Speaker 1: Welcome to the Greatest, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to another episode of Greatest. I am
Speaker 1: Megan Gaily, joined in my dining room by my husband C. J. Toladano.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast studio. Oh wow, Well, we have
Speaker 1: really exciting news from the Gailey Tolodono podcast studio home.
Speaker 1: While we are recording in our dining room. Our friends
Speaker 1: ran out of room in their home and their recording
Speaker 1: podcast in our and we'll bring you on a second.
Speaker 1: But Rachel, well, no, you have to bring them up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell her because I don't want her to.
Speaker 1: Just can I bring our guests on gosh our guests today,
Speaker 1: gotch I'm a fan, I'm a friend. Um, she is
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports, as I was reading today, the youngest
Speaker 1: on air person for Fox Sports. Well, which is incredible.
Speaker 1: And uh one of the hosts of Crookds Hall of
Speaker 1: Shame podcast and for this episode specifically a Canadian. Please
Speaker 1: welcome Rachel Vanetta. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: I'm loving the chaotic energy already. This is where this
Speaker 1: is good for us. We're so what's up with the
Speaker 1: there's people recording a podcast in your girl? Just people?
Speaker 1: Another couple another husband and wife. Oh my said, I
Speaker 1: was like, this is truly embarrassing. If anyone was to
Speaker 1: see this going on, they would be like, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: be embarrassed. I think l A would be embarrassed that
Speaker 1: there is two couple podcasts recording in with and I
Speaker 1: sent her two options. We have like a patio and
Speaker 1: the garage, and I said studio one or two is yours.
Speaker 1: Whichever and whichever you need have been why this is
Speaker 1: this is? I did, like you mentioned I have a
Speaker 1: podcast on crooked I did, I think maybe two episodes
Speaker 1: with my podcast partner in studio and all of the
Speaker 1: other ones have been like this over zoom and like,
Speaker 1: thankfully we get along because if not that would have
Speaker 1: been really messy. That's tough though, to just do the
Speaker 1: two in person. And then I didn't know each other before,
Speaker 1: so you're like literally building chemistry over zoom during the
Speaker 1: course of this year. Do you have any do you
Speaker 1: have any ship you need to get off your chest?
Speaker 1: You know that. I'm like that I should tell, well,
Speaker 1: you know, any greement this is to air. She doesn't
Speaker 1: turn her mike on sometimes it's pretty fucking right. Well,
Speaker 1: and like my heart obviously really cares about the quality.
Speaker 1: But I was about to be like Crooked really cares
Speaker 1: about the quality. They both care. It's just hard, like
Speaker 1: it's hard to yet we have no we have no.
Speaker 1: I remember we the week that everything shut down. Love
Speaker 1: it was gonna have us and where does he do
Speaker 1: his comedy show in l A And the Improv. He
Speaker 1: was gonna have us on his show at the Improv
Speaker 1: and we were gonna like we were planning on getting
Speaker 1: very drunk. Oh I get very drunk, and so that
Speaker 1: show got canceled. So I was just like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: just get drunk anyways, like in the studio and like
Speaker 1: all uber homes. So I remember packing like something stupid,
Speaker 1: like white cloths or something like that, put in the car,
Speaker 1: and we showed up at the studio and everyone was
Speaker 1: gone and everything was silent and there was Clorox wipes everywhere,
Speaker 1: and everyone was kind of just like should we just
Speaker 1: like go home? But it was such a weird. It
Speaker 1: was that week that everything got canceled and everything was
Speaker 1: just very scary, and I was like, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: go drink this whole hole by myself. You were like,
Speaker 1: I just want to get drunk. I don't care what
Speaker 1: the location show about, you guys, but I have been
Speaker 1: getting drunk a lot. I got addicted to weed gummies.
Speaker 1: Weed gummies every night for the last four months, and
Speaker 1: I just only in the one this is what this
Speaker 1: This will be week two of not doing it on
Speaker 1: the weekdays. Oh yeah, I mean we're not even setting
Speaker 1: tough goals for Yeah, I've been smoking a lot of weed.
Speaker 1: I'm a nighttime I can't do it during the day,
Speaker 1: so I at least like I'll wait until below deck
Speaker 1: bachelorette time to really get my exact like no, I
Speaker 1: I like I would drink a couple of times a week,
Speaker 1: but now I just find myself having and it's not
Speaker 1: it's not a time like I'm having one or two
Speaker 1: glasses of wine, but I've never done that before. And
Speaker 1: now I just feel like my body is a trash can.
Speaker 1: So I'm trying to same as you guys. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to like kind of just stay on the weekends. But
Speaker 1: it's hard, I know. And now and now it's the holidays,
Speaker 1: and like the holidays for me, so just like I
Speaker 1: want to get high and watch bor At with my mom.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what I want to do to do that.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the original boor apt chapter one. What
Speaker 1: I don't know, you gift right to chapter two. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it came out when I was in college
Speaker 1: and there were just like enough men around me doing
Speaker 1: the voice. And you know, I went to a very
Speaker 1: conservative leaning school and I fought with men all the time,
Speaker 1: so like and the men I went to college with,
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm not doing anything you're into, and
Speaker 1: so I swore it off that way. But that's a
Speaker 1: good call. Yeah, no, I but the second did you have?
Speaker 1: You guys watched I laughed, Um, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: laugh at it. I had a great time. I was like,
Speaker 1: I thought, this this woman is a revelation. She was fantastic,
Speaker 1: so funny and like. And then we were watching it
Speaker 1: with a friend and her friend had auditioned for that part.
Speaker 1: And I always love like those stories of like what
Speaker 1: did they send? And she was like, oh, it wasn't
Speaker 1: because sometimes you'll get I very rarely have this happen,
Speaker 1: but they'll send what's not the script because they don't
Speaker 1: want it's like so secretive and yeah, that she was
Speaker 1: just given kind of like a blank piece of paper
Speaker 1: and then told to just like yell out things in
Speaker 1: an Eastern European acts. God, that's so funny. I would
Speaker 1: never audition for that that movie, Oh my god. And
Speaker 1: I was watching her. I was just having such anxiety
Speaker 1: watching her do these things because it's like I would
Speaker 1: never be able to do that. It's just so brave.
Speaker 1: I Um, I was on a prank show. I was
Speaker 1: on an MTV prank show, and it was truly it
Speaker 1: took years off of my life. I mean really just
Speaker 1: high stress. Yeah, and like I don't like people being
Speaker 1: mad at me. I don't know why. I thought this
Speaker 1: was going to be like an enjoyable experience for me.
Speaker 1: And also because I look so, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of middle of America in New York City. People were like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's not tricking me, and then I was fully tricking
Speaker 1: them and people tried to fight me a lot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was tough. It was tough. Oh what it was
Speaker 1: called be Like Once a girl yelled at me, bitch,
Speaker 1: I'm from Chicago, and that's like yeah, then I was like,
Speaker 1: oh okay. Security security and security Security quote unquote was
Speaker 1: the one man on the show who is a very
Speaker 1: flamboyant hilarious opera singing comedian named Mateo Lane and they
Speaker 1: would like say in my ear. They'd be like, Mateo's
Speaker 1: got your back, and the Mateo would look at me
Speaker 1: and be like, no, I don't know. I'm not helping you.
Speaker 1: I can't fight these people. I might have to go
Speaker 1: and watch this show. This sounds absolutely insane. Well, there
Speaker 1: were supposed to be ten episodes and there were only eight,
Speaker 1: so you can breaze right through it. Tho, it's weird.
Speaker 1: You will never tell me where I can watch them, Megan, Um,
Speaker 1: I think, Sarah, I know you can watch them all right.
Speaker 1: We've never seen any of them. I've seen clips and
Speaker 1: then I'm just like, well, yeah, I don't need I
Speaker 1: don't need to know all of this. I don't need
Speaker 1: to see all of this. I was listen. I made
Speaker 1: the most of a tough situation, but I was afraid
Speaker 1: a lot was very afraid. That's like hard acting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would like I have to tell men that they
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, I was like pretending people cheated. It
Speaker 1: was it was yeah, it was bad. It was bad.
Speaker 1: I would I don't think i'd be able to sleep
Speaker 1: the night before that ship, Like I would just have
Speaker 1: such crazy. I've done one prank in my life before,
Speaker 1: and I hated every second on it. We sent somebody,
Speaker 1: we sent somebody on a radio show and had they
Speaker 1: had a fake heart attack, like yeah, when you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's I wasn't my idea. I just had to go
Speaker 1: along with it. And it was the worst experience of
Speaker 1: my life. Didn't get a lot of views, views and yeah,
Speaker 1: well the guy, the guy, so hold on, oh god,
Speaker 1: this I shouldn't have brought this up. This guy to
Speaker 1: an audition. It was with a sal who you've met
Speaker 1: I do my show with, and um, so we were
Speaker 1: trying to we like put out a casting call for
Speaker 1: like you must be old and like be able to
Speaker 1: fake a heart attack and all this stuff. We had
Speaker 1: to go sal and I to sit through multiple auditions
Speaker 1: of old men, thinking oh my god, oh my was atrocious.
Speaker 1: And then we landed on one and he got stage
Speaker 1: right and so he had a heart attack and it
Speaker 1: lasted for like five seconds, and he was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it was not successful at all. It was bad. I
Speaker 1: would love to see the casting tape. If men pretending
Speaker 1: that I've got the head shot, okay, listen, I'd into
Speaker 1: those two. This just reminds you real quick. I know
Speaker 1: we're talking too much about pranks, but there was one
Speaker 1: of my favorite vhs is growing up was this NBA
Speaker 1: like prank video and their number one prank was Minute
Speaker 1: Bowl or Charles Barkley putting his head Like they cut
Speaker 1: a hole in the table, Charles Barkley went under it
Speaker 1: to put a tablecloth over it and put his head
Speaker 1: through a hole, and then they put a platter cover
Speaker 1: over his head, which is like in the eighties I
Speaker 1: think was like the height of pranks, I say today,
Speaker 1: and then they're like, hey, Manute Bowl, go over there
Speaker 1: and get a snack from underneath a platter and he lives. Wait,
Speaker 1: so it was just NBA players pranking other nbah. I'd
Speaker 1: watched the ship YouTube. Just look up NBA pranks Manu
Speaker 1: Bowl and you'll see a whole rep. You'll go. You know,
Speaker 1: another another sports icon. O J. Simpson had a prank show,
Speaker 1: Yes he did. He had This was post murder trial.
Speaker 1: Me had an O J. Simpson prank show. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: what would he just know he was prank he was
Speaker 1: pranking people or it was just I think it was
Speaker 1: like him and the cast, Yeah, bron everything. It was
Speaker 1: it's a it's a strange choice to try and rehabilitate
Speaker 1: your career. That's not a good call. Yeah, Rachel, we
Speaker 1: are so excited to have you. I brought up that
Speaker 1: you are Canadian because today's topic is by popular demand.
Speaker 1: To people have been, oh, I don't. I don't believe
Speaker 1: listened by popular demand. I mean two or three people
Speaker 1: okay have asked him been like, can we get a
Speaker 1: little Canadian love? So we are doing greatest Canadian athletes?
Speaker 1: And where are you from? You have a Raptor's shirt
Speaker 1: on right now? Perfect. I thought you guys were going
Speaker 1: to be like decked out in Lakers gear. I follow
Speaker 1: both of you, and I know that you guys are
Speaker 1: both huge basketball fans, and so I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta bring some heat. I love that too from
Speaker 1: this new company that I wanted to wear it. So
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, okay, wow, I had I had a pitch.
Speaker 1: You don't really love your I had a pitch today,
Speaker 1: So I'm looking better than I usually do. But yesterday
Speaker 1: C and I had on inadvertently matching Lakers shirts, So
Speaker 1: you just missed us by one day. You guys are
Speaker 1: sports couples goals I mean, we have gotten in a
Speaker 1: fight because I said he doesn't care about the cults enough.
Speaker 1: Do you have a basketball or a football team? Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it's the Rams right now. But
Speaker 1: it was to say, I mean it is the Colts,
Speaker 1: but I adopted. Yeah, we we got in a fight
Speaker 1: and I said I didn't want to watch the Colts game.
Speaker 1: And that was the wrong thing to say. I forgot.
Speaker 1: That cuts deeper than most things that we ever getting
Speaker 1: fights over. I just have adopted so many things that
Speaker 1: you love, but I always love the best thing. That's
Speaker 1: like me being a front runner. I know, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying the best thing is the Colts. Why don't you holler? Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you? But where am I from? I'm sorry we
Speaker 1: got We're getting so off topic. I am from a
Speaker 1: very very small town, like two and a half hours
Speaker 1: outside of Toronto called or No. My high school was
Speaker 1: on a highway and people used to ride their snowmobiles.
Speaker 1: There was like a snowmobile parking lot at my high school.
Speaker 1: We were like out in the boonies and um, all
Speaker 1: my friends had babies at seventeen basically, and I was
Speaker 1: the only one that escaped. Yeah, so is that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I honestly did not know you were Canadian for a
Speaker 1: while because you have almost no accent. Because I got
Speaker 1: made fun of so much when I first moved to
Speaker 1: the States. When I first moved to the States, I
Speaker 1: was working for Major League Soccer. I want, okay, so
Speaker 1: I'll try and tell this story very quickly. I don't
Speaker 1: have So I was going to school for broadcast journalism.
Speaker 1: I hated it. I didn't want to do sports, I
Speaker 1: didn't want to do news nothing, and so I dropped out.
Speaker 1: And I was just like, I want to be an actress,
Speaker 1: Like improv was my favorite class at journalism school. So
Speaker 1: it's like I'm doing the wrong thing. So I dropped out,
Speaker 1: and I was so broke that I was stealing toilet
Speaker 1: paper from the sushi restaurant down the street. Like that's
Speaker 1: what That's what the mood was like in my life.
Speaker 1: And so I started applying for all of these jobs
Speaker 1: while I was waiting to go back into school, and
Speaker 1: I saw on Facebook this ad for the Toronto FC
Speaker 1: dream job. Toronto FC was our major league soccer team.
Speaker 1: Did not watch soccer at all. I played when I
Speaker 1: was younger. I was like, always played sports, but so
Speaker 1: I applied for it not knowing anything, just like bullshitted
Speaker 1: my way through the bio. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: I got chosen into a smaller category because the way
Speaker 1: I don't shouldn't even tell the story. But the way
Speaker 1: that I led my opening sentence was like, besides my
Speaker 1: love for balls, like I thought, it was like my
Speaker 1: attempt at trying to be like I think is going
Speaker 1: to catch their attention. I think we know how you
Speaker 1: got to the second round now, I think they were like, okay,
Speaker 1: top of the The first round was just like a
Speaker 1: little bit about yourself and I went to school for
Speaker 1: like being on camera, so um. And then the second
Speaker 1: round was like send in a video of why you
Speaker 1: should have this job. So I wrote a sketch, um.
Speaker 1: And then I got top five and I was just
Speaker 1: like I should not be here. And then I fucking won.
Speaker 1: I just swear on this pot. Yeah yeah, yeah, I won.
Speaker 1: I won. I beat out over five people. I remember
Speaker 1: when I went in for my interview, I had the
Speaker 1: captain's name written on my hand and pen like I
Speaker 1: was so so out of the loop. And then I
Speaker 1: learned everything that I could about soccer and like being
Speaker 1: on camera. I was like shooting all my own stuff.
Speaker 1: It was like when YouTube was first happening. So I
Speaker 1: was shooting all of these sketches and like funny bits.
Speaker 1: And then Major League Soccer and the head office in
Speaker 1: New York City emailed me one day and they're like,
Speaker 1: we've been seeing your stuff. It's really fun and like
Speaker 1: weird and different. Would you ever consider working in New
Speaker 1: York City? And I had been in New York once
Speaker 1: in my life before. I had a Carnegie Delhi napkin
Speaker 1: on my desk, like on my little bulletin board and
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh my god. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: it took a little while from my visa to go through.
Speaker 1: And then I went and worked in New York and
Speaker 1: was like in a I was the only female in
Speaker 1: office with like thirty five dudes, and all they would
Speaker 1: do my It was so embarrassing. I do all my
Speaker 1: hits in front of the entire office. It was when
Speaker 1: I first start that I had a serious like Canadian
Speaker 1: twang and um so every time I would say like
Speaker 1: tomorrow or sorry and like so I had to fix
Speaker 1: it so quickly because I was like this fucking sock,
Speaker 1: So did you do dialect or you just like no, no,
Speaker 1: I just there's there was really only a couple of
Speaker 1: words that really came out with it's just fixing a
Speaker 1: couple of owls um. But yeah, thankfully I was able
Speaker 1: to kind of get rid of it, because I think
Speaker 1: that that's kind of help if I was super Canadian.
Speaker 1: I mean, like Jay and Dan, who are huge Canadian
Speaker 1: sports broadcasters, they came to the States and they didn't
Speaker 1: get rid of their accent, and that was like one
Speaker 1: of the things that a lot of people talked about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's insane. That is really insane, Like that's awesome
Speaker 1: that you you fixed it. I mean I feel like
Speaker 1: even saying fixed it is like yeah, it's like it's
Speaker 1: five voice. It just it sounds a little like honk,
Speaker 1: like honky tonk, like Canadian Canadian accents. Sometimes when I
Speaker 1: go home, it's it reminds me of like a southern drawl.
Speaker 1: Like if I'm home and I started drinking and I'm
Speaker 1: around my brothers and like my cousins, like I really
Speaker 1: start to sound a little bit like a hillbilly. And
Speaker 1: so I think I kind of wanted to fix it
Speaker 1: because I didn't love the sound of it well. And
Speaker 1: they always say this, like, even if you're from the
Speaker 1: South or the Northeast and you want to be a
Speaker 1: newsperson on camera there like you need to, especially like
Speaker 1: a Wisconsin, Minnesota those places too, They're like, watch these
Speaker 1: Midwestern accents and then that is what they want people
Speaker 1: to have. So even if you have like a drawl
Speaker 1: out here, they're gonna they're gonna beat it out of you.
Speaker 1: But well, even I mean being wanting to be an
Speaker 1: actress to like, I couldn't just go an audition to
Speaker 1: be an American girl with the Canadian accent, so I
Speaker 1: had to get rid of it. Well it sounds great now,
Speaker 1: but I'd love to hear drunk around your cousins too.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it gets pretty nice. My boyfriend's just like you.
Speaker 1: It gets fully turned off. I sound a little country sometimes,
Speaker 1: you sound very much from where you're from. Okay, wow
Speaker 1: felt Oh yeah that sounded really okay. So so excited
Speaker 1: to do this. My grandmother was Canadian. My parents are
Speaker 1: from Niagara Falls, New York, but like spent their whole
Speaker 1: I love doing stand up in Canada. It's like one
Speaker 1: of my favorite places to perform all over. Just lovely
Speaker 1: wonderful people we could learn a lot from. Okay, So
Speaker 1: for our purposes, you are going to start with your
Speaker 1: number three, and then we'll go in sending. I can
Speaker 1: never remember, um, but are you ready to lead us
Speaker 1: up with your number three pick for greatest Canadian athletes? Yes?
Speaker 1: I am ready. Okay, So here's the thing my brain.
Speaker 1: When you guys asked me top three Canadians, my brain
Speaker 1: instantly went to my three favorite athletes who have played
Speaker 1: sports in Canada. But that's definitely not Canadian. No, But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I have a bunch of honorable mentions
Speaker 1: that I count as like honorable Canadians. But I did
Speaker 1: come up with three, uh, three solid Canadians. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you want my number three, I'm gonna go for three.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go all hockey because you could
Speaker 1: easily do that. I think I'm going to land on
Speaker 1: like a Steve Nash situation. I think he's a pretty
Speaker 1: solid a Canadian that I can be proud of. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna Nelly for Tato song. There's a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but he is hands down the most famous Canadian basketball player,
Speaker 1: and so I also think that makes him probably the
Speaker 1: most famous Canadian athletes outside of kind of the one
Speaker 1: we're probably all thinking about. But basketball is so huge
Speaker 1: in America. It's much bigger than hockey, and so Steve
Speaker 1: Nash is really the Canadian poster child. I think so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I kind of wish he's never No, he
Speaker 1: didn't play for any Canadian team, so I kind of
Speaker 1: wish I kind of wish he did. Like my number
Speaker 1: one on this list was Vince Carter, Like I wish
Speaker 1: that he was Canadian so much because he is the Canadian.
Speaker 1: He really is the Canadian basketball camps, even though Steve
Speaker 1: Nash exists, like he is the number one Canadian basketball player.
Speaker 1: I was obsessed with him. I honestly want to kick
Speaker 1: Steve off the list. Yeah, that's interesting, Like do people
Speaker 1: ever fault these Canadian stars that come to America. I
Speaker 1: mean he played in Phoenix to like Phoenix is the
Speaker 1: antithesis of Canada. I was thinking about this today and
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the Lakers and like how you
Speaker 1: guys are always able to get these like rad players,
Speaker 1: and how you were able to build a team around
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Because so many people want to go and
Speaker 1: live in Los Angeles, nobody wants to go and play
Speaker 1: a basketball season which goes through the winner in Toronto,
Speaker 1: Like Toronto in the summer is sweet. But like the
Speaker 1: thing about the Raptors is like we kind of have
Speaker 1: to get lucky with like a rag tag team like
Speaker 1: we did, because we're never gonna get this. Like if
Speaker 1: we got a huge star, I'd be like, I ship
Speaker 1: my pants, you know what I mean, Like I'd be like, why,
Speaker 1: how how did this happen? But with like he was
Speaker 1: the first star that we had, like three years after
Speaker 1: our team started, and he was who like brought us
Speaker 1: to the playoffs for the first time. And he's like
Speaker 1: what the Raptors stood for. And like, you know, when
Speaker 1: you think of the Raptors, you think of Vince Carter
Speaker 1: like that he is, he is the Raptor And so
Speaker 1: I feel he, you know, he's just like the king
Speaker 1: of Canadian basketball in that way, I think, And we're
Speaker 1: not We're probably never gonna have one like that again.
Speaker 1: And so he was fully adopted and beloved for sure.
Speaker 1: If he gets into if he stayed longer, I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's um, you know, it's funny you brought up like
Speaker 1: Toronto and you know, players going to play in whatever
Speaker 1: city do you want to live in. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: the rumors right now are that the Raptors may play
Speaker 1: in Tampa, which is just so confusing to me because
Speaker 1: of what's going to go on with We're gonna like
Speaker 1: bring everyone the Canadian governments like, don't send your dirty, breathing,
Speaker 1: fucking citizens up here. We're good, thank you. I think
Speaker 1: the Toronto was like elegant, diverse, like you know, it's
Speaker 1: it's still it's a great city, and people pretty much
Speaker 1: trust me. I can sell anybody on the city. The
Speaker 1: city is sick, Like the food scene is amazing, the
Speaker 1: women are beautiful, Like the music scene is really cool,
Speaker 1: and the summer is awesome. But I just know a
Speaker 1: lot of Americans think, like I don't want to go
Speaker 1: to Canada, but I think you won a championship, right,
Speaker 1: it's a little bit more attractive now. But I just don't.
Speaker 1: I can't ever see, Like I remember a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago, it's like, well maybe we'll get you, honest,
Speaker 1: and it's like, bitch, I'm gonna go from Toronto, gonna
Speaker 1: get my hopes up for that stupid You're stupid, Okay, great,
Speaker 1: you want me to go next Okay. I was like,
Speaker 1: I know that there's some athletes that I must not
Speaker 1: know about. So I kind of used this episode to
Speaker 1: expand my horizons a little bit because there are sort
Speaker 1: of those core too. One of them is already the
Speaker 1: mentioned that pop in my head. And so my number
Speaker 1: three pick is an Olympian. Her name is Clara Hughes.
Speaker 1: She's very famous in Canada. She is so incredible. So
Speaker 1: these are some of her accomplishments. She's a six time
Speaker 1: Olympic medalist and she's one of only two athletes since
Speaker 1: World War Two to win a medal in the Summer
Speaker 1: and Winter Games. In the Summer Games, she won two
Speaker 1: bronze medals in cycling, and then she has since won
Speaker 1: four medals over three Winter Games in speed skating. One
Speaker 1: of them she's one of bronze and silver and a gold,
Speaker 1: and she's a badass. I can't imagine being able to
Speaker 1: be an Olympic cycler and an Olympic speed skater. I
Speaker 1: guess they're kind of on the same track. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it seems like difficult to be one of only two.
Speaker 1: And and then it made me be like, oh, I
Speaker 1: almost like forget about Canadian athletes until the Olympics happen,
Speaker 1: you know, like honestly, yeah, Like I was a little
Speaker 1: worried when you asked me to do this podcast because
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, Ship, Like who am I gonna
Speaker 1: Who am I going to know? But she is. It's
Speaker 1: funny because there are so many Canadians that are so
Speaker 1: famous in Canada, and as soon as you crossed the border,
Speaker 1: people are like, I don't know who this person is.
Speaker 1: Like going back to Jay and Dan, a lot of
Speaker 1: people probably aren't gonna know who they are. But when
Speaker 1: I found out that they were at Fox, that's why
Speaker 1: I chose to go to Fox. I hadn't offer at
Speaker 1: ESPN and Fox at the same time, and I chose
Speaker 1: l A and Fox partly because they were there, Like
Speaker 1: they were so cute. I remember seeing Jay in the
Speaker 1: street one time and I was in a cab and
Speaker 1: I hit like I didn't want him to see me,
Speaker 1: like he didn't know who I was at all, but
Speaker 1: I was. That's that was my reaction. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this person's too famous, Like I can't
Speaker 1: look at them. It was so But it's the same
Speaker 1: with athletes and Claire. He's so huge. She had this
Speaker 1: cute little gap in her tooth. I know exactly who
Speaker 1: this person is. She probably couldn't walk down the street
Speaker 1: without getting recognized, and a lot of people probably don't
Speaker 1: know who. And the same thing happens in stand up too,
Speaker 1: because there's they'll be like, this guy is the the
Speaker 1: Seinfeld of Canada and we've truly never like a man
Speaker 1: who is like a famous Canadian in insulted me in
Speaker 1: like a not nice. It was a part of a roast,
Speaker 1: but I was like waiting with him, not the puppet
Speaker 1: he was. In Australian I had to roast a puppet
Speaker 1: a puppet and I had a roast battle and I
Speaker 1: lost to the puppet and one of the judges was
Speaker 1: this Canadian guy who came at me and I remember
Speaker 1: being like, bitch, i've never seen you on TV. But
Speaker 1: then he is very famous in Canada. In Canada, I
Speaker 1: could never do a roast. I'm way too sensitive. I
Speaker 1: would always get my feelings hurt. I am totally fine
Speaker 1: with them. I will say, if you're listening, I suggested
Speaker 1: not doing a roast with an inanimate object because they
Speaker 1: don't have any feelings or steaks, so it's not really
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, when a puppet brings up your abortion,
Speaker 1: it definitely hurts, you know, got it? Got it? Oh boy,
Speaker 1: Randy felt Face. But but the man and the man
Speaker 1: is so nice. But if I see Randy felt Face
Speaker 1: the puppet, I'll kill him. But the man is a
Speaker 1: terrible name for a puppet. Man who Man's Randy? I like, okay,
Speaker 1: you go, but you know that's the same person. But
Speaker 1: that's why it sucks, because I I channel all my
Speaker 1: negative feelings towards Randy and my positive feelings towards the
Speaker 1: actual person. Yeah, okay, my pick. I'm going to continue
Speaker 1: in classic CJ fashion where these aren't the greatest. But
Speaker 1: I just I mean, I had to look it up.
Speaker 1: I did do some research. One of the highlights of
Speaker 1: the Bubble. This guy plays for the Denver Nuggets, Jamal Murray. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was on my honorable mention. I mean, to me,
Speaker 1: it's like he's probably on his way to being one
Speaker 1: of the greatest Canadian athletes. And yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: been on my radar and been on people's radar for
Speaker 1: the last few years. But like what he did in
Speaker 1: the bubble. Okay, so this this podcast we cover like
Speaker 1: actual performances, but also pop culture. The dude got He
Speaker 1: accidentally went on I G Live while getting oral sex
Speaker 1: from his girlfriend and hold on, this was like back
Speaker 1: in like April April, or it was like before it
Speaker 1: was how does one act? He said, he got hacked.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a whole thing. And then of
Speaker 1: course everyone started looking up the girlfriend. Who is this
Speaker 1: like really hot blonde volleyball player And it became a
Speaker 1: pretty big a pretty big big. There must have been
Speaker 1: a pandemic or something like that. It was competing with
Speaker 1: the rest of which, again, it was one of those stories.
Speaker 1: Had it happened in any other year, there was like,
Speaker 1: you know, it would be every late night joke would
Speaker 1: be about Jamal Murray. So I didn't at the time
Speaker 1: that happened, I didn't have a face for Jamal Murray.
Speaker 1: I had heard his name, and then when the bubble
Speaker 1: started and he was just I mean, he was incredible
Speaker 1: and especially layoffs. And then someone referenced it and I
Speaker 1: was like, that's my Jamal, Like I had to put
Speaker 1: two and then the image flash before my eyes again.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh no, I can't believe I've seen this
Speaker 1: man's pubes and I've been rooting for him with hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold okay, without getting to like where was
Speaker 1: the camp The camera was from his eyesight down? Oh
Speaker 1: so was he trying to record it? And he went
Speaker 1: on Instagram Live. Yes, okay. And my theory is, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys have done this. It's
Speaker 1: like you don't know. You know, you see a picture,
Speaker 1: you want to take a picture or something, and you go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: should that go on Instagram story or what? So you
Speaker 1: kind of just used the camera within the Instagram app.
Speaker 1: I feel like maybe he like has that decision making
Speaker 1: in his head and he accidentally opened up the Instagram app.
Speaker 1: And Instagram is like you have to that's it. You
Speaker 1: would have to like roll it out with a computer.
Speaker 1: You had to say, like go live if I think yeah,
Speaker 1: but but who is that dumb that they would I
Speaker 1: should we just do a whole podcast. I knew this
Speaker 1: would happen. And no, thank you for that, jem, I
Speaker 1: didn't know that that was you know, he loves this woman.
Speaker 1: This woman loves him. You know she seemed very good. Okay,
Speaker 1: good for him connect to learn to not do these
Speaker 1: kinds of things like sure, that's a lovely thing to
Speaker 1: have on your phone, probably for him, especially in the bubble,
Speaker 1: but like maybe just you know, don't do that. I
Speaker 1: think they get a rookie seminar not to do it.
Speaker 1: But you know, you just see, you get in the
Speaker 1: moment and it's fun. It's fun. Yeahs connected to his performance.
Speaker 1: You know, the rule was in the bubble that family
Speaker 1: members and friends could come in the second round and
Speaker 1: his yeah, he started making head but then everybody was
Speaker 1: like is she here? Is she here? And they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's here, She's here. And he went to school in
Speaker 1: the States, like c J. Do you know about how
Speaker 1: the recruiting process us, like, because you know, there there's
Speaker 1: high school boys that you follow. Are you are you
Speaker 1: going to teach me birds? I hope that gets clipped out.
Speaker 1: You know, there's high school boys that you're a fan of.
Speaker 1: But then like, so how do they find these incredible
Speaker 1: high school players in Canada? Oh, I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: they have a use, they have you know, and they
Speaker 1: have like Northern scouts, like guys that really shine and
Speaker 1: tournaments and stuff like that, right because I mean they're
Speaker 1: in the last five ten years, there's been a big
Speaker 1: uptick in Canadian players Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Bennett, all guys
Speaker 1: definitely aren't gonna be on the list, but yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a big contingent for basketball. I feel like Wiggins was
Speaker 1: so hugely didn't you go Number one? In the draft
Speaker 1: that people are close close to that at least I
Speaker 1: think people were probably like, oh, let's start like kind
Speaker 1: of keeping tabs on because he was so shining, uh,
Speaker 1: such a standout that they're probably like looking more into it.
Speaker 1: Are there universities in Canada that are like, oh, these
Speaker 1: are like is there a duke of Like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I don't actually know college basketball in Canada too well,
Speaker 1: but I will say, if you want to be in
Speaker 1: the NBA, you're not going to play college ball in Canada.
Speaker 1: And they're kind of dare I say it kind of
Speaker 1: takes away from their Canadian nous a little bit if
Speaker 1: they go and play college ball in America, because like,
Speaker 1: college in Canada is um there's something very American about
Speaker 1: colleges in America that sounds so stupid. But you guys
Speaker 1: have such a crazy college experience and we don't really
Speaker 1: have that. What do you mean don't like you don't
Speaker 1: have to and like you know, it's not like college
Speaker 1: football players and like Hottie mccotterson, he's like got a
Speaker 1: beer gut and probably like hunts deer on the weekend.
Speaker 1: Like that's Canada. So I feel like they become more Americanized.
Speaker 1: Like I didn't know Jamal Murray was a Canadian at
Speaker 1: first until somebody until he was like in the thick
Speaker 1: of playoffs, and then I found out and I was
Speaker 1: just like whoa, um, so yeah, but he's he's he
Speaker 1: can be honest for eighteen to twenty two are also
Speaker 1: extremely formative years. Formative years. I mean we've all met
Speaker 1: like a girl who did study abroad in Italy for
Speaker 1: one year and it's like, I'm Italian, you know, so
Speaker 1: like you can fully like embrace a culture like that. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take a pickbreak and we'll be right back,
Speaker 1: and we are back, Rachel, you want to give us
Speaker 1: your number two pick? Yeah, So I'm gonna surprise you
Speaker 1: guys with this one because I feel it it's probably
Speaker 1: number one for y'all, but I'm gonna put Wayne Gretzky
Speaker 1: into makes your number one even more interesting. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put Wayne Gretzky at number two. I know he's like
Speaker 1: the great one and like did all these amazing things
Speaker 1: with his NHL career and was just a fantastic hockey person.
Speaker 1: But did you guys know this is maybe one of
Speaker 1: my favorite facts about Wayne Gretzky that his wife was
Speaker 1: involved in a highly illegal gambling ring involving multiple NHL
Speaker 1: coaches and a Philadelphia crime family. Yeah, you guys, and
Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky may or may not have known about it.
Speaker 1: Have you talked about the Sun Hall of Shame? We
Speaker 1: did a full episode on Okay, so everybody go listen
Speaker 1: to the episode, But then, Rachel, can you give us
Speaker 1: like cliff notes of Okay, let's see if I can
Speaker 1: remember because it was early on in the season, but
Speaker 1: it's basically like, okay, so this was when sports gambling
Speaker 1: was illegal and it still isn't a lot of places.
Speaker 1: But they were a group of very wealthy people, including
Speaker 1: I want to see, like the Flyers head coach, Philly
Speaker 1: Flyer's head coach, and Wayne Gretzky's wife and a couple
Speaker 1: of other people were placing these like massive bets apparently
Speaker 1: not on hockey but on the Super Bowl, and like
Speaker 1: they were like millions and millions of dollars um. She
Speaker 1: like really liked to gamble apparently, and then they got caught.
Speaker 1: The bookies were like this Philadelphia crime family was like
Speaker 1: a little bit of a dicey situation. This this the
Speaker 1: head coach of the Flyers got caught and he had
Speaker 1: like all these fancy watches and like all these TVs
Speaker 1: in his house and it was crazy. But the speculation
Speaker 1: is that Gretzky's wife took the fall for him, so
Speaker 1: that it was actually Gretzky that was involved. But since
Speaker 1: he's Wayne Gretzky, she took the fall for him. So
Speaker 1: did she Did she get arrested? No, I don't think
Speaker 1: she got arrested. I think she got fine um and
Speaker 1: they had to pay money. But yeah, it was really
Speaker 1: spicy and I'm pretty sure, Yeah, he can't cheat on
Speaker 1: his daughter, freaking got the jack Paul Justin Johnson. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: bore her own green jacket this weekend. I've got I
Speaker 1: have a oh that yeah yeah yeah, because I remember
Speaker 1: people would be like at some point she was being
Speaker 1: referred to as like Dustin Johnson's hot girlfriend or something,
Speaker 1: and so whenever that is, I'm like crude, these hat
Speaker 1: And then it's like, oh, your dad's Wayne grit Sky. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's really like, of course, yeah, you just get
Speaker 1: to be hot for the rest. You're already rich, and
Speaker 1: now you're marrying this man who had a coke problem
Speaker 1: and can play golf. This is incredible and apparently broke
Speaker 1: up a bunch of relationships across the PGA. Did you
Speaker 1: guys here about that Dustin or she gets slept, No,
Speaker 1: he slept with some lay um because he looks like
Speaker 1: he's a dirty dog. Yeah, he looks like I got
Speaker 1: to look. She looks sometimes a beard. Look. It would
Speaker 1: be like if a guy that you went to high
Speaker 1: school with was like hot in high school and then
Speaker 1: was like still hot now and like really get a
Speaker 1: golf and wins the exactly you Okay, that is a
Speaker 1: great pick. He's my number one. He held sixty one
Speaker 1: NHL records when he retired. It's really incredible. Okay. My
Speaker 1: number two pick is a hockey woman. Her name is Haley.
Speaker 1: So you know, there's a debate about who may be
Speaker 1: the greatest male hockey player, but they say, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: Haley is the best female hockey player ever. She was
Speaker 1: on the Canadian national team for twenty three years. She
Speaker 1: has four gold medals and a silver medal, and she
Speaker 1: also this is incredible to just just like Clara. She
Speaker 1: also represented Canada in the Summer Olympics on the Canadian
Speaker 1: softball team. Oh, I didn't know that. That's really right.
Speaker 1: I have this memory of which was very cool. Actually,
Speaker 1: I have this memory of my school shutting down. Canada
Speaker 1: was playing in the Olympics for the gold medal match.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was against the U S.
Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't, I can't remember who cares um and
Speaker 1: they pulled us all into this gymnasium and put the game,
Speaker 1: the final gold medal game, up on the TV. And
Speaker 1: just being a young girl, my my dream was to
Speaker 1: play in the w n b A. When I was younger,
Speaker 1: I loved school so much, and seeing this whole school,
Speaker 1: the entire school, every single grade, boy and girl in
Speaker 1: the gymnasium watching women's hockey win a gold medal was
Speaker 1: like so cool. It was like and that was when
Speaker 1: I was in elementary school, like so so long ago.
Speaker 1: That was so cool. That would probably not happening. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like so is that sort of the equivalent like the
Speaker 1: women's national team because the like the US women's soccer
Speaker 1: team is celebrated here equally, if not more than the
Speaker 1: men because they're much more decorated. Um yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: you can celebrate when you win, you know, so it's
Speaker 1: easier to celebrate them. Is that sort of like the
Speaker 1: national women's hockey team in Canada, it's sort of the
Speaker 1: same vibe. I think it's different because the men's hockey
Speaker 1: team is good, whereas the US men's national team has
Speaker 1: not been good for a long time and didn't make
Speaker 1: another the World Cups. That's probably why every relationship ships
Speaker 1: on them. They're good now. But um oh yeah, so no.
Speaker 1: I but I think that that's also what makes it cool.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like, let's wait for the guys game. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: the women are in the gold medal match. Let's shut
Speaker 1: down the school and everyone watch. I know. So it
Speaker 1: was I know only one girl that I've met my
Speaker 1: entire life that played hockey, and it seems like I
Speaker 1: played hockey for five years. It's the most fun sports,
Speaker 1: So I don't think they encourage girls to play it
Speaker 1: here in the States. Well, it was weird when I
Speaker 1: first came to the States. I remember my first time
Speaker 1: on TV was filling in on Calling Coward Show. You
Speaker 1: like sit in the booth like fifty feet away from
Speaker 1: him and like, uh ask him questions every so often.
Speaker 1: And the first time I did that, they were like, no, hockey,
Speaker 1: don't mention hockey, don't talk about hockey. We don't do
Speaker 1: hockey in the States. And I was just like okay,
Speaker 1: Roger that, um, yeah, I just don't think it's a
Speaker 1: thing here in a lot of places where we're like
Speaker 1: literally born, this is gonna sund We're like literally born
Speaker 1: with the States, hockey is so massive. I remember I
Speaker 1: went home a little while ago, like sometime last year,
Speaker 1: and I went to this restaurant, this like chain restaurant,
Speaker 1: and they had a menu for hockey players, like in
Speaker 1: the in the menu was a special menu for hockey players.
Speaker 1: And this was like a massive chain restaurant, like they're
Speaker 1: just everyone places. And was that like portion specific or
Speaker 1: I think it was all like healthy stupid stuff, par athlete,
Speaker 1: you should be eating salmon. Yeah. Here, it's like ye
Speaker 1: a year, ESPN wheels out, Barry Melrose and then that's
Speaker 1: it basically, you know, And like Linda Cone will sometimes
Speaker 1: get to talk about it, but it's so. I mean,
Speaker 1: I on the bubble machine. We did like the stats
Speaker 1: and I didn't. I think I mentioned NHL twice and
Speaker 1: part of that is because I didn't grow up in
Speaker 1: a city with hockey. But yeah, it's just it hasn't no,
Speaker 1: it really, it's really insane that it's not a it's
Speaker 1: not bigger here like every time. Oh yeah, it's really exciting.
Speaker 1: We both lived in Chicago during that Be Your stretch
Speaker 1: when the black Hawks won three Stanley Cups and it
Speaker 1: was and comedy shows everything canceled, like it was just
Speaker 1: as big as if if the White Sox were It
Speaker 1: was bigger than if the White Sox weren't. So we've
Speaker 1: seen it, but like that, like Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, they
Speaker 1: feel kind of like the outliers. Yeah yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that you would love, Megan, if you ever want to
Speaker 1: try and give it a whirl. It's really great. It's
Speaker 1: a great way to take out frustration like I used
Speaker 1: to just hurt girl. Wow, I would swear at them
Speaker 1: like I you become a different person on the ice,
Speaker 1: and it's a very nice way to like then, okay
Speaker 1: it and we can make it a couple thing. I'll
Speaker 1: dress up as a goalie and you could take shots
Speaker 1: on I would love to. Yeah, it's great, a great
Speaker 1: way to get your anger out. I always like talking
Speaker 1: because it just looked fun getting all that gear. I mean,
Speaker 1: I liked football and getting all this stuff. Belase I went,
Speaker 1: you know, free skating and all that stuff. But then
Speaker 1: also to then in high school, I think all the
Speaker 1: all the hockey player dudes, we're rich and hot, and
Speaker 1: got all of my crushes. But then their their feet
Speaker 1: smell so bad. Oh my god, it was. And I
Speaker 1: was like, I played football, My stuff doesn't smell its
Speaker 1: bad because I got aired out. But I think hockey
Speaker 1: players kept it in their bag and then they would
Speaker 1: still skate with what they used for playing. And so
Speaker 1: I remember this kid who was like, I had all
Speaker 1: the hottest girlfriends. He'd opened up his bag and like,
Speaker 1: I like faintest, like in a cartoon. Yeah, it's so gnarly.
Speaker 1: My brothers used to like the gloves of the worst
Speaker 1: for some reason, the gloves of the most disgusting thing.
Speaker 1: You have to like soak your hands in acid after
Speaker 1: my brothers after a hockey game. I have three older brothers,
Speaker 1: which makes a lot of things make um they used
Speaker 1: to take their bare hands and just like my face
Speaker 1: after a hockey game, and like I was, my brothers
Speaker 1: are a lot older than me and a lot bigger
Speaker 1: than me, so I would just have to deal. I
Speaker 1: would just be like, pretend I'm dead, and like it
Speaker 1: was the worst c J. What would it do to
Speaker 1: your ego that such smelly men were winning? It was
Speaker 1: more about that. I mean, I was already battling other things,
Speaker 1: being the only Filipino kids in Pennsylvania, But you know,
Speaker 1: it was one of those things. But yeah, it turns out, Hey,
Speaker 1: hey Clara, I'm one of a kind. Um you want
Speaker 1: to give your number two my number number two? Pick Um? Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know much about hockey, but I just know
Speaker 1: this guy is just massive. Sidney Crosby and yeah, Sidney
Speaker 1: Kidd And I remember too, because so I moved to
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh for my first year of college film school at
Speaker 1: Point Park University didn't work out, left after one semester um,
Speaker 1: but I moved there in two thousand five when Sidney
Speaker 1: Crosby his rookie year, and so I remember just like
Speaker 1: doing a little bit of like and just sitting on
Speaker 1: Sports Center like this young kid I think he was
Speaker 1: eighteen seventeen or eighteen playing in the n h L,
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like a Lebron situation where
Speaker 1: kid was prodigy, like he's going to be the greatest
Speaker 1: ever and to then live up to it. Three Stanley
Speaker 1: Cups stayed on the again, like to stay he's in.
Speaker 1: He's been on the Penguins his whole career, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love when guys just have one team. That's
Speaker 1: my favorite. The thing the cool thing about said, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: prodigy for sure. I remember seeing highlights of him when
Speaker 1: he was young where he would be behind the net
Speaker 1: and he would pick up the puck on his stick
Speaker 1: and scoop it over the top and it would somehow
Speaker 1: go in. Like this guy was just so insane, he
Speaker 1: was so gifted, and like, you know, maybe once he retires,
Speaker 1: he's going to be like the next I mean, if
Speaker 1: he's not already the next Wayne Gretzky, I think he's
Speaker 1: probably pretty clear. Yeah, the fact that he's still playing
Speaker 1: definitely means that this his like legacy can only continue
Speaker 1: to grow. Yeah, his numbers are going to be like
Speaker 1: just as impressed is he hot? It doesn't restrate me
Speaker 1: so many so many, like so many famous win then
Speaker 1: in the United States, Mary hockey players, Carrie Underwood, Hillary Duff,
Speaker 1: Aaron Andrews. Like, it's a lot of blonde if you're
Speaker 1: famous in America and blonde. Boy. Here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: feel like Canadians are automatically attracted to men who play hockey.
Speaker 1: So Sidney Crosby could be like mediocre, um, and I
Speaker 1: think I'd still be very attracted to him. But I
Speaker 1: do think he was cute picture I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's cute. He's got little rosy cheeks. I love that,
Speaker 1: but he's not like sometimes you see these hockey players
Speaker 1: and they're like ounks, you know, and then and then
Speaker 1: they've bought no teeth, and I'm like, I'm even into that,
Speaker 1: Like the less teeth, the cooler. So Jenny Taft, he's
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports and hosts on Disputed. She's this beautiful,
Speaker 1: stunning woman. She's so smart. She covers college football and
Speaker 1: does on Disputed and all this stuff. And I meet
Speaker 1: her husband, who is like very handsome, um, so gorgeous,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, you guys are like
Speaker 1: the perfect pair. And he's like, hey, I'm Matt. Nice
Speaker 1: to meet you and he's missing like a bunch of teeth,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, this is fantastic. It just
Speaker 1: that and he's that that's how he's out meeting people
Speaker 1: Like good for him. It's just like I'm huge and
Speaker 1: hot whatever, I'll look just like takes it if he
Speaker 1: knows he's gonna eat, like we've been out to dinner.
Speaker 1: If you know he's gonna eat, he just takes it out.
Speaker 1: It takes those slippers out. I just think that this
Speaker 1: party trick. Yeah, Okay, we'll take one more break and
Speaker 1: then we'll be back with our number one picks and
Speaker 1: we are back. I am at first rate till we
Speaker 1: have you go last, because you're our guest and you're
Speaker 1: our grand finale. Um. As I said, Wayne Gretzky was
Speaker 1: my number one. I knew, you know it just sort
Speaker 1: Wayne Gret's the great one like that is that's kind
Speaker 1: of I don't even think you need to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do have some honorable mentions. I have two hockey
Speaker 1: players on here, so I'm not going to say them
Speaker 1: because I'm guessing one of them is yours. So the
Speaker 1: honorable mentions that I will say I had Sidney Crosby,
Speaker 1: I have Mike We're a Master's champion who is a
Speaker 1: very famous golfer. I did not realize he was Canadian,
Speaker 1: because you know, Canadians look American. You just you know,
Speaker 1: he's got a he's got a golf tan line where
Speaker 1: his forehead is pale and the rest of his face
Speaker 1: is tan. And to me, that looks like he could
Speaker 1: be for from Tampa, you know. But Mike, we're also
Speaker 1: I did not realize that Lennox Lewis is Canadian. He
Speaker 1: has dual citizenship, so he was born in the UK,
Speaker 1: but then he was educated basically sixth grade on in Canada.
Speaker 1: And he's a three time heavyweight and I didn't Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I guess he did. He boxed in the Olympics
Speaker 1: once as a Canadian and once as as a UK citizen.
Speaker 1: It's kind of I have problems with that. Well, if
Speaker 1: you go into the olymp x ones, you can't go
Speaker 1: back and change your It's kind of complicated too, because
Speaker 1: Canada is a like British Commonwealth colony. Yeah, what have commonwealth?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have a queen. I don't know
Speaker 1: the queen is on the money. So it's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess if you're it seems that's a very Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a thin um. It's an easy cross. It's an
Speaker 1: easy cross. It's an easy cross people. Because there's a
Speaker 1: Jamaican born sprinter who then ran in the Olympics as
Speaker 1: a Canadian, and I'm like, he's Jamaican to me, I
Speaker 1: know that. Well, there's a lot of there's a lot
Speaker 1: of there's a a really exciting new guy on the
Speaker 1: Canadian men's national team for soccer. What's his name? Anyways,
Speaker 1: he was born in Ghana. But because we welcome all
Speaker 1: of these people from all of these countries, not like
Speaker 1: some other countries, a lot of people claim citizenship in Canada,
Speaker 1: so they represent our country in the Olympics and stuff,
Speaker 1: which is really cool because our Olympic teams are always
Speaker 1: incredibly diverse. It's amazing. That is yeah, because when I
Speaker 1: saw these sprinters, I was like, where are they from?
Speaker 1: And they're just Jamaican said moved to Canada. My grandmother.
Speaker 1: She had a dual American and Canadian citizenship and she
Speaker 1: would only travel on her Canadian passport. She was like,
Speaker 1: people are just nice ser to you. If you show
Speaker 1: them an American passport, They're like whatever, Um, here's your mayonnaise.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, those are those are my picks. And
Speaker 1: I was so happy to learn about some Canadians. See,
Speaker 1: I'm worried I'm gonna take I'm taking Rachel's here, and
Speaker 1: I don't know much, so if I do, feel free
Speaker 1: to chime in. But Mario Amile, oh not mine right?
Speaker 1: Used to where is jersey? Used to wear? Is jersey love? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, and and feel free to to fill me
Speaker 1: in here. But like he was the only hockey player
Speaker 1: I knew growing up again. I grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 1: which was two hours outside of Pittsburgh, and he was
Speaker 1: just the Michael Jordan's. So then when there was like
Speaker 1: posters where it was like every best player of a league,
Speaker 1: it was like Jordan's Lemieux, Emmett Smith and whatever. But
Speaker 1: like Mario lemiue and I did a little bit of
Speaker 1: research the other day when I didn't know we were
Speaker 1: gonna do this topic. But he played a long ass
Speaker 1: time and then I saw that little gap and he
Speaker 1: had cancer and then overcame it and then came back.
Speaker 1: When he came back pretty amazing. So I'm gonna yeah,
Speaker 1: he is my number one pick for for greatest Canadian athlete.
Speaker 1: That's great. I don't know why. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I had that jersey. I think that was a hand
Speaker 1: me down from my brothers. But I used to wear
Speaker 1: it during practice and I always remember my coaches whenever,
Speaker 1: like my shift was up, they would just like yell
Speaker 1: at your name, and they never yelled my name. They
Speaker 1: always go Mario Mario Lemieux. Is that how you say?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a classic name to like,
Speaker 1: it's it's a classic Canadian, French Canadian name, and like
Speaker 1: you hear that name and you're like, oh, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I know who that is. Even if you're not like,
Speaker 1: oh he won three consecutive n HL m vps, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Mario lemie was famous for sure. And it sounds like
Speaker 1: pep probably as it totally sounds like, yeah, probably top
Speaker 1: three sports mullet too, in my opinion. In his early career, well,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this photo, which is a very I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just a lot of good mullets in hockey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he scored one of the most in Canada. He scored
Speaker 1: one of the most common air goal. Yeah. Well, because
Speaker 1: the thing is as cold, you gotta keep the back
Speaker 1: of you. I'm stupid. I need to grow mullet always,
Speaker 1: like my neck is freezing. Have you ever seen an
Speaker 1: Asian person with a mullet? An Asian person in the mullet?
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's the question. Seems racing. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look it up. Okay, Rachel, you bring us home with
Speaker 1: your number one pick. I can't wait for you to
Speaker 1: school our Yankee asses. Okay, Number one on my top
Speaker 1: Canadian athlete list is the one and only. I think
Speaker 1: he's actually the most Canadian of the Canadian athletes. His
Speaker 1: name is tie Domi. Okay, I was thinking you were
Speaker 1: gonna say Gordy how no no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: that's boring. Tie Domi. It was known and is known
Speaker 1: to be like the ultimate fighter on the ice. We
Speaker 1: did this on our podcast as well. But there was
Speaker 1: one time, so he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he played for other teams, but
Speaker 1: that's what I know him as he played on that
Speaker 1: team for a really on time. Um, there was one
Speaker 1: time that they were in Philadelphia playing the Flyers, and
Speaker 1: these two teams like hated each other for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and he got put in the penalty box as he
Speaker 1: does because he's always fighting people. And um, there was
Speaker 1: a fan that was like chirping him because they hated
Speaker 1: the leafs, and he grabbed water and went over the
Speaker 1: penalty box and poured the water on the fan. And
Speaker 1: this fan, like a psychopath, came in like was singing
Speaker 1: on the glass and fell into the lion's den the
Speaker 1: penalty box and tie Domy just went to town on
Speaker 1: this guy. This fan had to be escorted out by security,
Speaker 1: had to get stitches in his forehead, and I don't
Speaker 1: I know, he played the rest of the game. He
Speaker 1: wasn't even kicked out, so and that's like one story
Speaker 1: in his career. Like this guy will never pay for
Speaker 1: a drink the rest of his life. He's such a
Speaker 1: scrappy like just he's like a he's a fucker. It's
Speaker 1: just a sucker, and you just always want to cheer
Speaker 1: him on. He's just so he's he's Canadian through and through.
Speaker 1: My my sister's boyfriend when I was growing up, it
Speaker 1: was always like my sister had the whitest boyfriends ever.
Speaker 1: This this one in particular, Doug Smith, and he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to teach you how to fight in hockey,
Speaker 1: like Tie Domey And so that's when I first learned
Speaker 1: his name in like second grade and was like pulling
Speaker 1: the shirt like over the head and like yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean yeah, that's how I knew his name. And I
Speaker 1: think he was like referenced in Goon a Bunch to me,
Speaker 1: and so I was like, yeah, he's like the slap shot,
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, those like big fighting. Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: how I basically learned how to fight back against my brothers.
Speaker 1: Like we would have these nasty we we would just
Speaker 1: like I would just fight them all the time and
Speaker 1: we would do like they drop the gloves thing and
Speaker 1: they would like pull my jersey over and I was
Speaker 1: just like swiping at them. But yeah, he's great. When
Speaker 1: you go see hockey and there's not a fight, I
Speaker 1: like leave disappointed and I hate fighting, but I'm always
Speaker 1: like fighting too, But there's something like you feel better
Speaker 1: about it with hockey because you know they're at least
Speaker 1: somewhat protected because they've got the pads on. It's like
Speaker 1: it's hockey, Like it's so scrappy game and there's like
Speaker 1: there's some things are allowed. You know, you can't whip
Speaker 1: a stick at somebody like they've got fouls within. Do
Speaker 1: you want to tell us your honor Yes, I've got
Speaker 1: a couple of Some of them aren't Canadian, but he
Speaker 1: said that, Like I said, okay, So Vince Carter is
Speaker 1: my number one honorable mention. I think he's an honorable Canadian.
Speaker 1: Jose Abautista major honorary Canadian, Joe Carter major honorary Canadian.
Speaker 1: One of them is Canadian. And I have a fun story.
Speaker 1: There is this, um I promised, I don't think that
Speaker 1: you guys would know who this is, but there's this
Speaker 1: guy named Milos Brownitch who is a very famous Canadian
Speaker 1: tennis player. Yeah. Yeah, like curly curly hair. Like. I
Speaker 1: was out at this like benefit one night and um
Speaker 1: I met him and he was huge at the time.
Speaker 1: He was like on this amazing run and everyone left him.
Speaker 1: He was the celebt that was at the benefit, and
Speaker 1: um I went up to like, I was drunk clearly,
Speaker 1: and I went up to him and started talking to him,
Speaker 1: and then I gave him my number, and um I
Speaker 1: went back into my office the next day. This was
Speaker 1: when I was working for Toronto cy and I told
Speaker 1: all my guy friends, like I met Milos last night
Speaker 1: and I gave him my number so like I might
Speaker 1: quit and become the first first lady of Canadian tennis.
Speaker 1: Like just you guys, watch and these fuckers in my
Speaker 1: office started texting me pretending to be Melos round Edge
Speaker 1: for like a week and a half and like planning
Speaker 1: a dating guys. I was mortified, mortified, franked you and
Speaker 1: I was like just out of a really bad relationship.
Speaker 1: So I was just like, oh my god, like what
Speaker 1: an upgrade? Like I'm going to date TenneT Being a
Speaker 1: tennis girlfriend or wife is the best because they cut
Speaker 1: to you all the time and you're sitting in the
Speaker 1: box like just who all? I that was like my dream.
Speaker 1: I wanted someone to run over I was. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna win Wimbledon, but maybe I can make
Speaker 1: out with someone who did you know? That's that's what
Speaker 1: I hope Forgize it was. It was so devastating, you guys.
Speaker 1: But it's fine. I'm onto bigger and better things. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys, shoutows Megan. You had all the women that
Speaker 1: were on my list. That was great. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that that was I had Gordy how oh, Terry
Speaker 1: Fox do you guys know who that is? So Terry Fox. Um,
Speaker 1: we have a Terry Fox run every year. There was
Speaker 1: this guy that I believe had cancer and had to
Speaker 1: have his leg amputated, and he ran across the country
Speaker 1: with his leg amputated and had like a prosthetic leg.
Speaker 1: He ran across Canada, so like Forrest Gump with a
Speaker 1: prosthetic literally Forest style before he was Forrest Gump before
Speaker 1: Forrest Gump existed. And so now every year there's a
Speaker 1: Terry Fox run and people go on like a five
Speaker 1: k and raise money for cancer. Amazing sign up. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I forgot I was gonna say. I was gonna say
Speaker 1: Tom Green. Remember, Oh yeah, you were going to say
Speaker 1: Tom and he was a professional skateboarder. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: it's loose, like Jason Lee was a professional skateboarder. It's
Speaker 1: like if you have a flannel and can do a
Speaker 1: kick flip, you're a professional. Yeah. Well, I'm glad we
Speaker 1: got Tom Green in there. Count Rachel, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? I host a podcast called
Speaker 1: Hall of Shame on Crooked that comes out every Monday,
Speaker 1: and I also host a show on Fox Sports every
Speaker 1: day called Fox About Live. And it's on a two
Speaker 1: pm Pacific every day. A daily show is a grind,
Speaker 1: it's a lot. I bet, well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for doing this. This is so fun. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for having me. This was awesome. We needed a real
Speaker 1: Canadian to like tell us what's what you know? So yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope people will find like I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of people are like Canada. I don't want to
Speaker 1: know anything about that. Oh I don't think so. I think,
Speaker 1: especially right now, our listeners, I would hope are going
Speaker 1: you know what, maybe we should look around the world
Speaker 1: and see what other people are feel other We've my
Speaker 1: boyfriend and I aren't married, but we've had many conversations
Speaker 1: like okay, if Trump gets reelected or if she hits
Speaker 1: the fan, like can I come to your country? And
Speaker 1: I was like, we, I guess we we can't go
Speaker 1: to the Philippines because they have a dictator as well
Speaker 1: and typhoons. But yeah, I remember being like, see, can
Speaker 1: we go to the Philippines. It's like they shoot people
Speaker 1: in the streets. So yeah, yeah, we're stuck here. They
Speaker 1: have Tanner Trump over there, tan Trump. Okay, we're in
Speaker 1: a good place now, we're good we're moving forward. We
Speaker 1: got Delaware's finest man in the ship. Okay. You can
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