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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to Mother Knows Death. I wanted to

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Speaker 1: hop on for a solo breaking news episode to discuss

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Speaker 1: the sudden passing of the NHL star Johnny Gudreau. For

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Speaker 1: those unfamiliar, Johnny Gudreau is this superstar NHL player. He

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Speaker 1: had been in the NHL for over eleven years. He

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Speaker 1: played with the Calgary Flames for about nine years and

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Speaker 1: then within the last two years had signed this mega

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Speaker 1: contract with the Columbus Blue Jacket. So he was about

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Speaker 1: to go into the second year with that team. And

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Speaker 1: this morning, my husband and I were, you know, just

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Speaker 1: driving around and I saw on Instagram that they posted

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Speaker 1: about the sudden and tragic passing of Johnny. So I

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Speaker 1: immediately had to look into it because, you know, as

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Speaker 1: as people that watch talk you all the time, I'm

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Speaker 1: very familiar with this name, and I know what a

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Speaker 1: big deal he is in the sport. And of course,

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Speaker 1: you know, anytime an athlete dies is a major story.

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Speaker 1: But this story just keeps getting worse as more and

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Speaker 1: more information keeps coming out about it. So last night,

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Speaker 1: he and his brother Matthew were riding bikes on this

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Speaker 1: backcountry road and as you know, most drivers would do that.

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Speaker 1: See bikers on the side of the road, they like

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Speaker 1: move over a little bit so that you can give

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Speaker 1: them room. And these other drivers are in the middle,

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Speaker 1: and then this guy in a jeep Grand Cherokee comes

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Speaker 1: up behind them just being impatient. So this driver thinks

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Speaker 1: he can go around these other cars, is not paying

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Speaker 1: attention to his surroundings at all, eventually goes around them

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Speaker 1: and then hits both of the brothers on their bikes.

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Speaker 1: As of this recording, the driver whose name is Sean Higgins.

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Speaker 1: He is forty three years old. He has been charged

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Speaker 1: with two counts of death by auto. At the time

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Speaker 1: of the accident, the troopers suspected that he was under

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Speaker 1: the influence of alcohol. I mean, we talked about drunk

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Speaker 1: driving incidents a lot on the show. Most recently we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the multiple duys with Patrick Mahomes dad and

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Speaker 1: how we don't think the punishment is necessarily sick you

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Speaker 1: enough for people to not even try to risk doing it,

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Speaker 1: and it just makes us even more infuriating. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these guys were with all of their family, They were

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Speaker 1: there to celebrate this awesome day with their sister, and

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Speaker 1: now this day has turned into this absolute tragedy, and

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Speaker 1: it was a preventable death, all because this guy couldn't,

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Speaker 1: you know, just call an uber or just have some

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Speaker 1: decency to not get in his car and drive drunk.

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Speaker 1: So obviously the family has canceled the wedding. It's just

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Speaker 1: absolutely horrific, and when I was reading about it this morning,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing just made me feel sick to my stomach, thinking,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking about the parents, that this is

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Speaker 1: a special day for parents too, when you know your

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Speaker 1: child is getting married and now you've had two of

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Speaker 1: your children taken from this world for absolutely no reason

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Speaker 1: at all. And I also can't help but think about,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're a grosser. Remember we wrote about

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Speaker 1: matis Ka Lennox a couple of months ago and his

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Speaker 1: tragic passing from getting struck with fireworks on the fourth

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Speaker 1: of July. He was also on the Columbus Blue Jackets.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like it's kind of this like curse

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Speaker 1: they have at this point. You have these two awesome

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Speaker 1: players that get killed in these freak accidents. It's just

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Speaker 1: so unfortunate to think about. And my husband, being an

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Speaker 1: NHL super fan as well, he was telling me, how

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Speaker 1: you know this guy was really beloved by the hockey community,

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Speaker 1: the sports community. He's best friends with some other huge

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Speaker 1: hockey players, and most notably, he had gone to Boston

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Speaker 1: College with another hockey player, Kevin Hayes him, so Johnny, Kevin,

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Speaker 1: and Kevin's brother Jimmy were all really close friends as well.

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Speaker 1: And you know, Jimmy Hayes unfortunately passed away in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. So I feel really horrible for the Gaudreau

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Speaker 1: family and all of this and all their loved ones.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Johnny left behind a wife and a couple kids,

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Speaker 1: and his brother Matthew also left behind a wife. And

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Speaker 1: I'm also thinking about Kevin Hayes, who tragically lost his

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Speaker 1: brother a few years ago and now has lost one

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Speaker 1: of his best friends. I mean, this is just an

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Speaker 1: absolute horrible thing that happened to the hockey community. It's

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Speaker 1: really sad, especially right before this season is about to start,

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Speaker 1: and I can't possibly imagine what this family is going

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Speaker 1: through and what they're feeling. I mean, this is just

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Speaker 1: such a horrible scenario. So thank you guys for tuning

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Speaker 1: into this breaking news episode. We wanted to. We didn't

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Speaker 1: want to wait the full week to talk about it

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Speaker 1: because this is such a big story today, but we

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Speaker 1: definitely wanted to bring it up and let you guys

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Speaker 1: know what happened. And next week on our regular news episode,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna be providing any updates we have about the driver,

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Speaker 1: what happened, and everything like that.

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