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Speaker 8: lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Well, every time they need to touch the puck man,

579
00:26:07,952 --> 00:26:10,112
Speaker 8: the fucking place would just jump out of their seats,

580
00:26:10,112 --> 00:26:12,592
Speaker 8: because you always knew something could happen.

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Speaker 5: You know, going back to your love for hockey, like,

582
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Speaker 5: where did that originate?

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Speaker 4: Where did that start?

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Speaker 5: You know you mentioned to JD and I before the

585
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Speaker 5: show being from Springfield, mass You know where and when

586
00:26:26,192 --> 00:26:28,351
Speaker 5: did your love for the Kings start? You know, how

587
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Speaker 5: did how did this all culminate for you?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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00:26:31,752 --> 00:26:34,071
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I grew up in Springfield, Mass and we

590
00:26:34,152 --> 00:26:38,232
Speaker 8: had an AHL team there that at that time. When

591
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Speaker 8: I get into it, they they used to be the

592
00:26:39,872 --> 00:26:44,712
Speaker 8: Springfield Indians. Then they became the farm team for the

593
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Speaker 8: LA Kings, so they became the Springfield Kings. So I

594
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Speaker 8: kind of felt this, you know, a little little you know,

595
00:26:51,232 --> 00:26:55,352
Speaker 8: thread connection to this team three thousand miles away because

596
00:26:55,392 --> 00:26:57,952
Speaker 8: we would see some of the players coming through and

597
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Speaker 8: going up to the big team or or they'd come

598
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Speaker 8: down for a while for you know, a conditioning thing

599
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Speaker 8: or something. So always felt that connection.

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Speaker 7: And we'll we.

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Speaker 8: Like, particularly like the nineteen sixty nine to seventy season,

602
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Speaker 8: we had Butch Goring uh there for the second half

603
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Speaker 8: of the season. He had had like he had had Buch.

604
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Speaker 8: He was up with La but he had mono or something.

605
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Speaker 8: He was having health problems and he just didn't have energy.

606
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Speaker 8: So they finally sent him down to Springfield for a while,

607
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Speaker 8: and he fucking like not only like dominates the league,

608
00:27:32,432 --> 00:27:35,071
Speaker 8: but I mean he just takes over the series the

609
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Speaker 8: second half of the season, and literally I don't even

610
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Speaker 8: know if he knows what he meant to that whole

611
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Speaker 8: Springfield area, Like it was kind of a depressed area

612
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Speaker 8: in general economically and things like that and incomes. Butch

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Speaker 8: Goring at like maybe nineteen years old, with the you know,

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Speaker 8: eight layers of paint on his helmet and just he

615
00:27:58,712 --> 00:28:04,152
Speaker 8: and and and Billy Smith and goal was an unbelievable combination.

616
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Speaker 8: And so that that's kind of where you know, I

617
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Speaker 8: got in that point. And I used to like the

618
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Speaker 8: arena was like ten minutes from my house, so I

619
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Speaker 8: could walk over there and see games.

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Speaker 7: I was a rink rat.

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Speaker 8: I was there every Saturday morning for practices to watch Beau.

622
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Speaker 8: And they'd be out there practicing, these highly trained professional athletes,

623
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Speaker 8: and they'd be like rows of beer cans lined up

624
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Speaker 8: on the box with a lit cigarette on each one

625
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Speaker 8: of these.

626
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Speaker 2: However, in the starting in Springfield, right to the arena.

627
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Speaker 3: Like going back to the Yeah, exactly, back to the Simpsons.

628
00:28:46,792 --> 00:28:50,032
Speaker 1: You famously wrote the classic episode Lisa on Ice, in

629
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Speaker 1: which Lisa and Bart Simpson go head to head on

630
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Speaker 1: the ice. How important was it if you'd write a

631
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Speaker 1: hockey episode at least once for the Simpsons?

632
00:28:57,192 --> 00:28:59,432
Speaker 8: It was really important because when I got there, it

633
00:28:59,552 --> 00:29:01,752
Speaker 8: was like near the end of the fourth season and

634
00:29:01,792 --> 00:29:08,192
Speaker 8: they had already done several sports episodes. So you know,

635
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Speaker 8: I said, you guys haven't done anything with hockey. So

636
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Speaker 8: I sold him on a hockey story kind of partially

637
00:29:14,512 --> 00:29:19,032
Speaker 8: based on my experiences like playing, but also at the

638
00:29:19,232 --> 00:29:22,832
Speaker 8: Eastern States Coliseum with the you know, watching the Kings

639
00:29:22,992 --> 00:29:26,552
Speaker 8: and the scene with Millhouse and goal where he's like

640
00:29:26,632 --> 00:29:30,672
Speaker 8: strapped to the posts and yeah, because Eddie Shore used

641
00:29:30,672 --> 00:29:34,432
Speaker 8: to own the Springfield Kings and he didn't like his

642
00:29:34,512 --> 00:29:38,112
Speaker 8: goalies to flop on the ice, so he would tie.

643
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Speaker 7: Their arms to the post.

644
00:29:39,752 --> 00:29:40,472
Speaker 2: No, we wouldn't.

645
00:29:40,672 --> 00:29:41,032
Speaker 4: Yes, he.

646
00:29:43,352 --> 00:29:44,632
Speaker 7: Was nuts.

647
00:29:45,152 --> 00:29:47,592
Speaker 8: I'm sure a great player, but he was insane, Like

648
00:29:47,672 --> 00:29:50,152
Speaker 8: he would come down. If a puck went out during

649
00:29:50,232 --> 00:29:53,512
Speaker 8: practice and it got shot up into the seats, we go,

650
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Speaker 8: you know, the kids, We would go running up to

651
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Speaker 8: get the puck. He fucking he would take off running

652
00:29:58,632 --> 00:30:01,832
Speaker 8: and we were racing this, you know, seventy five eighty

653
00:30:01,912 --> 00:30:04,352
Speaker 8: year old man to get to this puck first, because

654
00:30:04,432 --> 00:30:07,152
Speaker 8: he didn't want us to get because everything was money,

655
00:30:07,232 --> 00:30:09,432
Speaker 8: you know, it was all about those pucks cost money,

656
00:30:09,472 --> 00:30:12,832
Speaker 8: those broken sticks cost money. Anything that you know, he

657
00:30:12,912 --> 00:30:15,312
Speaker 8: thought he could make. So he was always and he

658
00:30:15,472 --> 00:30:17,712
Speaker 8: chased us out of the arena and shit like that.

659
00:30:17,752 --> 00:30:18,672
Speaker 7: But it was a lot of fun.

660
00:30:19,432 --> 00:30:22,152
Speaker 2: Eddie's shore chasing you out of the rink, that's that's so,

661
00:30:22,352 --> 00:30:25,752
Speaker 2: that's amazing. But you know, going back to the Simpsons,

662
00:30:25,912 --> 00:30:27,632
Speaker 2: you know I kind of heard when you were a

663
00:30:27,632 --> 00:30:32,152
Speaker 2: showrunner for them you adjusted production schedule around the King's

664
00:30:32,272 --> 00:30:36,192
Speaker 2: game schedule? Is that true? And how did that work out?

665
00:30:36,792 --> 00:30:39,592
Speaker 8: Well? Yeah, that would happen because I had season tickets

666
00:30:39,592 --> 00:30:42,992
Speaker 8: to go to the Kings games. So yeah, if there's

667
00:30:43,032 --> 00:30:45,632
Speaker 8: ever like if, because sometimes we would have to work

668
00:30:45,632 --> 00:30:47,872
Speaker 8: at night and get things done. So I would always

669
00:30:48,072 --> 00:30:51,752
Speaker 8: look ahead that week of like which nights I knew

670
00:30:51,792 --> 00:30:53,152
Speaker 8: we were going to have up, and I would tell

671
00:30:53,192 --> 00:30:55,552
Speaker 8: the staff, We're not going to be working, you know,

672
00:30:55,912 --> 00:30:57,232
Speaker 8: Monday night, Thursday night.

673
00:30:57,792 --> 00:31:00,912
Speaker 7: Don't worry about. Make plans with your family if you want.

674
00:31:01,352 --> 00:31:03,552
Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. You get the wife.

675
00:31:03,672 --> 00:31:06,512
Speaker 2: The wife being like, kay, honey, we have the Kings

676
00:31:06,512 --> 00:31:09,992
Speaker 2: are playing on Thursday. We're going to dinner. Because I

677
00:31:10,032 --> 00:31:12,672
Speaker 2: know Mike's gonna say, we ain't working right exactly.

678
00:31:12,832 --> 00:31:15,832
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so we did that, but uh yeah, And

679
00:31:15,872 --> 00:31:19,072
Speaker 8: the Lisa on Ice episode, there was also and that

680
00:31:19,352 --> 00:31:21,952
Speaker 8: there was a little the way Lisa played Gold was

681
00:31:22,072 --> 00:31:24,192
Speaker 8: kind of a direct tribute to Billy Smith.

682
00:31:25,192 --> 00:31:28,752
Speaker 7: They hack the bone stuff like that.

683
00:31:29,752 --> 00:31:32,792
Speaker 8: Fox had made these promotional pucks at the time for

684
00:31:32,872 --> 00:31:37,952
Speaker 8: the episode. I've had matc Ranning drew on it and

685
00:31:37,992 --> 00:31:40,392
Speaker 8: signed it. But uh, I've had this now for like

686
00:31:40,592 --> 00:31:43,592
Speaker 8: thirty thirty five years something like that.

687
00:31:43,592 --> 00:31:46,072
Speaker 4: That's cool, that's amazing, Mike.

688
00:31:46,152 --> 00:31:48,832
Speaker 5: I have some buddies from home back to Alaska that

689
00:31:48,872 --> 00:31:51,712
Speaker 5: they killed me by the nastas and they're huge Simpsons

690
00:31:51,752 --> 00:31:54,192
Speaker 5: fans and speak of a excuse me speaking of Lisa

691
00:31:54,192 --> 00:31:57,392
Speaker 5: on Ice. You know, the Simpsons are known for, you know,

692
00:31:57,432 --> 00:32:02,232
Speaker 5: their famous predictions, and you know there's different episodes and

693
00:32:02,232 --> 00:32:03,912
Speaker 5: and I look some of these up and I saw

694
00:32:03,912 --> 00:32:06,272
Speaker 5: some of these up remembered, and it's like Lisa's wedding,

695
00:32:06,832 --> 00:32:09,792
Speaker 5: like the video call where now you know they're spacetime right,

696
00:32:09,792 --> 00:32:12,232
Speaker 5: their video calling each other and Lisa's on even Lisa

697
00:32:12,232 --> 00:32:16,752
Speaker 5: on Ice, you know, they're Newton's typing or I think

698
00:32:16,752 --> 00:32:18,512
Speaker 5: he says beat up Martin, but it says eat up

699
00:32:18,512 --> 00:32:23,192
Speaker 5: Martha Yestead, right because autocorrect. Yeah, is this was this

700
00:32:23,272 --> 00:32:25,592
Speaker 5: a thought product? Like I guess just take me behind

701
00:32:25,592 --> 00:32:28,232
Speaker 5: the thought process of how you guys predict the future.

702
00:32:29,192 --> 00:32:33,112
Speaker 8: Ah, yeah, it's well, I'd love to say time travel,

703
00:32:33,512 --> 00:32:36,592
Speaker 8: time travel. Yeah, we're just we you know, we're dropping

704
00:32:36,592 --> 00:32:44,032
Speaker 8: a shitload of acid in that room. So no, I

705
00:32:44,072 --> 00:32:45,992
Speaker 8: mean a lot of it is just kind of like

706
00:32:46,072 --> 00:32:48,632
Speaker 8: stuff that maybe is just kind of in the ether

707
00:32:48,952 --> 00:32:52,272
Speaker 8: at the time. Like probably the biggest prediction we made

708
00:32:52,352 --> 00:32:56,672
Speaker 8: was the you know, Trump becoming president, and we did

709
00:32:56,672 --> 00:32:59,712
Speaker 8: that around I think around nineteen ninety nine.

710
00:32:59,912 --> 00:33:02,632
Speaker 7: We did that. We just needed a joke.

711
00:33:02,712 --> 00:33:05,952
Speaker 8: It was a future fantasy episod, so where Lisa's president

712
00:33:05,992 --> 00:33:08,432
Speaker 8: in the United States, and we had a joke set

713
00:33:08,472 --> 00:33:10,992
Speaker 8: up of okay, we're you know, we're I'm taking over

714
00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:15,872
Speaker 8: an economic mess from President Blank, and we just started

715
00:33:15,912 --> 00:33:19,352
Speaker 8: pitching names. And for a while it was going to

716
00:33:19,392 --> 00:33:24,672
Speaker 8: be President Johnny Depp, so nice, and then somebody mentioned

717
00:33:24,672 --> 00:33:28,592
Speaker 8: Trump because he had floated a couple times around that

718
00:33:28,872 --> 00:33:31,912
Speaker 8: time that someday he might run for president, actually as

719
00:33:31,952 --> 00:33:36,392
Speaker 8: a Democrat, but he mentioned it, and then it kind

720
00:33:36,392 --> 00:33:38,152
Speaker 8: of it just kind of became all right, who would

721
00:33:38,192 --> 00:33:42,152
Speaker 8: be like the stupidest person America could elect president? And

722
00:33:42,232 --> 00:33:45,752
Speaker 8: Trump won. So but yeah, there's a lot of those

723
00:33:45,832 --> 00:33:48,512
Speaker 8: kind of like usually if you trace it all the

724
00:33:48,552 --> 00:33:51,112
Speaker 8: way back, there was something in the ether, you know,

725
00:33:51,192 --> 00:33:54,512
Speaker 8: something in the zeitgeist going on, and then it wind up,

726
00:33:54,672 --> 00:33:57,632
Speaker 8: you know, winds up not happening for ten or twenty years,

727
00:33:58,232 --> 00:34:03,192
Speaker 8: Like the US winning gold medal and curling, you know

728
00:34:04,432 --> 00:34:07,632
Speaker 8: that happened after we did it on the show. You know,

729
00:34:07,752 --> 00:34:12,592
Speaker 8: stuff like that Fox buying our Disney buying Fox, because

730
00:34:12,872 --> 00:34:16,312
Speaker 8: it was around the time Disney was buying Up they

731
00:34:16,352 --> 00:34:20,632
Speaker 8: had bought the California Angels baseball team they bought. They

732
00:34:20,672 --> 00:34:24,151
Speaker 8: had the Mighty Ducks or just the Ducks team at

733
00:34:24,192 --> 00:34:26,392
Speaker 8: the time, and so they just seemed to be buying

734
00:34:26,431 --> 00:34:28,832
Speaker 8: a lot of stuff. So we needed a joke on

735
00:34:28,872 --> 00:34:32,551
Speaker 8: a sign for like the entrance to Fox, So we

736
00:34:32,591 --> 00:34:35,872
Speaker 8: did twentieth Century Fox. And then somebody pitched a division

737
00:34:35,872 --> 00:34:38,872
Speaker 8: of the Walt Disney Corporation, so we stuck that on

738
00:34:38,991 --> 00:34:41,151
Speaker 8: as the joke, and then twenty years later we were

739
00:34:41,152 --> 00:34:42,272
Speaker 8: all working for Disney.

740
00:34:46,192 --> 00:34:48,431
Speaker 2: Go ahead, and then well, it's one of those things.

741
00:34:48,431 --> 00:34:48,631
Speaker 3: Mike.

742
00:34:48,631 --> 00:34:50,752
Speaker 1: It's interesting when you look at some of your career

743
00:34:50,832 --> 00:34:52,552
Speaker 1: and it's like you've worked on so many different things.

744
00:34:53,071 --> 00:34:55,471
Speaker 1: You worked on a pair of iconic shows in Raymond

745
00:34:55,471 --> 00:34:57,872
Speaker 1: and Parks and rec I mean, obviously The Simpsons is

746
00:34:58,511 --> 00:35:00,552
Speaker 1: the headliner in this case, but working on those shows

747
00:35:00,591 --> 00:35:03,472
Speaker 1: as well, I mean, what were your memories of those shows.

748
00:35:03,792 --> 00:35:06,392
Speaker 8: Yeah, No, got very lucky. I've been lucky working on

749
00:35:06,431 --> 00:35:08,631
Speaker 8: some some good shows. And I appreciate you that you're

750
00:35:08,672 --> 00:35:09,871
Speaker 8: skipping over the ship once.

751
00:35:10,471 --> 00:35:16,591
Speaker 2: Uh come on now shift, Yeah, you know Duncan Pville.

752
00:35:16,591 --> 00:35:17,232
Speaker 2: It's amazing.

753
00:35:17,511 --> 00:35:20,071
Speaker 8: No, No, actually, Duncan Bill, I loved Actually, we had

754
00:35:20,071 --> 00:35:25,951
Speaker 8: a great time on that, But yeah, Raymond, I was

755
00:35:26,031 --> 00:35:28,111
Speaker 8: lucky to get over there for a couple of seasons.

756
00:35:30,471 --> 00:35:33,631
Speaker 7: Phil Rose, Yeah, created a show.

757
00:35:33,672 --> 00:35:35,431
Speaker 8: He had called me up and said that they had

758
00:35:35,471 --> 00:35:39,392
Speaker 8: an opening and would I be interested in joining the

759
00:35:39,431 --> 00:35:43,151
Speaker 8: staff that he so I was already a big fan

760
00:35:43,192 --> 00:35:45,392
Speaker 8: of the show. I think, like ray is super funny.

761
00:35:45,471 --> 00:35:48,312
Speaker 8: That whole cast was so good, Peter Boyle and Brad

762
00:35:48,312 --> 00:35:51,792
Speaker 8: Garrett and Patty Heaton. So that one was, you know,

763
00:35:51,911 --> 00:35:54,031
Speaker 8: kind of a no brainer for me to go over

764
00:35:54,071 --> 00:35:57,231
Speaker 8: there for a couple of years. And then Parks and Rec.

765
00:35:57,872 --> 00:36:01,111
Speaker 8: There was Greg Daniels who worked on The Simpsons, was

766
00:36:01,111 --> 00:36:03,872
Speaker 8: a co creator of Parks and Rec and they were

767
00:36:03,872 --> 00:36:06,072
Speaker 8: trying to get the show off the ground the first season,

768
00:36:06,672 --> 00:36:08,631
Speaker 8: and he called me up to see, you know, what

769
00:36:08,672 --> 00:36:10,991
Speaker 8: I was up to, and I wound up going over

770
00:36:11,031 --> 00:36:15,191
Speaker 8: there and instantly kind of clicked with Amy Poehler, who

771
00:36:15,272 --> 00:36:17,312
Speaker 8: was a fellow masshole.

772
00:36:22,672 --> 00:36:24,711
Speaker 2: My I want to just ask you quickly about you know,

773
00:36:24,752 --> 00:36:27,151
Speaker 2: all these shows you've worked on and being in these

774
00:36:27,152 --> 00:36:30,312
Speaker 2: writers rooms, and you know, we equated a lot. I

775
00:36:30,352 --> 00:36:32,431
Speaker 2: always try to compare things to being in hockey and

776
00:36:32,792 --> 00:36:35,311
Speaker 2: being in a locker room, and it's very it's very

777
00:36:35,312 --> 00:36:37,951
Speaker 2: family oriented and everybody's kind of got their role, and

778
00:36:37,991 --> 00:36:40,952
Speaker 2: there's leaders, and there's there's the guy, you know, the

779
00:36:41,031 --> 00:36:44,232
Speaker 2: lead by example, the lead by you know, yelling and

780
00:36:44,312 --> 00:36:47,231
Speaker 2: raw raw like for you what what what are some

781
00:36:47,272 --> 00:36:49,551
Speaker 2: of your fondest memories of being in the writer's room

782
00:36:49,631 --> 00:36:51,711
Speaker 2: and what does it mean to kind of for you

783
00:36:51,792 --> 00:36:52,392
Speaker 2: to be in there.

784
00:36:53,152 --> 00:36:56,551
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's well, when I first got there, I'll be

785
00:36:56,672 --> 00:37:01,111
Speaker 8: very honest, I was fucking terrified. There's like there was like,

786
00:37:01,272 --> 00:37:05,431
Speaker 8: you know, nineteen writers in there, all Harvard graduates, and

787
00:37:05,991 --> 00:37:13,031
Speaker 8: I went to community college for one day. Technically it

788
00:37:13,031 --> 00:37:14,991
Speaker 8: was a half day. You had to quit in the

789
00:37:14,991 --> 00:37:19,591
Speaker 8: first twenty four hours to get your money back, So

790
00:37:19,672 --> 00:37:22,551
Speaker 8: that was very intimidating. And so when I got there,

791
00:37:23,352 --> 00:37:27,431
Speaker 8: actually my first day there was the day that Conan

792
00:37:27,431 --> 00:37:31,111
Speaker 8: O'Brien was still on staff at The Simpsons, but it

793
00:37:31,152 --> 00:37:34,112
Speaker 8: was the day he got the phone call that NBC

794
00:37:34,431 --> 00:37:37,312
Speaker 8: was hiring him as their new late night host. So

795
00:37:37,352 --> 00:37:39,911
Speaker 8: we never actually got to work together. We shook hands,

796
00:37:39,951 --> 00:37:42,232
Speaker 8: said hello, and then he got a phone call and

797
00:37:42,272 --> 00:37:45,872
Speaker 8: he was gone, Wow, But you're right, I mean, there

798
00:37:45,911 --> 00:37:47,991
Speaker 8: is kind of a locker room vibe in that there's

799
00:37:48,031 --> 00:37:51,031
Speaker 8: a lot of different personalities kind of all there to

800
00:37:51,071 --> 00:37:54,551
Speaker 8: try to accomplish the same thing, you know, and it's

801
00:37:54,672 --> 00:37:59,392
Speaker 8: blending those personalities is the tricky part. And you want

802
00:37:59,471 --> 00:38:03,711
Speaker 8: to take advantage of pull from everybody's everybody's background and

803
00:38:03,832 --> 00:38:06,591
Speaker 8: like what they're childhoods were like, and you know what

804
00:38:06,631 --> 00:38:08,592
Speaker 8: their interests are and stories.

805
00:38:08,232 --> 00:38:08,911
Speaker 7: From their life.

806
00:38:09,272 --> 00:38:12,071
Speaker 8: So it's it's a lot of like a lot of

807
00:38:12,152 --> 00:38:15,951
Speaker 8: mutual respect in there, and some people shine at something,

808
00:38:16,071 --> 00:38:17,871
Speaker 8: you know, once in a while. You know, it gets

809
00:38:17,872 --> 00:38:20,672
Speaker 8: a little heated every once in a while, but very rarely.

810
00:38:21,991 --> 00:38:24,792
Speaker 8: And but that's part of the fun is you know,

811
00:38:24,832 --> 00:38:27,872
Speaker 8: you just is that mix of personalities and when you

812
00:38:27,911 --> 00:38:31,512
Speaker 8: hear about somebody else's life, you think your life is unique.

813
00:38:31,511 --> 00:38:34,271
Speaker 8: And then you hear somebody else's crazy stories about their

814
00:38:34,352 --> 00:38:37,312
Speaker 8: dad and then next thing you know, they start finding

815
00:38:37,352 --> 00:38:40,632
Speaker 8: their way into the show. I mean, I got hockey

816
00:38:40,672 --> 00:38:44,872
Speaker 8: in and I got you know shit, I got you know,

817
00:38:45,272 --> 00:38:48,352
Speaker 8: arrested for shoplisting when I was thirteen. That's that's a

818
00:38:48,431 --> 00:38:52,991
Speaker 8: Simpsons episode. Yeah, So like all those things that traumatized

819
00:38:53,031 --> 00:38:55,071
Speaker 8: you as a kid, you can get paid for as

820
00:38:55,071 --> 00:38:57,512
Speaker 8: an adult if you can turn it into a TV show.

821
00:38:58,792 --> 00:39:01,671
Speaker 5: Well, you've you know, you've written I'm sure with so

822
00:39:01,712 --> 00:39:04,951
Speaker 5: many different you know, amazing writers of of course your

823
00:39:04,951 --> 00:39:07,591
Speaker 5: career and got to learn from so many. You know,

824
00:39:07,672 --> 00:39:12,712
Speaker 5: you've written for favorite award shows, including the Golden Globes.

825
00:39:14,392 --> 00:39:17,911
Speaker 5: You know, or is there a unique story or experience

826
00:39:18,031 --> 00:39:21,991
Speaker 5: or you know, and that's such a unique such a

827
00:39:22,031 --> 00:39:24,312
Speaker 5: unique job. Is there a certain story experience that you

828
00:39:24,352 --> 00:39:25,151
Speaker 5: can take away from that?

829
00:39:25,991 --> 00:39:26,231
Speaker 4: Oh?

830
00:39:26,312 --> 00:39:32,711
Speaker 8: Man, uh ship, I know, right after I stopped talking you,

831
00:39:32,712 --> 00:39:34,511
Speaker 8: I'll think of a million of them.

832
00:39:35,631 --> 00:39:39,232
Speaker 2: Take your time, just the you match?

833
00:39:40,232 --> 00:39:41,111
Speaker 4: Yeah, that that too.

834
00:39:41,392 --> 00:39:44,552
Speaker 2: It could be a you mentioned that up gets heated,

835
00:39:44,872 --> 00:39:46,872
Speaker 2: just a just a nice fuck you match in there.

836
00:39:48,031 --> 00:39:51,392
Speaker 7: Oh well, there was one, I mean there was one.

837
00:39:51,672 --> 00:39:54,591
Speaker 8: I won't name the writer, but it was one day

838
00:39:54,631 --> 00:39:56,832
Speaker 8: the sentence where this writer, you know something you got

839
00:39:56,872 --> 00:39:58,991
Speaker 8: to kind of like learn how to conduct yourself in

840
00:39:59,031 --> 00:40:01,992
Speaker 8: the room after a while, and you know, you pitched

841
00:40:02,071 --> 00:40:04,792
Speaker 8: jokes and sometimes you in your head it's super funny

842
00:40:05,071 --> 00:40:08,272
Speaker 8: and you can't wait to blurt it out, and you

843
00:40:08,272 --> 00:40:10,951
Speaker 8: you get it out and it's just dead silence, man,

844
00:40:11,152 --> 00:40:15,592
Speaker 8: just fucking crickets. And you even wonder for a second,

845
00:40:15,352 --> 00:40:19,312
Speaker 8: did they all not hear me? Should I say it again,

846
00:40:19,792 --> 00:40:22,312
Speaker 8: but there was a guy who he pitched his joke

847
00:40:22,431 --> 00:40:26,352
Speaker 8: and it just got nothing. And then we're all still thinking,

848
00:40:26,392 --> 00:40:28,511
Speaker 8: and there's a lot of quiet periods in the room too,

849
00:40:28,511 --> 00:40:29,472
Speaker 8: where everyone's thinking.

850
00:40:29,752 --> 00:40:31,032
Speaker 7: And then he pitches it again.

851
00:40:32,031 --> 00:40:36,832
Speaker 8: It's still like nothing, and we're still thinking, and he

852
00:40:36,951 --> 00:40:40,272
Speaker 8: pitches the same joke a third time, and the showrunner

853
00:40:40,312 --> 00:40:43,311
Speaker 8: at the time blows up. He goes, well, you shut

854
00:40:43,392 --> 00:40:46,431
Speaker 8: up with that fucking joke. It's not going in the show.

855
00:40:47,872 --> 00:40:51,111
Speaker 8: So the writer gets up and starts to storm out

856
00:40:51,192 --> 00:40:53,392
Speaker 8: of the room and he's kind of a big guy.

857
00:40:53,511 --> 00:40:55,111
Speaker 7: He's like walking, but he have to you.

858
00:40:55,031 --> 00:40:58,031
Speaker 8: Have to walk past twenty people to get out the room.

859
00:40:58,352 --> 00:40:59,071
Speaker 8: So he's on the way.

860
00:40:59,152 --> 00:41:02,392
Speaker 7: He goes, all right, already, but you know, you don't

861
00:41:02,392 --> 00:41:03,792
Speaker 7: have to be a jerk about it.

862
00:41:03,832 --> 00:41:07,872
Speaker 8: And when he's said jerk, his voice cracked, like you

863
00:41:07,872 --> 00:41:10,911
Speaker 8: don't have to be a jerk about it. And he

864
00:41:10,951 --> 00:41:13,792
Speaker 8: gets and he gets outside the door, and we didn't

865
00:41:13,792 --> 00:41:16,711
Speaker 8: even have the decency to let him get away from

866
00:41:16,792 --> 00:41:19,232
Speaker 8: the door a week where he couldn't hear us laughing

867
00:41:19,312 --> 00:41:22,911
Speaker 8: hysterically after he got It's it's that second you're outside

868
00:41:22,911 --> 00:41:25,032
Speaker 8: of a room and everyone in the room is laughing,

869
00:41:25,591 --> 00:41:26,152
Speaker 8: and you're.

870
00:41:29,431 --> 00:41:31,271
Speaker 1: Always awkward to be in that person and you don't

871
00:41:31,272 --> 00:41:33,591
Speaker 1: want to be that guy. Yeah, the white character I

872
00:41:33,591 --> 00:41:36,591
Speaker 1: love one of than Mike was crushing the clown famously

873
00:41:36,832 --> 00:41:39,951
Speaker 1: or perhaps infamously based on David Letterman. You know, so

874
00:41:40,431 --> 00:41:44,232
Speaker 1: hysterical and manic, honor that offer, he's spoken, drigg, so depressed,

875
00:41:44,232 --> 00:41:47,392
Speaker 1: et cetera. Was it true that you guys gonna cease

876
00:41:47,392 --> 00:41:49,472
Speaker 1: and desist letter after a crush of the clown puped

877
00:41:49,471 --> 00:41:49,911
Speaker 1: in the cup?

878
00:41:50,832 --> 00:41:50,951
Speaker 5: Uh?

879
00:41:51,071 --> 00:41:54,631
Speaker 8: Yes, Actually I personally got that because because I was

880
00:41:54,672 --> 00:41:55,991
Speaker 8: the writer of the episode.

881
00:41:55,712 --> 00:41:56,272
Speaker 7: It came to me.

882
00:41:57,192 --> 00:41:58,791
Speaker 2: Uh and.

883
00:42:00,272 --> 00:42:01,951
Speaker 8: Or was I running the show? I can't even remember,

884
00:42:02,111 --> 00:42:04,111
Speaker 8: but yeah, it was a seasoned desist. I was running

885
00:42:04,111 --> 00:42:06,711
Speaker 8: the show at the time. It's in a different episode,

886
00:42:06,991 --> 00:42:10,232
Speaker 8: and it was basically, you can't do this.

887
00:42:10,392 --> 00:42:11,392
Speaker 7: It's the Stanley Cup.

888
00:42:11,431 --> 00:42:14,951
Speaker 8: It's a trademark of the NHL, and you know, and

889
00:42:15,031 --> 00:42:17,911
Speaker 8: so I called the Fox lawyers, and the Fox lawyers

890
00:42:18,071 --> 00:42:20,632
Speaker 8: who normally are like, you know, they are like cautious

891
00:42:20,631 --> 00:42:23,392
Speaker 8: about this stuff, and they explained to me, like, ah,

892
00:42:23,631 --> 00:42:25,632
Speaker 8: you know, like don't worry about that. A seasoned desist

893
00:42:25,712 --> 00:42:28,951
Speaker 8: letter doesn't mean anything, just go ahead and do it.

894
00:42:29,111 --> 00:42:31,951
Speaker 8: So Fox actually backed us on it and then we

895
00:42:32,031 --> 00:42:34,471
Speaker 8: never heard any more about it. But I mean the

896
00:42:34,511 --> 00:42:38,071
Speaker 8: show has always been hockey friendly, you know, so we

897
00:42:38,152 --> 00:42:39,951
Speaker 8: felt like we were on pretty solid ground.

898
00:42:40,872 --> 00:42:41,631
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

899
00:42:41,672 --> 00:42:46,032
Speaker 7: I had forgotten about that letter to bring about members.

900
00:42:46,392 --> 00:42:48,872
Speaker 2: I wish Fox Fox backing you though. I like that.

901
00:42:49,752 --> 00:42:50,872
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, Uh.

902
00:42:51,431 --> 00:42:53,551
Speaker 2: You know, in all your years of being a you know,

903
00:42:53,591 --> 00:42:56,151
Speaker 2: an NHL fan and going to a lot of the games,

904
00:42:56,192 --> 00:42:58,712
Speaker 2: do you have a favorite interaction with an NHL player

905
00:42:59,031 --> 00:42:59,951
Speaker 2: throughout these years?

906
00:43:01,431 --> 00:43:01,712
Speaker 7: Oh?

907
00:43:01,752 --> 00:43:04,911
Speaker 8: Man, Uh, yeah, Well, actually one is like back when

908
00:43:04,911 --> 00:43:09,872
Speaker 8: I was fifteen years old, I went to Willie Marshall

909
00:43:10,031 --> 00:43:14,431
Speaker 8: Hockey School, which was like kids could go and you

910
00:43:14,712 --> 00:43:19,711
Speaker 8: train with you're taught by NHL players. And at the

911
00:43:19,792 --> 00:43:25,712
Speaker 8: year I went, it was Doug Harvey and Dennis Potvin

912
00:43:26,511 --> 00:43:31,271
Speaker 8: was I think eighteen he had just been drafted, and

913
00:43:31,431 --> 00:43:33,631
Speaker 8: Don Leaver from the Vancouver Canucks.

914
00:43:34,792 --> 00:43:36,631
Speaker 7: So they were like our staff. So we got for

915
00:43:36,712 --> 00:43:37,352
Speaker 7: two weeks.

916
00:43:37,951 --> 00:43:40,031
Speaker 8: You get a chance to really talk to these guys

917
00:43:40,031 --> 00:43:43,711
Speaker 8: and they were so nice and it was just fun

918
00:43:43,752 --> 00:43:46,191
Speaker 8: to see them in a different environment. If at one

919
00:43:46,272 --> 00:43:50,311
Speaker 8: day Doug Harvey did like we sat down at lunch

920
00:43:50,312 --> 00:43:51,671
Speaker 8: and they would do like Q and A with the

921
00:43:51,752 --> 00:43:55,671
Speaker 8: kids during lunchtimes, and Doug Harvey did it one day

922
00:43:56,192 --> 00:43:59,631
Speaker 8: and the kids said, you know, mister Harvey, my dad

923
00:43:59,712 --> 00:44:02,712
Speaker 8: said you're the greatest defenseman who ever played the game.

924
00:44:03,352 --> 00:44:06,191
Speaker 8: And Doug was like, oh, that's very nice of him

925
00:44:06,232 --> 00:44:08,551
Speaker 8: to say that. And he goes, but he said, you

926
00:44:08,631 --> 00:44:18,351
Speaker 8: played two years too long, and Harvey said, well, yeah,

927
00:44:18,392 --> 00:44:20,671
Speaker 8: there's he might have a point there, but you know,

928
00:44:20,832 --> 00:44:23,232
Speaker 8: sometimes you got to play a little too long to

929
00:44:23,312 --> 00:44:23,832
Speaker 8: know you're.

930
00:44:23,712 --> 00:44:24,551
Speaker 3: Past that time.

931
00:44:26,872 --> 00:44:28,952
Speaker 4: Yeah. I may have done that too. That's that's okay,

932
00:44:28,991 --> 00:44:29,592
Speaker 4: that happens.

933
00:44:30,352 --> 00:44:30,992
Speaker 3: I've been awesome.

934
00:44:30,991 --> 00:44:33,511
Speaker 2: If Doug Harvey's like, tell your dad to go fuck himself.

935
00:44:33,832 --> 00:44:37,312
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm at the point now where I've got I've

936
00:44:37,352 --> 00:44:39,511
Speaker 8: got writers telling me it's time to get out, you know.

937
00:44:40,792 --> 00:44:44,511
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know where the NHL is at now, Mike

938
00:44:44,631 --> 00:44:47,352
Speaker 5: is there? You know you talk about other players, past players.

939
00:44:47,392 --> 00:44:49,472
Speaker 5: Are there certain players that you watch or a certain

940
00:44:49,471 --> 00:44:52,152
Speaker 5: team besides the Kings that you you enjoy watching?

941
00:44:53,511 --> 00:44:53,711
Speaker 8: Uh?

942
00:44:54,071 --> 00:44:54,792
Speaker 7: Yeah, I still.

943
00:44:54,872 --> 00:44:58,431
Speaker 8: I mean I'm a sucker for the original six and

944
00:44:58,551 --> 00:45:02,672
Speaker 8: also so you know, I will watch Bruins and stuff,

945
00:45:02,712 --> 00:45:04,631
Speaker 8: but I do you know when there's somebody I knew.

946
00:45:04,672 --> 00:45:08,112
Speaker 8: Like this year, I've been trying to see more Sharks games.

947
00:45:08,232 --> 00:45:09,832
Speaker 8: I think, like Celebrini.

948
00:45:10,111 --> 00:45:10,591
Speaker 4: There you go.

949
00:45:11,071 --> 00:45:15,352
Speaker 8: It's so exciting to watch man. Uh, it's you can

950
00:45:15,431 --> 00:45:18,151
Speaker 8: just kind of see you know that it's you know,

951
00:45:18,192 --> 00:45:21,111
Speaker 8: he's a you know, generational talent and he's, you know,

952
00:45:21,232 --> 00:45:24,471
Speaker 8: barring injuries, he's going to be dominating the next twenty years.

953
00:45:25,911 --> 00:45:29,832
Speaker 2: Do you uh were you watching Kings games when they

954
00:45:29,911 --> 00:45:32,991
Speaker 2: won the Cups? Those two Cups in twenty twelve and fourteen.

955
00:45:33,232 --> 00:45:34,711
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I was at both of them.

956
00:45:34,872 --> 00:45:36,872
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that you were there when I got reverse

957
00:45:36,911 --> 00:45:38,911
Speaker 2: swept by the Kings.

958
00:45:39,071 --> 00:45:51,911
Speaker 8: Oh, I was secretly rooting for you guys. You know, Okay,

959
00:45:51,951 --> 00:45:53,511
Speaker 8: we're probably gonna meet someday.

960
00:45:54,712 --> 00:45:57,191
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Did you go to any of the Cup

961
00:45:57,232 --> 00:45:58,991
Speaker 2: parties or got to be close to the cup or

962
00:45:58,991 --> 00:45:59,631
Speaker 2: anything like that.

963
00:45:59,991 --> 00:46:01,872
Speaker 7: Yeah, we did one of them.

964
00:46:02,031 --> 00:46:04,991
Speaker 8: I took a couple of my daughters went, we got

965
00:46:05,031 --> 00:46:08,632
Speaker 8: our pictures with the Cup. I've turned I have five daughters,

966
00:46:08,752 --> 00:46:13,392
Speaker 8: but I've managed to turn them all into hockey fans.

967
00:46:13,712 --> 00:46:15,911
Speaker 8: So we've had a lot of great nights at the games,

968
00:46:15,951 --> 00:46:20,352
Speaker 8: and and they've actually, uh, they actually complained about the

969
00:46:20,392 --> 00:46:23,471
Speaker 8: decrease in fighting over the years.

970
00:46:23,911 --> 00:46:24,632
Speaker 2: Good daughters.

971
00:46:25,111 --> 00:46:29,431
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, five daughters, so Mike, Oh my god.

972
00:46:29,471 --> 00:46:31,832
Speaker 8: Yeah, Like Kyle Clifford was a favorite of theirs for

973
00:46:31,872 --> 00:46:40,111
Speaker 8: a long time, and I'm actually I'm sorry. I've also

974
00:46:40,192 --> 00:46:43,751
Speaker 8: showed them videos of remember the Bruins Rangers game where

975
00:46:43,752 --> 00:46:46,672
Speaker 8: the Bruins This is like way back when the Bruins

976
00:46:46,672 --> 00:46:52,711
Speaker 8: went up into the stands. Yeah, Mike, he's beating a

977
00:46:52,752 --> 00:46:55,832
Speaker 8: fan with his shoe. My daughters were probably like around

978
00:46:55,832 --> 00:46:57,392
Speaker 8: ten years old, and I'm showing.

979
00:47:00,991 --> 00:47:01,751
Speaker 2: That's pretty good.

980
00:47:02,551 --> 00:47:05,071
Speaker 1: NHL is a special animate of broadcas cast a live

981
00:47:05,192 --> 00:47:07,751
Speaker 1: NHL game coming up, featuring the characters from Inside Out,

982
00:47:07,792 --> 00:47:11,312
Speaker 1: the Great Animated Movie. Obviously, everyone's appreciating what those different

983
00:47:11,352 --> 00:47:14,352
Speaker 1: characters who represent sadness on we anxiety, et cetera. How

984
00:47:14,392 --> 00:47:17,352
Speaker 1: much you'd like to see a similar broadcast featuring Simpson's characters.

985
00:47:18,752 --> 00:47:21,551
Speaker 7: Oh, man, that that would actually be a lot of fun.

986
00:47:22,232 --> 00:47:22,911
Speaker 7: I would love that.

987
00:47:23,591 --> 00:47:26,591
Speaker 8: There's there are several hockey fans on staff. There's a

988
00:47:26,631 --> 00:47:31,071
Speaker 8: guy named Joel Cohen who's from Calgary originally, and he

989
00:47:31,111 --> 00:47:35,551
Speaker 8: wrote an episode called Top Goon uh and it had

990
00:47:35,792 --> 00:47:40,631
Speaker 8: we had Dave Schultz and Tiger Williams. Uh, we're guest

991
00:47:40,631 --> 00:47:43,711
Speaker 8: starers on the show, so there's several Canadian writers on

992
00:47:43,792 --> 00:47:45,472
Speaker 8: the show, but there's a lot of hockey fans.

993
00:47:45,511 --> 00:47:48,551
Speaker 7: Al Jean is a big one. So yeah, we'd love it.

994
00:47:50,192 --> 00:47:53,071
Speaker 5: Mike, since we're still well, I actually tell I think

995
00:47:53,071 --> 00:47:54,392
Speaker 5: I feel like you just had a question you wanted

996
00:47:54,392 --> 00:47:54,631
Speaker 5: to ask.

997
00:47:54,752 --> 00:47:58,031
Speaker 6: I had a quick one, like to He likes to

998
00:47:58,431 --> 00:48:01,991
Speaker 6: just one, just one for this week, to just one.

999
00:48:02,712 --> 00:48:05,352
Speaker 6: We all have a million questions from so I want

1000
00:48:05,392 --> 00:48:08,392
Speaker 6: to keep it short. He loved getting into film and

1001
00:48:08,431 --> 00:48:11,792
Speaker 6: television and all the little urban myths and things like

1002
00:48:11,872 --> 00:48:14,671
Speaker 6: that in the industry. And I noticed I was going

1003
00:48:14,712 --> 00:48:17,111
Speaker 6: through your IMDb and I noticed that you were a

1004
00:48:17,152 --> 00:48:20,751
Speaker 6: writer on The Royal Family, which was supposed to be

1005
00:48:20,832 --> 00:48:25,591
Speaker 6: this huge comeback for the legendary Red Fox. And of

1006
00:48:25,591 --> 00:48:28,352
Speaker 6: course he ended up dying during the first season of

1007
00:48:28,672 --> 00:48:30,911
Speaker 6: the making of that show. I was just wondering if

1008
00:48:30,911 --> 00:48:33,911
Speaker 6: there was any story you could share about how chaotic

1009
00:48:33,951 --> 00:48:35,431
Speaker 6: that whole experience must have been.

1010
00:48:36,071 --> 00:48:39,711
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was first, I shouldn't laugh at the way

1011
00:48:39,792 --> 00:48:42,191
Speaker 8: he died, in a very funny way.

1012
00:48:44,111 --> 00:48:44,751
Speaker 7: When he died.

1013
00:48:44,792 --> 00:48:51,152
Speaker 8: He you've seen Sandford and Son, Remember, he was always

1014
00:48:51,192 --> 00:48:53,872
Speaker 8: like pretending to have a heart attack and like I'm

1015
00:48:53,911 --> 00:48:56,751
Speaker 8: coming to join you, Elizabeth, you know, like be kind

1016
00:48:56,752 --> 00:48:59,352
Speaker 8: of staggering around the room pretending he was having a

1017
00:48:59,352 --> 00:49:03,272
Speaker 8: heart attack. Well, on Royal Family, he was on stage

1018
00:49:03,312 --> 00:49:07,672
Speaker 8: working and he clutched his chest and started staggering around,

1019
00:49:08,272 --> 00:49:10,751
Speaker 8: and we weren't down there, but the crew was on

1020
00:49:10,832 --> 00:49:14,151
Speaker 8: set and they're all cracking up, thinking he's doing Fred

1021
00:49:14,232 --> 00:49:18,191
Speaker 8: Sandford for them, and then then he finally falls to

1022
00:49:18,232 --> 00:49:23,672
Speaker 8: the floor and theyreize, oh shit. So he was interesting,

1023
00:49:23,872 --> 00:49:28,192
Speaker 8: you know, he was a fascinating guy. The you know,

1024
00:49:28,232 --> 00:49:31,152
Speaker 8: there's there's a lot of great Red Fox stories around.

1025
00:49:31,152 --> 00:49:35,271
Speaker 8: Probably the most famous one was him playing Vegas like

1026
00:49:35,272 --> 00:49:38,672
Speaker 8: like a midnight show at some casino and he comes

1027
00:49:38,672 --> 00:49:42,031
Speaker 8: out and the band had the orders to, like when

1028
00:49:42,071 --> 00:49:45,392
Speaker 8: he walks out, you play the Sandford in something, the

1029
00:49:45,392 --> 00:49:49,031
Speaker 8: theme song, you know that, and when he's done with

1030
00:49:49,111 --> 00:49:54,392
Speaker 8: the show and he walks off. So Red Fox walks

1031
00:49:54,392 --> 00:49:56,392
Speaker 8: out one night to do a show and there's like

1032
00:49:56,551 --> 00:50:00,832
Speaker 8: hardly anybody there, and he gets the he walks it

1033
00:50:00,911 --> 00:50:04,591
Speaker 8: ladies and gentlemen, you know, Red Fox Dana, and he

1034
00:50:04,631 --> 00:50:07,151
Speaker 8: walks out, gets to the microphone, looks out at the audience, goes,

1035
00:50:07,431 --> 00:50:10,312
Speaker 8: I ain't doing a show for nine fucking people, drops

1036
00:50:10,312 --> 00:50:19,712
Speaker 8: the mic and walks off stairs, and then that's great.

1037
00:50:19,792 --> 00:50:22,352
Speaker 8: There's actually a tribute to that joke in some Simpsons

1038
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:24,352
Speaker 8: episode that I'm forgetting right now.

1039
00:50:25,551 --> 00:50:26,911
Speaker 3: Stories for Days of Mike Skelly.

1040
00:50:26,951 --> 00:50:28,951
Speaker 1: Mike have been an incredible career, obviously with the Simpsons,

1041
00:50:28,951 --> 00:50:31,231
Speaker 1: parks and rec Everyone loves Raymond and so many others.

1042
00:50:31,312 --> 00:50:33,592
Speaker 1: Really appreciate the stories, and good luck to the Kings

1043
00:50:33,591 --> 00:50:34,392
Speaker 1: the rest of the way.

1044
00:50:34,752 --> 00:50:37,511
Speaker 8: Oh thanks, Lat's an honored beyond here. Guys love the podcast,

1045
00:50:45,832 --> 00:50:46,672
Speaker 8: thanks to Mike Skelly.

1046
00:50:46,712 --> 00:50:47,192
Speaker 3: Once again.

1047
00:50:47,392 --> 00:50:49,271
Speaker 1: I normally like to stick to movies when it comes

1048
00:50:49,312 --> 00:50:51,031
Speaker 1: us in a file, but it'll little squeeze a little

1049
00:50:51,031 --> 00:50:53,552
Speaker 1: TV here for a dt F. Saint Louis Is on HBO.

1050
00:50:53,591 --> 00:50:55,631
Speaker 1: A friend of mine, my dear friend alphahel Onan says,

1051
00:50:55,631 --> 00:50:57,031
Speaker 1: you gotta watch the show. I said, not only watch

1052
00:50:57,071 --> 00:50:59,632
Speaker 1: my TV shows, you know, I said, I see eight episodes.

1053
00:50:59,672 --> 00:51:01,591
Speaker 1: Three minutes, I go, you know, I could just watch

1054
00:51:01,591 --> 00:51:02,071
Speaker 1: a couple of movies.

1055
00:51:02,111 --> 00:51:03,991
Speaker 3: He's like, no, but you gotta watch this. Why sell

1056
00:51:03,991 --> 00:51:04,192
Speaker 3: me on it?

1057
00:51:04,431 --> 00:51:06,151
Speaker 1: Jason Bateman, I go, I love Arrest of Development, but

1058
00:51:06,192 --> 00:51:07,551
Speaker 1: I have to watch every Jason Bateman show.

1059
00:51:07,591 --> 00:51:09,631
Speaker 3: I'm tired of SmartLess David Harbor. I'm like, well, I

1060
00:51:09,712 --> 00:51:10,551
Speaker 3: never watch Stranger Things.

1061
00:51:10,551 --> 00:51:10,712
Speaker 4: I know.

1062
00:51:10,792 --> 00:51:13,232
Speaker 1: He is, okay, fine, Linda Carlini. I go, now you

1063
00:51:13,312 --> 00:51:16,431
Speaker 1: have my attention, because Linda's Linda Carlini. I'm gonna scait

1064
00:51:16,511 --> 00:51:19,231
Speaker 1: right now. He goes, Laingerie episode two. I go, okay, well,

1065
00:51:19,312 --> 00:51:21,631
Speaker 1: I could clearly give this a chance. You're gonna get

1066
00:51:21,631 --> 00:51:22,191
Speaker 1: three episode one.

1067
00:51:22,232 --> 00:51:24,071
Speaker 3: Clearly He's like, yeah, he goes, just give it a shock.

1068
00:51:24,312 --> 00:51:24,671
Speaker 2: Very fine.

1069
00:51:24,991 --> 00:51:26,751
Speaker 1: Now I go, wait, this isn't like a thirty minute show.

1070
00:51:26,792 --> 00:51:28,312
Speaker 1: This is like a fifty five minutes This is like

1071
00:51:28,352 --> 00:51:30,071
Speaker 1: a why are comedies an hour?

1072
00:51:30,152 --> 00:51:30,232
Speaker 4: Now?

1073
00:51:30,352 --> 00:51:32,352
Speaker 3: I like a thirty minute situation comedy as well.

1074
00:51:32,431 --> 00:51:33,071
Speaker 2: It's it's HBO.

1075
00:51:33,111 --> 00:51:34,991
Speaker 1: It's fifty minutes, it's an hour. Just get a shot,

1076
00:51:35,192 --> 00:51:38,191
Speaker 1: fair enough. I watched the first episode Tallision as well.

1077
00:51:38,232 --> 00:51:40,352
Speaker 3: It's dark, it's creepy, a little cringey, but.

1078
00:51:40,392 --> 00:51:42,832
Speaker 1: I'm amused by this. It's definitely beautifully shot. As much

1079
00:51:43,031 --> 00:51:45,951
Speaker 1: HBO shows has a certain style to it. The castume's intriguing.

1080
00:51:46,152 --> 00:51:47,111
Speaker 1: And then we get this episode two.

1081
00:51:47,111 --> 00:51:48,472
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, whoa daddy?

1082
00:51:48,511 --> 00:51:51,272
Speaker 1: As JD would say, a lot of salacious content, but

1083
00:51:51,872 --> 00:51:55,111
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you highly entertaining, terrific CASTI the actors

1084
00:51:55,192 --> 00:51:57,551
Speaker 1: I mentioned would also tell the great Richard Jenkins, who

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Speaker 1: I loved in The Visitor, very good actor over the years,

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Speaker 1: playing one of the detectives. And it's a dark, dark

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Speaker 1: comedy emphasis on dark. It's not show, but it's a

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Speaker 1: pretty funny show. I don't want to give way too

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Speaker 1: much to the Fellas. I want Nate and GD to

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Speaker 1: give a chance at some point. It's got a bit

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Speaker 1: of a murder mystery to it. Unexpected to light right

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Speaker 1: now on HBO.

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Speaker 4: D right now.

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Speaker 3: I really okay, you're gonna watch it.

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Speaker 2: What is as long as you say what DTF means.

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. It means down to

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Speaker 2: say it.

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Speaker 3: You say that's okay.

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Speaker 1: One of my voys is giving the the Fellas in

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Speaker 1: go ahead your thoughts on dt F, Saint Louis.

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Speaker 6: I just want to I enjoy the last episode I

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Speaker 6: wasn't huge on, but the first is very strong.

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Speaker 2: I just want to.

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Speaker 6: I just want to acknowledge that we're now on three

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00:52:40,152 --> 00:52:43,511
Speaker 6: decades of Linda Cardlini and we've never and we've never

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Speaker 6: seen her like this, not that I've seen.

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Speaker 3: That's a great tea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my pretty ouphasite because never sex here Linda Carle

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00:52:50,152 --> 00:52:51,591
Speaker 1: I loved her and freaks and geeks of course the

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Speaker 1: Great Judd Apatow Show, James Franco. She was in mad Men,

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00:52:54,352 --> 00:52:57,031
Speaker 1: She's in Broke Back Mountain. But this is a career

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Speaker 1: turns for at fifty years old. Linda Curling is like,

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Speaker 1: you know what, She's gonna go for it here. She's

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Speaker 1: a good looking lady. So I can't wait to watch it.

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Speaker 4: I definitely in.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait for the reviews from both Layton, JD

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Speaker 1: DTF St louis currently on HBO in terms of actual

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Speaker 1: other stories than the ice just to get to Blue

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Speaker 1: Jackets and Petters.

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Speaker 3: Two teams that look cooked earlier this season are suddenly

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Speaker 3: in a playoff spot. Columbus we mentioned earlier.

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00:53:19,991 --> 00:53:23,432
Speaker 1: Nineteen nineteen and seven when they fired Dan Nevson under bonus,

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Speaker 1: they've gone nineteen three and four and Nashville had the

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Speaker 1: worst record in the late December nineteenth, they screaked into

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Speaker 1: a wildcard spot riding their current five game win streak,

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Speaker 1: and Stamcos has been an absolute terror. Two points in

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Speaker 1: his first fourteen games, thirty four goals, fifty six points

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Speaker 1: in fifty six games.

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Speaker 3: Since then, he leads the NHL with ten game winning goals.

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Speaker 1: Again, we talked aout Columbus earlier in ate the fact

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Speaker 1: that could be exciting your thoughts on this Nashville team,

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Speaker 1: the run they butt on and stam Cooast re energized.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, another dangerous team.

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Speaker 5: I think that if they they get in, it's gonna

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Speaker 5: be a tough out too, because of some of the

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Speaker 5: veteran guys and game breakers they have. And you know,

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Speaker 5: Boiler and Rupper did a great job on Tape Room

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00:54:02,551 --> 00:54:06,231
Speaker 5: about Steven sam Coast yesterday, and you know, I play

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00:54:06,272 --> 00:54:08,991
Speaker 5: with stanmord. It's just impressive just because he's able to

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00:54:09,111 --> 00:54:13,232
Speaker 5: reinvent himself and you know, when he's struggling or whatever happens,

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00:54:13,272 --> 00:54:16,551
Speaker 5: he he goes out there and he does little things

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00:54:16,591 --> 00:54:18,832
Speaker 5: and he scores goals in different ways. He's kind of

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00:54:18,872 --> 00:54:21,471
Speaker 5: reinvented himself on the power play this year too, Like

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00:54:21,551 --> 00:54:23,232
Speaker 5: he's you we're so used to seeing him in that

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00:54:23,272 --> 00:54:25,312
Speaker 5: one timer spot, but you've seen him different replays where

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00:54:25,352 --> 00:54:27,352
Speaker 5: he's ended up in front of the net and you know,

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00:54:27,511 --> 00:54:32,192
Speaker 5: just different different places where he's just making himself, you know,

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Speaker 5: more of an all round player. So this this Nashville

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Speaker 5: team with you know, with other guys like Roan o'reiley,

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Speaker 5: how good he's been playing march as sool. I mean,

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Speaker 5: their their team is finally starting to kind of come

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00:54:42,792 --> 00:54:45,432
Speaker 5: together at the right time, and it is good timing

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Speaker 5: for Nashville.

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Speaker 3: You've been known as no marriage JD.

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Speaker 1: Did you see the resurgence of Steven Stamco's coming after

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00:54:50,712 --> 00:54:51,232
Speaker 1: last season?

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Speaker 2: Uh? Probably not. I didn't. I did say though last week.

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Speaker 2: This is probably twelve days ago, I said Nashville is

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Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs. Wow to people going no way,

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Speaker 2: and I said, we did a bracket and I said

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Speaker 2: Nashville's gonna make the playoffs. And everybody, now be careful

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Speaker 2: if you're a Utah Mammoth fan, because they were all

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Speaker 2: comfortable in that second wild that first wildcard spot, gonna

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Speaker 2: play the pillow Fight Division. I heard rumors that they

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00:55:23,352 --> 00:55:26,792
Speaker 2: were like making jokes at the GM meetings. Bill Armstrong

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Speaker 2: was kind of I heard kind of something under the radar.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep this for the audio version that he was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're in the you know, we're kind of locked in

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Speaker 2: the Pacific. Now all of a sudden, they might be

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Speaker 2: getting Colorado round one because Nashville is absolutely on fire

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Speaker 2: right now. They're they were in such a good spot

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Speaker 2: they play what's crazy to note before I get to

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Speaker 2: Stamcoast because there's not much money to add on that.

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Speaker 2: Also of note, Philip Forsberg has been a monster for

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Speaker 2: this team, and he's carrying them into the playoffs. But

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Speaker 2: they were our fourteen and zero against the Sharks in

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Speaker 2: the last fourteen games, and they play them two more times,

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Speaker 2: that's two, not three, two more times before the end

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Speaker 2: of the season. They have a pretty good schedule they're in.

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Speaker 2: Now do they pass Utah And he becomes a little

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00:56:13,631 --> 00:56:16,911
Speaker 2: bit of a battle for that wild card spot to

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00:56:17,111 --> 00:56:20,152
Speaker 2: miss Colorado Avalanche because he ever gets Colorado is getting

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00:56:20,152 --> 00:56:22,431
Speaker 2: their walking papers after nine days. But that's what I

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Speaker 2: got for your bitch asses.

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Speaker 3: Well said with the course to the Nashville Predators and

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Speaker 3: Stevens Tama coach and.

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Speaker 1: One last thought flowers to Paul Maurice, legendary Panthers coach

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00:56:32,551 --> 00:56:34,832
Speaker 1: made a history Tuesday Night coaching in his two thousandth

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Speaker 1: NHL game. The only other head coach reached that Mileson

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Speaker 1: is the great Scottie Bowman.

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Speaker 3: I assuming he comes back, and why wouldn't he.

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Speaker 1: Buffalo coach Lindy Roff should reach the mark next season,

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Speaker 1: Lindy at home, rough on the road.

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Speaker 2: I thought he's done that. I thought Lindy's done after

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Speaker 2: this year, after.

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Speaker 3: The season, he's gonna come back.

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Speaker 1: No, he's done, you think, so he's retiring. Joel Quentville exactly.

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Speaker 1: Joel Quinville should do the same the season after next.

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Speaker 1: But it's pretty impressive. Paul Maurice has done. And I

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Speaker 1: remember him as at twenty eight years of age coaching

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Speaker 1: the Hartford Whaler John Forzel on the call back.

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Speaker 3: There in Connecticut.

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Speaker 1: Now, all these years later when he won the Cup,

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Speaker 1: I was so happy for him. Obviously, had successful tenures

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Speaker 1: in Winnipeg in Toronto, wasn't able to win the big one. Nate,

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on Moe. He seems like a universally well

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Speaker 1: liked coach.

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Speaker 4: He's great. I know I played for him in Winnipeg

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Speaker 4: and I'm just an ultimate motivator. Just this guy can talk.

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Speaker 5: I mean you see it in his interview, his postgame

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00:57:24,072 --> 00:57:26,752
Speaker 5: and this guys must watch when he can speak.

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Speaker 4: You listen and just he's just a good He always

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00:57:31,192 --> 00:57:32,231
Speaker 4: has a good beat on the team.

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Speaker 5: He knows, you know, he knows how to motivate guys

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Speaker 5: and when to back off, and you know, he's he's

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00:57:38,512 --> 00:57:39,472
Speaker 5: had a Hall of Fame career.

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Speaker 4: I think kudos to Paul. He's a great guy and

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Speaker 4: he's a great coach.

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Speaker 3: JD. Do you prefer an old man coach or a

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Speaker 3: younger one.

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Speaker 2: Well, all these recycled coaches are showing and proven to

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00:57:50,112 --> 00:57:51,872
Speaker 2: us that recycling is good for you and good for

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Speaker 2: the planet, because they're all winning right now, Lindy Rouff winning.

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Speaker 2: You know, Paul Maurice is obviously not a recycled coach.

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Speaker 2: Rick bonus. But listen, if somebody very wise said, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's how you you know, everybody gives the same message,

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Speaker 2: but it's how you deliver the message and how it's

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Speaker 2: received by the players. And I think it's very wise.

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Speaker 2: I think as Barry Melroe said that, But it's Paul

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00:58:15,712 --> 00:58:17,992
Speaker 2: Maurice just delivers the message to the guys in such

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Speaker 2: a great way and guys just are so receptive to it.

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Speaker 2: So to Nate's point, like, I just think he's one

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Speaker 2: of the great hockey minds and deserves respect and for

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Speaker 2: him to kind of have that mental breakdown so to

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Speaker 2: speak when he was in Winnipeg and pull himself out

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00:58:31,552 --> 00:58:34,552
Speaker 2: and then come back in and be even better and

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00:58:34,631 --> 00:58:36,832
Speaker 2: has improved on himself as just a testament to who

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00:58:36,832 --> 00:58:39,072
Speaker 2: he is as a person. And when you interview him

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00:58:39,112 --> 00:58:42,592
Speaker 2: and he's like he's so, he's just so engaged with

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00:58:42,712 --> 00:58:47,271
Speaker 2: you and gives you insightful answers and cares so much. So, yeah,

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00:58:47,512 --> 00:58:50,032
Speaker 2: kudos to him. Amazing. And then Bob that same night

1242
00:58:50,631 --> 00:58:54,792
Speaker 2: climbs the all time wins list with that win. So

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00:58:55,032 --> 00:58:58,392
Speaker 2: Bobrovski gives him a little a little ode to Paul.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's trying to catch Ed Belfo on that list.

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00:59:00,672 --> 00:59:03,152
Speaker 1: Now see the all time wins among goalies. Pebrovsky's certainly

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00:59:03,192 --> 00:59:06,432
Speaker 1: got some of those guys within strike distance. And uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: as you said, Paul Maurice, people thought he was done.

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00:59:08,312 --> 00:59:09,512
Speaker 1: He thought he was done, and all of a sudden,

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00:59:09,512 --> 00:59:11,312
Speaker 1: all right, Belzino drags him out there to Florida and

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00:59:11,312 --> 00:59:12,872
Speaker 1: he changes his mind all of sudden. He's had a

1251
00:59:12,872 --> 00:59:15,832
Speaker 1: great success there with the Panthers. Certainly been an awesome

1252
00:59:15,912 --> 00:59:17,912
Speaker 1: run for Paul Mareice except for this season. Who knows

1253
00:59:17,952 --> 00:59:20,392
Speaker 1: how they'll bounce back, but it also seems inevitable. Towel

1254
00:59:20,432 --> 00:59:22,072
Speaker 1: last thought, he's gonna pas Scotty Bow when all the

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00:59:22,072 --> 00:59:24,072
Speaker 1: time he wins, he's still a rout to the young man.

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Speaker 1: I don't be Palmres is even sixty years old, yet

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00:59:25,832 --> 00:59:27,271
Speaker 1: he's gonna break the all time wins mark.

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Speaker 6: I was gonna ask, does anyone here know how old

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00:59:30,432 --> 00:59:32,472
Speaker 6: Paul Maurice is, because I was seeing a shock when

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Speaker 6: I found out fifty six.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess I think he's fifty four.

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Speaker 4: fIF wow, seven, he's fifty nine.

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Speaker 6: I assumed he was at least in his sixties.

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Speaker 4: He's that's how long he's been around. By the way,

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Speaker 4: jiu jitsu guy he is, Yeah.

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00:59:46,272 --> 00:59:47,312
Speaker 2: Does he do jiu jitsu?

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Speaker 3: Jiu jitsu is gay?

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Speaker 4: Gee?

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Speaker 1: Well, once again props to uh listen. I know Nate

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Speaker 1: loves his martial arts. I appreciate the fact that Paul

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00:59:58,392 --> 00:59:59,912
Speaker 1: Maurice gets down the jiu jitsu as well.

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Speaker 3: Thanks once again to j D.

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Speaker 1: Nate and tow for an extll episode, Mike Scully as well,

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Speaker 1: and we closed again. We're trying to get new nicknames

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01:00:05,952 --> 01:00:08,472
Speaker 1: out there so JD just love cocky. We'll see if

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01:00:08,512 --> 01:00:09,592
Speaker 1: you can get that rolling.

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Speaker 2: In my love cocky.

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Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart Podcasts.

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